Rather this says, "Part 3 Sui Wenjing in their eyes". Just saw a reddit thread about a live stream that s/h did, and it claims these people wrote chapters for Sui, so that must be what it is.
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Omg I haven't logged in here for ages. Yes that is me hahaha
I got my hands on Sui's book a couple of days and just finished reading it. It's really nice to read more about her journey and growth as a skater and as a person. The parts about injuries were quite horrific though, especially those that were not that well publicised like the one before 2021 worlds and then there was another incident in August 2021. I am in awe of her strength and grit and how they've managed to achieve everything despite all that they've been through.
It's interesting to see the discussion above about Luan Bo's methods. Sui wrote about in her book too, saying that she was a strict but responsible coach. Luan decided to let S/H train quad twists and throws because she hoped that that could become their calling card and make the judges take note of them and S/H went with it. Sui was also super prodigious at landing throws, she said she was learning throw doubles when she accidentally made it a triple and they just skipped doubles all together and went on to triples from then on. She also took just 4 tries (!!?!!) to learn 3FTh and hardly failed on it ever after that. I've always been amazed by their 3FTh and the consistency on that element is unreal, in their 12 year long competitive career she's only ever fallen on that element once and have like 95%+ positive GOEs. It is just insane that some teams practice for years and never even get to a fraction of this success rate or even do 3FTh at all. I get the opposing opinion against training throw quads, but when your team is already that good at the hardest throw triple it does seem like the next logical move.
I don't think they were ever 'forced' to train quads as kids like some people would suggest. On the other hand it was Zhao Hongbo who was obsessed with making all of the national team pairs do quad twists and throws in the 2015/2016 season (which imo really destroyed Yu/Jin because they never looked remotely close to landing it and it just messed with their consistency. Yu/Jin never attempted quad throws when they were under Luan)
Also I believe S/H have a good relationship with Zhao Hongbo but yeeesh just from reading a book he comes off as a poor coach. She compares Luan and Zhao very kindly, saying that they are very different but both are valid styles that helped her; Luan will lay out a detailed training plan for them and set out specific tasks/goals that they have to meet, and also be the mediator if there was any conflict between the pair, Zhao on the other hand just leaves them to their own devices to figure out many things for themselves (sorry but this just screams incompetent coaching to me) and let her fight it out with Han if they had any disagreements. Sui said that helped her develop her own problem solving and communication, which I'm sure it did, but boy does it sound like a rough road to get there.
I do think training quads contributed a lot to their injuries, but idk if I would put the blame solely on Luan's methods. S/H themselves were super intense and crazy people when it came to training and improving their skills. Sui admitted that sometimes they get so obsessed that they became irrational with their training and just went on drilling the moves whether it was actually helping or not. This let to them being severely fatigued towards the end of the Pyeongchang season where they were both mentally drained and physically falling to pieces (seriously why didn't Zhao step in, like I would think it's the coach's responsibility to make sure that the athletes don't overtrain themselves to death).
I love S/H and I'm SO GLAD that they achieved all that they did but I really think they did it in spite of Zhao's coaching and not because of it.
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