Try, fall, adjust, try again. On February 9, the training ground of the Beijing First Sports Auxiliary Gymnasium was filled with an unusually serious atmosphere. Yusei Yuki is conducting public training before free skating.
Training has a decisive meaning.
The composition of the free skating program that was made public the night before made it clear what Yu Yu said after the short program match: "Free skating will do its best!" ”
On the program composition table, this is intuitively reflected.
The new free sliding composition is: 4A. 4S. 3A3Lo. 3F. FCCoSp. StSq. 4T3T.4TEu3S. 3A. ChSq. FCSSp. CoSp.
In addition to the established 4A, which must be completed, his program composition replaced the original 3A2T with 3A3Lo; Replaced the original 3Lo with 3F.
In particular, this 3A3lo jump, which was only seen in warm-up training in the past, was added to this final free skating competition by Yu Yusuke. During the public training on the morning of February 9, this light fawn jump also appeared in everyone's sight.
All kinds of changes mean the same theme - don't give up, fight!
The most important thing to fight, naturally there is 4A.
Judging from the public training in February morning, the attempt was several times, close to success, but not yet fully tamed.
Especially in this attempt to train in the second half of the public training, the intensity and sound when falling, the angle is terrible, whether it is the guests in the japanese live broadcast room or the ice fans in front of the network camera can't help but exclaim. And Yu Sheng even lay on the ice for two seconds before he struggled to prop up his body and stand up.
This is also reminiscent of the Sendai Ice Rink, which we have never seen before, when he trained silently in the early hours of the morning, and this unprecedented person, who is likely to jump and die for a long time, how many times has such a fall occurred?
In an interview after the end of the 2021 All-Day Championship, Yusei Yusuke once said this when talking about 4A: "Honestly, no one has ever succeeded in 4A, no one knows how to succeed, and sometimes I think that no one may be able to succeed, I blindly jump down, blindly pursue, I don't know when I can succeed, so every time I jump, every time I fall down and fall on the ice, I sometimes think, when I may fall into a concussion, and then die like this." ”
But you see, as today, he patted the ice stubble on his body, turned to the baffle to think about the situation, and turned twice to confirm the condition of his ankle. Then silently re-fastened the laces again at the baffle.
After that, the same action was repeated again. You don't even know if this previous fall injured his already vulnerable ankle again. But he put the holsters on his back and rushed out again.
Veterans do not die, and their hearts are not extinguished.
You may need to explain again and again to those who have just met Yu Yusuke why he must, must, and be so persistent in challenging the 4A, and in such a major event as the Winter Olympics, he willfully put the "unfinished" jump of the 4A into the competition.
He obviously has so many other options! Whether it is the "May Fourth" configuration, or the more certain 4Lo and 4Lz, it is a "stable jump" that should be put into the configuration of the Olympic games.
But that kind of choice is not Yusheng knotting.
Remember what 20-year-old Yusuke said in 2015?
"Stay willful, stay stubborn, keep not accepting defeat."
I have long said that the soft and cute Yusheng knot on the outside is actually a super strong and "stubborn" person on the inside. Throughout his more than ten years of career, it seems that he has never been "obedient".
Everyone said that there had been such a serious collision accident, the bloodied man should not play again, he insisted on going on; everyone did not let him jump around the short program for two weeks, he must go on; everyone said that he could keep the world leader without practicing 4Lo, there was no need to practice jumps that were so easy to be injured, he insisted on practicing; everyone said that this ankle was no longer broken in the ligament, he still had to go on.
At the 2016 World Championships in Boston, Yu Sheng was injured in the ligament of the left foot before the game, and the short program tried his best to fight for the first place, and his foot was completely swollen after the end. But he didn't talk to anyone about the injury, and the next day he slipped freely, his feet were so swollen that he could hardly wear skates, and he still struggled to fight for the silver medal. "Put on your skates and you can't do anything!"
At the 2018 Grand Prix in Russia, he was injured during free skating training and relied on painkillers to fight the feathers that won the championship, and had to attend on crutches when he presented the awards on the second day.
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Under the seemingly gorgeous Kausten, what kind of scars are wrapped in the skates that can play music? Maybe only Yu Yusei himself knows.
Back in Sochi, 8 years ago, when the teenager was dressed in fresh clothes, 19-year-old Yusei confirmed "I'm the first" at the monitor!" The ecstasy and ignorance of the time often make many ice fans, including me, regret, why didn't they know him at that time?
The return of the PyeongChang storm in 2018, at the same time, people sighed, "Did you just know him and like him, he is going to retire?" Like the chicken rack, how many ice fans in Pyeongchang "entered the pit" can imagine that we can wait until the Beijing Winter Olympics trip?
Yusei Yusei is the one who led figure skating into the era of true four-quarter jumping; he is the one who jumped super perfect +5 out of 5 jumps in both GOE+3 and GOE+5 eras; he is also the one who will put himself in a "challenger" position even when he has 2 Olympic gold medals and super grand slam glory.
Therefore, if you look back at the 20-year-old Habu Knot String, or look back at the entire career of The Feather Knot String, you will find that challenging 4A, giving up "insurance", and challenging 4A at the Winter Olympics, which is a figure skating GOAT that has won all the awards that can be won, for the world-recognized figure skating legend Yu Sheng Yu String, it is not a multi-choice question at all, but only one mandatory option.
That is to continue to challenge the unknown and make history, that is 4A.
At the end of this public training session on February 9, Yu Yusuke still smiled and closed the curtain. As he had done in the past twenty years, from the first time he stepped on the ice rink as a child, no matter what, he smiled and faced, smiled at the ice, and smiled at the people watching his figure skating.
So, let's laugh together and meet the challenge of free skating for the Beijing Winter Olympics!