On February 8, after China's Gu Ailing won the gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Gou Zhongwen, director of the State General Administration of Sports, called to thank the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and the Chengdu Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government for their important contribution to Gu Ailing's successful victory in the gold medal in the women's freestyle skiing women's big jump, and specifically pointed out that Gu Ailing's final victory was the result of training in Chengdu and the result of careful protection in Sichuan Province and Chengdu City.
On February 7, Su Yiming won the silver medal in the men's slope steeplechase final of the Beijing Winter Olympics, creating history. His success also has a "assist" from Chengdu. In the past two years, in order to prepare for the Winter Olympics, Su Yiming has followed the national team to Rong for many long-term training. To this end, he even transferred his student registration from Jilin No. 1 Middle School to the Wenjiang Campus of Chengdu Experimental Foreign Chinese School.
Behind the continuous revision of history and good results by Chinese athletes, Chengdu, the name of this southern city, has also been mentioned many times - providing long-term training services for 8 snow sports national teams, and providing special training for Gu Ailing at the last moment of the Winter Olympics. Chengdu has become the preferred place for national team training, and even a blessed place.
Why does the national team "give up the near and seek the far" and arrange many important training in Chengdu? The answer is that Chengdu has the world's top dry snow ski resort, whether athletes practice difficult moves or anti-seasonal training, can be achieved here. Last night, the Red Star News reporter conducted an exclusive interview with Jianfeng, the founder of xindu Jianfeng Dry Snow Four Seasons Ski Resort. He revealed the reason why the Jianfeng Dry Snow Field was favored by the athletes of the national team, and deeply restored the high-quality development process of Chengdu Dry Snow.
Previously, Gu Ailing trained a professional ski jump according to the interviewee
Demystifying: Overseas training for the national team
Found that the dry snow blanket is "made in Chengdu"
The "popularity" of the mushroom stems from an accidental discovery.
Zhang Wei, head of the Jianfeng Dry Snow Ski Resort, told reporters that in the past, the national ski team training generally chose to be abroad, such as Japan, the United States, Austria and other countries. As a result, once when practicing abroad, some team members accidentally found that the dry snow blanket used in the dry snow field where the training was located was shaped like a mushroom, and the texture was close to real snow, which could improve the quality of training very well. This kind of venue also made the national team very interested, and as a result, when I inquired, I learned that this "enoki mushroom dry snow blanket" was actually produced by a factory in Chengdu.
Soon, the national team contacted the jianfeng side, in order to prepare for the Beijing Winter Olympics, hoping to put the training site in Chengdu in the future. In order to ensure the quality of national team training, in 2020, xindu Jianfeng Dry Snow Four Seasons Ski Resort also built a professional ski track - Jianfeng Dry Snow Jump "Big Air". The ski track is built for the training of the Winter Olympic Games, with a total height of 43 meters and a total length of 112 meters, which is currently one of the most standard dry snow training platforms in China, which was completed in June 2020 and began to undertake professional team training in July, including 8 ski national teams in the Winter Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sports, as well as 14 provincial teams in Sichuan, Beijing, Guangxi, Jilin and Heilongjiang, all of which completed anti-seasonal ski training here.
The reporter learned that the "Enoki Mushroom Dry Snow Blanket" produced by Jianfeng has its own patents and has the characteristics of high simulation and safety. This sleek "Enoki Mushroom" surface protects skiers to the greatest extent possible when they fall, avoiding abrasions, scratches and cuts. In addition, its shock absorption and rebound ability is excellent, and its similarity with real snow is very high. It is also possible to adjust the difficulty of skiing according to the degree of distribution of the bedding. And its installation, disassembly and post-maintenance are very convenient.
The main inventor of this technology is Jianfeng, the founder of Xindu Jianfeng Dry Snow Four Seasons Ski Resort.
Jianfeng, who will turn 62 this year, is a native of "old Chengdu" who is known in the industry as "Mr. Dry Snow". "Enoki mushroom dry snow blanket" sells well at home and abroad, and the Chengdu ice and snow brand is inseparable from his unremitting efforts over the years. With a passion for skiing, Jianfeng has been committed to the promotion of ice and snow sports in Chengdu, so that more people can see the grand situation of "Southern Snow Scene".
