Before qian Yujuan called Ding Jianqiu, the economic observer network reporter added him as a WeChat friend in advance, looking through the photo album and video number content of his circle of friends, mostly related to skiing. And the image portrait in a white coat and the video number name of "Dentist Brother" remind outsiders that Ding Jianqiu's profession is a dentist.
"Dentists are a quiet profession." After Ding Jianqiu got off the operating table, he would choose fitness, practice skiing skills and so on. Although he is not a professional skier, the "hobby" of skiing has made him stick to it for nearly 20 years, he told reporters, "Skiing is already a part of life." ”
Skiing is also integrated into Liu Yi's life. A film and television screenwriter, she is a Chengdu native, "fortunately came to Beijing to study, had the opportunity to contact skiing, and fell in love with the north." ”
Liu Yi's first contact with skiing was in 2007 when she traveled to Jilin Province, and in the two years since then, she started learning from the Jundu Mountain Ski Resort and Nanshan Ski Resort in Beijing, "Skiing has been more than ten years now." From Xiaobai to senior players, Liu Yi's cognition, skiers will go through the following stages, curiosity to fanatical fascination, to exhaustion and sluggishness, no longer advanced, "either stop, or develop new skating methods." Of course, she has gone through the above process and entered the fourth stage, "skiing has become a habit of life." ”
Li Yang, who works at an Internet company, also loves skiing, but compared with Ding Jianqiu and Liu Yi, who have more than ten years of skiing experience, she is currently "skating age" for 3 years, and she is just a newcomer who has stepped into this circle.
"I'm just out of the elementary and I'm in the stage where I need to progress." Li Yang had a small goal at the moment, "I want to practice sliding well, and then go to Pinghua." ”
Touch the snow to fall in love with skiing
"Carving, flat flowers, parks...", Li Yang told reporters in detail about these terms, "carving is sliding on the ground, flat flowers are some jumping actions, and parks are some flying bag devices that allow skiers to fly." ”
Li Yang, who followed his friends to skate, did not look at the special ski training class that did not report, but in his daily life, he learned relevant action skills by browsing the coaching classes on Douyin and Xiaohongshu. She started skating from the Huaibei Ski Resort in Beijing, and in order to practice, she would go to the Wanlong Bayi Ski Resort at the Beijing Shooting Range at night to ski the night skiing.
"The ski resorts around Beijing are more suitable for novices." At the end of the first snow season, Li Yang went to Chongli, that is, that time, so that she "basically said goodbye to Xiao Bai".
Unlike Li Yang, who had many ski resort options in the early days of his practice, Ding Jianqiu came into contact with skiing in 2002, "when there were still very few ski resorts in Beijing. Because the Chinese-American mentor loves skiing, Ding Jianqiu helped find the snow fields around Beijing," followed a few times, and slowly liked it. ”
Analogy is surfing, others look bored, but the people who play in it are very hi. "Skiing is a game of the self." In the interview, Ding Jianqiu did not forget to call for more people to experience skiing, and was often deeply attracted. He described himself as "deeply addicted to snow", and even if he is busy at work, he still controls his annual vacation time between January and February, "seizing every snow season".
In the snow season of 2022 New Year's Eve, Ding Jianqiu, together with senior snow friends from all over the country, flew to Xinjiang with a "charter group" of about 130 people and spent a week in the Hemu snow field in the Altay region.
According to Ding Jianqiu, Hemu Ski Resort has only completed one-tenth of the facilities construction so far, "It will become the largest ski resort in Asia in the future." As the first wave of "guests" of this snowfield, Ding Jianqiu opened the board for his new snowboard "fish" here, and then climbed to the top of the mountain at an altitude of 2800 meters and completed the first slide. He wrote in the circle of friends, "Climb the highest mountain in the local area, slide the wildest snow in the local area, and drink the strongest local wine."
