How did an actor on Royal Caribbean Cruises become a figure skater at the Beijing Winter Olympics? How he slid from the ocean step by step to the big stage of the Winter Olympics, taking you to understand the development footprint of different professional athletes.
In everyone's impression, the winter Olympics double skating project requires athletes to cultivate an unusual tacit understanding between two people under exceptionally strict and professional training, and this little bit of accumulation comes from high-intensity professional training. At the Winter Olympics, American athlete Raduk and his partner Esri have different figure skating experiences, they are not from the Bay Area like single skating gold medalist Nathan Chen, from the Bay Area high-income middle-class family, nor the Russian three-set dolls have been at the center of global attention since childhood. They need to thank them for their two years of acting experience on Royal Caribbean Cruises. This is clearly different from the traditional professional sports growth path of other Olympians, which also makes the American pair's legendary experience in the history of the Winter Olympics.
On cruise ships, in addition to a fixed time for tourists to perform. Raduk also needs to do some other service work with other skaters, who also live in cramped cabins with other crew members. The stage on which they train and perform cannot be compared to the training environment of professional athletes, as if they were performing on a small piece of ice, and they can feel the uncertainty challenge of the ice level up to three degrees from the hull tilt. But they are still happy to stick to their dreams.
"It's one of the very interesting parts!" Raduk said in a mocking tone. "If you take off at a certain point, but the boat is moving, the ice surface will also move down or up, depending on the angle at which the hull swings and the direction the performer jumps. So sometimes the ice appears much earlier than you might expect, and of course sometimes much later. The fun that These Raduc spoke of was also part of his life. At 31 years old, Raduk's dream of competing in the Winter Olympics has come to an end after finishing seventh with his partner at the 2014 U.S. Championships. In order to live and to be able to continue to chase his Winter Olympic dream, he chose to become an ice dancer on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, a job that allowed Raduk to continue his skating career and continue to pursue his Winter Olympic dream. God also arranged for another girl to meet him, Leah, 29, who together on a Caribbean cruise ship launched an assault on The Winter Olympic qualification. Triple jumps, which are a long-standing weakness for the American skating duo.
When he first entered the cruise ship, Raduk practiced extremely intensively at the ice rink on board. They recalled that Raduk had to perform on a cool stage every day in a variety of different styles of clothing, and his boat performers also participated in the performance with him, including acrobats who taught him a lot of cool lifting moves. Of course, skating here is more like a performance, and there is a world of difference between competitive competitions and competitions. Doing skating on a cruise ship is challenging most of the time. Raduk will also sharpen ice knives for everyone on the boat, and teach children to skate between performances.
When Mitch Moyer, senior technical director of figure skating in the United States, received raduk's request to return to the competition, he was deeply impressed by the experience of the young man who never gave up and insisted on chasing his dreams. Technically, Moyer thinks Raduk's experience on cruise ships sounds a little different from the daily training of traditional athletes, which may seem strange to others, but he thinks it's just an unusually helpful form of training for the Winter Olympics. He insisted: "Raduk's performance must continue. "No matter how the ice tilts, I believe he has the ability to beat it and make it work." It is important to participate in this Winter Olympics, and I believe he can adapt to all this. Finally living up to expectations, Raduc achieved success in this Winter Olympics.