Click!
After completing the bodyvarial 540-degree aerial rotation, Chen Shu landed firmly on his skateboard.
Then...with both man and board, he executed a frontside 180 ollie jump, landing directly on the lower rail of the steps.
Screech...
The wheels and the rail produced a loud grinding sound.
But the next second.
Chen Shu's body and ankles moved again.
180-degree backside grind!
Double backside grind!
Triple backside grind!
Three consecutive grinds, executed so quickly that everyone watching was stunned.
"Oh, my god!"
Jagger Eaton, who had just been insulted, cried out in shock after witnessing Chen Shu's move.
Countless others were dumbfounded as well.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
Chen Shu rode his board, turning and turning again on the rail.
A dazzlingly cool triple backside grind.
With each of these three turns, his skateboard also performed three 180-degree rotations.
Thus, through three consecutive movements, Chen Shu and his board slid all the way to the end of the rail.
Smooth as if he were dancing ballet on a slide rail.
"Too cool!"
"What move is that, Brother Shu?!"
The eyes of several Chinese female skateboarders on the sidelines were fixed on him.
Just then, Chen Shu's toes shot up!
Whir, whir, whir...
His entire body soared through the air, once again separated from his skateboard.
And his skateboard flew off the rail.
Swish, swish, swish!
He completed two full rotations in the air.
The skateboard flipped over twice in mid-air!
Unlike the previous 1080-degree rotation on flat ground, where the board rotated head to tail, this trick involved the board rotating forwards and backwards.
The difficulty of this flip was higher than the rotation.
Because for professional skaters, a single flip on flat ground is easy.
But...two flips get more challenging.
While Chen Shu completed two flips in the air.
360 double flip!
The moment the skateboard flipped over twice and landed, Chen Shu, like a soaring phoenix, rotated downwards.
He landed steadily, bending his knees, on the skateboard that had just hit the ground.
Screech!
With a rapid sprint, Chen Shu and his board sped off.
He carved a beautiful arc in front of everyone's eyes before stopping right in front of a bewildered Onodera Gin-un.
Stunned!
Onodera Gin-un, the world's No. 1 skateboarder at only 14 years old, stood there in a daze.
His whole body...felt ice-cold.
The moment Chen Shu stopped in front of him, even without saying a word!
A chill still ran from his tailbone to the top of his head.
What kind of street trick was this?
Nollie posture, bodyvarial 540-degree aerial rotation.
Then frontside 180 ollie, followed by three consecutive triple backside grinds.
And he managed to complete a 360 double flip, with his own body rotating 360 degrees in the air…
Onodera Gin-un had never seen such a complex set of rail tricks in his life!
It involved a total of eight techniques.
And the time it took, maybe just a few seconds.
From jumping on the skateboard, to grinding the rail, and then landing.
In just a few seconds, Chen Shu completed eight high-difficulty techniques on his skateboard.
"Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!"
After a few seconds of silence, the competition arena erupted with cheers again.
That's skateboarding.
You can challenge someone, but if your skills are inferior, you're just a noob; but if you show everyone your skills, you're the king in everyone's heart, no ifs, ands, or buts.
Countless people crowded around Chen Shu, their eyes burning with admiration.
Many skateboarders were completely subdued by Chen Shu's moves.
Two different 1080-degree rotations on flat ground were one thing.
This street trick was even stronger!
"..."
Okamura Ippei, the coach of the Japanese team, opened and closed his mouth, retracting his earlier distinction between flat ground and street.
"What kind of opponent is this?"
He muttered to himself in Japanese.
For experts, perhaps flat ground and rails...are roughly the same?
Although...those unfamiliar with skateboarding might be puzzled by the high error rate on the course.
But in reality, as a sport involving the coordination of humans and equipment, mistakes are inevitable.
Even top skaters often stumble and fall during competitions.
But Chen Shu's moves just now...were so difficult that everyone present would likely fall if they attempted the routine, even if they omitted 2 or 3 moves.
What a hopeless feeling that is?
If Chen Shu performed this routine tomorrow, there would be no point in the others competing.
This big move was clearly worth full marks.
The reason it was awarded full marks was simply because there were only 100 points!
Even if he omitted two techniques...this move was still a full-score move, that's how outrageous it was.
If Chen Shu had only done one 180-degree backside grind on the rail, keeping everything else the same, it would have been 100 points.
Now, he'd gone and added two more grinds.
Just like the extra 360-degree flip he had just done, the difficulty increased exponentially.
