Chen Ye competes in the preliminaries of the skateboarding street event in the Olympic Qualification Series·Shanghai.
has been skateboarding for 8 years and won the Chinese skateboard team's first gold medal in the world competition. However, 16-year-old Chen Ye hardly exudes the aura of a skateboarding boy on weekdays -
leaves his hair to his father to take care of it. There is no hairstyle to speak of; I don’t care about cool clothes, just simple and comfortable; I don’t take a skateboard with me to school, and I mainly rely on playing the piano and answering questions to relax.
The reserved and reserved boy in life seems to be a changed person once he stands on the bowl with his skateboard: sprinting, jumping, grabbing the board and turning. His challenge of difficulty is not inferior to that of top foreign skateboarders, and he even dares to challenge it. Higher difficulty.
html On May 17, in the men's skateboard bowl final of the Olympic Qualification Series Shanghai, Chen Ye skated with a score of 63.33, ranking 12th in the preliminaries of 22 people that morning, helping the Chinese team gain valuable points. .Chen Ye actually became popular after last year's Asian Games. The story that his father, Chen Wanqin, built two bowl pools for him in Zhongshan gave his Asian Games gold medal an added warmth of family affection. While preparing for the Olympic qualifying competition, Chen Ye gave an exclusive interview to a reporter from The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) and talked about the lives he and his father had changed due to skateboarding, as well as his expectations and vision for the future.
Chen Ye is being interviewed by The Paper.
"I am afraid of heights, but I am excited to break through my fear"
In the skateboarding arena of Huangpu Riverside City Park, the best bowl skaters in the world have gathered in the past few days as two stops to win tickets to the Paris Olympics. In one of the competitions, all the skaters showed their special skills. The Chinese skateboard team has naturally fielded the strongest lineup, and the one who has attracted the most attention from the outside world is 16-year-old Chen Ye.
html In the preliminaries on 017th, Chen Ye successfully completed all three rounds of competition, and his scores were higher than the previous round. Finally, he ranked 12th among the 22 contestants in the morning preliminaries with a score of 63.33."In the first round, I want to do a simple action and get a basic score. In the next two rounds, I will slowly advance in difficulty." After the game, in the mixed mining area, Chen Ye, who reviewed the game, said that he performed at 80% of his usual level. , "I'm really nervous. I forgot to do an action in the third round."
Faced with today's performance, Chen Ye expressed that he was basically satisfied: "There are so many masters at the scene, so I am more nervous. Participating in the Olympics may It is still relatively difficult, but it is a good opportunity to get in touch with more masters through this competition. "
Chen Ye enjoys the big scene of master competition like the Olympic Qualification Tournament, because he likes to find his own talent in such occasions. question.
"After participating in several world competitions, I saw the gap between me and the world's top players, so after the Asian Games, my father and I wanted to make up for the gap at home." Although he is already an Asian Games gold medalist, mentioning this Chen Ye has said more than once that there is too much luck involved in this honor. "Compared with those foreign masters, I am still far behind in height and speed. They seem to be much stronger than us."
Chen Ye did not perform at his best in the Olympic Qualifying Preliminaries. (00:50)
In real life, Chen Ye doesn't talk much. People around him even say that he is a "less than ideal interview subject", but this kind of personality makes him often speak to the point. Make the point.
When asked why there is a difference in height and speed, Chen Ye answered directly and clearly, "Because I am afraid of heights, I don't dare to accelerate actively, so I can't break through the height."
started skateboarding 8 years ago , the somewhat timid Chen Ye has always been afraid of falling and the positional impact that new heights will bring to his senses. These dangers should have been the reason for Chen Ye to "dissuade" skateboarding, but he persists to this day. The reason is also straightforward. "You are afraid when you challenge heights because you don't know how to fly into the platform." Sometimes you will fall down, but the process of breaking through your fears is very exciting, because you are very scared at the beginning, but you find ways to challenge and transition, and you will be very happy the moment you succeed."
Facing fear, accepting fear, and finally breaking through fear... Chen Ye has continued to progress and grow in such a cyclical process. Now he is on the important stage leading to the Paris Olympics, shouldering everyone's expectations.
During the game, he doesn’t think too much about winning or losing, but enjoys the process of flying. “When you make moves, create something from scratch, and express yourself, it’s a great feeling. "
In 2016, 8-year-old Chen Ye started practicing skateboarding.
"My father's coaching level is very high, but we will also have disputes."
Chen Ye himself said that he can overcome fear and stand on the highest podium of the Asian Games. Being able to compete in the Paris Olympics is inseparable from the support and guidance of his father Chen Wanqin.
