Chapter 1305: Invitation
Even the pairs skating has been prepared, and in fact, the pairs skating is what the coaches are most hoping for, hoping that one of the three pairs will win gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Japan. These pairs are both very strong and ranked in the top few places, but the other countries are also quite strong, and it is still unknown whether they can win gold at the Winter Olympics.
At last year's Winter Olympics in Finland, the Chinese figure skating team returned almost empty-handed, and the most dominant pair skating won the bronze medal, while the men's singles and women's singles did not win medals, and the weakest ice dance was only ranked twelfth.
The Winter Olympics are a long-term goal, and now the leaders and coaches are aiming for a win in the coming season, and of course, the goal is to win the championship, which is also the most meaningful competitive sport, and there is only one gold medal in each group. But there are still a lot of competitions, such as the China Cup, the Four Continents, the Grand Prix, and the World Championships every year, second only to the Winter Olympics. The gold medal at the World Championships is also the gold medal that athletes want the most in addition to the gold medal in the Winter Olympics. The World Championships are held in March and April of the following year, that is, not long after the World Championships ends, and the season's competitions are almost all over and enter the off-season.
The basic talk here is the senior group, and there is also the attention of the youth group, and there are figure skating youth championships to train newcomers, but the attention is certainly far less than the highly competitive and talented adult group.
The three pairs skaters of the current national figure skating team are Chen Yu and Ding Ling, Qi Nan and Zhao Xiaohui, Qian Haobo and Fu Minghui. The members of the coaching staff include former pairs champions Zhou Jian and Yan Fang, and Zhou Jian is also the most competitive next head coach. The current head coach Sun Hao is already very old next year, and he has also cultivated many outstanding students, Zhou Jian and Yan Fang are his most proud protΓ©gΓ©s.
The coaching staff of pairs skating also attaches great importance to the choice of music, and Qin Fangge's music is suitable for many pairs skating. "Beautiful Scenery" is the most popular, and the Chinese-style "Liang Zhu" is not bad, in addition, his Piano Concerto No. 1 can also be used as music for pas de deux. His piano music, such as beautiful nocturnes, wonderful etudes, and waltzes that are especially suitable for dance, can be used in figure skating music.
Previously, classical music (opera excerpts, piano pieces, piano concertos, symphonies, violin concertos, etc.) abounded when figure skating music abounded. Some classic tunes can be heard several times in a single event.
Qin Fangge's interpretation of the aria "Beautiful Scenery of a Good Day" is particularly brilliant and gorgeous, and the difficulty is even more MAX level in the world. You don't have to think about it and know that there will be a lot of figure skaters who will challenge, Zhou Jian and Yan Fang They also encourage the athletes to try hard, the two of them are now old, plus the reason for the injury trouble, in the 2010 Winter Olympics, the injured Yan Fang overcame many difficulties to play "closed" on the field, and finally won the gold medal and announced his retirement completely, they really can't skate, so they put their hopes on teaching a new generation of athletes.
In the middle of the season, if you want to reschedule a new program, you basically don't have much time to practice, and the schedule is quite intensive. By the time it comes to this offseason, players from all over the world will start programming new programs to prepare for next season's competition.
The coaching staff's goal is to aim for the next Winter Olympics, and the small goals ahead can be considered training, encouraging the athletes to try new things. Getting the help of Qin Fangge, a composer, can also be regarded as an unexpected joy.
In the following time, several groups of pairs skaters gave their wonderful performances, Qin Fangge was dizzying, and he did not forget to give applause and all kinds of praise. In terms of technology, Qin Fangge, a rookie, has nothing to say, as before, he mainly talks about art with Zhou Jian and Yan Fang, and talks about the final effect, "As for the technical details, I don't know, and I don't have much right to speak, but I feel that no matter how good the technology is, if it can't be done to the extreme, if there is no beauty, there is no way to impress all the audience and referees." Only when the technique and music are in harmony can such a performance be called a perfect ......"
