"Is the song selection confirmed?" the assistant of the program team came over and asked.
The teacher Yu Zhi nodded and handed him the finalized repertoire list.
The assistant glanced at it and said to the artists: "The song selection and each person's measurement data will be reported, and the designer hired by the program team will design Costen according to the style of the song."
"You can tell me if the program team doesn't need to provide Kaosten."
The artist present had more or less done his homework in advance and knew that the Costen he was referring to was the figure skating competition uniform.
Costens for professional athletes are expensive because they have to take into account the comfort when doing jumps and spins and other movements, and they have high functional requirements for the clothing, and they have to work hard on fabrics, tailoring, etc.
In addition, inviting professional designers to design and produce is also a considerable expense.
None of the people present were professionals, so there was no need to be so particular about functionality. It was just that considering the effect of the variety show, it was best to make the clothing as beautiful and eye-catching as possible.
I left it to the unknown designers hired by the program team to design more than a dozen sets of Costen at once, and I didn’t even know it would be that good.
Ji Yuheng was the first to speak: "I can prepare it myself."
The assistant nodded and wrote "bring your own" after Ji Yuheng's name.
After him, two more artists proposed to prepare their own.
Yu Nian thought about his savings and emptied his wallet from the custom-made longboard. Later he made some money painting in Wenxi Mountain, and then went to Tianmen Mountain to compete, and the travel expenses, food and accommodation were almost the same.
Fortunately, I got a $5,000 check for winning the championship, but that was all.
So he did not propose the option of preparing his own.
The same goes for other young people, who silently accepted the arrangement of the program team and prayed in their hearts that the designer would be more reliable.
After the assistant left with the song selection list, Yu Zhi announced that today's class had officially begun.
The artist's unstable center of gravity and the feeling of falling down at any time made the artists cling to the inner railings of the ice rink and slowly try to move the skates under their feet.
Yu Zhi twitched his lips when he saw it: "They are all young men, how can they be so timid? How many years old do children dare to go skating?"
"Stay a little away from the railing, let go of one hand and try to overcome the fear. It's similar to roller skating. Once you know how to skate, you'll be good at it."
He demonstrated his gliding posture: "Like this, bend your knees slightly and don't let your hands and arms swing."
Ji Yuheng had experience on the ice. At this time, he was sliding in a big circle on the huge ice rink with his skates. His movements were pleasing to the eye, which was in sharp contrast to the other artists beside him who were holding on to the railings and struggling to walk.
Yu Zhi pointed at Ji Yuheng: "Look at Yuheng, relax, don't be so nervous."
"You are still far from performing at your current level. You must first establish your own feeling on the ice."
"Your ice sense and the control of your center of gravity are the most important things to hone. If you can accelerate and decelerate independently with the help of the ice surface through the skates, and control and stabilize the center of gravity, for you, it is half the battle."
Yu Nian stepped on the ice skates and heard the squeaking sound of the blades under his feet coming into contact with the ice.
Like all beginners, when he first stepped on the ice, he had to hold on to the railings on the inside of the rink to get a feel for it.
This kind of mastery of the body and control of the center of gravity makes Yu Nian somewhat familiar, and is similar to what he felt when learning to longboard.
This allowed him to move without the awkwardness of others who first stepped onto the ice, and he quickly found the key points of controlling balance on the ice.
Looking at a group of artists with ugly postures and awkward movements on the ice, Yu Zhi sighed helplessly, feeling a little tired.
When his eyes glanced at Yu Nian aside, he was slightly stunned.
He skated casually on the ice, with no choreography to speak of, but his gliding was very steady and smooth, and his limbs were quite stretched and not stiff. This made Yu Nian still have a natural sense of beauty even when he was skating without any choreography.
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It looked like he had been on the ice before. Yu Zhi commented in his mind.
He was related by marriage to Liu Chuan. He was not the coach of the provincial team, but a skating instructor at a nearby ice rink. This time, he had some connections and got the provincial team to help.
Thinking of Liu Chuan's previous greeting, Yu Zhi moved his eyes to look at Ji Yuheng and began to teach him step by step: "You have a good sense of balance. Let's try to learn the basic footwork, the front and back calabash step and the snake step."
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"For the front calabash step, the focus should be on the front leg. You see, like me, draw an arc from both sides and transition to a front-to-back cross."
With that said, Yu Zhi demonstrated it several times.
His partiality was so obvious that the artists around him were a little dissatisfied.
Yu Zhi noticed these emotions and explained: "You can't even stand firm yet. You must first master your balance on the ice as I said before you can continue."
"If Yu Heng progresses faster, I will teach you more."
Well, Yu Nian was pretty good at skating, so why didn't he get any feedback on his progress? Some people complained inwardly, but didn't dare to say it out loud.
Fortunately, the teacher paid more or less attention to what was going on around him and gave pointers from time to time.
Yu Nian listened to his teaching and asked: "Can you demonstrate the snake-like step with the front feet again?"
Yu Zhi glanced at him and nodded: "Okay, it'll be a while."
