On February 10, Yusuke Habu incarnated as the Japanese Sengoku period warlord Kenshin Uesugi in the free-skating song "With Heaven and Earth", who is said to have defeated Oda Nobunaga and was known as the "God of War", but he liked beautiful clothes, tonal rhythms, and good japanese songs. Today, Yusei will use the 4A jump as a "weapon" to usher in a decisive battle.
However, shortly after the opening, when the first 4A jumped, he had just turned the full number of weeks, but he fell to the ground in an instant.
As the live commentator said, he could have chosen more conservative moves, but it made no sense for him to repeat the past, and the 4A jump he chose did not have any figure skaters jumping in the official competition.
But for Yusei Yushin, infinitely approaching the 4A or the limits of human sports is a more important mission than winning a gold medal. So in the few minutes after the fall, he continued to complete the first battle of the spring like a warrior.
4A, No Man's Land
In order to challenge today's 4A, Yu yusuke has been preparing for nearly 4 years. After successfully defending the title at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Yusei Yushin began to target the 4A to challenge the moment when "99.99999% may fail".
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In figure skating, 4A is undoubtedly the technological pinnacle that few people can match. "4", four and a half weeks, which is by far the largest number of weeks that a human can spin after taking off on ice; "A", refers to Axel, the only way to jump forward among the 6 types of jumps that figure skating has been - for most players who have adapted to the force of backward sliding, "forward" itself is enough to be frightening. The combination of these multiple technical difficulties means that figure skaters need to use greater jumping power and speed to overcome the obstacles of gravity and achieve lightness in less than 1 second in the air. Someone once described 4A as saying that you need to have the speed of Liu Xiang before taking off, and at the same time have the strength of Jordan when taking off.
In fact, in the pre-match open training of the All-Day Figure Skating Championships last December, Yu Yusei had already reached this no-man's land. In the public video of the training, people can see the teenager wearing a white shirt and black trousers, in three trial jumps back and forth, and finally fell on the ice with one foot, achieving the first 4A jump in human history. The moment was so wonderful, so short, like a white whirlwind whizzing by, that Yusheng knotted the string later used the metaphor of the standing long jump: just like you jump 6 meters away, and your body turns around in the air at the same time.
2021 All Japan Figure Skating Championships © Visual China
Behind the lightness is the heaviness of countless fierce falls to the ground. Some researchers have done tests, figure skaters when they land on the ground, about 5 to 8 times the impact of their own weight, and all of this happened in less than a second. During a free skating training session last year, Yusei Yukishi sprained his right foot during a 4A attempt, and he described the moment he fell to the ground as "the horror of death", "Every time my body fell heavily on the ice, as if it was a death jump, I was training with myself that I was not sure which time I would fall out of a concussion and then die." ”
For Yu Yusuke, 4A or that kind of no-man's land is undoubtedly a more important thing than the Olympic champion, as he said, "If everyone says that only I can do this action, I want to complete it is my mission." 」 ”
Childhood Ultraman
"Please help me write a show with the ultraman theme!" Yu yum's first ice game in his life began with an Ultraman show when he was 5 years old. The teacher helped him choreograph a group of "Gaia Ultraman", and his mother tailored a red and blue Ultraman coat for him, with Ultraman's red energy lamp on the front chest. That was the first joy that figure skating brought him.
However, in addition to the performance program, the childhood memories left by figure skating to Yu yu are mostly related to pain. He was born in Sendai, and his father named him "Knot String", hoping that his life would be as relaxed as a bow string. But he was frail and sickly since he was a child, suffering from asthma, and skating was initially just a physical training for him. At the age of 4, he began to go to skating school with his sister, and fell on the ice repeatedly every day, and the teacher was ruthless, sometimes sternly and threw him out of the skating rink. He later recalled the pain in his biography Cang Yan: "I really hated skating training during that time, it was so hard that I couldn't help but want to cry many times." Every day after school, you have to go directly to the ice rink to train with your school bag, and there are morning exercises on weekends. ”
13-year-old Yusheng Yu string © Visual China
At that time, he wanted to be a baseball player more than skating. But whenever he thought of giving up, he always asked himself, why should I skate? Obviously, I skated because I liked it at the beginning, so why is it that "happy things" have gradually become "ordinary things"? At that time, he didn't want to understand, but just felt, "You can't be discouraged and give up here." So I went step by step until the fourth grade of elementary school participated in the Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships and won the gold medal in the group.