In fact, everyone understands many truths, but it is not so easy to do it.
Zhou Jian and Yan Fang didn't know in their hearts that their original skills were the top, but they repeatedly lost too many points in the content of the program, which is the so-called artistic expression, and they could only regret being behind. After learning from the pain, they made more adjustments and changes, and such a profound lesson can also make the players behind them take a lot of detours.
But they also have to face the reality that the current pairs skating pairs, in terms of technical level, are not as good as when they were at the beginning, and it seems that the young people of today are not as brave as they were at the beginning. Talent is also a very important point, but this is the most undemanding, and it is completely dependent on God's appreciation. They can only work hard now, increase the amount of training, pick out the details from all aspects, and strive to do better, far from perfect. Then, all kinds of arts, music and dance courses are also done as well as possible to cultivate the artistic quality of the contestants, after all, this is a combination of sports and art.
Then there is the ice dance performance, in this event, the Chinese team is even more weak, which is also the event that requires the most artistic expression. Choreography and selection of music are also a major test of artistic imagination, and now they are basically invited to foreign choreographers. There's still a long way to go, but everyone's passion is very high, after all, this is their dream, and if they didn't really like figure skating, they wouldn't have come to this level.
Of course, people are slacking off, and the supervision and encouragement of the coaching staff and even the audience is very important.
The attention and help of Qin Fangge, a big-name star, has also made the morale of the entire figure skating team particularly strong, and everyone hopes that the sports they dedicate themselves to can be known and liked by more people.
Before this, many athletes and even coaches knew that Qin Fangge was probably very handsome, very talented in music, and famous, but they never thought that he was so talented in sports. It's a pity that he is not engaged in professional sports, and the men's singles players are happy, such an opponent is afraid that no one wants to meet, but Qin Fangge also gave them a strong stimulus, amateurs can do it to such an extent, are they professional, embarrassed to say that they are professional figure skaters?
Qin Fangge, who reciprocated the favor, also tried his best to help as much as he could, he mainly communicated with the coaching team, and took a group photo with the other players. It seems that figure skating athletes prefer to toss this, and often have tricks in their social circles, and coaches allow it, as long as it doesn't interfere with training.
Busy and serious time always flies very quickly, Qin Fangge stayed here until ten o'clock, basically watching performances on the sidelines, communicating with coaches, and didn't have much time to practice on his own. And soon, it will be the end of the day's training.
Qin Fangge, this guy is also a big name, no matter what he likes to listen to or not, he can think of everything he can think of directly. The coaching team must understand it, as for whether the coaching team can listen to it or not, whether they will urge the athletes to make changes, it depends on their own. That's all he can do, and the same is true for those who study music, the key is to rely on his own efforts.
At the end of the training on this day, Qin Fangge was ready to say goodbye and go back, Han Bingxue was still remembering, "Is my brother coming over tomorrow?"
Qin Fangge said not necessarily, Han Bingxue also revealed to him, "Brother doesn't have time to look at his phone, Sister Tianhong said that they will come here to skate tomorrow!"
"Yes, I didn't even have time to go over today to see how they skated!" Qin Fangge replied with a smile.
Coach Luo Yu also said, "Qin Fangge, you came over today to help us a lot, especially at night, some of which we didn't expect, and some of which we thought of doing but haven't done yet, no matter what, we should thank you well." β
Qin Fangge hurriedly replied, "I'll just say some personal opinions, you are all professionals, and I learned more from you today." β
After a sincere thank you to each other, Luo Yu, on behalf of the coaching staff, also invited him to come to the National Figure Skating Training Base to have a look, and said with a smile, "After you came, the atmosphere of the whole base felt different! Everyone was more motivated and willing to express themselves." β
Han Bingxue nodded in agreement, she herself was the most infected, and then she was still obsessed with wrestling. Qin Fangge laughed, and also felt the benefits of being famous in his heart, if he was not famous, it would not have such an effect.
