Hulunbuir, 23 Feb (Xinhua) -- Spring blossoms and autumn fruits are abundant.
Analyze the new model of China's ice and snow sports talent training.
Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhang Rongfeng, Wang Chunyan, Ji Jiadong, Le Wenwan.
In the "Fourteenth Winter" field, there were many accidents and more surprises. Winter Olympics "Four Dynasties Veterans" Xu Mengtao and Jia Zongyang missed the medals, Winter Olympic champion Qi Guangpu retired due to injury, and there are veterans' regrets in the whole Winter Games, but they are more vibrant.
After the Beijing Winter Olympics, China consolidated and expanded the achievements of "driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports", and the foundation of ice and snow sports is firmer, the foundation is thicker, the road is wider, and the prospects are brighter, and a new model of ice and snow sports talent training has gradually taken shape.
Sparks become torches. Completed in 2018, Liangcheng County Ski Resort in Ulanchabu City, Inner Mongolia, is one of the few youth alpine skiing training institutions in Inner Mongolia, with 58 team members, aged between 8 and 14. With the help of the facilities of Liangcheng Ski Resort, Liangcheng County continues to carry out the research and practice activity of "10,000 students on ice and snow", and sets up ski lessons in primary and secondary schools in the county, so that skiing can be popularized in this small mountain and water town with a registered population of less than 230,000.
According to reports, ice and snow sports have entered more than 300 schools in Inner Mongolia, with more than 200,000 young people participating. The Inner Mongolia Ice and Snow Sports Association has driven more than 40 primary and secondary schools in the region to build campus ice and snow sports clubs, promoted the formation of more than 80 campus ice and snow sports teams, and cultivated more than 160 teachers and skilled talents with club teaching and management skills.
Li Kemin, director of the Tianjin Sports Bureau, said that Tianjin started from scratch in 2018 and established a winter and water sports management center. Today, there are nearly 200 athletes in Tianjin's winter sports, and 150 people have been sent to participate in the "14th Winter". This speed of development was unimaginable before the Beijing Winter Olympics.
China's first Winter Olympics moguls athlete Ning Qin is now the coach of the Jilin moguls team, for this perennial "old man" who has worked hard in the snow field, China's ice and snow sports have entered an unprecedented good period. "Skiing is becoming more and more receptive to the sport, which used to be cold and dangerous, but now many parents and children are more aware of the sport, which is completely different from the older generation. Everyone's acceptance has steadily increased, and for ice and snow sports, I think spring is coming. ”
Livingston, a Canadian, coached Liu Jiayu, who won snowboard halfpipe silver at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics last September, was impressed by China's facilities. "In Canada, we only have a world-class halfpipe and I basically had to train there until I retired last year. But in China, I've seen three world-class U-shaped sites, and as far as I know, there's another one that's under construction. Chongli's indoor venues can overcome seasonal constraints and meet long-term training needs. These facilities are undoubtedly a strong support for the development of (Chinese) athletes. ”
Zheng Yunlong, the ski coach of the Shanxi team, believes that the venue security is very important, and a good venue can bring better training planning to the athletes, and Chengdu and Beijing have also built Jianfeng dry snow four-season ski resorts, which can also imitate the conditions of winter for training in summer, and the air cushion landing is also guaranteed for safety, which are the conditions that he did not have when he was an athlete.
The 14th Winter "Curling (Open Group) Mixed Doubles Champion, Heilongjiang player Ba Dexin, said after the game that curling is no longer dominated by one family in the Northeast in the past, and now it is more flowering and competing with each other. "The level of the contestants is very high, and the competition is very close. In the previous league, it was found that there were many young athletes from different regions, and the popularity of curling increased rapidly. ”
Ma Yongjun, the curling coach of the Heilongjiang team, has similar feelings to Ba Dexin, he said: "Now there are more and more curling talents in southern provinces and cities, and the quantity and quality of talents have improved significantly compared with the '12th winter' and '13th winter'. ”
Technology helps. It was a small accident that the Fujian team won the runner-up in the mixed doubles of the "14th Winter" curling (open group). Zang Jialiang, captain of the Fujian curling men's team, revealed after the game that a month before the game, the team measured the fatigue value of athletes through blood collection, and then gave a targeted training plan to improve the scientificity of training. Li Hongbo, the curling coach of the Fujian team, introduced that the Fujian team attaches great importance to thinking and technical and tactical training in training, in addition to regular physical training, it also trains the thinking ability of the players by watching the game, making games, and analyzing after the game.
Inner Mongolia has also increased its investment in curling in recent years, and Guo Wenli, coach of the Inner Mongolia curling team, revealed that during the training, they shoot training footage through high-speed cameras, and then analyze data such as curling routes and throwing power through software, so that the training is more digital and refined.
"When we first started training, there were basically no professional venues, and we didn't have such good equipment, but now we see curling shafts and balance shoes are the world's top equipment, and there will be auxiliary electronic equipment during training." At present, there are scientific research teams such as universities to help athletes do data analysis and statistics, so that training is more scientific and effective. ”
From being an athlete to a coach now, Zheng Yunlong feels the change in the way he trains skiing. "The details of training are different now, the way is very scientific now, we (as athletes) will be fierce training, that is, relying on the accumulation of quantity, we didn't consider the fatigue of athletes before, now it is more scientific. Zheng Yunlong said, "The Shanxi team has now set up a scientific research team, and we (as coaches) will communicate with them, and with the help of scientific researchers, this helps the children improve faster, and we didn't have this kind of support back then." ”
According to Li Kemin, Tianjin will invest more than 4,000 yuan every year for the training of winter project teams, hiring scientific research and medical teams, and maintaining equipment and facilities. The training base of Tianjin team has been equipped with training facilities such as hyperbaric oxygen chamber, low-pressure oxygen chamber, liquid nitrogen cold therapy cabin, etc., and the facilities and equipment are world-class, among which the liquid nitrogen cold therapy cabin can help athletes quickly get rid of muscle soreness and fatigue and maintain good physical condition.