The talent of the teenager has since emerged.
I'm going to skate
In 2011, a major earthquake struck Japan, and the tsunami destroyed the house of Yusei's hometown. At the time of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake, Habu was training in the ice rink in his hometown of Sendai, the epicenter of the earthquake. He had just finished a figure skating tournament on four continents and was stepping up his training efforts for the next season.
"I was so scared I couldn't move." What terrified him most was that the thought of losing his family once again came to mind. There were several earthquakes in his hometown when he was in elementary school, and every time he was skating at the ice rink, and his mother was working in a place full of large shelves. During that time, as soon as Yu Sheng closed his eyes, he would see the image of the earthquake shaking when it occurred, and he thought, "It is no longer the time to skate some ice." ”
The entire city was paralyzed, and Yusei and his family moved into the resettlement site for the victims. The Sendai Ice Rink was shattered, training could not continue, and he did not even have a pair of ice skates intact. That may be the most desperate day of YuSheng's string, living is a difficult thing, talking about skating? He began to think that he would become an ordinary high school student and live an ordinary life in the future.
But it was also during that time that he found that people all over the country were supporting him, inviting him to participate in charity ice shows everywhere, and he once described those days with a lyric, "People can never live alone, they are supported and guarded." He realized that he could not "lose his self-esteem as a runner in the affected area" and did not want to be told that "Habu did not try to skate hard because of the earthquake." So 10 days after the earthquake, exhausted, he still tried to find a way and began to train on the ice rink farther away. In the days that followed that year, he participated in more than 60 charity ice shows across the country.
In 2011, he participated in the figure skating exhibition competition to raise donations © for the earthquake-stricken areas of Visual China
So later people remembered "Swan Lake" at the Kobe charity performance in April of that year. It was a specially chosen track after the earthquake, like a swan that had experienced a painful struggle, opening its wings after the earthquake and setting off. It was also after that big earthquake that YuSheng Yushin strengthened his belief in skating, "Friends who see me performing, even if they feel a little encouragement, even if they have a little strength to look forward and move forward, as long as they can feel something from my performance, my performance will be meaningful." ”
At that year's Figure Skating World Championships, he saw Russia's Kaczynski's beautifully dancing around on TV, "Damn! Why can he do that kind of jump, and I, can't even do the jump around! To be precise, it wasn't the earthquake that made Yusei want to give up figure skating, but it was figure skating that got him out of his fear of earthquakes.
Sochi, a new king was born
At the age of 11, Yusuke Habu won his first Japanese championship when he kept the same pot lid hairstyle as his idol, the Russian figure skater Proshenko known as "Puhuang", and the little boy said to the camera, My goal is to win the gold medal at the Sochi Olympics.
Yusuke Habu became a household name in Japan when in March 2010, Yusei and Muranako both won the World Junior Championships. After this battle, he also grew into a new generation of successors to the "Golden Age of Figure Skating".
In the 2011 Grand Prix Finals in Quebec, Canada, almost all of the contestants were in their twenties. The 17-year-old Yu yu is the first player in the history of Japanese men's singles skating to participate in the Grand Prix finals as a high school student.
In 2012, in order to show more difficult footwork and more exciting performances at the Sochi Winter Olympics, the 18-year-old Yusuke yum decided to leave his hometown and go to Canada to train. In the documentary "The Road to olympic gold medals", Yu Sheng has been staring at the iPod between training, and the picture given to the above is a gold medal for the Sochi Winter Olympics, "In short, no matter what time I think about Sochi." ”
At the Winter Olympics, the men's team race took the lead, and Yusuke Yusuke scored 97.98 points with a perfect performance, 6 points higher than Pushshenko. After the game, Russian newspapers predicted that only one person could become the next king, that is, Yu yushin.
Before the men's singles match, Proshenko retired due to a recurrence of a low back injury. Short program, a "Paris Promenade" that kept breaking records before The feather knot slowly sounded, Yusheng was heroic, 101.45 points, becoming the first player in history to exceed 100 points, when he saw the score, the sweaty Yusheng clenched his fists and shouted "Good!" Chen Weiqun, a strong contender for the gold medal, scored 97.52 points.
When it came time to free skating, the accompaniment of "Romeo and Juliet" sounded, and Yu Yu's 4S (the back inner knot ring jump) that he had been practicing for a long time fell down – he had only succeeded once in five games this season. The next 4T (rear outer point ice around jump) was perfect, and then an accident happened, and his familiar 3F (rear inner point ice three week jump) fell again, which made him feel flustered and his physical strength was also sharply depleted.
