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Habu knotted the strings and retired.
On the afternoon of July 19, Japanese figure skater Yusei Yusuke, who wore a black suit and gray tie, held a press conference to announce his retirement and become a professional figure skater.
At the press conference, he announced the decision with a faint expression, a soft voice, and a bit of a stutter.
Throughout the speech, Yu Sheng did not use the word "retirement".
In the future, I will not compete with other players as a competitor
He also repeatedly stressed that although he will be away from the field, he will become a figure skater in the future, and he will continue to skate, continuing to challenge difficult moves such as 4A (Axel's four-way jump).
At the beginning of the year, the Beijing Winter Olympics, due to the pain of playing unsuccessfully, did not qualify for the Olympic three consecutive championships. Immediately after, he withdrew from the World Figure Skating World Championships in March this year. In early July, news of retirement came out again.
It's rare for an athlete in a non-popular event to be liked by so many people who know no borders.
Why is it a feathered knot?
This is hard to explain.
Because the charm of The Feather String never depends on language.
Only to keep going, to keep doing it.
"A lifetime of suspense, go all out."
01
Yusei was born in 1994 in Sendai, Japan.
His father named him "Knot String", first, to correspond to his son's constellation Sagittarius, and second, to hope that his life could be as relaxed as a bowstring.
But as soon as it began, his life seemed tense.
He was diagnosed with asthma at the age of two.
In order to exercise and overcome asthma, I practiced skating with my sister from an early age.
Originally, his goal was still his sister.
Later, his goals changed.
"Become an Olympic champion."
△ Documentary "Yu sheng knot string challenges himself"
At the time of this, Yusuke Habu was 11 years old and had already won his first national championship: the Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships Group B champion.
Five years later, he won his first world championship (International Skating Union (ISU) Figure Skating Grand Prix Junior Champion).
At the age of 15, he participated in the World Junior Figure Skating Championships, ranked 3rd in the short program, and achieved a reversal with free skating, becoming the fourth World Youth Champion in Japan.
△ Documentary "Yu sheng knot string challenges himself"
In 2010, Yu yusei officially entered the adult group.
In the four years since the stunning debut of the Sochi Winter Olympics, Yu yusuke has quickly emerged, constantly refreshing his best results in various competitions.
Take the All Japan Championship, for example.
In 2010, he made many free skating mistakes and ranked 4th overall.
In 2011, he ranked 3rd and won the bronze medal.
In 2012, he defeated Daisuke Takahashi and ranked first.
In 2013, the champion.
In 2014, he completed three consecutive championships and set a new personal record again, with a total score of 286.86 (285.23 in the first championship).
2014 is a bumper harvest year for Habu knots.
At the age of 19, he won the men's singles championship in figure skating at the Sochi Winter Olympics and the only gold medal won by the Japanese delegation at the Olympic Games, becoming the youngest men's singles Olympic champion in 66 years.
This year, he achieved Grand Slams in the Olympic Games, World Championships and Grand Prix Finals.
Olympic champion, he got it.
What he may not have expected as a child was that he could take it 2 times.
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, YuSheng, who had previously experienced injuries, still played well, winning the men's singles championship in figure skating at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, becoming the first figure skater to win the men's singles championship at the Winter Olympics in 66 years.
This year, with a song "Yin and Yang Division", Yusheng knotted the string successfully impressed the world.
Sir was very impressed, it was March 1, 2018, and the whole circle of friends was admiring the lightness and elegance of this player.
After defending his title in PyeongChang, he set himself a new challenge:
Axel's four-week jump (4A) and Olympic men's singles triple crowns are achievements that no one has ever achieved before.
Unfortunately, the challenge did not succeed.
At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, he failed to finish the 4A and men's singles triple crowns.
Even so, Yu Yusuke, who has been in service for 23 years, is still the first super grand slam in figure skating history.
The first men's singles player to win a Grand Slam in major international events in the Junior and Senior Categories and the first Super Grand Slam champion in the history of figure skating to win the men's singles event of the Olympic Games, World Championships, Grand Prix Finals, Four Continents Championships and World Youth Championships and Youth Finals.
Say a word about the trophy (record) shredder, no exaggeration.
02
How to become an Olympic champion?
Some would argue that talent is important, and no one would deny the role of effort.
But how to become a figure skating Olympic champion?
CCTV senior commentator Chen Ying said so -
To become an Olympic champion, athletes not only need to have technical reserves for difficult movements, but also have good artistic expression, and various basic comprehensive qualities: gliding, flexibility, and need to have a very strong heart, but also have a clear mind.
Figure Skating Winter Olympic Men's Singles has a short program, free skating 2 items. The short program stipulates the action and connecting steps, and the free slide can be combined at will.
The project score also determines the difficulty of this competition: technical points and performance points.
There are both solid internal skills and beautiful moves.
Why did Yu yushin become such a figure skater? Everywhere you go, it's like star treatment. Fans cheered and screamed live.
As a sports layman, Sir has carefully watched Yu Yu's important performances.
Simply expressing feelings can only be said, too beautiful.
After playing, the music sounded, like a dancer.
The ice under his feet was like giving him wings, giving him the ability to fly in the air on the ice.
In addition, he has fair skin, a slender figure, slender and soft limbs, and a very beautiful face.
Every technical action, the expression is either pleasant or sharp, and all of them complement the music.
The feet should be steady, but the more loose and free the face, the better.
The control and psychological quality required in this are difficult for ordinary people to imagine.
Is It talent?
Of course.
But more importantly, he never prides himself on talent.
