Pang Qing/Tong Jian: Teaching by example Looking to the stage of the future

Pang Qing and Tong Jian won the silver medal at the Vancouver Winter Olympics

Figure skating is a lot of couples, they come together because of figure skating, and in the company of more than ten years, holding hands and waving goodbye to the ice sports career. Pair skating world champion Pang Qing/ Tong Jian is one of the representatives, with dedication and love together to compose their dream-chasing music. In an exclusive interview with a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily, Tong Jian admitted, "Although I have been away from the arena for many years, I have not left my beloved career, and have served as deputy secretary general of the Skating Association, deputy director of the figure skating events of the 2022 Winter Olympics, and have devoted myself to the market promotion of figure skating, and it can be said that I have never left." ”

Having fallen into a trough and climbed to the top, Pang Qing/Tong Jian has witnessed the development of Figure Skating in China for nearly 30 years. Together, they have competed in 16 World Championships and 4 Winter Olympics, winning all the medals in the World Figure Skating Competition. From 1993, when they began to cooperate as ice partners, to 2016, when they were licensed to get married, the names Pang Qing and Tong Jian have been closely linked. "Pang Qing-Tong Jian" and "Tong Jian-Pang Qing", their titles on social media all exude deep love for each other.

"Retiring is just turning the original arena into the stage of the future." After retiring from the military, Pang Qing and Tong Jian threw themselves into the ice sports industry, and after 6 years of continuous experimentation, exploration and training, they had a new understanding of the cultivation of China's ice and snow reserve talents. So they opened the Pang Qing Tong Jian Ice Art Center and created a public welfare class on ice skating. "After retiring from retirement, we devoted ourselves to the market-oriented promotion of figure skating, built and operated two venues in Beijing and established the Pang Qing Tong Jian International Skating Club, and the development momentum is quite good." Tong Jian said.

In addition, since Tong Jian founded the "Love Skating" team in 2015, he has carried out 65 public welfare classes, and he has raised funds to widely promote ice and snow sports, so that more ice fans can truly feel the charm of ice and snow sports. At the same time, he and Pang Qing also created the Ice Dream Show. Tong Jian said, "It is our unshirkable duty to promote the whole people to the ice and snow and promote the Olympic culture and the Winter Olympic culture. It is hoped that through the form of public welfare classes, children and parents who are still on the sidelines can experience it without burden, so that they can judge whether they like it or not. ”

Tong Jian believes that the most important thing for young athletes is to find the aspects they lack, and to focus on making up for them, and must not be ignored. "Our team first needs to use a professional vision to find out the direction that children need to work on, gliding, acting, etiquette, jumping, each child's specialization order is different, this is to be carefully planned." We have been training abroad for a long time, we have seen too many athletes over the years, athletes have shortcomings, find out is necessary to make up, because competitive sports are cruel after all, this point I and Pang Qing reached a consensus, but also my years of experience to gain valuable experience. He said.

For the young players on the ice rink, Tong Jian also has a lot of expectations, "I hope that the children can fully understand the figure skating culture through professional system training, and inherit our technology and spirit, and in the future, they can also stand on the international arena to win glory for the country, and hope that all children can obtain physical health, mental health and cultural self-confidence through physical exercise, corresponding to training, events and ice culture performances." I hope that they will gain confidence in facing the future through physical exercise and become a generation of healthy, confident, innovative and realistic. In terms of choosing to cultivate figure skating talents, in addition to the students' love for figure skating, Tong Jian also pointed out, "Young athletes should be more patient and need to learn more content, such as dance, physical fitness, music rhythm and so on." ”

This edition of the article / reporter of this newspaper Zhou Xueshuai