Looking back on her career, Ning Qin has no regrets, and her envy for the current training method is overflowing.
2018 was the peak of my game, but I had to quit the competition because of a broken ACL. Now the children are all developing strongly, they have received formal and systematic snow training since they were young, and the foundation is very solid, and this generation will go further and more steadily than us. Ning Qin said, "Now the training, all aspects are integrated with science and technology and scientific elements, professional players have been fully guaranteed, even including diet, players have professional nutritionists, to ensure that the diet can fully meet the training requirements." ”
Multiple channels. Zhang Yiwei, who won the silver medal in the men's halfpipe in the open snowboard competition for the Beijing team in the 14th winter, currently runs a snowboard club in Beijing and has trained more than 50 young students before and after.
Family joint training has greatly reduced the burden on the local team, and now many parents are willing to push their children to professionalism, and send their children to clubs for training at the age of five or six, and the cost is borne by the family. At the age of 10, the qualified players will be transferred to the local professional team. Zhang Yiwei said, "The staffing of the local team is limited, and I was in the Harbin team that year, and there were only seven people after the expansion. The cycle of training a child in the local team is usually more than 10 years, and it is unknown whether the final results can be produced. Now, through the joint training of the family, the family bears the training cost in the early stage, and effectively expands the talent pool available for screening. ”
As the youngest player in the women's halfpipe final of the "14th Winter" snowboard open group, 12-year-old Zhou Yizhu has taken the road of independent development. At the age of five, Zhou attended an eight-day training camp in Japan under the tutelage of a New Zealand coach. After that, her father accompanied Zhou Yizhu to the United States to train and help her pursue her dream of skiing. After mastering the difficult 900-degree rotation at the age of 9, Zhou Yizhu has made a name for herself in the circle, and now she trains in Colorado for several months a year. In 2023, Zhou Yizhu finished second on the Winter Mountain Dew Tour.
The cross-border and cross-discipline material selection policy implemented during the preparation for the Beijing Winter Olympics has blossomed and borne fruit at this year's Winter Games. In the freestyle skiing aerials competition, Chen Shuo, a teenager of the Henan team who defeated Jia Zongyang and Wang Xindi and other famous players to win the championship, is not yet 20 years old, and he is a member of the team who switched from the gymnastics team to winter sports through cross-border selection in 2018. Liu Xuanchi, the bronze medallist in women's freestyle skiing aerials, started gymnastics in Shandong and switched to skiing in Hebei six years ago, and she is the only woman to try a three-week platform in this competition. In the women's snowboard halfpipe competition, the competitors of the Shanxi team are all composed of children aged 10 to 12, 10-year-old Zhang Shuqi originally practiced roller skating, and entered the Shanxi snowboard team through the test in 2020.
Li Kemin very much recognized the joint training model of various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, and she believed that the joint training not only broadened the talent outlet of the northern ice and snow sports team, but also promoted the development of the late-starting team in the south. "In order to better popularize winter sports, the General Administration of Sports (of the People's Republic of China) encourages provinces with strong winter sports traditions and provinces that started late to jointly train athletes, and the strong provinces will provide certain funds for the two sides to jointly train athletes, which has played a role in mobilizing the development of national competitive ice and snow sports. Li Kemin said that the introduction of ice and snow talents and cooperation and exchanges have effectively driven the development of winter sports in Tianjin.
For a long time. The 22-year-old Li Tianma, who is the runner-up in the men's individual open freestyle skiing aerials category in the 14th Winter, believes that the experience of veterans such as Qi Guangpu and Jia Zongyang is a valuable asset for young athletes. "A lot of our experience was from them, they probably took a lot of detours, we went straight to the straights, and we went straight into the sprint. Li Tianma said, "Compared with foreign masters, in fact, the difficulty of the action is about the same, the gap is experience, and the level will come up if the experience is accumulated." ”
Ning Qin said that snow sports take time to precipitate, compared with Europe and the United States, snow sports in China started late, and it takes more than ten years to catch up with the road that others have traveled for decades, and it still needs time to make up for lessons. "When foreign athletes are skiing a lot, they make choices, such as moguls or halfpipes. China may start to practice directly when the skiing foundation is still very poor, and the athletes' foundation is not solid enough, and this situation is difficult to completely change in the short term. ”
Looking back on her own experience, Ning Qin believes that the experience of Chinese ski instructors is a process of absorption and transformation. As one of the first snow athletes, she felt that the team members and coaches at that time did not know much, so she could only ask foreign coaches to learn from them, but the run-in period between foreign coaches and Chinese players was long, and after the run-in period, the coaching cycle of foreign coaches may be over.
I don't think what the foreign teacher told me in the first year is true, but it took me three or five years later that I understood what the foreign teacher meant at the beginning. Ning Qin recalled, "After our group of veteran players became coaches, they have mastered a certain amount of foreign experience, and the run-in period with the young players is shorter, the communication is smoother, the training habits of the players are better understood, and the coaching cycle will be longer." In the long run, good local coaches will work better. (Participating reporters: Zhao Zehui, Eun Hao, Dai Jinrong, Liu Yichun) (end).