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Recently, Gu Ailing represented China in the final of the freestyle ski women's big jump at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, with a near-perfect performance, and won her first Olympic gold medal. In fact, before Gu Ailing won this gold medal, she was already a "legend" in the circle; after winning the championship, she also became the focus of everyone's attention. Many media have told in detail about Gu Ailing's growth experience, she is a typical "other people's child". Similarly, Chinese skier Su Yiming, like Gu Ailing, su Yiming fell in love with the sport since he was exposed to skiing with his father since childhood, and then performed well in various events, and was successively selected by the provincial national team to become a national athlete.
Therefore, presumably, the experiences of Gu Ailing and Su Yiming will also attract many Chinese parents to think that their children will also become professional skiers. So, is it feasible for ordinary families to train their children to become professional skiers? Or how much does it cost? Cost: Huge investment, high threshold Three words financial and economics on the above issues to discuss, the other side believes that if you want to cultivate professional athletes from a young age, the cost of investment is diverse, and the threshold is very high. According to the current system of the mainland, when a player is selected for the national team, all his training costs are funded by the state; but before being selected by the national team, the cost of ordinary people learning and training through a third party is actually quite high. For example, Gu Ailing, some media reported that in the process of cultivating Gu Ailing, his mother Gu Yan revealed that she spent at least 1 million US dollars, or even more than 10 million yuan. This number is actually not unexpected, Gu Ailing is not only very good in skiing, she is almost an all-round talent in all aspects. For example, Gu Ailing participated in the "American College Entrance Examination" SAT and was admitted to Stanford University with an excellent score of 1580. To know that the SAT score is 1600, a proper college bully. During his studies, Gu Ailing also frequently participated in various competitions and achieved good results repeatedly. Gu Ailing's mother, Gu Yan, also said in an interview that every time Gu Ailing returns to China, she still has to go to domestic training classes. All in all, behind Gu Ailing's various excellent achievements, not only her talent, but also the support of her mother's continuous investment. Su Yiming is also the same, his success is inseparable from his father's persistent investment and support, today's achievements. Therefore, if you want to summarize how much it costs to become a national professional skier, it is difficult to accurately reach a specific number. This path requires a combination of many elements such as a person's own talent, degree of effort, and material support to be able to walk through. But having said that, we can still get a rough estimate of the material cost of raising a child to become a skier. No capping on
Skiing can be divided into indoor skiing and outdoor skiing.
For those who prefer outdoor skiing and are in contact with nature, there is also the option to go to a southern hemisphere country, such as New Zealand skiing. When summer is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
Therefore, through cross-border travel, outdoor skiing can be achieved all year round. Therefore, this also reflects the first high cost point of skiing, after all, not everyone has the conditions to ski abroad frequently.
Of course, there is no need to worry about the problem of "where to learn", and now many professional ski training institutions can be found online or offline.
Tickets: 88 yuan to 300 yuan
According to the time of the major ski resorts, the ticket price is as low as 88 yuan and the maximum is 360 yuan; if the user buys through the social platform in the form of group purchase, it can be dozens of yuan cheaper. In addition, the ski resort also provides ski equipment, taking the Jundushan Ski Resort as an example, the ski equipment provided includes snowshoes, snowboards (single/double boards), snow poles, magic carpets, etc. When purchasing tickets, you can choose the stall with ski equipment according to the actual situation. Coach: From 300 yuan per hour, if you only evaluate at the price of the ski ticket, the cost of skiing is not high. However, in order to develop your child's skiing skills, you must ask a professional to train them. So, how much does this type of training cost? Sanyan Finance found in the coaching service provided by a ski community App that users can choose a large number of professional coaches as their own ski instructors on the platform, but the cost of hiring such one-on-one coaches is quite high.
