Name: Chen Chen
Gender: Female
Birth: 1995 in Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province
School: Pingxiang Third Middle School
Specialties + Hobbies: Roller skating Profile
Every morning at 5 o'clock in the morning, Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, the 14-year-old girl Chen Chen has begun the thundering roller skating training. Although she has already won more than 20 gold medals at domestic events, this year's Asian Championships and the World Sport Sport Cup WSSA Freestyle Skating Championships, she is still motivated to train for the World Open Freestyle Skating Championships, which will be held in Singapore on the 11th of next month.
World champion and national team member, these honors are more and more precious to a 14-year-old girl, whose life changed when she got involved with roller skating at the age of six. "In the beginning, she stepped on two toy cars can skate freely, so we were shocked." Chen Chen's father, Chen Hongwei, said that after discovering little Chen Chen's talent for roller skating, he spent 280 yuan to buy her her first pair of single-row roller skates.
Seeing that their daughter was getting better and better at skating, Mr. and Mrs. Chen Hongwei began taking Chen Chen around in May 2006 to visit teachers. "It didn't take long to learn under each teacher, and the teachers realized there was nothing more they could teach her." Chen Hongwei said Chen Chen's skating skills didn't soar until she traveled to Changsha, Hunan province, to study under Chen Min, a member of China's MST (Michael Skating Team).
Chen Chen's dedication and love of roller skating has made him endure training that is difficult for his peers to endure. "The soles of my feet often wear out blood blisters, and once my teeth were knocked out, but I don't think it's hard because I like this sport too much." Chen Chen said.
The effort always pays off, and in August 2007, Chen Chen won his first speed piling event at the National Roller Skating Championships in Shanghai. Since then, a series of domestic and international skating competitions always see Chen Chen won the gold after a big smile. 2009 September in Chuncheon, South Korea in the World Sports Expo Cup WSSA freestyle skating competition, Chen Chen is a person alone to get the speed over the piles, flat ground fancy, fancy around the piles of the three gold medals, causing a sensation.
Since roller skating was selected for the 2010 Asian Games, and most likely even for the 2014 Olympics, Chen Chen will try to win the first gold medal in the history of the Asian Games for Pingxiang at the 2010 Asian Games.
The fragrance of plum blossoms comes from bitter cold
Born in 1995 in Pingxiang City, Chen Chen was born into a family of postal and telecommunication, and her parents were both postal system staff. When she was a child, her parents intended to cultivate her various hobbies, from the age of 4, Chen Chen successively learn to sing, dance, play the piano, painting, calligraphy, but Chen Chen in these areas of enlightenment is not high, the level of progress is not great, her parents gradually realized that Chen Chen is not the material in this area, and therefore struggling to find a development project suitable for Chen Chen. 6 years old, a fortuitous opportunity, his father took Chen Chen to the Autumn Harvest Uprising Square to play, Chen Chen saw someone playing Roller skating, eyes staring, noisy also want to play, the father then spent 280 yuan to buy her a pair of double-row roller skates. Strange to say, other children are very afraid to play roller skating, worried about falling, but Chen Chen as if born and roller skating fate, put on roller skates to practice a while to learn to skate, the most important thing is that she is very interested in, fell down and then get up and continue to skate, and soon skated in style, the level of more than many of the children older than her. Her parents thought she was born to be a skater and decided to focus on her.
Every morning at 6 a.m., Chen Chen, accompanied by her father, went to the Autumn Harvest Uprising Square to practice roller skating for one hour, and practiced for two hours at night, every day, rain or shine. Many morning exercise citizens see Chen Chen's movement is very elegant, have praised Chen Chen have a good future.