2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Figure Skating Men's Singles Free Skating © Visual China
"The legs are like lead, and the body can't move easily, is that the magic of the Olympics?" He felt that the gold medal was leaving him, and in the second half of the performance, he was completely with perseverance and instinct. In the end, he scored 178.64 points in the free skate. All that was left for him was a nervous and frustrating wait. Surprisingly, Chen Weiqun, who came out later, made mistakes in both the four-week jump and the three-and-a-half-week jump. Yu Yusuke won the championship.
Seeing the results, he exclaimed incredulously, "I'm the first?" After the Sochi Winter Olympics, Plushenko announced his retirement and a new king was born.
So small me
Compared with other sports, the biggest difference between figure skating is that it requires both superb technique and artistic nature like ballet. Yu Yushin is one of the few figure skaters who can have both advantages, he has the courage to challenge no one to succeed in the 4A jump, and he also has a strong appeal, even if it is a small movement of the corner of the eye raised during the performance, the audience can perceive the other world he has created.
On the first day of the first year of the Reiwa year, Japan selected the "Heisei Heroes", the first place was the Japanese National Tensen Group SMAP (the member was Takuya Kimura), and the second place was Yusuke Habu, surpassing Hayao Miyazaki in third place.
Ice fans © who cheer for Yusheng's string Visual China
But contrary to the romantic flamboyance on the field, the real-life figure skating king tries not to attract the attention of others. He does not publish social accounts and claims not to use a smartphone, but he often wears headphones, and there are more than 50 pairs of headphones alone.
"In fact, I am very lonely, that is, the surrounding environment will have a huge impact on my mental state or physical state to a certain extent, and if I do not isolate myself from the outside world, I will not be able to achieve my ideal performance." So, in a sense, I prefer to be lonely. ”
Yusei Yushin once complained to the enlightenment coach Yamada that he would be photographed as soon as he went out, very annoyed, Yamada comforted him, "This is everyone's attention to you, one day they don't chase you, won't they also be a little lonely?" ”
What fascinated him was always the ice rink, and in that eternal moment, loneliness left him.
"A race is a race after all, and the most important thing is to train to win and go to the game. However, so small that I skated on the ice rink of 30 meters × 60 meters... But it allows the audience to give me a standing ovation, to make people watching the performance feel happy or sad, and to generate a variety of emotions. The greater the reaction, the happier we certainly are! ”
Always fight against injuries
After the Sochi Winter Olympics, Yu Yu entered the peak period, he kept choreographing more and more difficult programs, breaking the world record he set again and again, and achieving four consecutive championships in the finals of the International Skating Union Figure Skating Grand Prix in 2016. If he still had to wait for the result at the Sochi Winter Olympics, then he only needed to finish the game, and the confident smile on his face already foreshadowed the result. At the same time, due to his constant challenge to jump around, the entire figure skating industry has accelerated into a new era of technology. In a 2016 interview, he said his goal was, "To believe in yourself every day and to surpass yourself every day." ”
Unsurprisingly, figure skaters have to fight injuries, and Yu yusuke's way of fighting is almost decisive. In the 2012-2013 season, Yusuke Yusuke injured his left knee, and then sprained his right ankle during a public practice, injuring both legs and unable to continue to compete without painkillers. However, once the painkiller is used, the legs will lose some sensation when doing jumps and footwork, which will also affect the sliding. In order to ensure the feeling of his legs, he decided to take only the right amount of painkillers and stepped on the ice rink with his teeth.
In 2013, he was admitted to Waseda University, where he took the Course of Human Information Science. This is a discipline of ergonomics, and it is possible to calculate which part of the human body applies pressure to facilitate the take-off. Before the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, because of an injury, he could not train on ice, and Yusei Yushin studied his injury, read various papers, and taught himself "Anatomy".
His class notes are dense, red handwriting is the focus, blue handwriting is the teacher's explanation, and green handwriting is his understanding and extension. "It's all very important, and we need to use them all on figure skating."
2013 Figure Skating World Championships © Visual China
In 2014, YuSheng collided with another figure skater, Yan Han, during a practice exercise, fell to the ground and could not move, and when he stood up, he found that his jaw was bleeding. Coach Brian advised him: "Now is not the time to be a hero, the days ahead are long, and you can also skate as a skater." But Yusuke Yusuke replied to him in Japanese, "It's okay with those, I want to get to the finals, I have to play." ”
He finished the game with bandages wrapped around his bandage and his chin taped to hemostatic tape.