Habu has many small habits.
In school, the teacher stressed that the wrong set of questions that Sir had never done before, he had:
Lesson notes from school and replay notes from the game when I grew up, covered with red, blue, and green markings.
Blue is asking questions, red is the answer, and green is thinking after watching or listening to the coach' explanation.
Self-taught human intelligence science, according to what you have learned, study the posture and movement of the game.
Before the game, he will study where the force is acting, what kind of impact it will produce, and use numerical values to reflect these.
Not only focusing on the improvement of technology, Yu Yu string may be the most worried player in the figure skating competition.
Music.
In the 2018 Changping Olympics repertoire "Qingming", he first edited the original song and added his own breathing sound at the beginning of the song, which is both aesthetic and can help him regulate his breathing.
To the beat of the music, he made a precise calculation of the number of seconds required for the jump.
You know, editing the soundtrack yourself is also very rare for athletes.
Not just music, he was involved in designing costumes. The color, material, and impression of the costume in "Yin and Yang Division" were all decided by Yu Sheng himself.
Yusei is a designer, and I am his assistant.
His requests included a patterned white background, yellow-green and purple, and the addition of a pentagram symbolizing the Yin-Yang Division. The hardest part was how to imitate the Kimono hunting suit of the Heian period and make it into a figure skating performance costume.
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He's not just an athlete.
Or the general director who personally polished the art of figure skating, every process is studied to the fine.
03
In 2014, Yusei Won the first Olympic gold medal, and his post-match sentiment was that he was not willing.
That year, his short show broke the world record and won the figure skating Olympic champion.
Unwilling, stemming from free skating, he made consecutive mistakes, and even the 3A jump that he was usually best at did not make.
He grabbed the ice in his hand and kept gasping for air.
Despite having defeated the best figure skaters in the world, he was still unhappy.
Although Yusei yushin is only 27 years old this year, he is already an elderly player in the figure skating world.
Because the flexibility of the joints is too much, the career of figure skaters is very short, no more than 10 years, and the peak period is only 4 years.
For the men's singles, 23 years old is the end of the peak period.
From the age of 20, his peak, there is only one:
"Better Feather Knot".
Aim to the maximum you can
At the age of 11, his goal is not only to become an Olympic champion, but also to make more specific moves: to look at five weeks of jumping, four and a half weeks ...
In the first year of high school, I officially began to practice jumping around.
What is a four-way jump?
In figure skating, there are 6 kinds of jumps, divided into T, S, Lo, F, Lz, A, and the difficulty increases step by step.
Each jump is divided into one to four sides according to the number of turns in the air. The more laps, the harder it gets.
The 4A that Yusei has in mind is the epic difficulty of the figure skating world, and only 140 years ago, the Norwegian player Axel Paulsen has completed it (this action is also named after him).
Starting with the 4T, Yu Yusei began his own offensive path.
At the 2014 World Championships, he won the first 4T jump.
In 2014, the Sochi Winter Olympics won the first place in the short program with a jumping difficulty of 4T + 4S.
After a four-week jump error in the free skating of the Winter Olympics, he handed over a smoother and smoother "Yin and Yang Division" in the NHK Cup a year later, creating his own new record with a record-breaking score of short program and free skating.
At that time, the young players also came to the top and started the difficult challenge of jumping around the figure skating.
In 2015, China's Jin Boyang successfully completed the first 4Lz jump.
In 2016, Masama Uno of Japan completed the second-difficult 4F for the first time.
Chen Wei in the United States in 2017 challenged the most difficult 4Lz and 4F to succeed.
On the technical list, the feather knot string that first issued the horn was lagging behind in the difficulty of completion.
Everyone is improving, and of course the feather string will be stimulated.
So far, two young players have completed the most difficult 4Lo, and the Feather Knot is certainly not weak.
The cheering of the middle two written 5 years ago is still useful.
"Definitely win for you."
In order to impact the PyeongChang Olympics, he chose 2015's "Yin and Yang Division", which increased the number of four-week jumps from three to five three years ago, music re-editing, studying movements, beats, and practicing diligently.
Just two words, no regrets.
Therefore, in the three months of absence, dancing all around the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium, Yusheng knotted a dance amazing.
Yusei Yushin described the two Olympic gold medals in his life.
In 2014, he worked hard and won the "recklessness"; In 2018, it was completely won.
But what makes Sir feel even more precious is that before he won the second Olympic gold medal, he participated in the Figure Skating Grand Prix Moscow Cup and successfully completed the first jump of the 4Lo.
Despite other jumping mistakes, he stopped second, and he still showed the most relaxed smile of the time, and happily opened a bottle of Coke.
"Doing" makes him more happy than "getting".
This is also the reason why the expression after each Yusheng Yuki string performance is touching.
It is the joy and joy of reaching the limits of the self.
Until his retirement, Yu yusei had broken 19 world records.
But Sir thought that the audience's love for Yu yu is no longer how many championships he has won, how many world records, or even the 4A he wants to sprint.
Like this year's Winter Olympics, he has no chance of medals, but he is still the one that gets the most attention.
The light of Yusheng's knots has long been irrelevant to victory or defeat, especially in the field of figure skating, which is "easy to change" and genius is like a shooting star flashing.
The ultimate feather knot string can only do a little more than others stay at the peak.
And he gave it to us.
But it is a lasting and stable force.
Beauty is beauty.
Dreams can be pure dreams.
These things that we often doubt and forget, just look at them, are self-evident.
Because that's a feather knot.
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Editorial Assistant: Drifting Boy Max