The cheapest coaches cost 267 yuan per hour, and most of them are more than 300 yuan after that;
The price of gold medal coaches on the platform is 1100 yuan per hour, these coaches have different qualifications, and the projects taught are different, such as single boards, double boards, flat land fancy, sliding and other projects, users can have more needs to choose. Ski course: experience, entry 400 yuan can improve the price of tens of thousands
In the social platform, there are also many ski training institutions that offer a variety of ski lessons, both for adults and for teenagers. According to one of the institutions, the school provides single and double boards, zero basic, children and adults at different stages of primary to advanced teaching. Sanyan Finance noted that the price of entry-level or experience courses in various training centers is usually in the range of more than 400 yuan to about 800 yuan; while the price of relatively advanced courses is more than 1000 yuan; and some professional courses are more expensive, some more than 3500 yuan. Some indoor ski courses are not cheap, in addition to some to 100 yuan preferential price to enjoy the experience of the course, the indoor ski resort ski teaching class course price is more than 10,000 yuan, some courses, 60 lessons need to cost 47,000 yuan. So, is it possible that after learning these courses, children who invest tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of yuan at a time have the ability of professional skiers? After communicating with the customer service of several training schools, Sanyan Finance learned that the answer was not so. Several training schools have said that a zero-based trainee can indeed master very good skiing skills and techniques after school teaching. But this is relative to ordinary people, if the comparison is a professional athlete, then the students must continue to train, learn, and constantly improve their abilities and skills. Therefore, it is not possible to reach the level of world champions after completing various courses such as introductory and professional at one time, even athletes such as Gu Ailing and Su Yiming rely on talent and unremitting efforts. In addition, the above ski training schools specifically emphasize that for parents who are interested in cultivating their children's skiing skills and interests, it is recommended to wait until their children are 7 years old before skiing. Because the physical coordination of children before the age of 7 is not yet mature, the probability of risks of participating in skiing and the ability to master skiing skills need to be improved. However, from the perspective of leisure and entertainment, skiing does not have high age requirements. With the exception of young children and the elderly, all ages can participate. If you want to practice Gu Ailing's big jump platform flip, you still need to practice some basic skills. One is skiing skills, the other is aerial flipping. Chen Hongbin, the former coach of the national team's freestyle skiing aerial skills project, trained the athletes in this way: in the first stage, the team members practiced on the trampoline to enhance their physical fitness, flip in the air, and play the basic skills; the second stage was to practice sliding, jumping, and flips on the water. Therefore, although skiing is mainly snow, from the perspective of professional athletes, this project also requires a lot of comprehensive ability. Equipment cost: about 2,000 yuan, more than tens of thousands of skiing And a cost is equipment costs including clothes, protective gear, hats, snowboards, etc.
In most ski community apps, there are entrances to related equipment purchases. Prices range from a few hundred yuan to a few thousand yuan, including ski clothes, ski hats, goggles and so on. Some netizens also summarized their equipment expenses in the 18-19 snow season, spending a total of more than 2800 yuan, and most of the equipment of this netizen was purchased on the e-commerce platform. And the snowboard can choose second-hand products, the price is not high. Of course, this is for ordinary entertainment people. For example, I am not a professional skier, and every time I go skiing, it is for entertainment purposes. So I don't care about any professional equipment at all, just wear a flexible enough, warm clothes, snowboards, snow fights and the like are provided directly with the snow field. But if you go in a professional direction, you obviously can't be so sloppy. For skiing techniques, more professional equipment naturally has a greater advantage. For example, suitable ski clothes not only keep warm, but also avoid snow blowing into the body along the gaps during skiing; in addition, good equipment also provides better protection for personal safety.
