Burning ice and snow spell out the future; skiing can also be practiced at sea, and the training in the Winter Olympics is more abundant

CCTV News:Snowboarding is a key event in the Winter Olympics. As the Winter Olympics approaches, athletes are actively preparing for the games. How do the athletes who participate in snowboarding train in summer or when there is no suitable venue?

Because the project setting, technical essentials and athletes’ own conditions are highly similar to the snowboarding events in the Winter Olympics, the State Sports General Administration has now taken electric surfing as an important auxiliary training subject for snowboarding to help train for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

A few days ago, the 2021 China Electric Surfboard Open was closed in Hainan, and many athletes preparing for the snowboarding in the 2022 Winter Olympics also appeared at the competition site. It is understood that the electric surfboard is relatively new as a sport developed from surfing and skiing. The ring race and slalom are very similar to snowboarding, and the athletes’ standing posture, board control skills and speed are also very similar.

Wang Zitong, an athlete of the national training team for cross-border cross-country snowboarding in the Water Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport:Balance, including technical movements, has certain similarities. We have some surges and waves in the sea, which are very similar to some packages and platforms we encounter in the snow, so we can practice the same skills and have the same sense of balance whether in summer or winter.

For this reason, the State Sports General Administration has taken electric surfing as an important auxiliary training subject for snowboarding, which also makes electric surfboards an important equipment for the summer training of the cross-border cross-country snowboarding national training team.

Zhang Yin, Deputy Director of the Second Department of the Water Sports Management Center of the State Sports General Administration:It is a common way in the world to use power surfboards as a summer training method for snowboarding. Since the national training team for cross-border cross-country snowboarding was established in 2018, it has practiced special skills through power surfboards in summer.