Walk through the long alleys of Tushan Lane and you can see the Hangzhou Henghe Ice Rink, which is full of traces of age.
The iron gate is covered with a picture of adults and children skating together, and some corners of the green and white lattice walls have been mottled. On both sides of the gate are two plaques of "Hangzhou Shangcheng District Sports Association" and "Hangzhou Shangcheng Wushu Association".
Next to it is the enrollment brochure of Hangzhou Henghe Training Center, and the brochure and registration form of Hangzhou Speed Skating Team.
Bright colors and the words of competitive speed pull back the youthful atmosphere of the ice rink that looks slightly old.
Rainy weather, limited by the open air, this old bottom Hangzhou young people must go to the ice rink where there is no one inside.
Wu Zhiqin, a supervisor in a black cotton jacket, is boiling water in his office.
From a Hangzhou roller skater who once played a game to the head of the Yokogawa Ice Rink, Wu Zhiqin has been dealing with roller skating all his life.
Anyone who has seen him will be amazed at his age, he is 54 years old this year.
"People who love sports seem to be younger." Wu Zhiqin laughed.
Today we come to listen to Wu Zhiqin, the owner of the veteran Yokogawa Ice Rink in Hangzhou, tell a story about the past of the Yokogawa Ice Rink, as well as his past and present with roller skating.
Wearing vintage roller skates requires five or six bows to be tied
Rollerblading used to be fashionable and often full
I am a native of Hangzhou, and the Yokogawa Ice Rink was the first ice rink in Hangzhou, which opened in the 1970s.
At that time, skating, also called rollerblading, or roller skating, was a very fashionable thing, and the degree of popularity was now the influence of vibrato among young people, almost young people at that time, everyone loved to skate.
It does not rely on an ice knife sliding on the ice, but a wheel gliding on a flat surface.
I started skating when I was 8 years old.
At that time, there were not many facilities for fun, and children mostly played rabbit jumping on the mountain, or played glass marbles, and wanted to play with new things after a long time.
When the ice rink first opened, it was 1975 or 1976, and I don't remember exactly.
How popular is the ice rink, there are five or six hundred pairs of roller skates in the venue, people who come to play rent shoes to skate, open the door on weekends, wave of people waiting at the door, because the shoes are gone, they are borrowed, and the venue is too crowded.
The lockers of the lattice were stuffed with the things of the people who came to play, and the things of the later people could only be placed on the ground, and the number plates made of rubber bands and wooden cards were hung.
The ice rink runs from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends.
Inside the ice rink, there are wavy shapes and flat ground for sliding. When you enter, you must buy a ticket first, rent shoes inside to tear off a corner of the ticket, and when you leave, you must also go out with the ticket.
The price of playing for an hour is 1 cent.
There are four horns hanging around the venue, which are used to remind everyone of time.
The staff shouted, "The time from 1 to 2 p.m. has arrived, don't stay", and the horn loops from four angles to remind everyone not to exceed the scheduled 1 hour no matter how happy they are.
But even so, some children are in love, play for three or four hours before they think of leaving, then they have to make up the ticket when they leave.
The shoes were also special, not the current single-wheel skates.
There are 8 wheels under an iron plate, divided into two rows, the two sides of the iron plate are fixed with canvas rope, when wearing, put your shoes on the iron plate, and then go around the iron plate from above to tie a bow in a circle, repeat the action, the entire foot surface to be tied with five or six bows, before it is worn tightly.
On the ice rink, wow, it's really hilarious.
There are small children, couples who come on a date, or families who come out to play.
The Yokogawa Ice Rink is overcrowded every weekend.
Roller skating team, both men and women, everyone will "one word horse"
At that time, the runway Long Bridge Park practiced straight skating
I didn't have a coach to skate at the age of 8, I relied on self-study, first learned to walk, and then slid the figure eight, lowering the center of gravity.
I learned it in just over 10 days. The next year, I was attracted to the coach, became a member of the Yokogawa Ice Rink team, and began training to participate in roller skating competitions in the city, province, and country.
It takes a lot of suffering to want to play.
