一个健康的饮食让自己的身体处于一种健康的状态。然而还有一种类型的滑手，就是为了有趣、为了拍滑板片才去滑板的，他们在比赛中也依旧能做到这一点。所以当要比赛的时候，你就会面对许许多多不同的滑手，而他们也各自有一套方法去准备比赛。对于普通观众来说，只不过是在看一种从楼梯上跳来跳去的极限运动而已，并没有什么不同。但是对于滑手们来说，幕后的东西就能更好地解释之前发生的一切。关于最近的2015红牛DragonSK8极限腾跃滑板赛，我们也是特地采访了主持人袁飞（Vans Team Manager），嘉宾裁判Eric Lai（Vagabond Skateboards主理人），还有前三名的滑手（依次）：李祉兴（Cons）、陆彦俊（Vans）、Adee Lu (DC)。

When you think about it, a skateboard contest is quite a strange thing. Skateboarding itself has always been considered an “activity”, a “hobby”, a “lifestyle” a “culture” but not a sport. But as times have changed, there really have been skateboarders who can call themselves, “performance athletes”. Those skaters do train their bodies, appropriate a healthy diet and stay fit, either to film their next video part, or to perform well in the contest. Then there’s other kinds of skaters, the ones who skate for fun, skate to film, and do it well enough to enter contests. So when it comes down to contest time, you have an environment of many different skaters that each follow a completely different methodology towards preparing for a contest. But to the normal audience member who’s just in it to see the extreme sport of guys jumping down stairs, it’s all the same. For a skater, a behind the scenes look gives much more perspective on what happened before, during and after the contest. For this recent Red Bull Hangzhou contest, we interviewed the host Yuan Fei (Vans Team Manager), guest judge Eric Lai (Owner of Vagabond Skateboards), and the 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd place winners: Xiao Xing (Cons), Chung Chai (Vans) and Adee Lu (DC) to get their perspective on the contest.

Adee

Skatehere: 你比赛之前状态这么样？听说比赛几天之前都近了医院，发生了什么事情呢？

Adee: 比賽前幾天我食物中毒了.某一天我吃完午餐以後開始頭暈,嘔吐拉肚子. 接著晚上我出現喉嚨收縮講不了話吞不了任何東西包誇口水.後來是Jeff(韓敏捷)跟Edan來我家帶我去醫院掛急診. 吊了鹽水跟抗生素我的身體還稍微好轉.不過杭州比賽的時候我還是沒辦法控制自己的身體.一直頭暈,像是嚴重宿醉一樣….但是滿幸運的我還是完成了一整天的比賽.

Skatehere: 你觉得这年比赛format对滑手公平吗？

Adee: 比賽方式其實一開始我不是太清楚,不過我們到場地開始比賽的時候我們就有心理準備,要滑一整天了. 比賽形式是ＰＫ制,兩個人一組各一輪淘汰一位選手出局.所以有可能兩個人的狀況都不好.就看誰的動作成功率跟運氣了. 比賽制度這種東西我一直滿尊重主辦方.因為比賽規則其實早就出來.所以比較沒什麼好去講公不公平, 因為所有人的條件都一樣.

Skatehere: 你觉得比赛那一天最困难的挑战是什么？

Adee: 最困難的挑戰就是我的腦袋像宿醉喝了很多的酒一樣的暈.然後頂著大太陽要強迫自己控制方向完成比賽. 最難的應該是在弧面上面droping下來沒辦法變動我的踩腳,只能靠著身體的記憶完成比賽.大部份動作完成的時候我都是沒反應的….（哈）

Skatehere: 看到你成了一个First try Nollie Hardflip,你比赛时候已经计划了一条线吗？还是随便滑？

Adee: 其實我練習的時候完全控制不了我的滑板跟我的踩腳.比賽成功的時候我自己都嚇到了. 其實我沒有什麼計畫在比賽裡面.因為我的頭腦太暈了根本沒辦法想太多跟控制我成功以後要去哪裡. 我只能告訴自己要做什麼動作在比賽的時間裡面,有幾次成功以後我都不太清楚我要往哪個方向滑. 但是我讓自己享受在滑板裡面.沒有壓力沒有計劃只是盡量做出自己應該做的動作. chillin（哈）

Skatehere: 你赢到的钱有什么计划呢？

Adee: 存起來～下個月把錢存到給我媽的銀行卡裡面.（哈）

English Version/英文

Skatehere: How were you feeling before the contest? I heard a few days before the contest you were in the hospital, what happened?

Adee: A couple days before the contest I got food poisoning. Right after I finished eating lunch  I started feeling really dizzy, started throwing up and had gnarly diarrhea. Then at night, my throat contracted, my face went numb and I couldn’t even talk, only started drooling. Afterwards, Jeff and Edan came over to my house and helped me get to the emergency room.I got an IV and some antibiotics, and my body started to feel a bit better. But even during the Hangzhou Red Bull contest, I felt like I couldn’t fully control my body. I was feeling really dizzy the whole time, like I had a gnarly hangover…besides that, I was happy to have finished a whole day of competing.

Skatehere: Did you think this year’s contest format was fair to the skaters?

Adee: At first, I wasn’t too sure of how the contest format was going to be. But once I got to the contest and started skating I had some notion of how it was going to be, that we’d be skating all day. The contest format was 1 v 1 bracket style, two people in one group competing to advance to the next group. If both skaters didn’t skate too well head to head, it just depended on their consistency and luck. With regards to the competition format, I respect how the planning committee decided it. Cause the rules of the contest came out a while ago, so you can’t really say if it was fair or not fair, it was the same for all skaters competing.

Skatehere: What was the biggest struggle for you the day of the contest?

Adee: I thought the biggest struggle was my head feeling super dizzy as if I was super hungover. And also forcing myself to finish the competition under the hot sun. It was really hard for me to adjust my feet for a trick after dropping in from the quarterpipe, so I did it all from muscle memory.Most of the tricks I landed I had no reaction to at all…

Skatehere: I saw that you landed a Nollie Hardflip first try, did you already have a line in your mind during the contest or did you just go with the flow?

Adee: Actually during practice I had no control and balance between the board and my feet. When I landed it during the contest, even I was surprised. I didn’t plan out anything during the contest cause my head was way too dizzy to even think about where to go after landing a trick. I just told myself which tricks to bust out during the contest, but even a couple times after I landed a trick I had no idea which obstacle to hit up next.I just let myself enjoy the skateboarding, didn’t give myself any pressure, and plan out anything specific, just did the tricks I should have done. Chilling.

Skatehere: What’s your plan with the prize money?

Adee: Save it. Next month I’mma put the money into my mom’s bank account.

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Interview by: Edan Q.

Translation by: Andy and Edan Q.