For the Beijing Winter Olympics, the "little plug" in Weihu Mountain returned to the snow field from the set. Su Yiming, a 17-year-old Chinese snowboarding genius, has been "someone else's child" since he was a child. In his debut at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, he won the first place in the men's snowboard obstacle course preliminaries with a four-seat performance, and the final surprised us again, winning the first Winter Olympic medal in the history of Chinese men's snowboarding! Get to know this Chinese veneer prodigy through this article.
Gifted teenager
Su Yiming was born in Jilin in 2004. At the age of 4, I began practicing snowboarding under the influence of my parents. For him, the veneer is a plus-size toy. At the age of 7, he began to show his skills in the skate park, although it was only a few small jumps, the time was short, but for Xiao Yiming, it had already brought him a different kind of pleasure, making him practice skiing harder. After that, he received sponsorship from internationally renowned brands and began to reach the top in various youth competitions. Su Yiming, 12 years old, is already one of the top skaters in China.
Child star
In 2014, Xu Ke's "Wise Tiger Mountain" required a small actor who could ski to play the role of "Little Plug". After the film crew saw the video of Su Yiming skiing, they selected him to play this role, and then he also starred in "Rock Boy", "Born on a Brilliant Day", "Wolf Highness", etc., becoming a high-profile child star in China. Together with many of the country's top ski masters, he has also become one of the protagonists of ski documentaries.
"Fame should be early", Su Yiming is "someone else's child", not only while skiing while acting, the results of the cultural class have not been pulled down, and the results are also among the best.
Focus on the Winter Olympics
In 2015, beijing successfully bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, su Yiming suspended her thriving acting career and focused on ski training. His goal is to become the first male athlete in the history of Winter Sports in China to participate in the snowboard slope obstacle course and big jump event. "What determines our lives is not our abilities, but our choices." This is a sentence written by Xiao Yiming on Weibo.
In 2018, 14-year-old Su Yiming entered the national snowboard slope obstacle course and big jump training team through cross-border material selection. He studied under Yasuhiro Sato, a famous Japanese champion. He progressed rapidly, but the cruelty of training also placed a burden on his body. In the 2019 National Championships, he participated in the adult group competition for the first time, in the case of physical burden and the failure of the first jump, Su Yiming finally won the big jump championship with his strength and strong psychological quality, locking his position in the national team. From then on, in the domestic competition, as long as he participates, he will not let the champion fall by the wayside.
The king of Chinese veneer difficulty
Although Su Yiming is young, in the national training team, he is called "Ming Brother", compared with some other teammates who crossed from martial arts or gymnastics, skiing is a "boy's skill" for him, so he is the big brother on the snow.
And Su Yiming is definitely worthy of this title, he has not only achieved good results, and has been constantly breaking through, he is the difficulty king of Chinese veneers, and continues to unlock new difficulties.
In March 2020, he completed a three-week flip of 1620 degrees, becoming the first Chinese athlete to complete this difficult move; in January 2021, he unlocked a five-week 1800 degree reverse foot turn, also the first person in China. In October, he unlocked the 1980-degree grab board in the Austrian Stubai Ski Park, shocking the snow altar, this unprecedented difficult action has not been completed by anyone so far, Su Yiming is the world's first person. Looking at the world, there are only 5 people who can enter the 1980 club, and the 17-year-old Su Yiming is undoubtedly the youngest.
Beijing Winter Olympics: Full commitment, no regrets
When Su Yiming made the decision to become a professional athlete and aimed for the Olympics, he was still a child. At that time he may just "dare to think" and "dare to do". With the blessing of talent, coupled with his own persistence, it seems that this goal is not so far away now. "The Winter Olympics are just a big goal, but no matter what time of day, I have a small goal that never changes – to do a good job in every day of training," Su said.
There is no doubt that Su Yiming's unlocking of the 1980 difficulty action means that he is already one of the biggest Olympic favorites in the men's snowboard slope obstacle course and big jump event. The attention of the crowd is both pressure and motivation. In the face of this rare opportunity, he only hopes that he can be 100% committed, so no matter what the results are, Su Yiming said, he will feel no regrets.
The debut of the Winter Olympics was a surprise of four
This is the first time that 17-year-old Su Yiming has participated in the Winter Olympics. In the first round of today's qualifiers, Su Yiming, who came in 28th place, showed excellent competitive form. After smoothly and creatively completing the three prop area actions, he completed the three difficulty actions of the reverse angle 1440, the inner turn 1260 and the inner turn 1620 in succession, and obtained a high score of 86.8. The Chinese youngster's set of actions was completed perfectly, without any mistakes, and it can be said that he has qualified for the final with one more round of competition.
In the second round of the competition, Su Yiming made a slight mistake when landing, scoring 41.93 points, but this did not affect his final result of ranking first.
Participating in the Winter Olympics for the first time, Su Yiming revealed that he was a little nervous after the game, and he continued the article, "But the moment I stood on the departure platform, everyone was cheering and encouraging me. I don't think there's anything for me to worry about, because I have my country to support me, I have friends, my parents, everyone is supporting me. I just do my best to enjoy this game and just have fun. At that moment, I wasn't particularly nervous to think about the game, it was to do myself, to believe in myself, to finish the game. ”
Although big today's qualifying round ranked first, Xiao Su felt that he could do better, "Although I completed the first action today, for myself, this is not the best, not the most perfect, or a little flawed." 」 But the second trip fell too far to stand (steady), hoping to solve the problem tomorrow and complete their best trip. ”
In the eyes of the coach, 17-year-old Su Yiming has a calm mentality, in this regard, Xiao Su said, "He likes to say this about me, but I myself just like to think about every thing, every problem to come up with a lot of ways, because I am a person who likes to think, I always like to find ways to solve problems, when I overcome one difficulty after another, I myself am particularly accomplished, but also very happy, especially enjoy this feeling." ”
The most important 18th birthday in my life is coming, and Su Yiming is going to spend this birthday at the Beijing Winter Olympics, he said, "This timing is particularly special for me, I hope I can enjoy the game, achieve good results, and win glory for the country." Strive to give yourself the best 18th birthday gift. ”
(Winter Olympics official website)