In the month of the Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing is undoubtedly the "queen of hot search".
Take the gold medal, jump out of the world's most difficult moves, comfort the wrong players...
Even eating a leek box can be on the hot search.
Under the enthusiasm of the media, this 18-year-old girl has gradually become synonymous with "perfection".
Genius girl, super bully, ice queen, many words of praise.
But practical experience tells us that the so-called "Shuangwen Great Heroine" is never refined in a day.
Behind the "easy" championship, there must be too many things condensed -
Gu Ailing: I, 18
Gu Ailing is a typical Z generation girl.
This generation of young people, who pursue a free personality, have extremely innovative behaviors and ways of thinking.
In the documentary, she sometimes climbs up tree trunks and swings.
Sometimes walk upside down on the streets of Shanghai.
There is an air of wanton exuberance all around, and it seems that every pore is exuding curiosity about the world.
Gu Ailing is a child of a single-parent family, brought up by her mother Gu Yan.
Although Gu Ailing's family are all academic bullies.
But the mother Gu Yan did not let her daughter focus on her studies.
Freedom, richness, happiness, and the courage to try are Gu Yan's greatest expectations for her daughter.
Adhering to this educational concept, Gu Ailing has cultivated many hobbies since she was a child.
Singing, running, basketball, surfing, horse riding, archery, rock climbing, golf...
And in the end, what makes Gu Ailing really love is skiing.
3 years old, exposed to skiing.
At the age of 8, she joined the ski team and became the only girl in the team.
At the age of 10, he won all the championships of all kinds of freestyle skiing in the under-13 category.
At the age of 11, Beijing successfully bid to host the Winter Olympics, and Gu Ailing has since made a wish to stand on the stage of the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022.
In order to realize this wish, Gu Ailing embarked on an orderly "road to the Olympics".
Since the age of 13, he has participated in the professional ski adult competition with the goal of accumulating international points rankings.
Since the age of 14, he has been challenging the International Snow Federation's high-level competitions.
If you dig deep into Gu Ailing's family, you will find that she has a natural motor gene.
When her mother, Gu Yan, was a student at Peking University, she was a member of the school's short track speed skating team and also worked part-time as a ski instructor.
When grandma Feng Guozhen was young, she was a famous women's basketball player at Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Grandpa Gu Zhenguang was once a football player.
With such an innate advantage, many people naturally attribute Gu Ailing's success to "reincarnation is good".
And ignored, the silent efforts hidden behind her talent.
As a competitive sport, injuries during skiing are inevitable.
For example, the documentary captures Gu Ailing's worst fall experience.
Before the 2018 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup, Gu Ailing designed a set of difficult actions in order to jump out of the excellent results.
But in the middle of training, an accident suddenly happened—
The back of Gu Ailing's head fell heavily to the ground, and he was momentarily unconscious.
As a result of the concussion, she even experienced transient amnesia.
"I don't remember anything."
"Why are we in China?"
"I feel like I'm dreaming."
This is already the third concussion in Gu Ailing's life.
The bad effect of concussion is that as long as there is a concussion, it will become more and more prone to concussion in the future.
Worried about causing more serious consequences, Gu Yan and the team doctor decided to abandon the game after discussion.
This was a result that Gu Ailing had never imagined.
I wanted to represent the Chinese team in the Winter Olympics, but I was not good at it.
For skiers, "injury" is an absolute problem.
The more you care, the more worried you are, the more likely it is to appear.
And when you are no longer worried and afraid, and more involved in training and competition, good results will come unexpectedly.
This is the valuable experience that the coach taught to the 15-year-old Gu Ailing, and then it has become the only way for her to break through the limits again and again.
In order to be able to land safely and to be able to compete for the best results, Gu Ailing began to train harder.
After returning to San Francisco from Chongli, Gu Ailing started from scratch and carried out muscle training.
Competitive sports are different from other professions, and only one hundred percent of the effort can lead to one percent progress.
What is even more rare for Gu Ailing is the excellent balance and control of time management.
In order to have more time for systematic training, Gu Ailing decided to complete the course a year in advance.
Eventually, she was admitted to Stanford University with a high score of SAT1580.
In addition, Gu Ailing also took over many endorsements and advertisements.
At the post-match press conference of the Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing admitted frankly: "I will always be the first to go to the driving range, the last to go; after shooting 8 to 10 hours of fashion magazines, go to the gym in the evening... I know that effort is the most important thing. I'm so happy to get these medals because I know how much I've put in and how hard I've worked. Genius and hard work, more than 99% of it is hard work. ”
Skiing has accompanied Gu Ailing all the way to growth, and the mixture of tragedies and joys has shaped her tough and optimistic character.
However, when it comes to the biggest influence on this "genius girl", it is still her mother Gu Yan.
Remember when Gu Ailing fell badly before?
In this moment of crisis, Gu Yan is not emotionally disturbed like many traditional parents, but is very calm and calm.
First, he came to his daughter and asked where he was injured.
Seeing that her daughter was slightly mentally broken, she patiently answered the questions and comforted her daughter in a very peaceful way.
As the saying goes, children are the epitome of parents.
It is precisely because of having a mentally strong mother that Gu Ailing's mind will achieve such mature and stable growth.
It is no wonder that 13-year-old Gu Ailing once expressed his love for his mother like this:
"I know all the kids think their mom is the best, but I really think my mom is the best. I'm sorry for the other moms, but my mom is better than you. ”
Gu Yan's words and deeds to Gu Ailing are indispensable.
She used an excellent example to tell parents around the world that good family education is not about scolding and making rules, but a moderate sense of security, guidance of interest goals, and enough respect.
Before the third jump of the Winter Olympics big jumping platform competition, Gu Ailing had called Gu Yan.
Mom suggested that she jump 1440 and win the silver medal.
But Gu Ailing insisted on challenging the difficulty and letting go.
For this decision, the mother showed respect and said: Well, the choice is your own, and I hope you can enjoy the game.
Now that the Winter Olympics have come to a successful end, Gu Ailing has successfully opened his own era with a score of 2 gold and 1 silver.
From the age of 3 to the age of 3, he began to start the ski trail, to the age of 18 on the world-class stage of ice and snow sports.
Gu Ailing cut through thorns and thorns all the way and finally achieved his dream.
At the same time, it has also formed insights, visions and wisdom far beyond those of its peers.
At the end of the documentary, Gu Ailing used a mature and sophisticated tone to say a "life message" to the 18-year-old himself.
Do what makes you happiest. Because I think the sooner you know this, the better, this is something in life that I think some people can learn after a lifetime.
Finally, may this "chosen son" who rides the wind and waves in the times look forward to the future.