9 We choose what we trust
Seeing Zhang Lei's mouth crackling and softening the stiff air, Zijun breathed a sigh of relief.
The reason why she hurriedly returned to her partner Zhang Lei was actually because when she returned to the hall from the bathroom, she happened to hear a little conversation between Jiang Xin and the head coach of the management center.
They were talking about changing Jiang Xin's male partner.
Since there is no better candidate to be promoted at the moment, it may not be an option to dismantle the original partner and reorganize.
Zijun listened, and his heart involuntarily lifted.
However, the topic did not last long, and Jiang Xin realized that this was not a good place to talk, so he hurriedly changed the topic to other places. After the two of them left, Zijun breathed a sigh of relief.
When she came back to find Zhang Lei, she didn't want to tell him the news quickly, but she was uneasy and needed to quickly find a place to settle down.
When she saw that Xu Haoyang was also there, the feeling in her heart became complicated again. Her relationship with Xu Haoyang is not good, and they may not be familiar. Even, if she were from a purely objective outsider's point of view, she should actually raise her hands to vote in favor of Jiang Xin's decision to dismantle and reorganize.
But personally, she doesn't like Jiang Xin very much.
Her instincts told her that the girl was a little too shrewd, to the point of feeling dangerous and uncomfortable.
The atmosphere between Xu Haoyang and Jiang Xin is very delicate, which can actually be seen by anyone with a discerning eye in the team. Jiang Xin is lively, Xu Haoyang is dull, of course the personality problem is not a problem, the problem is that the communication between the two of them is becoming less and less, not the kind of dialogue on the surface, but the real "what do you want, and what do I want" deep level of communication.
There is no such communication between them.
More often than not, they're just talking about their own ideas and not taking into account each other's opinions.
One person feels the need to think about it, and the other feels that he is right.
This irreparable distance and rift is directly reflected in their coordination in practice and competition, when to jump, when to throw, when to hug, when to let go...... Xu Haoyang felt that he was not so sure.
As a result, the technical obstacles formed by his inner hesitation were accurately seen by Han Lu, who was waiting for surgery in the United States, through time and space.
Looking back at Han Lu's entire career, it can be said that she is carrying a sword and moving forward, regardless of the enemy and me, if the opponent gets in her way, she will defeat the opponent, and if she becomes her own obstacle, then cut off the things that hinder herself.
She wants to win, just win.
Therefore, Han Lu, who grew up savagely with his talent and ruthless character, has no extra space in his heart to understand the thing of "being unable to exert his full strength due to psychological disorders".
Always under the huge aura and infinite affirmation, there is no opportunity to experience the struggle of "can I or not".
Perhaps for some, the fact of not being favored can spark a competitive spirit and a desire to prove themselves, but for others, the feeling of being ignored, ignored, and denied can cause them to doubt themselves even more.
Han Lu couldn't understand these things, and he didn't have a chance to understand them.
How did she get started skating? Han Lu recalled the events of 20 years ago, and it seems that at first it was a considerable amount of chaotic fighting. It seems that he is relying on Liu Bofei's ice rink and never leaving, no matter how Han Shuhua coerces and lures, it will not work.
Ice skating, or gymnastics? No, she shook her head firmly, it wasn't a choice question.
She seemed to have finally seen a new heaven and a new earth, and she was resolutely unwilling to return to the damp and dark underground animals, and at the same time, relying on Liu Bofei's support and encouragement, she strongly rejected Han Shuhua, refused to step into the gymnastics room, went on a hunger strike, and even ran away from home to find her father who was impossible to find...... The struggle between her and Han Shuhua lasted for a period of time, which was not short, and finally ended with Han Shuhua's concession.
"Go ahead. "But if you don't win the Junior Grand Prix, you're dead." ”
At that time, Han Lu didn't know what the Junior Grand Prix was, and she didn't even know why when she first joined the junior team at the age of 7, all the boys and girls around her were almost a head taller than her. She didn't know, and she wasn't interested in knowing, she was just jumping and dancing around the ice heartily, even greedily, as if she wanted to merge her body and mind into the ice, or carve the temperature, touch, and shape of the ice into her own blood and bones.
Liu Bofei had never seen a child with such fierce enthusiasm, and while he was shocked and excited, he also realized that this seedling that he had snatched from Han Shuhua would probably grow into something he could not have imagined in the future.
Fifteen years ago at the Junior Grand Prix – she finally met the minimum age to participate in the Grand Prix. That was the first time Han Lu had made a name for herself in a major competition in addition to local competitions.
