On the afternoon of February 15, Beijing time, the final of the men's big jump in snowboard was held on the Shougang big jump. The Chinese team's Su Yiming won the championship and scored another gold for the Chinese Winter Olympic Team, which was also the second medal he won at the Winter Olympics.
Su Yiming in the game
This final can be called "fairy fight", the first round of a number of players to challenge the 1800 difficulty, the competition is extremely fierce. Before the game, everyone expected Su Yiming to come up with the "ultimate killing move" in the final - 1980 super difficulty. But after the first two rounds, Su Yiming has basically locked the championship medal in advance. The last appearance in the third round, he had already locked up the gold medal in advance after the first 11 players finished, and he did not challenge 1980 with a relaxed mind, which also became a "beautiful regret" of the day.
In the snowboard competition, the inner turn 1980 (turn five and a half weeks) grabbed the board is the world's most difficult, this action has only been completed once in training. Why was 1980 so terrifying that the players from all over the world on the highest competitive stage were deterred?
The human body will be subjected to extreme loads
The Bs1980 IndyCrail (Inner Rotation 1980 Degree Gripper) is a snowboard ceiling-level action, and the athlete will take about 3 seconds from take-off to landing, during which time it takes 5 and a half turns in the air.
In fact, before Su Yiming, three athletes in the world had completed a 1980-degree turn. The first two are all Japanese players, and the third is another Chinese athlete, Yang Wenlong, but the three of them use the deflection rotation movement, and Su Yiming is horizontal rotation, which is more difficult.
"In theory, the time taken by the translation in the air will be longer, and the difficulty of rotation will be greater, from the starting charge to the rotation in the air, to whether it can control and overcome the inertia to restrain the body when landing, which is a great challenge, which requires a very fast jumping speed and control ability."
Feng Xianqiao, secretary general of the Chongqing Shapingba District Ski Association, a snowboarding professional, gave an example to the upstream news reporter, "For the runners, every half lap increases, the difficulty is multiplied, not to mention Su Yiming's 5 and a half laps." ”
The main "Ski Research Institute" of the B station UP also has a similar description: after the jumpers complete the altitude number of aerial rotation, they also have to pass the balance, coordination and inertia of the body, and then go to the perfect landing through the height number rotation, and each more half turn is a very large load and challenge for the body.
CCTV gave a more popular example: try to turn the flat ground five and a half times to see if you are dizzy, you will know what kind of god-level performance it is to turn into that in the air and land perfectly.
If you still don't have an idea of the difficulty of 1980, perhaps this example will give you a clear idea: completing 1980 is like the 4A of the Yusheng Knot Challenge (which no one has completed at the moment), and the basketball players who stage 720° dunks in the game (currently only one person has done it in an exhibition game).
It takes good timing to complete it
In October last year, when Su Yiming was preparing for the national training team in Austria, Su Yiming completed the world's first five-and-a-half week turn (snowboarding internal rotation 1980-degree grab board) action. The move was also certified by the Guinness Book of World Records in January this year.
Su Yiming was able to complete 1980 in training, which is unprecedented. Before today's competition, everyone is looking forward to his "ultimate move" on the Olympic field, because whether it is successful or not, it is destined to become a historical story of this project.
To complete this extreme action, in addition to the athlete's usual training, the environment of the competition is also very important, and the time and place can not be less.
Feng Xianqiao said: "To complete the state of 1980 and complete the 4A is similar, it is necessary to have a good physical state of mind and a psychological state of overcoming fear. "At the same time, there are many environmental factors, such as the weather during the game, snow conditions, wind speed, and snow conditions on the jumping platform, which may affect the performance of the players. Even a small pothole in the track, or even a change in the temperature of the snow caused by the sunlight hitting the snow, can affect the performance of the runners, which is why 1980 is called the 'ceiling' level of action. ”
Upstream journalist Bao Jing