China News Agency, Nanjing, January 14th: Chinese snowboard cross-border seed team: starting from a training ground without a snow
China News Agency reporter Shen Ran
From a distance, you can see a vast white "snow slope", but when you see it up close, there are thousands of small "enoki mushrooms".
In such a Nanjing Dry Snow Hall with an average annual temperature of over 0°C and no snow, athletes from roller skating, trampoline, martial arts, gymnastics and other sports have been training with all their might in just three years, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter. A cross-border seeded team of Chinese snowboarders was born.
Approaching the Nanjing training base of the national snowboard training team - Nanjing Dry Snow Hall, the white oval building is eye-catching like a giant egg.
It is unimaginable that this is a high-level training ground for skiing.
Feng He, a player of the Chinese national snowboard slalom pursuit team who successfully activated the host's participation and successfully entered the Winter Olympics, is a young player who started from here.
According to Zhang Shunxiang, deputy director of the Nanjing Municipal Sports Bureau, the General Administration of Sports of China launched a nationwide selection of snowboard "expansion" materials in June 2018, ranging from roller skating, trampoline, martial arts, gymnastics, track and field, diving, etc. and snowboard Nearly 7,000 athletes were selected to participate in the test in the sports with common features, and nearly 681 team members were selected in stages to participate in the trial training at the Nanjing Dry Snow Hall.
After training, a high-level seeded team of 30 people was finally formed.
"It can be said that the first cross-border team of Chinese snowboarders was born from the Nanjing Dry Snow Hall." Zhang Shunxiang told a reporter from China News Agency that the building is 106 meters long, 68 meters wide, 36 meters high, and covers an area of 106 meters. The 7,000-square-meter special sports training ground can accommodate up to 500 people for training at the same time.
"Generally speaking, the training time of the athletes here will be concentrated from May to October every year, ensuring that the high-intensity training effect can be achieved even in the season without snow."
"The secret that the venue can meet all-weather and all-season skiing lies in the 'dry snow' of the ski surface, which is produced by a special resin extrusion process, in the shape of a mushroom, with good complex elasticity, wear resistance, compression resistance and Flame retardancy. Nearly 16,000 such small balls are evenly distributed on each square meter of snow track, and the similarity to real snow is as high as 80%, ensuring that you can train on 'snow' all year round." Snowboard Qiu Shanshan, deputy leader of the national training team, said: "One ski slope obstacle course with a width of about 14 meters and a length of about 75 meters and three ski jumping courses with a vertical height of up to 33 meters will allow athletes to compete with the Olympic Games. Train with the real difficulty of the arena.”
"At the same time, based on the concept of digital scientific training, intelligent systems such as training motion capture, distributed integrated control, real-time environmental monitoring, and no-dead-angle monitoring are installed in the dry snow hall. During training, athletes can , view your own action playback and analysis data. According to the AI recognition technology, you can accurately count the training times and quality of each athlete in different time dimensions such as daily, weekly and monthly. Based on these data, we invite top domestic and foreign coaches. It can accurately grasp the competitive state of each athlete." Qiu Shanshan said frankly: "China's snowboarding started too late. Compared with foreign teams, even if they go all out, they may only get a chance to play. After just three years of training, a seeded team can stand out and meet the Olympic standards. In addition to the professionalism of the training base, the training intensity is also very large."
"Exercise at 6:30 in the morning, eat at 7:30, and start a whole morning of physical training at 8:30; start special skill training after lunch; and review the training video with the coach in the evening. The training time for a day is about About ten hours." Zhang Bin, a young man from Hunan who is training in the museum, is about to leave for Beijing. He will participate in this Winter Olympics as a test skater.
Three years ago, Zhang Bin was still a good seedling in martial arts, but he did not expect to change his sports career to a "track" after a trial training.
From martial arts to snowboarding, "Although I took a big step across the border, I fell in love with skiing. I was fascinated by the excitement. When I first walked into this training ground, I thought about it, I must Give it your all. My goal is to be on the podium at the Olympics."
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