Jianfeng studied fine arts at university, and after graduation, he did not want to stay in school, and he chose to do business at the time of the "going to the sea" boom of reform and opening up. In the 1980s, after earning the first pot of gold, Jianfeng "retreated from the rapids" and ran to the United Kingdom to study.
In Britain, Jianfeng stumbled upon dry snow, and he felt so amazed that he did not expect to be able to "ski" in the summer. So I thought about introducing the concept of dry snow into the country. But skiing is a sport with high consumption after all, in 1992, after Jianfeng returned to China, he found that the conditions for the development of dry snow in China were not mature at that time, and he could only choose to continue to precipitate and wait for the opportunity.
During this period, Jianfeng research found that the dry snow blankets like "brushes" introduced abroad were not perfect and had many defects. For example, it is easy to hurt people, the friction is too large, and the installation is inconvenient, and he constantly improves it. In order to find the right material, Jianfeng and his team have undergone 10 years of research, testing and eliminating more than 1,000 kinds of plastics from around the world one by one, and finally selecting an engineering plastic (polyester compound) with lubricating characteristics, and then modified and molded to become the material used in the dry snow blanket of Enoki mushroom.
In the blink of an eye, the time came to 2012, domestic skiing has become more popular, the concept of dry snow is also more and more well-known, at this time, the enoki mushroom dry snow blanket developed by Jianfeng should also be born at the right time. "In 2012, we began to promote the Enoki Dry Snow Blanket and planned to build a special snow field for the Enoki mushroom dry snow blanket in Chengdu." Jianfeng introduced that in 2016, the construction of the Xindu Jianfeng Dry Snow Four Seasons Ski Resort began, and it was officially put into use in 2017. Today, Jianfeng Dry Snow Field receives nearly 40,000 ski enthusiasts a year and provides ski training for more than 5,000 Chengdu students.
At present, this kind of Chengdu-made "Enoki Mushroom Dry Snow Blanket" has been exported to more than 10 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, Japan, Russia and other traditional ice and snow sports powers. In The country, more than 40 ski resorts have adopted the dry snow blanket.
Secret: Why did Gu Ailing train in Chengdu?
With the help of black technology, practice difficult moves with confidence
Although dry snow is not real snow, it plays a huge role in further improving the level of professional athletes. Jianfeng, the inventor of the "Enoki Mushroom Dry Snow Blanket" and the founder of xindu Jianfeng Dry Snow Four Seasons Ski Resort, told reporters why National Team athletes such as Su Yiming and Gu Ailing like to train in Chengdu Dry Snow Field.
"In the past, Gu Ailing liked to train on a dry snow field in Salt Lake City, USA, but in fact, the enoki mushroom dry snow blanket used at that venue was also ours, so she would now choose to train more in Chengdu." Jianfeng told reporters that in addition to the high simulation and high safety of the mushroom dry snow blanket, chengdu Jianfeng dry snow field has a lot of black technology, such as "magic carpet" (jumping platform conveyor belt), "wheat straw" air cushion under the jumping platform. In particular, the wheat straw air cushion is an important "hero" for Gu Ailing to win the gold this time. Jianfeng introduced that this kind of air cushion is different from the traditional inflatable air cushion, which forms a collapsed "pit" after falling, which is more like a soft and hard "pipe", so that athletes can feel more real and safer after jumping from the platform.
Jianfeng said that when Gu Ailing was training in Chengdu, she did a lot of difficult actions that she usually did not dare to do, because of the existence of this air cushion, so that she avoided the hidden danger of injury to the greatest extent and could let go of her hands and feet to practice.
On February 8, Gu Ailing won the championship with an excellent result of 1620 difficult moves. 1620 This action has not been completed by female players before, and Gu Ailing also said: I have never done 1620 on the snow or trampoline, only thinking in my head, I practiced on the air cushion for two days.
"Gu Ailing's 5-day special training in Chengdu this time, she herself and the coaching team are very satisfied, it can be said that it has laid a solid foundation for winning gold." Jianfeng also told reporters that the national team coach who led the team to train before also gave a high evaluation of the enoki mushroom dry snow blanket, believing that there were almost no shortcomings, and also assured that the team game of the national team was arranged on the jianfeng dry snow field.
