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At the age of 15, Gu Ailing announced his chinese citizenship, posting: "Chinese freestyle skier Gu Ailing reported. At the age of 17, he took the AMERICAN college entrance examination SAT, with a score of 1600, and Gu Ailing scored 1580 points and was admitted to Stanford University. One minute on stage, ten years offstage!
"The relationship with fear is evolving. She thought about it a lot. She wrote a diary, she said, and some of her handwritten entries documented various forms of fear subjects. At the request of The New York Times, Gu wrote her thoughts on fear—how she saw it, how she responded to it, how she hoped to overcome it. --- The New York Times
For the last 10 years of my 18-year life, what I've been chasing is a chaotic, fearful love. I'm a professional freestyle skier, and a pair of snowboards on my feet, a 22-foot U-shaped pool, and a variety of stunt moves are my main source of adrenaline and are also the core elements of a truly addictive extreme sports.
As with all the lovers who can fascinate ordinary people (at least like the ones I read from novels, because I still lack the corresponding experience in real life), your important other half can sometimes be very... Play fast and loose. In fact, "fear" can be considered a general term for three different feelings: excitement, uncertainty, and stress. I've found that if these feelings are recognized and actively utilized, there are subtle indicators in each feeling that can help you succeed, and if their principles are ignored, then these feelings can be a precursor to your injury.
While athletes in extreme sports can easily be labeled "fearless" or "willful," whether it's the countless hours I've spent conceiving techniques or the countless hours I've spent in foam pits (the kind of foam particles everywhere) and airbags, it's a sign that this isn't the case. We want to go against our biological instincts and put ourselves at risk. While we will make every effort to be physically prepared, no amount of safety net simulation training can match the snow slope we will face when we take off from a steep slope, throw our bodies into the air and are about to land. Rather than ignoring fear, we develop a deep sense of self and conduct a deliberate risk assessment to build a unique relationship with fear.
The first step in this work is called figuration: before I try a new trick action, I feel a sense of tension in my chest (between the base of my throat and the top of my diaphragm, to be precise). I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. As I climb the huge take-off ramp, I'll imagine stretching my legs to maximize lift. Then, I'm going to paint in my head how to twist my upper body in the opposite direction, generate torque, and then let it bounce back in the other direction.
Now, in my consciousness, I am already flying in the air. The first time I jump up, I see my back, and then the rotation of my body pulls my eyes to the cloudless sky overhead. The sound of the wind is like a kind of music in my ears, and every 360-degree rotation provides a musical beat to my movement. When my foot is under my body, I can find the final landing spot in the instant before pulling my body to the second flip. When I return to a position where I can face forward, I will imagine my legs swinging under my feet and letting the front end of the snowshoe carry my weight against the ground. I smiled, then opened my eyes, and a 1440-degree flip was done.
A few seconds after I had completed the "embodiment", the sense of urgency in my chest would fluctuate up and down, and then begin to spread—by this time, we had reached the critical stage of breaking the cocoon into a butterfly. Excitement is a product of adrenaline and an existence that I love and fascinate. I have both the confidence to do wonders for my safety and the excitement of the unpredictable experiences that are coming, and the balance between the two is very unstable. I've heard that this state can be called a "zone," and I experienced it last fall when I became the first female skier in history to perform a 1,440-degree deflection maneuver.
(Photo of the first training double cork in Austria)
Unfortunately, the sense of uncertainty in your heart can easily overwhelm your self-confidence. Imperfect preparation can make my palms sweat and cause the tense position I mentioned earlier to be transferred to your stomach, making each of your breaths shallower than the last. This feeling is not panic, but something similar to fear. Red flags spark the evolutionary instinct. If I choose to ignore this safety mechanism, my body may move involuntarily in the air, the rotation will lose control, and force me to prepare for the impending impact, because at this time I really have to fear: if I fully engage in this action, it may have catastrophic consequences. Every freestyle skier aims to identify the nuances between excitement and uncertainty in order to minimize the risk of injury while maximizing ability.
Finally, there is stress, an energy that can be used in many ways. A person's stress experiences – by far the most subjective aspect of "fear" – are influenced by personal experiences and perspectives. Family and friends' expectations, competitive advantages, and even sponsorship opportunities can all underpin high-pressure environments. Stress can be a positive force for competitors who use it to rise to the occasion, but it can also lead to competition failure single-handedly.
