The Winter Olympics are in full swing, and the "Snow Flying Swallow" track of the National Alpine Ski Center is pouring down from the top of the mountain, and athletes are competing for the snow.
After a few minutes of race, Gao Feng and more than 40 heavily armed skiers rushed into the track. On the more than 2,000-meter-long track, they pedaled double boards, held poles, slid sideways, and slid to the end. Behind them, the pistes were smooth and smooth, and the floating snow generated during the race was swept away.
Dare to race on the Winter Olympic track, these skiers are not ordinary. They are snow masters other than the athletes who participate in the competition, and the job they do is not normally done - to do the leveling of the alpine ski track. With a total of 7 tracks and a maximum vertical drop of up to 900 meters, the National Alpine Ski Center is currently one of the most difficult competition venues in the world. "Athletes turn and fly over at speeds in excess of 100 kilometers per hour, and if there is snow floating, it is easy to cause danger, just like there are mud piles on the highway. Therefore, before the race, during the race, the track must be leveled. Gao Feng said. To be a snow leveler, superb skiing skills come first. Therefore, many of them are skiers, and Gao Feng is no exception.
Gao Feng is 32 years old this year, and his job is the coach of the ski team of the Dongcheng District Youth Amateur Sports School. Don't look at his young age, but he has defended the national alpine skiing championship many times. Gao Feng was born in a small village in Luobei County, Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province, and grew up in the land of ice and snow, he has been particularly fond of snow since he was a child. Due to his good physical fitness, the 9-year-old was selected to join the Hegang City Sports Team. "The first training trip to Yabuli Ski Resort did not fall, and it went smoothly. It was also the first time I felt the impact of skiing, which was very amazing. Speaking of "the first slip in life", Gao Feng feels that it is more or less related to "talent".
Gao Feng took the children of the Dongcheng Youth Amateur Sports School Ski Team to teach skiing
However, having "talent" does not mean that it can be done once and for all. In Gao Feng's own words, the training career of "pain and happiness" began. 9-year-old Xiao Gaofeng went to school while training in the sports team in the morning and evening. "At that time, it was really 'morning practice morning and evening practice'." Gao Feng recalled that his home and school were seventeen or eighteen kilometers away from the sports team, and at 3:30 a.m. in the summer, he got up, washed and rode his bicycle for more than an hour to reach the sports team, trained until 6:30, and then rode another hour to school, and the same was true in the afternoon. "After more than three years and I couldn't hold on, I thought about my dream of 'taking the world championship in skiing' and continued to grit my teeth and persevere."
At the peak of the skiing
Bitter people, the sky is not the limit. At the age of 13, relying on high-quality physical fitness and outstanding basic skiing skills, Gao Feng was selected to join the Bayi Ski Brigade of the former People's Liberation Army of the Shenyang Military Region and officially became a soldier and professional skier. From 2005 to 2007, he won the National Ski Championships for three consecutive years, making him an extraordinary life as a "ski champion". After retiring in 2008, he transformed into a ski instructor and taught in Shanghai, Hebei and other places.
In 2017, riding on the east wind of the Winter Olympics, ice and snow sports flourished among Beijing teenagers, and the Dongcheng Youth Amateur Sports School set up a ski team and hired Gao Feng as a coach. Under the dedicated cultivation of gao feng, Sun Tianyu and other coaches, the Dongcheng District Youth Amateur Sports School also gave birth to two "ski champions" in Beijing.
Before the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Gao Feng was selected as a snow leveler for alpine skiing. "Although my dream of winning the world ski championship has not yet come true, I am equally honored to serve the international event." Gao Feng said that he hopes that through the strength of himself and his family, more people will fall in love with skiing and enjoy the charm of ice and snow sports.