The price of equipment costs does not have a fixed range, such as snowboards, the cheapest can be a few thousand yuan, and the most expensive is as high as tens of thousands of yuan. If you want to train your child to become a professional athlete, it can be seen that the input cost is quite high, which may also deter many parents. So, are these inputs necessary? At the end of the ski is the orthopedic term, or this "terrier" is one of the many hot terriers that describe skiing after the Winter Olympics in recent days. It's a bit of an exaggeration, but it also tells the special thing about skiing – it's dangerous. Unlike sports such as soccer, basketball, and table tennis, participants can intuitively control their bodies, avoid collisions, and complete project goals. For example, a person who can't play basketball, even if he doesn't understand the rules, will instinctively avoid colliding with others during the process of carrying the ball; or reduce the damage caused by the collision, and finally try to throw the ball into the net. But skiing is different, people who don't know how to control the snowboard do not know how to "brake" safely. Even in the beginner snow field where the slope is not steep, novices who can't stop it from high places abound. In this case, you may hit someone or hit an obstacle, or at worst, you may suffer serious injuries, including fractures, foot crutches, etc. Many professionals have warned that skiing, whether it is snowboarding or skiing, has certain risks. For example, snowboarders increase the instability of the abdomen and back because their feet are fixed to a ski; so when they fall, skiers can easily fall backwards, resulting in head injuries. If you fall forward, inexperienced novices can hold their hands in the wrong position and may also hurt their wrists. Even professional athletes can't avoid serious injuries, and in recent years there have been repeated reports of skiers in many countries getting injured while training, so that they miss major events. This is why "the end of the ski is orthopedics", so it is very necessary to ask professionals for training, and ski protective gear must also be purchased. The Winter Olympics are bringing about a boom in ice sports, and in order to train children in the direction of professional skiers, the investment is very large, and it is a continuous investment, not a one-time completion. As this netizen said, if it is only entertainment and sports, the annual ski consumption is not particularly high, report a class for tens of thousands of dollars, learn the basic skills on the line. But to go in the professional direction, then it takes a lot of money, which is one of the reasons why skiing is called "elite sports". However, the problem of high thresholds for skiing and ice sports is also facing improvement. The Beijing Winter Olympics, in addition to the gathering of athletes from various countries, the more important significance is to promote the development of winter sports in the mainland, so that the threshold of winter sports is lower, more inclusive, and more people can participate in winter sports. With the holding of the Winter Olympics, capital has also begun to favor ice and snow sports. In February 2021, ski community platform Goski announced the completion of a 20 million yuan A+ round of financing, invested by Silicon Valley Paradise; in April 2021, snow industry one-stop service platform SNOW 51 announced the completion of a 100 million yuan A round of financing, led by GSR Venture Capital, followed by Zhongying Fund and Chuangxiang Huanju Investment, and the A+ round of financing was exclusively invested by MSA Capital; in June 2021, In August 2021, the ski mobile application Slide announced that it had recently completed a round of financing of 10 million yuan, with the investor being New Oriental; in August 2021, the ski mobile application Slide announced that it had recently completed a round of financing of 40 million yuan, which was exclusively invested by Hillhouse Venture Capital; in August 2021, the "Where to Play Ski" platform belongs to Where to Play (Beijing) Network Technology Co., Ltd. received an angel round investment jointly conducted by angel investor Mr. Wang Haoran and Beijing Yinke Investment, with an investment amount of 15 million yuan In October 2021, ski self-media Aoxue Culture completed tens of millions of yuan A round of financing, invested by Baozun E-commerce Venture Capital Fund Baorui Capital, with Yiwei Capital as the long-term exclusive financial adviser for financing; in December 2021, ski training institution Xueleshan completed a new round of financing of 100 million yuan, led by Zhengxin Investment. In addition to the capital market began to pay attention to winter sports, the country also began to focus on the development of the whole people to participate in ice and snow sports. As early as the bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics, the state has put forward the vision of bringing 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports, and promoted the development of ice and snow sports and national fitness through the holding of the Winter Olympics. With the support of such resources, the threshold for sports such as skiing will be further reduced, and the degree of public participation will naturally be higher. The above-mentioned professionals told Sanyan Finance that most of the current skiing projects can be participated in the mainland, including U-shaped tracks, slope obstacles, big jumps, obstacle chases, parallel slaloms and snow skills. He introduced, "For example, Chongli has two U-shaped venues; there are snow fields with basically large slope obstacles; there are also big jumps in many places such as Beijing and Chengdu; and there are parallel giant slaloms, snow skills, aerial skills and so on in many parts of the country." I believe that this Winter Olympics will not only bring us wonderful competitions, but also vigorously promote the enthusiasm of the whole people to participate in ice and snow sports. If parents want to train their children to become professional skiers, they must decide according to the actual conditions of the family, but also consider the child's talent, personal interests and other factors. The meaning of a sport does not necessarily have to be a top master, but it is also important to participate and enjoy.
How much does it cost to become a professional skier?
Source: Sanyan Finance