Falling in love with the feeling of walking on walls
Li Juan was born in a well-to-do family, and has been smart and well-behaved since she was a child, proficient in singing, dancing, and playing musical instruments. But after the university, the appearance of the show, her bones adventure blood began to move. After experiencing the thrill of rock climbing in a physical education class, Li Juan fell in love with this sport, because rock climbing makes her feel like flying.
After joining the school's rock-climbing association, Li Juan learned very quickly, impressing her physical education teacher. She became the only girl to win a prize at the first rock-climbing festival organized by the school.
One day, while watching TV, Li Juan was attracted by a picture: a model, with a harness tied behind her back, was walking on a vertical wall, flying through the air, and flying like Spider-Man. She stared in amazement, the original, this is an introduction to the European air fashion show program, the picture is the "flying model" on the wall walk on stage.
Looking at the wall in the dashing performance of the flying model, she was thrilled, this is not a modern heroine? She realized that the air fashion show has been popular in Europe for a long time, but in China, there is no such industry.
After returning to school, Li Juan talked to her physical education teacher about flying models. The teacher's words made her overjoyed: "I happen to know a flying model, he has received formal training, recently is organizing the flying model team, you can go and see." This flying model coach, called Ma Qilin, formerly a member of the mountaineering and rock climbing adventure team. A few years ago, saw a French air show, since then hooked on the industry, he specifically went abroad to participate in the training, is one of China's first flying model.
Li Juan drummed up the courage to call the horse coach. The coach told Li Juan to go to Shanghai to look for him.
Originally, Li Juan thought that her height of 6.5 meters would not give her much hope to be a model, but she just wanted to try and see the world. But she didn't expect the coach to leave her behind at the end of the day.
It turns out, do fly modeling, too high instead of flexible, not conducive to maintaining balance in the air, so the general female fly modeling requirements in the height of 1.65 meters to 1.7 meters, male models can not be more than 1.85 meters.
Coach Ma cautioned her, "To be a flying model, you need to have a beautiful appearance, fit body, but to become a qualified flying model, these are not enough, but also depends on whether you have the courage and perseverance to suffer, which is the most important."
Experiencing the devil's training
On the first day of training, Coach Ma brought 170 trainees up to the roof of an 80-story building, and let the trainees look downstairs, and a few of them immediately went limp, and the coach eliminated these trainees who were afraid of heights on the spot.
The next day, the horse coach will 162 trainees hanging in mid-air, suspended for three hours, there are eight people because of fear plus physical exertion is too large, fainted. On that day, six more people quit the cadets.
Li Juan, like most people, dizzy and weak, but she still decided to stick with it.
The daily training program is unchanging: hanging in the air for three or four hours. In order to be safe, the trainees have to wear a thick safety belt, and when they move, their legs and waist will be strangled and pulled by the safety belt. In summer, wearing less clothes, many trainees' waist and legs are strangled. After two days of training, another 10 people chose to quit because they couldn't stand the pain.
Li Juan's thighs and waist also have a lot of injuries from being strangled by the seatbelt, and when the seatbelt is strangled to the wounds again and again, the pain is almost unbearable. Li Juan just forced to endure, and even bit her lip.
In order to allow students to quickly improve, the coach suggested that we form a "one-on-one team", a person training or performance, another person in the bottom of the special nitpicking, to see whether the action is standardized, beautiful, and by the way, can also reduce the security risks. The first time I saw this was when I was in the middle of a movie, and the second time I saw it was when I was in the middle of a movie.
Zhang Fan, a year older than Li Juan, is cheerful, witty and courageous, and his mastery of movement is much more skillful than Li Juan. He is much more skillful than Li Juan in mastering the movement. Every time, he carefully points out Li Juan's shortcomings. With Zhang Fan's help, Li Juan made great progress, she learned how to control the balance of her body in the suspended state, and knew how to let her body sway slightly to reduce the friction of the seat belt.
After two months of practice, Coach Ma led the group on their first "water test". The coach chose 'is a three-story private residence, the total height is 8 meters. The coach let a few boys who usually train well in front of the line, the first is Zhang Fan.
Zhang Fan stood on the roof of the building for a while and followed the coach's instructions to walk down the vertical wall. Only after two steps, there was an accident, because the balance was not well mastered, the body swayed, and the whole person was hung on the wall by the safety belt. The people behind were scared pale, a few directly gave up the opportunity to try.
The students who summoned the courage to try, most of them just looked down from the roof, trembling legs forward, and then retracted, repeated the test many times, always unable to take the first step, stood on the roof grasping the railing did not dare to let go, announced that they gave up ......
When it came to the turn of Li Juan, she stood on the roof, her feet trembling. Downstairs, Zhang Fan shouted loudly, "Li Juan, go for it!" She clenched her teeth, stepped on the wall to go down ...... Although on the way appeared to slip, detached from the wall of the action, but managed to walk down!
Only 15 people succeeded in going up the wall for the first time. These 15 people were also ultimately retained. Coach Ma to them, began a more rigorous training.
In the end, only 7 people succeeded in becoming flying models, including Zhang Fan and Li Juan.
We're going to be a flying couple
After a baptism of blood and tears, the flying models were finally able to perform successfully. on March 8, 2011, they took part in an aerial show at the Sunrise Plaza in Chongqing's Yuzhong district. Li Juan and her teammates were required to complete a 30-minute aerial fashion show on the facade of a building about 15 meters from the ground, interspersed with dance performances.
As the show was about to begin, Li Juan, wearing the invited party's fashions and black flat-heeled dancing shoes, suspended from a safety rope, quietly floated to the top of the building's catwalk on the building's outer wall, and after a moment's pause for thought, began to step toward the outer wall of the building in a circular arc of steps. When she reached the center of the catwalk, she began to dance in a hip-hop style according to the original rehearsal, and at the climax, she leaped up and off the wall, arms spread out, like soaring in the sky. The crowd watching below erupted in applause.
Li Juan landed on the ground with a smile on her face, bent over and bowed, thanking the audience. When she looked up, she saw her parents standing among the audience, looking at her with a smile ......
Zhang Fan, who was next on the wall, also finished the whole set of fancy performances, winning a burst of applause.
After the performance, the coach and all the students embraced together, crying, laughing ...... they succeeded!
Back to the hotel, Li Juan realized that Zhang Fan knew that Li Juan has been hiding his parents because of the guilt, so once, when Li Juan's mother called, because Li Juan is training, he helped to pick up. Facing the anxious old man, he told Li Juan's secret, and finally, sincerely said, "I know, you are worried about us, but this is our own choice, if we can't do what we like, it is a great lack."
In the end, the old man understood him and agreed not to let Li Juan know that they went to see her perform.
Looking at her parents' worried and understanding eyes, Li Juan gave Zhang Fan a grateful look. It was a moment in time.
The appearance fee of a flying model is several times of that of an ordinary model, and a single appearance may be equal to the income of an ordinary model for one or two months. And the current domestic fly modeling performance market is still blank, no doubt, this is a huge potential industry.
They see a bright future, although the road is full of hardships.