(Beijing Winter Olympics) Visit the largest dry ski field in Southwest China: "Enoki Mushroom" holds up the four-season ice and snow dream big jumping platform to help players Yu Fengfei
China News Agency, Chengdu, January 22, Question: Visiting the largest dry ski field in Southwest China: "Enoki Mushroom" holds up the big jumping platform of the four seasons of ice and snow to help players Yu Fengfei
China News Agency reporter He Shaoqing
"Looking at the snow track under me, I feel like a bird." Bending down and clamping the snow poles with his arms, Peng Junqin, a second-year junior high school student, descended quickly along the snow track covered with "Flammulina velutipes" and completed a beautiful drift.
This is the last training camp of the Majia Middle School ski team before the Spring Festival in Xindu District, Chengdu. After the weekly ski training for half a year, Peng Junqin, who has "never seen heavy snow", has started to practice the "giant slalom" - a member of the team An action called "Challenging the Great Demon King".
The practice ground of the Majia Middle School ski team is located in Xindu Jianfeng Dry Snow Four Seasons Ski Resort, which is also the largest dry ski resort in Southwest China.
Walking into the snow field, the first thing that catches your eye is the nearly ten scattered snow trails, and a striking "big guy" - this is a 43-meter-high and 112-meter-long snowboard built for the training of the Winter Olympics. "Big Air", a dry ski jumping platform.
Eight national ski teams from the Winter Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of China once conducted off-season skiing training here for half a year.
"Sometimes in the south, you don't see snow once a year, and I never thought that students could learn to ski at their doorstep." Liao Chuanquan, the leader of the ski team of Majia Middle School, introduced that Majia Middle School is away from Jianfeng Dry Snow Four Seasons Ski Resort. There is only about two kilometers away. Every semester, the school organizes all students to experience the charm of ice and snow sports in turn. The students who are selected for the ski team will use the two-hour training camp every Saturday afternoon.
When the team members complete a downhill like thunder and fury, there will always be a swishing sound on the snow track. This is the intimate contact between tens of thousands of "Flammulina velutipes" on the dry snow blanket and the ski equipment.
Although this dry snow blanket produced in Xindu, Chengdu started later than Japan, Italy, and the British brush type dry snow blanket, but because of its longer service life and better buffering effect, "Flammulina velutipes" The dry snow blankets have been exported to more than ten countries and regions such as the United States, Japan, and Austria, and have been put into use in many four-season ski resorts such as Beijing, Nanjing, and Foshan in China.
"Real snow has less friction and faster speed, so we often tell students that if they can standardize their movements on the 'Flammulina' on the dry ski field, they can 'take off quickly' on real snow." In Chengdu Kuke Ski Club According to the founder Feng Xuanjun, in the past, everyone needed to prepare a lot of equipment when going to indoor ski resorts in summer and snow-capped mountains in winter, while the dry ski resort allows students more time for systematic training. slip".
Since 2017, the number of students in Chengdu Kuke Ski Club has surged from more than 100 to 500, which surprised Feng Xuanjun, who used to be a professional ski instructor in Japan.
"When communicating with foreign counterparts, they often sigh that what some major skiing countries took more than ten years to accomplish, China has done it in two or three years. In addition to the ice and snow fever among the people, it is also inseparable from the sweat of athletes." "Big Air" in the distance, Feng Xuanjun's dark face is full of pride.
"China has a player Su Yiming who can compete with the world's top players. He trained here all summer last year, flying in the wind."
Not far from the ski resort, in the workshop of Chengdu Jianfeng Dry Snow Sports Equipment Co., Ltd., dozens of workers are busy working, one after another "Flammulina" dry snow blankets are constantly "spitting out" from modern machines.
"This year is the sixth year of our fourth-generation 'Flammulina' dry snow blanket, which sells 30,000 square meters in China every year and nearly 10,000 square meters abroad." Pointing to the neatly stacked blue Hu Zhiyong, deputy general manager of Chengdu Jianfeng Dry Snow Sports Equipment Co., Ltd., said with a smile that the "Flammulina velutipes" dry snow blankets from international pallets are all orders that will be sent to Canada, Japan and Russia after the Spring Festival.
"I'm not worried that orders will decrease after the Beijing Winter Olympics, because the Winter Olympics are like a fire, and people's love for ice and snow sports has been ignited." (End)