Yu Nian watched quietly as he continued to teach Ji Yuheng step by step and looked away.
This "a while" means that the entire morning has passed.
Yu Zhi was tired of teaching, so he greeted Ji Yuheng: "Yu Heng, you practice by yourself first, and I'll go get a drink of water."
Then he walked off the ice and put on the shoe covers on his skates.
Looking at the small pits carved by the artists' skates on the ice during these hours of practice, he greeted the staff: "Practice for another ten minutes and let the ice clearing machine clean the ice."
Next to him, Ji Yuheng was practicing by himself, reviewing the footwork taught by Yu Zhi just now, and drawing arcs on the ice.
Just when he was skating in front of Yu Nian, the back blade of his skate got stuck in a small pit. He lost his center of gravity and tilted his body, falling forward.
Yu Nian raised his eyes and stretched out his hand to pull him. He was knocked down by Ji Yuheng's weight and fell to the ice.
Ji Yuheng felt like the world was spinning for a while. When he came back to his senses, he found that his hand was on the side of Yu Nian's head and he was pressing him tightly under him.
Ji Yuheng looked at Yu Nian beneath him in a daze.
His brows were slightly frowned, and his facial features were extremely gorgeous.
Lying on the ice, her black hair contrasted with the white ice beneath her, like a brightly colored painting.
Moving his fingers, Ji Yuheng caught a glimpse of red from the corner of his eye. He looked over and found that Yu Nian's palm was scratched by ice. At this moment, blood seeped out from the wound, which was particularly conspicuous on the white ice surface.
"you--"
Yu Nian felt uncomfortable being pressed by him, lowered his eyelashes, and said with impatience in his voice: "Get up."
Ji Yuheng got up from him with some embarrassment: "Thank you..."
Only then did he notice that in addition to the wounds on Yu Nian's palms that had just been scratched by the ice, there were still large scabs on the wrists that had not fallen off. He couldn't help but wonder where the injury was.
Yu Zhi noticed the movement here and ran over and asked: "Are you okay?"
Yu Nian knew that he was not asking him, so he stood up, shook his palms, and took off his half-fingered gloves.
Ji Yuheng put his hands on his sides, curled them up and stretched them out, and finally said nothing.
Yu Zhi moved his eyes over and saw a small cut on Yu Nian's hand, and said, "Go down and rest first and put a band-aid on it."
After saying that, he looked at the others and said hello to stop.
"Don't practice now. Wait until the ice is cleared before practicing again. Take a rest."
The staff drove the ice clearing machine to clear the ice.
When Yu Zhi saw this, he turned to look at Yu Nian, who had already gotten off the ice rink and was applying a band-aid: "Is your foot not sprained enough to be okay?"
Yu Nian put on the band-aid and twitched his eyelashes: "We're here."
Yu Zhi choked and thought he would firmly say it was okay.
Seeing that Yu Nian had said this, he had no choice but to reply: "Then rest first, don't show off, and just come here today."
Yu Nian nodded and asked, "Can I go see a doctor?"
"Go ahead, go ahead." Yu Zhi waved his hand.
Yu Nian took off his skates, put on his own shoes, and walked out unnaturally.
Ji Yuheng glanced twice.
After walking out of the ice rink, Yu Nian's footwork returned to normal.
His feet are fine, but the teacher doesn't seem to have much intention of teaching him.
Yu Nian has not forgotten that after winning the Tianmenshan Longboard Downhill Open Championship, as a reward for overfulfilling the task, in addition to being relieved of the ban on dance, he also received in-depth learning of experience courses in any project.
He did not go in the direction of the team doctor, but in the direction of his apartment.
After returning to the apartment, Yu Nian called up the system.
The translucent system panel appeared in front of him, and he looked at the reward for the arbitrary project experience course.
"The event is designated as figure skating."
[Experience course starts—figure skating]
Seeing this line slowly emerging in bold and raised font, Yu Nian leaned on the sofa and closed his eyes.
The next moment, he entered the system space.
The coldness came, and the previously continuous green mountains here were replaced by a snow-white ice field.
In the middle of the ice rink, there stood a lady with her hair tied up and wearing ice skates with an elegant posture.
The coach is no longer the tall, strong man.
She saw Yu Nian smiling: "Welcome. I am your coach for this course and I look forward to spending a pleasant time together."
Yu Nian "cultivated" at home for two days, until that day Yu Zhi called and said that Kaosten had customized it and asked him to come over and try it out.
After Yu Nian arrived, Yu Zhi looked a little dissatisfied: "This delicate one's sprained foot has not healed for two days."
"I have to choreograph moves for you later, so hurry up."
Yu Nian glanced at him and raised the corner of his mouth: "No need to trouble you, I can handle it myself."
Yu Zhi wanted to say something, but he didn't say it.
He had some doubts as to whether Yu Nian had noticed his neglect, and now he felt a little uncomfortable under his gaze.
Yu Nian looked away from the teacher and looked at the artists practicing enthusiastically on the ice rink.