When talking about the next expansion plan of the Jianfeng Dry Snow Field, Jianfeng was full of ambition, "We want to build a professional high-level training base, which can not only serve the training of the national team, but also let more entry-level skiers experience the joy of skiing." ”
It is understood that the Xindu Jianfeng Dry Snow Four Seasons Ski Resort will start the expansion project in the first half of this year, on the basis of the existing intermediate and advanced flying bag tracks, and then build entry-level, primary and secondary jumping platforms, while improving more functions, making it a major business card of Chengdu ice and snow sports.
Xindu Jianfeng Dry Snow Field, ski enthusiasts are skiing According to the interviewee
Demystified: Why choose to make dry snow in Chengdu?
The famous event city has a vast ice and snow market and strong spending power
As a southern city, Chengdu has less snow and less ice and snow sports, but why would it choose Chengdu as the origin to promote the dry snow blanket of enoki mushrooms and build a large-scale dry snow field? JianFeng explained that in fact, this is not simply because of the "hometown complex", he also sees the potential of Chengdu's development of ice and snow sports. "When we started to promote the Enoki Dry Snow Blanket, there were already more than 10 ski clubs in Chengdu, the skiing crowd was small and large, and the skiing atmosphere was getting better and better every year. And Chengdu is a consumer city, people love sports, but also willing to spend money for sports; of course, my resources, team are also in Chengdu, so we take Chengdu as the starting point to promote dry snow sports and help the development of ice and snow sports in Chengdu. Sharp edge said.
As Jianfeng said, dry snow is gradually becoming a major regional feature of Chengdu's ice and snow sports, which has also stimulated the consumption potential of Chengdu's ice and snow sports market, and the ice and snow industry chain has formed a complete closed loop, helping the high-quality development of Chengdu's sports industry.
Sharp edge According to the interviewee
In August 2020, Chengdu was selected as one of the first batch of national sports consumption pilot cities. The popularity of ice and snow sports has made the sports consumption economy find a new growth point. The purchase of ice and snow sports clothes, hats and equipment, the youth education and training of ice and snow sports, the innovative consumption mode of "sports + tourism" brought by ice and snow sports, coupled with the export of ice and snow products "made in Chengdu", all make "cold ice and snow" effectively transform into "hot economy" and promote the development of Chengdu's sports industry.
According to the "2021 Chengdu Residents Sports Consumption Survey Report", sporting goods and sports tourism are listed as one or three of the citizens' sports consumption expenditure. In the consumption of physical education and training, skating and skiing have increased significantly, and have surpassed traditional sports such as football and sports dance, ranking seventh in the list of sports education and training consumption.
According to data from the Chengdu Municipal Sports Bureau, as of last year, Chengdu had a total of 11 ice rinks and 5 snow fields (including 3 dry snow rinks), with an ice rink area of about 16,000 square meters and a snow field area of about 7 square kilometers. The ice and snow venue coverage area includes main urban areas such as High-tech Zone and Jinjiang District, as well as suburban counties such as Dujiangyan City and Jintang County, involving more than ten categories of brands including Sunac, Century Star, Colorful Vientiane, Champion, Jianfeng Dry Snow and so on. Every year, nearly 1 million people in Chengdu walk into ice and snow venues.
With the promotion of the strategy of "south exhibition and west expansion" of ice and snow sports, Chengdu ice and snow sports have entered a period of rapid development, and the park city brand under the snowy mountains has been formed. The dry snow that can be skied all year round is also more and more popular among young people in Chengdu. The remarkable change brought by dry snow to Chengdu is that the skiing strength of Chengdu people has been improved, and even has a place in the country.
Jianfeng told reporters that his biggest feeling outside in recent years is the amazement of the northern city for the skiing strength of Chengdu people! "A lot of northern skiers have told me that they find that there are a lot of skiing skills who speak Sichuan dialect. Even in the circle, there is still a rumor: skiing has formed a situation in which the three strongest in Northeast China, Beijing and Sichuan are standing. The sharp edge said with some pride.
The vigorous development of ice and snow sports and the formation of a scale of the ice and snow industry will undoubtedly provide more momentum and confidence for Chengdu to accelerate the construction of a world famous event city. In Chengdu, ice and snow sports will no longer be affected by seasons and climate. A famous city of events, making all sports possible.
Pu Yuan, Red Star News reporter Hu Minjuan, Pei Han
Edited by Wang He
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