Finding a master to train hard
Chen Chen was 11 years old, roller skating technology has been very high, but this is just her hobby, from the system, professional training. So after practicing to a certain extent, she made little progress and was unable to get a breakthrough. Father was very anxious, heard that Changsha has a roller skating master, so traveled to Changsha to invite the national MST team member Chen Min to Pingxiang to teach his daughter. Chen Min is one of the top skaters in China, and he saw Chen Chen's talent was quite high, and made an exception to come to Pingxiang to train her. From the first day of summer vacation in July 2007, Chen Min will be in the Autumn Harvest Uprising Square every day on Chen Chen special training, from the most basic movements to practice, every action requires excellence. Chen Chen was also particularly hardworking, training for more than 12 hours a day, practicing until 11:00 p.m. every night before going back to bed, in addition to eating, all the time spent on the training ground. In the 20 days of Chen Min's training, Chen Chen's skills in speed piling and fancy piling have improved by leaps and bounds, and many difficult maneuvers, such as single-wheel steering, can be easily accomplished.
When Chen Min returned to Changsha, he set up a strict training program for Chen Chen, which was supervised by her father. The father of Chen Chen extremely strict requirements, often a movement to practice thousands of times, the movement is not practiced will continue to practice, in the practice of single-wheel swing this action, due to the difficulty is too large, Chen Chen practiced leg purple, foot plate full of blood blisters, can not even go on the road. But his father took a needle to pick open the blisters and carried Chen Chen to the training ground, forcing him to continue practicing. Chen Chen practiced over and over again, and finally was really tired, lying on the ground gasping for breath and said that today can not stand it, and then practice tomorrow. But her father was not soft, forcing her to continue practicing. Once because it is too tired, training fall, the teeth fell out, Chen Chen bear the pain, with tears continue to train. After a summer of intensive training, Chen Chen's skills reached a whole new level.
Exercise hard and bear fruit
In August 2007, 12-year-old Chen Chen took part in the National Roller Derby Competition held in Shanghai. She was not afraid of the strongest players, and took out the strength of the newborn calf, and won the champion of the Speed Pile and the third place of the Fancy Pile, which attracted the attention of the roller derby world, and made people inquire about the identity of this young girl who suddenly appeared out of nowhere. "In May 2008, Chen Chen participated in the 2008 "Michael" Cup 2nd National Freestyle Roller Skating Competition, in which many masters from all over the country competed, Chen Chen won the champion of Speed Pile and Fancy Pile with a set of perfect moves, thus becoming a new star in the domestic roller skating industry.
In September 2008, Chen Chen participated in the World Sports Expo Cup WSSA Freestyle Skating Competition held in Cheongchon, South Korea, and won the champion of the young women's group in the three competitions of Speed Pile, Flatland Fancy, and BATTLE Fancy Pile alone.
August 21 to 23, 2009, the World Freestyle Skating Championships held in Shanghai Huangpu District Gymnasium, the competition by the International Roller Skating Federation hosted by the State General Administration of Sports Social Sports Guidance Center, China Roller Skating Association, Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Sports, the People's Government of Huangpu District, Shanghai **** with the organizers. The game set speed over the pile, fancy around the pile, fancy brake and other age groups *** 11, from the United States, Russia, France, Britain and the host, including 21 countries and regions of the sports delegation of more than 100 athletes to participate. The event is currently the world's highest level of freestyle skating, but also 2009 China Shanghai International Mass Sports Festival series of activities. For many years, Chen Chen has been participating in the youth group competition, where she participated in the project will win the championship, this time Chen Chen for the first time to participate in the adult women's group competition, is the youngest of all the adult women's group competition, Chen Chen before the game for their own goal is to win a medal. In the preliminaries of the Fancy Pile Driving, although there were countless good players from different countries, Chen Chen was so skillful and bold that she easily entered the finals with the first place in the preliminaries. In the final held on the 22nd, Chen Chen dared to fight, along with the dynamic music, a set of self-sliding action to play seamlessly, flawless, with perfect performance to conquer the judges and the audience, undisputedly won the championship.
Chen Chen's wonderful performance attracted the attention of CCTV reporters, who interviewed the youngest adult women's champion at the first time, in the sports news broadcast on the same day, Chen Chen as the only appearance of the interview, she said: the first time to participate in the adult competition won the championship, strengthened her confidence in the roller skating career.
Because roller derby was selected for the 2010 Asian Games, and will most likely even be selected for the 2016 Olympics, Chen Chen will strive to win the first gold medal in the history of the Asian Games for the city of Pingxiang at the 2010 Asian Games.