In the New Year's Eve of 2022, Ding Jianqiu opened a snowboard record at Xinjiang Hemu Ski Resort
In addition to skiing in some new locations, for skiers, Zhangjiakou will be a must-do place in the snow season every year. "I go three or four times a year." Ding Jianqiu still remembers that when he went to Chongli more than ten years ago, there were no street lights on the road, and there would be many accidents on snowy days.
Liu Yi also told reporters about his "first impression" of Chongli, "On the road, you can see the cave dwellings of the villagers, and even the means of transport of the villagers are donkey carts and horse-drawn carriages." ”
After 2013, Liu Yi intuitively felt that there were fewer cave dwellings and horse-drawn carriages, and there were more restaurants in the county town, "The local villagers not only set up homestays to receive skiers from all over the world, but even some people will build residential buildings to sell to people who come from Beijing to ski." ”
Although there is still a gap in Chongli's infrastructure compared to some ski resorts abroad, "there is no difference in the enthusiasm for skiing." Ding Jianqiu also felt the same way, "Now it has completely changed a world." "Nowadays, there are both convenient high-speed railways and wider and safer highways in Chongli," and this place has long become a town with a strong ski atmosphere and snow culture. ”
The biggest consumption is not money, but time investment
Dialogue with ski enthusiasts, the reporter found that after spending one or two snow seasons in the ski resorts around Beijing, they began to go out to the snow fields of Zhangjiakou, Jilin, Harbin and other places, and even enthusiasts like Ding Jianqiu and Liu Yi would fly overseas to ski.
"Before the pandemic, Japan was our usual top choice, sometimes going twice a year." Ding Jianqiu said that in addition to Hokkaido, Japan, the Hakuba Plateau, and places like Zao Ski Resort and Oni Hand Ski Resort, where the "snow culture" has been relatively long and the construction of the snow field is relatively early, he also went to the snow field in the United States.
In 2017, Ding Jianqiu recorded skiing on the Niseko Ski Run in Japan
In fact, for Ding Jianqiu, the biggest consumption of skiing is not money, but "more investment in time and energy." He has not yet calculated his own expenditure on skiing, "This is a head-to-toe sport, the cost is quite high." Pulling back the time point back to around 2003, Ding Jianqiu remembered that from the feet to the top of his head, snowshoes, snow pants, snow clothes, protective gear, plus helmets, hats, "a set of purchases, about four or five thousand look." ”
When asked about the cost of skiing so far, Liu Yi shouted, "Oh my God, how dare I calculate." She estimated from at least six figures.
Especially before the popularity of this sport, "almost all the equipment is bought from abroad, not only expensive, but also by sea." Liu Yi told the story of a pair of second-hand telemark skis from haitao in the Netherlands, the buyer can only speak Chinese and English, the seller can only speak Dutch, German, both sides have to rely on translation software when communicating with eBay, and finally she received the goods for more than 7 months.
Li Yang himself does not recommend that people who have just learned to buy ski equipment, "if you can stick to the first snow season." In an interview with the Economic Observer Network reporter, she listed a junior skier's consumption "price list", helmets 200-300 yuan, knee pads and hip pads and other protective gear 400-500 yuan, gloves more than 100 yuan. Referring to the snow suits he wore, "I bought them for more than 500 yuan at Decathlon, and now I have changed three or four sets of snow suits." ”
Ding Jianqiu rented equipment in the snow field at the beginning of his studies, and when his introductory mentor came to Beijing to do medical projects, he would also bring him some snow clothes and ski equipment, "Later, many ski shops were newly opened in the Ciqikou area of Beijing. ”
In addition to Ciqikou's professional equipment sales stores, Liu Yi can easily buy ski equipment on e-commerce platforms such as Taobao after 2013, and she also found that some domestic brands in ski equipment, such as Kaileshi's snow clothing and other ski equipment-related brands, have gradually risen.
