Snowboarding is the youngest skiing competition at the Winter Olympics. This is because, on the one hand, snowboarding only entered the Nagano Winter Olympics in 1998; on the other hand, snowboarders are mainly young people, and the main audience is also young people.
For this young project, many knowledge points are relatively unfamiliar to everyone. For example: Did you know that snowboarding originated from the "sea"? Do you know how difficult Su Yiming's 1980-degree turn was? Do you know who the biggest rival of legendary skater Sean White, known as the "Flying Tomato"? Let's take a look.
Modern snowboarding originated in the United States in the mid-1960s, when Sherman Poppin tried to tie two skis together in order to coax children to play, so that both feet stepped on a whole board, and the new "toy" was very successful, so snowboarding was also called "winter surfing".
In fact, the sport of boarding, including skateboarding, originated from surfing, and snowboarding originally sought a feeling of "surfing" on the snow. Since its birth, modern snowboarding has carried the "trendy" gene, its technology, style, and purpose are completely different from traditional skiing, it does not come from production and life, but out of entertainment and challenges.
On October 28, 2021, Chinese snowboarder Su Yiming successfully completed the ultra-difficult action of the inner turn 1980 (turn five and a half weeks) in training at the Stubai Park in Austria, becoming the first athlete in the world to complete this action. On January 22 this year, Guinness World Records announced that Su Yiming broke the world record with this action.
But do you know how hard it was to turn around in 1980 degrees? Some people think that horizontal rotation is more difficult than the deflection of the body; others think that the more turns the harder it is. Professionals said that after the jumpers completed the altitude number of aerial rotation, they also had to use the balance, coordination and inertia of the body to perfectly land through the height number of rotations, and every time they turned half a circle, it was a very large load and challenge for the body. For example, as long as you try the degree of vertigo of five and a half turns of flat ground, you will know what kind of "god-level" performance it is to rotate in the air and land perfectly.