"This Spring Festival is the peak of the peak season, and it has never been so busy." The spring festival holiday that just passed overlapped with the winter Olympic boom, and many ice and snow sports venues in Beijing ushered in the highest peak of passenger flow since opening. At the ski slopes, the last winter camp was full early and the instructors were exhausted; at the skating rink, the instructors were busy from noon to late at night, eating only one meal a day.
More and more citizens are participating in ice and snow sports, more and more ice and snow sports fields are opening, and at the same time, more and more professionals are throwing themselves into the coaching team, and Beijing is becoming a hot land for ice and snow sports.
Full teaching from traditional one-on-one to graded
Putting on snowshoes, snow goggles, snowboarding, and poles, several ski enthusiasts, led by instructors, unlock one new action after another. Although the snow season is nearing its end, the Huaibei International Ski Resort in Huairou District is still bustling.
"Ski camps were also full in the last week before school started, which was hard to imagine in the past." Engaged in ski training for many years, Zhang Yan, the founder of Beijing Magic Ski Academy, has never seen such a grand occasion. Driven by the Winter Olympics, more and more parents and children sign up for parent-child camps, and even grandparents come to learn, skiing is developing from a niche sport played by young people to a mass sport in which the whole family participates.
However, with so many novices flocking to the slopes, safety has become a big problem.
"Skiing itself has a certain technical threshold and there is a real risk of injury if there is a lack of professional guidance. In particular, rampage 'torpedoes' are the most likely to cause snow safety accidents. From the introduction of foreign teaching systems in the early years to the formulation of his own teaching system now, Zhang Yan has always believed that skiing is first safety, second is happiness, and third is technology, but it is not easy to do this.
"In the past, ski teaching was usually 'one-on-one' instruction, and the price was generally more expensive, with one or two thousand a day, which was not a small amount for beginners." Zhang Yan found that in the case of this year's snow field, the traditional teaching model has a problem of short supply, some large-scale ski resorts, a day of more than 6,000 guests, but ski instructors may only have three hundred, "one-on-one" can not be taught at all.
How can this be reversed? Beijing Magic Ski Academy tried to implement the assembly line teaching method in the snow field. "We grade the ski level of our customers and divide all the teaching sessions into levels according to the point, and arrange fixed instructors on each level to be responsible for the corresponding training content."
For example, the first level teaches falling down and standing up and walking peacefully, the skier learns to stamp it later, and then the next level. In this way, skiers can gradually glide on the slopes that match their abilities, rather than blindly challenging the advanced trails based on their feelings, and safety is more secure. Coaches can also save time to accompany customers back and forth to ride the magic carpet or cable car, the teaching efficiency is greatly improved, and the cost threshold is significantly reduced.
"It's important to have someone to teach and to teach well." Coaches must not only have solid skiing skills, but also have basic knowledge of sports psychology, mechanics, sports rehabilitation and so on. In Zhang Yan's view, due to the relatively late start of domestic skiing, many coaches themselves have not undergone systematic training, and lack of unified standards, and the quality is uneven, "after the scale is expanded, the coach management system must also keep up." In order to do a good job of process supervision, we will inform the students in advance what teaching content, ask the instructor to upload photos and videos, and the actual teaching trajectory can be seen in the background, confirm whether it is carried out on the prescribed ski tracks, and ensure the standardization and standardization of ski teaching. ”
From children as the main force to full coverage of age
"Thank you Coach Young, goodbye."
"You're welcome, see you next time."
At 3 p.m., Yang Jingxin, coach at the Century Star Ice Rink Beijing Vanke Peninsula Plaza store, left class. She got off the ice, but without taking off her ice knife, and walked to the rest area, because there would be another lesson in a while. "Today was easier because a lot of kids are starting school. In the past ten days, I have never been so busy. ”
Yang Jingxin interned at this ice rink in 2018, when the ice rink had just opened not long ago. "I am seeing that more people are on the ice every day, and the closer they get to the Winter Olympics, the more people there are." After the highest peak appeared at the opening of the Winter Olympics, Yang Jingxin clearly remembered that it was related to Yusheng knotting strings: "Yusheng knot strings have arrived in Beijing, Yusheng knot strings have been trained on ice, and Yusheng knots have started short program competitions... In those few days, people in Uyang Wuyang were almost unable to slip away. ”
In the past, it was mainly children who came to the ice rink, girls practiced figure skating, and boys practiced ice hockey. But after the Winter Olympics came, there were all ages on the ice rink, and Yang Jingxin really realized what it means to "drive 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports.".