Many people here could do a double backside grind.
But the success rate wasn't very high.
So, three...nobody dared to think about it.
"Brother Shu, you're so awesome!"
"Idol!"
11-year-old Zheng Haohao shouted, holding her skateboard, while Cui Chenxi and the other girls were also incredibly excited.
They could clearly see the expressions of every skateboarder present.
They were all dumbstruck.
Everyone had been knocked for a loop by Chen Shu's street trick.
No one dared to challenge him or even brush against him.
Anyone with any sense at all knew that tomorrow's competition...would be tough.
As long as Chen Shu didn't make a mistake, the championship was essentially in his pocket.
Thump!
Suddenly, a foreigner knelt before Chen Shu, holding his skateboard.
He was babbling something in a foreign tongue.
His face was etched with awe.
Clearly, Chen Shu's moves had...wowed this foreigner!
"This kid is a skateboarding prodigy!"
"How does he do those insane moves?"
"I just noticed his hang time seems to be longer now."
"He jumps higher than before!"
Cai Xiaolei couldn't help but say.
It goes without saying about the skateboard.
The higher you jump, the higher your skateboard will fly with you.
The higher the height, the more flips and spins you can obviously perform.
In skateboarding, there are of course technical terms for the height of a pop-shove-it.
One-stand, or two-stack.
A one-stand is roughly 20 centimeters high, which is the height of a skateboard standing on its side.
While two-stack is the height of two boards stacked on top of each other, perpendicular to each other!
Generally, a pop-shove-it that reaches two-stack is considered very impressive.
Four-stack is the top tier, and only professional skaters can achieve it.
Chen Shu's pop-shove-it, however, reached approximately six-stack, meaning he jumped about 1.45 meters high.
That's an incredibly scary number.
Whir, whir, whir!
Chen Shu didn't say anything to Onodera Gin-un. After giving him a glance, he darted out of the crowd.
He went straight back to the competition course and started practicing freely.
Onodera Gin-un, however, felt the invisible pressure dissipate as Chen Shu left.
In other words, the pressure he had just felt was the opponent's aura.
A kind of aura belonging to the big boss of skateboarding.
He used to give that to others, but now...someone a year younger than him was giving him that feeling.
"Whew..."
Onodera Gin-un couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
His teammate, Horime Yuto, patted him on the back.
"Onodera, pull yourself together, don't be intimidated by one move!"
"It only counts if you can pull it off in the competition, it's just practice now!"
"You'll be nervous in the competition, your error rate will be higher..."
"Based on how proud and skilled he seems, he'll definitely try the most difficult trick!"
That's your opportunity.
Just like how he won the last Olympics.
In fact, everyone had unanimously predicted the champion would be the American big boss, Nia Houston, before the competition.
But in a shocking turn of events, he ended up in sixth place.
At that time, the current strongest kings in the world, the top three...didn't win.
So, in skateboarding, anything is possible.
It's perfectly normal for the world's No. 1 to miss the finals, let alone anything else.
"Yeah, I know, senior!"
Onodera Gin-un looked at Chen Shu drifting and gliding, muttering, "But this guy is really amazing...I've never seen any of those moves, even after skateboarding for so long!"
"Neither have I!"
Horime Yuto smiled, "But more than 10 years ago, no one could land a 720 flip, and now many people can, right?"
"Extreme sports are all about pushing the limits; every time it's an expert who lands a move, and then others copy it...In the next few years, I bet 1080 flips will be common, that's skateboarding!"
Horime Yuto looked at Chen Shu training on the course, admiration in his eyes, "Right now, he's the strongest in skateboarding!"
"We all need to follow his lead and challenge the most difficult tricks!"
"He definitely has a feel for 1080 flips..."
"I wonder when he'll share it!"
"If he could just explain the key to landing this move consistently, I bet a lot of people could do it!"
"I'm going to talk to him after the competition."
Horime Yuto said, and then everyone immersed themselves in their practice.
They all spontaneously gave Chen Shu a relatively independent skating space.
Chen Shu was happy to be left alone. That was exactly what he wanted.
Half an hour later, the field was closed off again.
Chen Shu, skateboard in hand, calmly joined Cai Xiaolei and the others. He didn't feel tired or short of breath, this amount of training wasn't even enough to swim a few laps in the pool.
Cui Chenxi and the other girls looked at Chen Shu with admiration.
"Brother Shu...can you teach me the 1080 flip?"
Zeng Wenhui suddenly asked Chen Shu.