Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 29 (reporter Lu Yuchen) The International Gymnastics Federation announced on 29th Beijing time that, the complete set of movements used by Yang Wei, the Chinese gymnastics Olympic champion, in the men’s vaulting horse event of the World Gymnastics Championships in Hungary in 2002 was officially named “Yang Wei jump”. Yang Wei revealed that this was the only action that made him afraid.
“This name is a big thing for me.” Yang Wei said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency. According to the 34th notice of the men’s technical committee of the International Federation of Sports, this set of two-week complete set of upper plate movements of raccoon vaulting horse small flip-back volute was officially named “Yang Wei jump”, which is the third type of movements of men’s vaulting horse, with a score of 5.6 points.
Yang Wei, who is an international referee, disclosed that he had mentioned to mitzkevidges, chairman of the men’s technical committee of the International Federation of Sports, that he had an innovative action not named long ago. Mitzkwidges said he could apply again, so Yang Wei submitted his application on the 26th. After studying and discussing relevant procedures such as the men’s technical committee of the international federation, he finally got the official naming notice.
“Of course I am very happy!” Yang Wei said. Although it has been 16 years, the impression left by this action is “too profound”.
Yang Wei said modestly that this set of actions actually requires good basic skills, while his basic skills are “not so standard”, so there will be a big difficulty in practicing, that is, instability, “So there will be a lot of uncertainty”.
“Since I practiced gymnastics, I have never felt so scared to do an action. I need to do a lot of psychological construction and give myself confidence. This is the only action that scared me.” Yang Wei said, “Looking back now, the jump is actually quite good, but it was very scared at that time.”
From the coach to teach the action, to tell the essentials, and then constantly correct and stabilize; From jumping the sponge pit to laying mats in the pit, to landing; What’s more, coincidentally, during the 2002 world championships, in fact, it happened to catch up with the recurrence of eczema…… Yang Wei said with a smile that although he won the third place in men’s vaulting horse in that competition, he then focused on omnipotence and did not use this action much, but the whole experience was quite unforgettable.
“Psychological quality is not strong as soon as it comes up.” Yang Wei said.