But for this buried feeling of "proof of themselves," athletes may choose to either suppress it or strengthen it, depending on their self-confidence. As a newly adult female athlete, I am still very proud of this aspect, I can enhance my self-esteem and minimize my need for external expectations, so as to control the pressure around me. Whether I am alone or facing the whole world, I focus on being grateful for the present, judging the present, and enjoying the joy that sports bring to me. While my personal and world perspectives will always evolve over time, one thing will not change: no matter how long time passes, I will be a hopeless romantic in the face of fear.
▌ Women's football team won the championship, Gu Ailing won the gold! The imitation enamel "champion's bracelet" that Olympic champions are wearing is instantly out of the circle
After 16 years, on the evening of February 6, the Chinese women's football team defeated the South Korean women's football team 3:2 to win the Asian Cup.
No one thought that on the last day of the Spring Festival holiday, Chinese really had the joy and boiling of the collective New Year.
In ancient times, there was Mulan, and now there are Chinese women's football. They used their actions to explain what is called "not to let the eyebrows be shaved".
And want to know what it's like to get a prize and get a soft hand? You can ask Gu Ailing.
Gu Ailing, who is called a "talented girl" by netizens, has won six championships in 36 days since her debut in the season in December last year.
The International Snow Federation posted on its website to describe Gu Ailing as follows: Gu Ailing has done nothing but win this season.
Gu Ailing said, "Break boundaries, break history, break records."
Always my biggest goal. Hopefully, after I get the gold medal today, more girls will feel like they can do it too. ”
▌ In order to continue the spirit of Mulan, the National Centre for the Performing Arts launched the Mulan imitation enamel bracelet! Carrying forward the Mulan culture is worth "one household and one bracelet".
This bracelet was personally designed by the famous designer Li De, and jointly produced by a palace craftsman, which is the perfect artistic collision between traditional Chinese classic culture and international fashion trends.
The above pattern uses opera elements, the color of the picture is cold and warm, the light and shade are moderate, the shape is simple and capable, and there is both the beauty of women's heroism and femininity.
It is refined by vacuum plating process of imitation enamel color process, and its colors are colorful and pearlescent, presenting a unique visual effect.
What is more worth mentioning is that zhang hui, the olympic champion of the mainland short track speed skating, will "endorse" this mulan enamel bracelet: "This is a domestic product that does not lose to the international big name!" ”
Wear this magnolia enamel bracelet, you are equivalent to having the same style as the world champion.
▌The bracelet quotes the classic famous sentence "The east market buys horses, the west market buys saddle shoes, the south market buys the head, and the north market buys the long whip" in the "Mulan Ci", using the horse whip, helmet, flower/HUA, mulan/MU LAN, sword and other opera elements, which is the expression of abstract and figurative symbiosis, the theme is clear and easy to understand and simple and fashionable.
The bracelet is made of jewelry steel, gold plated (24K), weighs 77.68 grams, measures 6 cm * 5.5 cm * 2.8 cm, and every detail is exquisite and heavy.duty. It is rare to see this kind of jewelry that has both texture and design on the market.
Both retro and trendy, the beauty of women's undefined beauty is perfectly displayed on this bracelet, which is very suitable for female friends who have pursuits around them.
Such a heartfelt and unique gift is most suitable for girlfriends, mothers, elders, and leaders.
Each Mulan imitation enamel bracelet has an appraisal certificate and a certificate of production by the National Centre for the Performing Arts, ensuring that it is an authentic product worth collecting and investing in.
As a first-release feedback, the Certificate of Production of the National Centre for the Performing Arts included a set of 3 special stamps of "Yu Opera" issued by China Post on October 18 this year!
A "Mulan", a "Seven Pin Sesame Officer", and a "Chaoyanggou" are all rare mail that is not easy to collect, and it is closely related to the theme of Mulan.
While playing with this bracelet, you can also enjoy the exquisitely patterned precious mail, and understand Mulan's deeds, which is really worth it!
Every girl has a Mulan in her heart!
Which one is your heart set?
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