Author: Xiao Yao
On December 23, Beijing time, Yusheng Yuxian completed the 4A that is, the four-and-a-half jump action in the all-day figure skating championships, instantly seizing the top ten positions in the hot search list.
Many ice fans may not know much about the success of the 4A jump and how much impact it has on the figure skating world.
What is 4A How hard is this action
First of all, the A-jump, the Axel jump, is the most difficult technical action in the 6 jumps of figure skating.
Unlike the other five backward jumps, Axel jumps first with the right rear outer blade to help slip, turn around and then the left front outer blade pedal ice, take off forward, complete the air rotation and then slide backwards with the right rear outer blade falling ice.
Axel's jumping action is very important, and its risk is extremely high. If you are not careful in taking off, the axis of the body deviates during the jump, and you will fall.
Therefore, in general, at the moment after the jump, the player knows whether he can successfully fall on the ice.
To this day, Axel jumping has been a must for figure skaters.
Because the men's singles must put 3A in the show, and the women's singles have to put 2A in the show, we can often see all kinds of A-jump failure cases.
Great as the three-time World Championship champion and Sochi silver medalist Chen Weiqun, never completely overcome the difficulty of 3A, "Chen Weiqun's 3A rely on luck" This stem has been following until his retirement;
At present, Russian women's singles players jump in an endless stream of 4 weeks, and the players who can master the 3A jump are still rare, which shows that in the eyes of most players, the difficulty of 3A is far more than 4 weeks.
Chen Wei, who is as strong as the Beijing Winter Olympics cycle, also spent a lot of time to stabilize the AAA jump after being promoted to the group.
The 3A jump is already like this, and the 4A jump is called the jump that "breaks through the limits of the human body".
Yu Yu's AAA jump is known as the "Iron Plate 3A", his AAA success rate is nearly 100%, and he has a firm goal since he was a child: not only to be an Olympic champion, but also to create history. 4A is his biggest goal.
He has always been good at calculating the accuracy of each jump, trying to keep the high and long distance of each jump in the best position.
He has said that by calculation, 4A is not impossible.
Brian Oser, the coach of Yusheng Knot, once said to reporters: "If anyone in the world can jump out of the 4A, it must be Habu Knot." ”
8 years of persistence vowed to complete 4A
Yusei has been trying 4A since 2014, and at that time, it was a quarter of a lap behind.
After completing the defense of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Yusei yushin confessed that he would live for himself next, and he was no longer as obsessed with the gold medal as before, but moving towards a new goal.
The new goal is that it is necessary to practice 4A in this cycle. 4A in Yusheng's heart is no longer a weapon for the arena, but the whole meaning of his continued walking.
With Yu Sheng's words, the eyes of the whole world are focused on his 4A, and every interview with the media is inseparable from this topic.
And Yusei Yushin did not shy away from his pursuit of 4A, once a reporter asked him after Pyeongchang: "When can I jump into 4A", he smiled and said: "In your lifetime." ”
This summer, Yusuke Yusuke was just a sign of the idea of joining the 4A in this season's show: "I must complete the 4A this season – I have such a very strong will. I want to challenge this season with that determination. ”
He also challenged 4A in public on several occasions, but all ended in insufficient weeks and falls. He even suffered a concussion when he fell by mistake while trying 4A at the club.
After the end of the 20-21 season, Yusuke Yusuke jumped a total of 6 4A at the World Team Championships performance skating training ground. Take off, fall, jump again, fall again, break through the height, distance and speed of the 3A jump to make people jump.
For the repeated failures, he frankly said: "Very unwilling, I have dreamed of jumping into 4A, dreamed about 3 times." Super invincible vivid. Then I threw myself into it super hard after that, but, it was different, feeling "not this". Therefore, in the dream, there may have been memories of jumping into. ”
Challenging 4A at the Winter Olympics is the ultimate goal
Now, full-time, he said that regardless of whether the training is successful or not, the competition will challenge the 4A. In the open training arena, we finally witnessed a miracle: although there were flaws, we successfully fell on the ice, and the page of 4A in the history of figure skating was finally no longer blank.
Every time Yusheng talks about the Beijing Winter Olympics, he will talk about whether he can achieve the 4A move. Just yesterday, he said at a press conference that he had reached the 4A level of 70%, and just a day later, Yusheng succeeded.
After Yu Sheng left the ice rink, he only said lightly: "I want to complete the 4A in a down-to-earth manner." As well as hoping that the short program and free skating in the competition will be able to present the ideal performance of their goals. ”
He put the 4A into the first jump of the free skate, which was his belief and the light he was going to face after so many years of walking through the thorns.
You can always believe in Yu yusuke.