Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News reporter Cao Linbo
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, 17-year-old Su Yiming won a gold and a silver, opening a new era for Chinese snowboarding. When he shares his joy in interviews, he always mentions his gratitude to one person — his Japanese coach Yasuhiro Sato.
Standing at the beginning of the track at the Winter Olympics, he would hug and high-five with Yasuhiro Sato before each departure. From only 720, to unlocking the snowboard inward turn 1980 degree grip action, to now standing on the highest podium of the Winter Olympics, Sato is always next to Su Yiming.
When Su Yiming's first project slope obstacle skills final encountered a referee scoring controversy, Yasuhiro Sato also specially opened a social network account, saying through an open letter that he and Su Yiming understood the difficulty of real-time scoring, thanked all referees, and implored the public to end criticism.
Yasuhiro Sato has been skiing for nearly 30 years, and he has devoted almost his life to developing skiers.
This time, he not only led Su Yiming to participate in the competition, in the final of the women's big jumping platform for snowboarding at the Beijing Winter Olympics, the post-00s young jung won the 5th place with a total score of 160 points, which is also the best result achieved by Chinese athletes in the project, Jung, a post-00 girl, is also a player coached by Yasuhiro Sato.
In the video channel set up by Yasuhiro Sato himself, you can see him introducing the perfect venue for the Beijing Winter Olympics from the first perspective, as well as his training with Su Yiming and Jung. In the video, Xiao Ming Sauce (Coach Sato's nickname for Su Yiming) is proficient in Chinese, English and Japanese Chinese, and is quite fluent in Japanese, and Jung girls also show a fluent French.
Yasuhiro Sato's hometown of Fukuyama City, Japan, is at latitude close to mainland Aoshima in Shandong and Busan in South Korea, and is located by the sea in Setouchi. Theoretically, he could not have played with the eight rods of ice and snow sports. Being exposed to skiing is a fortuitous opportunity.
It was during his study in Canada, when Sato was idle during his winter vacation, and he decided to go to the ski shop with his friends on a whim - because the local supplies were cheap, he bought a set of fun without even thinking about it. Unexpectedly, this play was addictive.
Sato is a very casual person, close to graduating from college, he is a little confused about the future. According to his own recollection and the Japanese media, "people will die anyway, so it is better to challenge the limit and simply become a professional skier." ”
So he gave up the idea of running a business and put all his passion and energy into skiing. Sato opened a training center to teach children to ski, Sato said that in the process of teaching children, little by little, watching them fall in love with the sport, happy in their hearts, this is the meaning of his persistence for so many years.
In the time since, Sato has trained a number of skiers for Japan, including Onizuka Masa, Iwabuchi Reiko, ken Oizuka and other athletes. However, training athletes only in Japan has not fulfilled Yasuhiro Sato's wishes.
He wants to leave Japan and cultivate talents for the world's ice and snow sports. China has become his next foothold.
After the successful bid for the Beijing Winter Olympics, Yasuhiro Sato accepted an invitation from china to coach the snowboard jumping and slope obstacle course team.
"I hope to use Japan's experience to guide Chinese athletes and build a bridge between China and Japan through sports."
Kai Sato's training camp in Arashiyama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, has excellent hardware conditions - with artificial grass and rubber air cushions, even in the summer, athletes can train in skills.
Here, Sato took the Chinese athletes to train for half a year, and during this half year, Sato was deeply moved by the concentration of the Chinese athletes.
Many of these team members did not have too rich experience in ice and snow sports before, and many players were cross-discipline materials, and they came here from home to train with Coach Sato because they all had a heart to serve the motherland.
In order to live up to this group of selected athletes, Sato used his experience to study a set of "quick methods" that allowed these Chinese athletes to have a medium and high level in a short period of time.
Among all the Chinese athletes, Coach Sato admires Su Yiming the most.
On the one hand, it is because Su Yiming has liked skiing since he was a child and has a good foundation; on the other hand, it is his talent.
At the International Snow Federation Grand Jumping World Cup in Colorado last December, 17-year-old Su Yiming took out the housekeeping skills of the inside turn 1800 and the outside turn 1800 to grab the tail of the board, and successfully won the championship. He also became the first Chinese athlete to win the championship in this event.
At this moment, he is happy - he said that he hopes that his students can stand on the podium at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and he also hopes that his disciples will be happy and grow through ice and snow sports, which is the biggest gain.
"China's current high-quality ski resorts are not as many as europe and the United States, but don't worry, soon skiing will develop in China, and the outstanding results of the team members will help the development of sports."
Sato also hopes that ice and snow sports can allow the people of China and Japan to have more exchanges and move towards the future together – for Yasuhiro Sato, skiing is not only a sport, but also a lifelong pursuit and career.
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