I was training on weekends, winter and summer vacations, when there were only circular curves in the ice rink, and in order to practice straights, the coach took me and more than 10 other members of the team to Longbridge Park.
We carried big brooms on our backs, swept the floor every morning, swept the stones, got hot, and then went back and forth hundreds of straights to skate to practice.
Practice leg strength, jumping on the mountain rabbit, practicing arm strength with simple stone barbells, jumping rope with sack rope, and spending the days of training in push-ups, dumbbells, running, leg lifting, and stretching.
Now everything is being said about the vest line. At that time, there were more than 10 team members, both men and women, that was when everyone would, and everyone had a vest line.
In the summer, I skate on the roller skating track a hundred times and dry like an African.
Everyone is very good at suffering, but they are also very happy.
We saw more than children of the same age, playing games, going to Wenzhou, going to Beidaihe, going to Fujian, going to Qingdao, and sometimes taking the train for 2 days and 2 nights. After a long time together, everyone in the roller skating team has a good relationship, even if they quarrel, they will never break up.
Our results were outstanding, the 300m, 500m, 1500m were almost all champions, and when we came back with a medal, the sense of honor was doubled.
It took only 20 years from the city to the desert
In 1995, the Yokogawa Ice Rink was shut down
When I was 18 years old, I retired.
Although roller skating is my favorite, my parents always feel that I should find a craft that can eat.
In desperate need of stability, I chose to be an assistant teacher on the ice rink.
This job can also be paid and can teach children.
Over time, the funky stuff is replaced by something newer and more fun every day.
Roller skating is like that, and so many things are.
Slowly, there are fewer people coming to the roller skating field, and everyone goes to play QQ and play the open-air dance hall.
Everyone forgot about roller skating, as if it had never been there.
From the doorway to the deserted front door, it was only twenty years.
In 1995, the Yokogawa Ice Rink was closed and converted into an open-air dance hall.
I was assigned to work at the Sports Bureau and had a life without roller skating.
I used to think roller skating was gone.
No one mentioned it, and my former team members were scattered all over the world.
I clocked in every day at work and haven't worked out for a long time.
I used to think roller skating was gone
I didn't expect national fitness to let it come back, so happy
It wasn't until 2003, when national fitness was on the rise again, that I was told that the roller skating rink was going to open again and that I was going to re-manage the rink.
The current layout of the Yokogawa Roller Skating Ground is still the same as that of the roller skating track in 2003.
I recruited more than 10 coaches, all of whom retired from the real ice rink and won the national championship.
We began to recruit students, elite twenty or thirty people, is going to play the game, the junior class of twenty or thirty people, is for the children to learn the initial learning.
Negotiate with schools and let roller skating enter many school classrooms.
It will also host competitions, mainly schools, and about 5 roller skating competitions a year.
The roller skating rink is buzzing again.
Almost all of the student play competitions we launched are first place, and in my heart it is the highest roller skating level in Hangzhou.
Seeing good seedlings is a more joyful thing.
Although roller skating is a non-Olympic event, the Asian Games and the World Youth Championships are all roller skating competitions, and the prospects are there.
In the past, some parents would give up their children's sports hobbies in order to learn, but after the concept of national fitness was introduced, more and more families insisted on it.
My current mission is to promote roller skating and let more people know about roller skating.
Roller skating has a good boost to your child's balance,
On the 20th of this month, we will also start to let the team rotate the ice, train on the ice, once had the foundation of roller skating, and the stability of the ice is better.
My own child is 25 years old this year, and I didn't let him do roller skating, because I initially felt sorry for him.
But now I want to understand that in fact, the state of people who love sports will be more active and more difficult.
I am now waiting for my grandson to be born, and I am going to start nurturing my grandson.
Going around, I've been dealing with roller skating all my life.
From the initial love to the final dedication, in fact, it is driven by interest.
If one day, roller skating can bring happiness and a sense of accomplishment to more children, I feel that my work is meaningful, and my life has completed the goals it should have.
Write at the end:
Do you have a memory of the Hangzhou Henghe Ice Rink?
Who have you met there,
With whom has the youth soared and the blood boiled?
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Source: Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News reporter Zhang Ran
Duty Editor: Ni Wangzhen