In 2015, another history of battling injuries, "two weeks in hospital and one month in rest." But I didn't wait a month, and after about three weeks I was on the ice. And then sure enough, he has been subconsciously protecting the postoperative wound. Because it was subconscious, I didn't realize it myself. My muscles are dwindling. All the movements of the body are to protect the postoperative wound, and as a result, the number of jumping weeks is not enough, and the right foot is seriously contused when the rear outer point ice jumps. My right foot was already very sore, and I kept feeling pains when I fell on the ice that time. As a result, the ankles were swollen and bulging, and they couldn't wear shoes. It's not that it hurts too much to wear shoes, it's that you can't wear them at all. So I had to rest for two more weeks. In that case, there was no way to train, and the pain was too much to walk. ”
For the next seven weeks, he did not participate in the competition, but maintained the feeling of jumping by repeatedly watching the video and practicing imagery.
At the World Championships, he jumped around the ice and fell, took the silver medal, felt very unhappy, and cried out. The wound was inflamed again after the game, but he was light and breezy, "Be careful, the doctor has also told me." And I jumped around without fear of death (laughs). Every time you jump, it is estimated that you will pull the postoperative wound. ”
In 2017, during a challenging 4Lz around the challenge, Yu Yusuke injured a ligament in his right ankle and subsequently missed almost all competitions, not showing up in public for three and a half months. After re-entering the ice, the pain in his right foot still prevented him from completing the jump, and as the date of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics approached, he made the final decision: instead of trying to wait for the condition to recover, he risked possible deterioration and took painkillers on the ice.
Giving up was never an option, and he hoped that in the Winter Olympics, he could come up with a performance worthy of the phrase "I'm back."
Pyeongchang, I am the storm
After making the decision to take painkillers, he said, "Even if I can't move my ankle afterwards, I will win the gold medal at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics." ”
In 2018, in Pyeongchang, Yu Sheng's short program was almost perfectly completed, and at the end of the song, he whispered, "I'm back." "He scored 111.68 points, number one. Free skating, he wore white and gold figure skating suits, and danced his newly choreographed song "Yin and Yang Division" in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Cycle, which was mysterious and introverted, suddenly evil and suddenly fanatical. In the opening, all three four-way jumps were successfully completed, a near-fall error in the second half, he found his score through temporary adjustments, and finally Lutz jumped, which made him injured before, and he almost fell again, and then there was an increasingly exciting piece of music, and in the constant rotation, he felt that all his feelings exploded. This is not the most perfect "Yin and Yang Master", but it is the greatest one.
The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics song "Yin and Yang Division" surprised everyone © visual China
A passage of CCTV commentary by Chen Ying fits perfectly with the Yusheng knot at that time:
Her face is like jade, and her posture is like pine
It's like a dragon
At the end, he bent down and slid slowly on the field, he shouted a lot of "win", no longer had to wait for the result of the game as nervously as he had four years ago, he had not only won the game, but also defeated himself. The first defending champion in the history of men's figure skating reached out with both hands, stroked his right ankle, which he had held on to until the end, said, "Thank you so much," and patted the ice.
As Chen Ying said, the injured champion defended his title again, and the scene was as if fate whispered to the warriors: "You can't resist the storm!" ”
The warrior whispered, "I, the storm!" ”
Goodwill between us
At the award ceremony of the 2017 Figure Skating World Championships, when Yusheng Yuxian held up the Japanese flag for a photo, he found that the Chinese player Jin Boyang, who was separated from him, had raised the Chinese flag and immediately slid to the side of the junior who was 3 years younger than him to help him correct the flag. Yusheng Yuxian always encouraged Jin Boyang and would call out his nickname with Chinese, "Every day, come on!" ”
Although Yusheng Jiexin has not opened any social accounts, there are many accounts on Weibo that collect and publish information about Yusheng Jiexin, of which the account with the highest attention has more than 2.2 million followers.
On October 1, 2021, the Chinese Embassy in Japan received a special "invitation" from the fans of Yusei Yushin, Japan: "Cheers on the spot, please ask the Chinese audience." Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying responded, "Leave it to us!" ”
(Source: Tencent News)
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