Recently, the Chinese team skiing "Gemini" Gu Ailing and Su Yiming accepted the invitation of the Water Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport (National Surfing Team) to experience and train surfing projects in Hainan. Can they seamlessly connect "amphibious"? Or even represent the Chinese team at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris as a surfer?
It's all "one board"
It's a really similar thing
When it comes to snowboarding and water surfing, the two projects really have an inseparable relationship - in the 1960s in Michigan, USA, a ski enthusiast modeled on a sea surfboard and made a snowboard for his child, named "Snafer", which means snow surfing. At that time, the so-called "snow surfing" was actually just for children to step on skis and pull ropes to slide on the snow. In the 1970s, snowboarding took off through further improvements to gameplay and equipment, and was listed as an official sport at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
The development history of surfing is even older, born in Hawaii in 1915, with the gradual popularization and improvement of surfing, it will develop in the direction of competition, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, surfing project debuted in the Olympic family, on December 7, 2020, the International Olympic Committee agreed to list surfing as the official competition of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
The reason why the Water Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport threw an olive branch to Gu Ailing and Su Yiming this time was not to rub the heat, but to be justified. When it comes to the training base for Chinese athletes at the Winter Olympics, where do you think? In fact, in addition to the expected Beijing, Hebei and northeast regions, there are also hainan, Qingdao, Nanjing and other places that many people have unexpectedly, snowboard parallel giant slalom, freestyle skiing U-shaped venues and other winter project national training teams have been training at qingdao navigation sports school, they often ride the wind and waves to practice "skiing".
"Winter training three nine, summer training three volts, some snow sports and surfing, windsurfing and other water sports have commonality." Gao Xingpeng, head of the coaching team of the cross-border cross-sports snowboarding national training team of the Water Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sports, said that especially water sports sometimes encounter waves, which are similar to obstacles such as snow bags encountered in snow sports, and summer training at sea can improve the physical balance and resilience of ice and snow athletes. "When skiing, the body leans forward, and the water skiing should put the body center of gravity back, water skiing can help ice and snow athletes train muscle groups that they usually can't practice, and practicing power surfboards can also make the balance and coordination ability of snow athletes go to a higher level."
Simply put, the most important thing to engage in these two extreme sports is to master the core strength and balance, so that you can play "flowers".
Gifted
It is expected to conquer both "mountains" and "seas" at the same time
Whether it is possible to conquer the "mountain" and "sea" at the same time, anyone who knows the past experiences of Gu Ailing and Su Yiming will think that this is a possibility.
In The growth of Gu Ailing, her mother Gu Yan played a very important role, but also the enlightener of Gu Ailing's ice and snow sports, Gu Ailing's grandmother Feng Guozhen, is a retired engineer of the former Ministry of Transportation, a sportsman when he was young, a women's basketball star of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the late grandfather Gu Zhenguang is a power engineer, when he was young, he was also the main force of the famous school football team, and he was good at swimming, in order to accompany his granddaughter, he learned to ski at the age of 75. This family, which is rich in sports genes, makes the athletic talent revealed in Gu Ailing.
Gu Ailing is proficient in seven or eight sports, long-distance running, basketball, gymnastics, yoga, horseback riding, football, rock climbing, etc., all of which can be mastered. Beijing Winter Olympics freestyle ski women's big jump final, Gu Ailing is bold, challenging the world's highest difficulty a jump deflection rotation body for two weeks 1620 degrees, in one fell swoop to win the championship, this project is not Gu Ailing's main sport, the entire practice cycle is more than a year, in the face of the world's number one player, jumped out of the "game do not dare to play like this" operation, can be described as talented.
He and Gu Ailing knew each other when they were young, and Su Yiming, who had trained together, was also a "genius".-like existence. His coach Yasuhiro Sato once said that Su Yiming bears more training than his peers, and in his view, it usually takes about 10 years of training to train a high-level athlete, but Su Yiming became the world's top player in only three and a half years.
Mark McMaris is a superstar that Su Yiming has admired since childhood, and in 2011, the Canadian athlete became the world's first snowboarder to complete a completed three-turn three-turn 1440 degree snowboarder.
In August 2018, at the age of 14, Su Yiming was selected for the cross-border and cross-sport snowboarding national team, and it did not take long for him to complete this move and pay tribute to his idol.
In March 2020, Su Yiming completed a continuous three-turn body of 1620 degrees for the first time.
In January 2021, Su Yiming completed the first five-week 1800-degree reverse turn in the history of snowboarding, making a new breakthrough for Chinese snowboarding.
In October 2021, Su Yiming successfully completed the inner rotation 1980 grab action in training in Austria, becoming the first snowboard athlete in the world to complete this action, and was certified by Guinness to set a world record. Prior to this, three athletes in the world had completed the 1980-degree rotation, but all of them were deflected rotations. The flat axis rotation made by Su Yiming is more difficult, and his attempt has refreshed the ceiling of human snowboarding difficulty.
Su Yiming said that he had surfed in Hainan when he was not training, and his social media also had pictures of riding the wind and waves in Hainan, and Gu Ailing was a sunshine girl who was keen to try and learn. "I heard it's warm there and you can surf!" Gu Ailing made no secret of his yearning. This time, the national surf team will open up a "green through train" for the two people - enough waves, full of coconut pipes, and packed with teaching.
Of course, for Xuebagu Ailing, she will definitely return to Stanford University this summer or autumn to start her college life, but this does not mean that the "time management master" has no time to practice surfing; Su Yiming, who has been released from isolation, cut off her iconic long curly hair and also linked up with "@Tsinghua University" on the Internet, and he also said that he has a lot of new goals in his studies, film and television, snowboarding or more life paths.
At a young age, they never set limits on their lives, because there are still more boundaries waiting to be expanded, after leaving the Winter Olympics, they are still full of love for sports, life, and learning, who can predict when and in what way they will surprise them next time?
They have participated in the "Double Olympics"
American athlete Eddie Egan is the only player to have won gold medals at both the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. He won gold in men's light heavyweight boxing at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics and a four-man snowmobile at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid.
German athlete Krista Ludin Rothenburger was the first athlete to win medals at the Summer and Winter Olympics in the same year. She won a gold and silver medal as a speed skater at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and a silver medal in cycling at the Seoul Olympics in South Korea that same year.
Dutch speed skater and cyclist Jerorn Strasov was the only athlete to have competed in the Summer, Winter and Paralympic Games. He competed in the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney and the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, winning a gold medal in paralympic tandem cycling.
Japanese snowboarder Hirano, who won the gold medal in the men's sport of snowboarding at the Beijing Winter Olympics, competed in the skateboarding event at the Tokyo Olympics.
Nathan Crupton, the "shirtless" flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, represented American Samoa in the men's steel frame bobsleigh event at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and at the Tokyo Olympics, he was a men's 100-meter runner.
In the Rio Olympics, the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the Tokyo Olympics, and the Beijing Winter Olympics, Pitta Tawu was the flag bearer of the Tonga delegation four times, and each time she also appeared as a shirtless oiled image. At the Summer Olympics, he was a taekwondo athlete; at the Winter Olympics, he was a cross-country skier.
Text/Qiu Ye
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