Their performance was much better than the previous few days.
After two or three days of learning at the ice rink, Yu Zhi was finally able to skate on the ice. He then started practicing basic courses, interspersed with some land training.
After mastering skating with both feet on the ice, he can practice the front and back gourd steps, zigzag steps, left and right forward steps, and skating on one foot one by one. He estimates that he can only teach this much at most. It depends on how much he can master.
respective talents and efforts.
During the training on land, the artists lost the unconscious fear of being on the ice, and their performance was much more positive.
So Yu Zhi tried to teach 90-degree jumps and half-turn jumps on land.
It is not difficult to complete a jump of this level on land, and everyone can also find some confidence in such exercises.
But once the venue changes to ice, the feeling will be different.
It is quite difficult to do a small jump with both feet off the ground while stepping on those thin skates, let alone turning.
Provincial team coach Chen Hua came over to take a look, but he had expected this situation. He did not make many demands, but focused on learning the smoothness of skating and footwork.
Even if they don't jump, as long as they skate freely and have good posture, these young artists with good looks will not be difficult to see in the camera.
The scoring of figure skating is divided into technical points and program content points. The technical points are based on the quality and execution scores of the skaters' technical movements. The natural test is the difficulty and completion of the movements.
The content of the program will be determined by the contestants' skating technique, connection, performance, choreography and music performance.
In the All-Star Games, the ice and snow events can only be regarded as marginal experience events. They have little popularity and no audience. The whole thing is just "foolish".
The competition system has been greatly adjusted to accommodate the level of the artists, shortening the original short program and free skating into a three-minute ice performance, with almost zero technical requirements.
After all, it is almost impossible for artists to complete difficult jumps, footwork, rotations, etc. in such a short period of time.
But since it is a competition, there is always a judging standard. This time the standard is to mainly examine the performance of the contestants, and determine the winner based on the content of the program.
Therefore, after several days of training and finally being able to skate on skates, the artists present hurriedly got into the arrangement of the show.
Whether they can coordinate well with their own music selection, use their body and movements to interpret the music, and impress the audience and judges, this is what they have to do.
Yu Nian looked away and saw a middle-aged man with a strange face standing not far away.
He was wearing fashionable clothes, and there was a clothes rack next to him, with several costumes of different colors hanging on it.
This should be the designer responsible for Costen.
Yu Nian walked towards him and said hello.
When the designer saw him, his eyes moved on his face, and then moved down to scan his slender and flexible figure. His eyebrows were raised with satisfaction: "Yu Nian, choose "Soul of the Rose"?"
"Hello."
He continued to look at her, his eyes showing wonder: "You don't look much like the photo."
The photos provided by the program team were taken earlier. Yu Nian’s facial features are outstanding, but they always give people the impression that they are too gorgeous. They look good, but they are not grand.
The person standing in front of me has a very different temperament. He still has the same facial features, but there is an indescribable temperament about him.
"Others have tried Kosten and gave me a lot of suggestions. Some of them have been changed since I went back."
He said, taking down a red-colored Costen from the hanger: "Rose Soul...here, this one is cut according to your measurements."
Yu Nian glanced at the Kaosten he handed over. The cut was simple, with some pleats and rose elements added to the material. At first glance, it looked like an outdated autumn coat.
The designer hesitated and said, "I think maybe it should be modified."
Yu Nian smiled at him: "I think so too."
The designer coughed lightly: "If I could see you in person earlier, you really look nothing like the photos. If I could see you face to face like this, I would definitely be inspired by a lot of inspiration."
He took back the Costen, which looked like an autumn coat, and seemed a little embarrassed to take it out.
The designer continued: "During the competition, decorations such as beads, sequins, and rhinestones are strictly controlled. Points will be deducted if they fall off, so if they need to be fixed, they must be sewn by hand, which is very time-consuming."
He tried to attribute the costen's simplicity to the lack of time to fix the decorations.
After a pause, the designer looked at Yu Nian: "But I think your rose soul is worth the time. After adding those beautiful beaded embroideries and bright diamonds, can I give Kaosten to you?"
Yu Nian imagined the effect of adding beads and rhinestones to this autumn coat.
His smile was still polite and decent: "Have you modified the idea? The pattern composed of bead embroidery and bright diamonds, as well as other colors and decorations?"
The designer thought for a while and answered honestly: "It's vague. The choreographer of "Rose Soul" is Fu Jin. Fu Jin is really a talented artist. He said that the Rose Soul is an elf, a dream, and a rose.
The fragrance of the flower is the caress of the petals - it’s amazing.”
Yu Nian listened carefully, saw his pen and paper lying next to him, and asked with his eyes.
The designer smiled and said: "Use it as you like."
So Yu Nian picked up a pen and sketched the pattern on the paper.
The designer didn't take it seriously at first, but when the pattern on the paper gradually became clear, he was amazed: "The way you used to express the image of roses is so clever, it's a textured pattern."
"I promise, the bead embroidery and bright diamonds I use will be based on your pattern."