things about figure skating

About five years ago, I started skating seriously, and at that time I was able to skate straight ahead. In the past four or five years, while working, with little help from elders, I took time to go ice skating with my husband and two young children. I think on average, that's an hour of skating a week or less. The movements I just learned, because my child was too busy at work, I couldn’t practice for a few weeks, and I forgot to go on the ice again. , Gradually learned that progress is so slow that it has to be measured in years.

On busy days, in slow progress, I enjoyed the 5 or 6 a.m. ice rink so much. On the way to the ice rink, the whole city is still awake. When entering the arena, there is water vapor on the glass, and you can see the figure sliding quickly on the ice. Most of them are children participating in figure skating competitions. Parents of elementary school students walk around the ice rink to exercise, or sit in a slightly warmer place in the restaurant, chatting and doing their own things. Parents of high school students or older children generally drop their children off at the ice rink and pick them up a few hours later. Practice day after day, year after year.

At the end of 2021, I read Tessa and Scott, my favorite pair of ice dancers. The two things I remember most are: Before the 2010 Olympics, Tessa's leg was so painful that she couldn't walk, so she had surgery, but the recovery after surgery was not smooth. I watched the dance they won the championship in 2010, and I just thought it was beautiful. After knowing the difficult process of winning the championship, I watched the dance of the two in elegant white clothes, and I was moved to tears. Along the way, the two have always been a young, talented and lucky couple. They stood out in various competitions. It seemed logical to win the championship in 2010. Another thing is that after the two won the Olympic silver medal in 2014, for about two years, they kept performing, attending events and accepting interviews, etc. These two years were actually a period of confusion for the two. Until 2016, the two People finally decided to finish the unfinished, announced their comeback to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics, and also changed the coach, in the 2018 Winter Olympics, 29-year-old Tessa and 31-year-old Scott, a song Moulin Rouge, not only beautiful, but also kind of The power to make people's hearts explode. As they said themselves, they felt that after winning the championship in 2010, they actually skated better, and when they decided to come back in 2018, they also believed that it would be completely different from before.

At the end of 2021, I have been skating for almost 5 years. Although many movements are still not so smooth, I also decided to choose a song and practice a routine of my own. No competitions, and no deadlines. I started telling my coach to use the song "always with me", but I always felt that there was a lack of connection between me and the music. Just during this time, I heard the song Yuri on ice, calm and restrained, with surging power. Looking up the name, I found the anime. I don't have the habit of watching Japanese anime (unless I count the Doraemon I watched as a child), and I've watched it several times in just over a week after I found it.

Authentic, beautiful, refined. Amazing. The psychological descriptions of athletes, those harsh and lonely exercises, the sadness after failure, the unbearable heights after repeated successes, the friendship under competition, and the concern and admiration for the opponent are all too real.

Yuri on ice. On the surface, Yuri's growth is described, but in fact, it is not Victor's growth. The more times he wins the championship, the lonelier he will be. No one can look up to him. He can only break his own record time and time again and discover motivation by himself. He coached Yuri for eight months. In the final Grand prix final, Yurio broke Victor's record with a dance choreographed by Victor; and Yuri also broke Victor's record in free skate. Victor said "Having both Yuris beat my records is the ultimate bliss as your choreographer and coach, but it's the ultimate diss as a competitor." So Victor is back! Not only did he find his new motivation to be a better athlete, believe him In the run-in with the two Yuri, he will become a better coach (after all, at the age of 27, he should also consider the direction after retirement).

On the eve of the free skating competition, Yuri said to Victor "Thanks to you, I was able to give everything I had to my last season." When Yuri was free skating, he said to himself: thank you Victor to bring me all the way here … but it is not only Victor that I need to thank for…look at the Victor who lives on inside me…” This is the last day of 2021, the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic. I suddenly think of that every sentient being Will ask myself the question from time to time, who am I?

So who am I? I am the continuity of all the love and support I received.

In this film, the love Yuri received before the Grand prix final is embodied in Victor alone. In everyone's real life, at a certain stage, there may be a person like Victor. He or she is our relatives, friends or nobles, but it may also be several people, maybe each of them Not enough of the love and effort that Victor gave alone, but again, their love made us. The love shown in the film is not only the part where the two people are throwing dog food and wearing rings on each other. One of Yuri's monologues is, I don't know how long I can last, I don't know how long Victor will stay, Yuri's scarred feet and the skates next to him appear in the camera. When the two practiced, Victor frowned and gestured to explain something to Yuri. As someone who has learned figure skating in his 30s, I especially liked these two shots. Yuri was criticized by Victor's former coach after a game, and he also has a monologue that he, like Victor, likes to reason in Kiss & Cry. Love is not always sweet, and support is not always encouragement. Sometimes good medicine is bitter, and sometimes it is harsh criticism. But it's the dedication of all of us that makes us. All these love and support live on inside us.

2022, I am grateful for all the conditions that have supported my skating in the past few years, and I also hope that I can squeeze more time to skate in the new year. At my rate of progress year by year, I can slide with Yuri on ice for a while, but I don't know it's a matter of the year of the monkey and the month of the horse. Hopefully the second season will come before my routine!