For six years before that, she studied hard under the multiple onslaughts of encouragement or blows from her coach, teammates, and mother, and every day she was exhausted by training with no respite, and then she came back after one night. The difficult jumping movements made her bruised and swollen when she first started practicing, but it also allowed her to master one after another high-technical and difficult movements far beyond the level of her peers.
In the end, there was no doubt that she won the junior category with a total score of 249.47 and directly broke the world record in this event. This trophy she dedicated to- no, maybe it shouldn't be said to be a dedication, this trophy she slammed in front of Han Shuhua.
She was right, she announced this to Han Shuhua.
This fascinating, expansive, white ice rink will be in her hands for the future.
At the same time that she came out of nowhere, making the world marvel at this new star of figure skating, her personal style was actually established at this time. Her steps and spins were fierce and fierce, and she leaped out of the jungle in a rage, wrapped in the wind and rain and the remnants of the leaves of the budding wild animals. At that Grand Prix, she landed a triple Sakhov and three triple axels in the final performance session, much to the astonishment of Amy, a retired figure skater known as the "Queen of the Tops," who was watching from the sidelines.
"It's crazy. ”
Amy said to Liu Bofei.
She is Liu Bofei's ex-wife, and she is also the first love of each other when they were quite young. The two fell in love quickly, and it took less than four months to enter the marriage hall, which became a legend in the sports world that year. Then, after Amy retired, she chose to go to the United States to study choreography, and Liu Bofei stayed in China as a coach of a sports school. The growth and physical distance of both parties threatened the marriage, and eventually, in the second year of Amy's trip to the United States, the marriage of the ice couple fell apart.
"Is this your new secret weapon?" Amy asked, "this kid is at a god's level, and this triple jump is crazy." After today, the whole world will be shocked by her birth. ”
"You were crazy at the time, thank you. Liu Bofei replied with a wry smile.
Amy shook her head and smiled, "I've always thought the name Queen of the Gyross was a compliment. ”
"It's not. Liu Bofei said, "It's just ......"
"Although she won the championship this time. "But it looks like the goblins don't really like her style, and they have to give it an affirmation, but they don't like it." However, she is still very young, and her deficiencies can be slowly filled. ”
"I understand. Liu Bofei said.
"Are you confident?" Amy asked, "to set her in a healthy, normal direction......"
"It's not a question of faith. Liu Bofei looked at Han Lu, who had just finished the performance and made a final greeting gesture in the center of the ice rink. “…… It's a question that has to be done. ”
That time, it was Wang Ximing, who had just replaced the outgoing seniors and ascended to the position of head coach next to the ice rink. Before he retired, he could be called a legendary men's singles player, and once broke the stereotype of Chinese men's singles in the world. He has defended three consecutive World Championships and set four world records of his own, and is known for his fierce style that exudes male hormones, but there is also a lack of emotional expression through infinite madness.
By the time he retired with honor, he had swept almost the entire rink, competing in 62 major competitions and winning gold 47 times. Among the active figure skaters, only the results of the Canadian pair skaters, Duhamel and Eric, can match his results.
Compared with Liu Bofei, who debuted three years later than Wang Ximing, he won the bronze medal in his first participation in the World Championships, which is definitely not a bad result for a fledgling young man.
In Zhang Lei's words, Coach Liu was also a handsome and dashing young man before he became Liu Yueban - but this young man who loves classical music, whether it is technical difficulty or expressiveness, there is no way to beat Wang Ximing, who was in the limelight at the time.
Finally, in a Grand Prix, Liu Bofei made a major mistake because he was too obsessed with winning Wang Ximing, and he didn't even get on the podium. His desire – the desire to prove himself right in his own way – was once again slammed into the dust.
This trend of emphasizing technology over art in the Chinese figure skating industry may have been habitually passed down from generation to generation. After all, everyone knows that technique can be cultivated through intense training, but art appreciation is a long process that requires a lot of talent, inspiration, and sensibility. It's a lot of work, and there's no way to quantify it well. And the fact that Wang Ximing, Amy and others have conquered high-tech difficulty jumping moves one after another makes people focus on this.
This matter is very easy to understand, a person who does one thing with one heart and does it, it is difficult to accept any doubts.
Anyone believes what they want to believe.
Or rather, anyone who believes in something that once gave them a taste of sweetness.
Han Lu's talent attracted great attention from Wang Ximing, and he even came to see her training and personally gave her very detailed technical guidance. Of course, Han Lu, the legend of the head coach, has also heard of it, so in her opinion, who was only in her early teens at the time, Wang Ximing was her real Bole. And Liu Bofei, who is always grinding and chirping, and always talking about the big truth, is a person who should be eliminated by the times as a matter of course. He and Han Shuhua - she thought, they were originally the same kind of people. They want to do what they want to do to others.
And she's had enough of it.