Due to the large number of ski categories, the required equipment is "very finely classified". Liu Yi's experience is that in addition to basic ski equipment for beginners, niche skiing equipment such as telemark skiing, country cross skiing, and mountaineering skiing is still scarce in China. ”
Liu Yi records a ski climbing in the Great Caucasus Mountains of Georgia
In addition to equipment consumption, Liu Yi's biggest feeling is, "When you go skiing abroad, the cost is tens of thousands." Moreover, under her leadership, the children and husbands both skied with them, and going out to ski became a group activity for the family.
In the interview, Liu Yi smiled and said, "I can't count, I don't dare to play once I count." ”
Enjoy yourself and challenge yourself in high risk
Not as competitive and confrontational as other sports, for snow friends like Ding Jianqiu and Liu Yi, it is more of a self-challenge. As a high-risk sport, skiing is inevitable when people stumble when sliding, and injuries are inevitable.
Liu Yi's most memorable event was that on Christmas Eve 2010, she fell to her ear and became deaf on the ski slopes, "I thought it was over, but then I gradually got better." ”
If you change to anyone, you will be afraid of the pain. Liu Yi is no exception, "just like if you have a car accident, you will be afraid to drive later." "When replanning skiing, Liu Yi will also be afraid of speed, afraid of people, in order to overcome this emotion, she will buy a lot of protective gear, the protection measures are much better than the average beginner," ski veterans spend thousands of dollars on protective gear. ”
Even if they all like to ski, Ding Jianqiu and Liu Yi have the same feeling, and their understanding and cognition of skiing are hierarchical.
After gaining speed in the snow field, you will want to go to some unknown path to find new excitement. Then with the help of some helicopters or snow cats, motorcycles and other external forces, to bring people to a mountain, "this area basically needs to be explored and developed by yourself", and now Ding Jianqiu is also dissatisfied with this, he longs to get rid of external forces, hike with his own ski equipment, and then "conquer a mountain".
Ding Jianqiu knew that each stage of crossing needed a cycle, and in the process of self-challenge and conquest of the territory, it would not be smooth sailing, and he had also encountered dangers. One of the most serious injuries was at the Yolemy Snow Field in Chongli in 2015, "There was a triple jumping platform at the park skiing site, and I couldn't control my center of gravity when I took off in the last jump." ”
Out of control and falling, directly caused Ding Jianqiu's left shoulder bone fracture, when he was hospitalized for more than 20 days, not only the end of the snow season that year, but even the snow season in 2016 was also fully "reimbursed". Ding Jianqiu does not shy away from talking about the dangers of skiing, but he feels that this is a sport of self-enjoyment, and in the process, it needs to "rely on self to break through the limits."
Ding Jianqiu, who is "more self-congratulatory", likes to go skiing alone to some "wild" places with less infrastructure construction and less natural damage. However, in the process of challenging and advancing, he also led many friends around him to learn to ski, helping them from "no" to slowly experiencing the fun of skiing, "I probably taught twenty or thirty adults, about a dozen children. ”
His 6-year-old daughter has been skating with Ding Jianqiu at the Beijing Yuyang Ski Resort for four or five days, and in addition to accepting some basic skiing knowledge and understanding the rules of the ski resort, he hopes that his daughter can enjoy skiing in the future.
Ding Jianqiu feels that some Chinese people lack awareness of skiing, and even have a weak sense of risk, such as snow rules, avoiding injuries, ensuring safety and other knowledge to learn, and need professional personnel to do guidance, and then go to self-entertainment.
Through the influence of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Ding Jianqiu called for the mainland to add some popularization of snow field knowledge and cultural foundation to the disciplines of young people.
Ding Jianqiu called himself the "Snow Generation", and children like her daughter who touched skiing directly became the "Snow Second Generation", "After Chongli let go next year, let her go and let her fly herself." "And he also has a plan, in the early years due to temporary incidents cancelled the arrangement to go skiing in Queenstown, New Zealand, after the sudden outbreak of the epidemic, under the normalization of epidemic prevention, international tourism can not be done," will regret." He hopes that the epidemic will dissipate as soon as possible, and then he will have to make up for the ski trip in New Zealand.
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