Before leaving, the current head coach Sun Haoming also pleaded with Qin Fangge again, "Why don't you go back and think about it, figure skating is really interesting." β
Qin Fangge is still quite principled, and still refuses, but he agrees with Sun Haoming's point of view, figure skating is indeed very interesting, and he said that he will pay more attention to it, and if he has the opportunity, he will also skate on the ice to enjoy the infinite charm and fun.
Sun Haoming couldn't help him, so he still let him have more time to come to the base to guide them and improve the artistic quality of the players.
Qin Fangge didn't dare to take credit and said bluntly, "What I can do is really quite limited, the key is to see the efforts of your team and the efforts of the athletes themselves." I think it's good to be like Xiaoxue, practice more dance, listen to music, and feel the charm of art. β
Han Bingxue next to her immediately said, "I originally wanted to go to see my brother's opera performance, but unfortunately I didn't get a ticket, is there any way for my brother to help me buy a ticket?"
Sun Haoming and the other coaches couldn't help laughing, Luo Yu also said to her, "Xiaoxue, I don't know how many people asked him for tickets!"
"There's really no way I can get that many tickets. Qin Fangge smiled helplessly, but he also said, "If Xiaoxue, you are really interested in opera and have time, I can arrange for you to come over and see what is lacking during rehearsals or rehearsals." β
Han Bingxue jumped up with joy when she heard this, "Really? That's great! We can still squeeze out this time." β
Sun Haoming immediately expressed his sincere thanks to Qin Fangge on behalf of the figure skating team. If you want to improve the artistic quality and artistic expression of the players, it is not an overnight effort, but it takes time and cost to listen and feel. As a collection of classical arts, opera has no need to say much about its artistic charm, and generally in opera performances, dance performances will also be arranged.
Of course, this is actually quite new for coaches like Sun Haoming. They also chose opera arias as the music for figure skating, but they didn't go to the scene to enjoy the opera performance, and they didn't want to say such a thing to Qin Fangge, and they felt a little ashamed and embarrassed.
Everyone also knew that Qin Fangge would not say such an uncertain thing, although the general training and rehearsals would not be open to the public. From this, it can also be seen that Qin Fangge is very practical and does things very carefully, and he didn't even take a penny from the figure skating team.
Qin Fangge also said that he would notify him when he arranged it, but he also said that he couldn't take pictures and videos or anything about it, and they all expressed 100% understanding, otherwise, what would the audience feel about buying tickets to enter the venue? Presumably Qin Fangge and they are also very distressed, especially now that Qin Fangge's performance tickets are really hard to find. I heard that there is also an application lottery later, and it is so popular that it is not easy to find time to come to their figure skating team.
Han Bingxue showed 200% expectation for this, but unfortunately he couldn't show it off, so he could only steal fun in his heart. Then, she also made up her mind that Qin Fangge's symphony concert must go to the lottery, and it would be the most wonderful if she could be drawn.
It wasn't early, and Qin Fangge was also ready to leave. Han Bingxue lives directly in the base dormitory, which can also save her and her family some expenses. She also pulled coach Luo Yu with her and sent Qin Fangge to the parking lot, Luo Yu really doted on her, smiled and nodded in agreement.
It wasn't far from the past, Han Bingxue, the little girl, kept talking, her personality was more extroverted, and she was also asking Qin Fangge what style she should use when performing. Qin Fangge said that she can boldly use what she likes, and she doesn't necessarily have to be like everyone else, because she is young, she can't get out of the sweet style of the little family, what to say, "The audience will be aesthetically tired if they watch too much, and the referee is even more so." It's more motivating to practice what you like, isn't it?"
Han Bingxue nodded again and again, this day was undoubtedly her happiest day, after sending Qin Fangge away, she pestered Luo Yu to discuss her new show.
(End of chapter)