The story of the father and son became a legend in the Chinese Olympic Games last year and was well known to the outside world.
was born in Zhongshan, Guangdong in 2008. Chen Ye first came into contact with skateboarding when he was 8 years old. At first, Chen Wanqin did not agree with his son buying a skateboard to take home to play with, because before that, his son had too many lessons learned from "giving up halfway." For more than a month after that, Chen Ye spent time at the skatepark in the mall, trying out the borrowed skateboard.
Chen Wanqin had studied in a normal college and had been a teacher. Dancing, working as a librarian, and running a film and television studio for ten years. This experience made him understand that the gap between ideal and reality sometimes requires love and persistence.
Because of this, Chen Wanqin gave his full support. Lifting his son’s dream.
Chen Wanqin took half a year to build the bowl pool.
In 2019, it took Chen Wan 2 hours to go to Guangzhou University City to practice skateboarding. Qin simply rented a warehouse of more than 200 square meters and about 4 meters high in the streets of Zhongshan East District, and used the 3D computer design knowledge he had learned to restore Wanchi from the modeling drawings on the computer to the site
. With the advancement of Chen Ye's technology and physical development, Chen Wanqin will build a larger new venue of 900 square meters in 2022. In addition to the 2.7-meter-high bowl pool, there is also a nearly 4-meter vertical large U pool and two A basic small pool and street-style props.
He hired his 80-year-old father, brother-in-law, and another coach to build the second venue, and then began to concentrate on running the skatepark.
"It can be said that it is a skatepark. I screwed in every screw. "Chen Wanqin's statement in the interview moved many people and shocked many people.
Even Chen Ye still feels a little untrue when he talks about this story. He told The Paper , “Actually, I have always felt incredible. At that time, there were not many bowl pool venues in Guangdong Province, but he still taught himself to build them. It was really incredible. "
He taught himself architecture without a venue, and he taught himself skateboarding skills without a coach. Today, Chen Wanqin is Chen Ye's coach when he is not training for the national team.
"I have been training with him, and his coaching level is particularly high. Because he would break down each movement and teach me step by step. "Chen Ye told The Paper that he trusted his father very much, but he would also argue over an action during training. "Actually, we all hope to succeed, but sometimes the feeling of doing the action is different from that of the bystanders, so we There will be arguments, but he does see things more clearly than I do. "
Chen Ye is training.
"I like skateboarding very much, but I may not go very far."
After finishing the Olympic qualifying series in Shanghai, Chen Ye will immediately enter the preparations for Budapest. The final decision of these two races will be made Qualifying for the Paris Olympics also affects how far Chen Ye can go with his hobbies.
“I like skateboarding very much, that’s the way it is now. It's still a hobby of mine now, but I don't know if I will continue skateboarding in the future. "Chen Ye always speaks candidly and directly," Skateboarding may not go very far. "
Chen Ye in life is not much different from other 16-year-old boys.Since junior high school, skateboards have not been allowed in the school. Chen Ye has never shown his talent in extreme sports in front of his classmates. In his spare time at school, like ordinary students, he spends most of his time discussing studies.
Chen Ye is practicing skateboarding.
Even after winning the Chinese team's historic first gold medal in skateboarding at the Asian Games, Chen Ye said that his life has not changed much.
"I just entered high school after the Asian Games. When I first arrived at school, many classmates did know me. But other than that, there was no other feeling." After all, in school, extreme sports enthusiasts like Chen Ye were not That’s not a lot, “I didn’t even know anyone who played skateboarding in school.”
In fact, besides skateboarding, Chen Ye also has many hobbies, including the piano that his father has trained him to practice since he was a child. It is more than three years in junior high school. In addition to training skateboarding, Chen Ye also has to catch up with his academic progress. "When I don't train, I will use my time to solve problems. If I am at home, I will play the piano. More often You still have to learn."
If there is a change that the Asian Games skateboarding gold medal has brought to Chen Ye, it may be that he has higher demands on himself, whether on the field or in school. "I feel like I have to have higher demands on myself, because more people know me and know that I represent the national team, so I don't want to disappoint them."
No matter how far Chen Ye goes on skateboarding in the future, no matter whether he One day he changed his mind and turned his hobby of skateboarding into a lifelong career. At least for now, the 16-year-old boy hopes to focus on skateboarding and continue to challenge the heights and speeds he has not reached and the Paris Olympics.
"I may do other things in the future, but now I hope to do well in the two qualifying rounds, and then stand on the Olympics and do what I want to do."