"Look at that big sister." She pointed to the female trainee who was holding the coach's hand on the ice, "waddling" forward, "She is almost fifty years old, and she is also the name of the applicant during this Winter Olympics." The eldest sister did nothing else, but to encourage her daughter. Her daughter didn't dare to slip at first. The eldest sister signed up for herself, bravely went to the ice, and now both mother and daughter have begun to practice. ”
Teaching children needs to be explained carefully, because children may not be able to understand; teaching adults needs encouragement, because adults can quickly understand the technology, but they are generally timid and afraid of falling. At this time, on the ice rink, there were more than twenty students. Some need to teach hand in hand, and some can already glide freely. Children who are good at skating can already jump and spin.
During the Winter Olympics, the ice rink is busy from the morning until late at night, and it is full all day. At the highest number of people, seventy or eighty people went to the ice at the same time. "I have half an hour in a class, and I usually have a break. But for those ten days, there was no way to rest. Just take advantage of the time to pour ice at 4 p.m., get off the ice and eat a mouthful of rice, and this meal will be this meal every day. ”
The busyness continues to this day. "The enthusiasm for ice and snow brought up by the Winter Olympics has gradually integrated into our lives." Yang Jingxin said that the ice rink has cooperative schools, which regularly pack half the field every week to practice figure skating or ice hockey; and some companies will bring employees to team building.
"Last weekend, there were more people." This ice rink is built in a shopping mall, and many young people regard ice as entertainment. "Before watching a movie, skating for a while is as natural as visiting a store and drinking milk tea."
From amateurs to professional athletes
Students on the ice rink may not think that Yang Jingxin was once a professional judo athlete. After retiring from the army, he took advantage of Beijing's preparations for the Winter Olympics and the spring breeze of "driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports", and became acquainted with ice and snow.
In 2017, Yang Jingxin entered the Beijing Sports Vocational College to study sports operation and management (ice and snow sports service and promotion). This is a specialty dedicated to cultivating reserve talents for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. Three years of study and internship have enabled Yang Jingxin to master skating and skiing skills.
Former taekwondo athlete Wang An is a classmate of Yang Jingxin. "The participation of '300 million people' in ice and snow sports has changed the fate of many athletes like us." Wang An, who knows nothing about ice and snow, learned to skate and ski through the cooperation between Beijing Sports Vocational College and ice rinks and snow fields, and obtained the corresponding coach qualification certificate.
Luckily, she also had the opportunity to participate in the Winter Olympics. Wang An, who is currently in closed-loop isolation, is a technical officer at the women's hockey arena at the Winter Olympics. On a daily basis, she works at the Century Star International Ice and Snow Center in Changping District. There are four ice rinks where you can enjoy a variety of ice sports such as curling, ice hockey, figure skating, speed skating, etc.
Although he has been busy at the Winter Olympics, Wang An also heard that the citizens who go to the ice and snow center to experience, "explosive growth, there are many people every day." "With a good mass base, the level of ice and snow sports in Beijing is also natural." In addition to fitness for the masses, the ice and snow center also provides training venues for professional sports teams in Beijing.
Wang An's other identity is the leader of the Beijing short track speed skating team. "Everyone's inertial thinking, our country's winter Olympic athletes, mostly northeastern athletes. But in fact, in this Winter Olympics, Beijing athletes are second only to Heilongjiang, the second most. Wang An said that after the successful bid for the Winter Olympics, based on the good ice and snow sports foundation that Beijing already has, in 2016, Beijing began to set up figure skating, curling, short track speed skating and other sports teams.
"Short track speed skating project, now Beijing has Fengtai District, Chaoyang District, Dongcheng District and other district teams, we can choose materials from them." The seedlings of the teams in each district usually attend classes at school and use weekend training. Outstanding seedlings, through various competitions in Beijing, were selected to enter the Beijing team.
"Ice fans who care about short track speed skating may have heard that we already have Athletes from Beijing in our national team." Wang An said that Wang Ye, a 16-year-old Beijing girl born and raised, is one of the key training objects of the current national team, "Maybe the next Winter Olympics, we can see that Beijing short track speed skaters will compete for gold and silver." ”