After the 38th World Gymnastics Championships in Melbourne in 2005, the International Gymnastics Association named the "Cheng Fei Jump" of backhand somersault 180 degrees and forward somersault 540 degrees as vault.
Cheng Fei began to practice gymnastics at the age of four.
Every morning, when the city is not fully awake and the moon and stars are still hanging in the sky, Cheng Fei gets up and goes to the gymnastics training hall with his father.
In order to make use of all available time, Cheng Fei and his father insist on running to the gym every day.
After more than two hours' journey, Cheng Fei persisted every day, rain or shine.
Cheng Fei's family condition is bad. Cheng Fei's father is an inter-factory dispatcher of Dongfeng Automobile Factory and receives 500 yuan's salary every month. His mother is an ordinary employee of Huangshi Tire Factory.
Cheng Fei's family lives in a tube-shaped building with only 30 to 40 square meters, and their life is very hard.
In order to let Cheng Fei practice gymnastics at home, Cheng Fei's father hung poles on the beams at home. One pole is the horizontal bar and the other two poles are the parallel bars.
Cheng Fei practiced the balance beam from two white lines that Cheng Fei's father drew on the ground with chalk.
The starting environment of the champion is not good, but the hard environment can't stop Cheng Fei from practicing gymnastics.
Under the simple equipment made by his father, Cheng Fei practiced very seriously.
On the way to Cheng Fei's gymnastics, his father is also an indispensable figure.
Cheng Fei's father studied martial arts for seven years when he was young, and his seven-year martial arts study career made him intentionally enlighten his daughter.
At first, influenced by Deng Yaping, Cheng Fei's father wanted his daughter to learn table tennis.
However, in Huangshi Amateur Sports School, Cheng Fei was attracted by the gymnastics coach and practiced gymnastics with coach Yao Juying.
It is not easy to practice gymnastics well. The first thing Cheng Fei has to overcome is the lack of body shape.
Cheng Fei was born with an "external character" when he walked. It is very difficult to correct this inherited "external character".
In order to correct Cheng Fei's figure, his father even took a long piece of cloth and tied Cheng Fei's legs from below the knee, saying that it would take several months to correct him.
Gymnastics is a boring and very hard thing. Day after day of training, repetitive movements and physical pain made Cheng Fei give up.
Cheng Fei complained to his mother and wanted to give up practicing.
Although the mother loves her daughter dearly, the father disagrees.
Father insists that the hardships of training are inevitable, and we should stick to it no matter how tired we are.
Whenever Cheng Fei doesn't want to practice, his father will yell at Cheng Fei.
Father's reprimand sometimes angered Cheng Fei, and then she was angry with her father and refused to practice any more.
When reprimanding doesn't work, Cheng Fei's father will beat Cheng Fei.
Father and daughter are at loggerheads, and in the end they often end up with Xiao Chengfei continuing to practice with tears in her eyes.
Fortunately, Cheng Fei doesn't hold grudges. She knows that her father's sternness is well-intentioned.
Every day after practice, Cheng Fei's face will show a childlike smile.
At the age of seven, Cheng Fei entered Wuhan Institute of Physical Education.
At first, Cheng Fei's expenses in Wuhan Institute of Physical Education were all at his own expense, and the tuition and living expenses were nearly 1000 yuan, which was exactly one month's salary of Cheng Fei's parents.
This is a great pressure for Cheng Fei's family, whose life is not rich, and sometimes the living expenses can't be paid in time.
Zhao Hanhua, Cheng Fei's coach, discovered this situation and made up for Cheng Fei's living expenses at his own expense with a male coach.
Cheng Fei made rapid progress in the year when he came to the Institute of Physical Education. Although Cheng Fei is the youngest, his movements are the most beautiful.
Zhao Hanhua, the coach, thinks that Cheng Fei is a rare and good prospect, so he reports to his superiors and requests that Cheng Fei's expenses be exempted so that she can enjoy the treatment of a formal sports college student.
In this way, Cheng Fei, who was only eight years old, became an official student of Wuhan Institute of Physical Education and the youngest student at that time.
In 2005, Cheng Fei became an instant hit at the Melbourne World Championships, winning the first gold medal of women's vault in the history of gymnastics in China, setting a new record for women's vault in China.
17 years old, Cheng Fei became the world champion in one fell swoop, and her competition action was also named "Cheng Fei Jump" by international sports circles.
As early as the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Cheng Fei showed its strength.
At the Athens Olympic Games, Cheng Fei, who had no experience in world competitions, won the fourth place in floor exercise.
Although the fledgling Cheng Fei passed the medal, its strength should not be underestimated.
Through Cheng Fei's performance in Athens Olympic Games, the coach made Cheng Fei shift his practice focus to jumping on the horse. Prior to this, Cheng Fei's strength has always been floor exercise.
The coach's decision is not groundless. There are many women's floor exercises, and the competition is fierce.
Although Cheng Fei has been practicing floor exercise, it is difficult for him to stand out among the top players in the world.
Through the competition, the coach observed that Cheng Fei had excellent leg strength and was suitable for vault.
At that time, women's vault in China was always the weakness of women's gymnastics. If Cheng Fei can achieve something on vault, it will be a major breakthrough in gymnastics in China.
It is not easy to change the center of gravity. The technical action of vault is very different from floor exercise.
During that time, Cheng Fei stepped up his training.
Whenever other players leave, Cheng Fei stands alone in the open training ground, repeating his actions over and over again, forming a muscle memory.
These efforts were not in vain. In just one year, Cheng Fei showed amazing strength in vault.
In 2005, he won the World Championships in Melbourne, and in the World Championships in Aarhus the following year, Cheng Fei made another success, winning three gold medals by himself.
In the 2007 World Championships, Cheng Fei wrote a myth again, won the gold medal in women's vault and achieved "three consecutive championships".
In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Cheng Fei, who competed at home, was full of energy.
As the captain, Cheng Fei not only led the China women's gymnastics team to win the first team gold medal in the Olympic history of China women's gymnastics, but also won a bronze medal for herself in the vault.
20 12 London Olympic Games is just around the corner. Cheng Fei, a member of the China women's gymnastics team who won the most world championships, missed the London Olympics because of a torn achilles tendon.
On June 2012 14, Cheng Fei was accidentally injured in training and tore his achilles tendon, which was only over a month before the opening of the London Olympic Games.
Cheng Fei's injury this time is very serious. It is conservatively estimated that the recovery period will take at least three to six months.
Saying goodbye to London in advance is something that Cheng Fei never thought of.
"I feel that I was not given up by others, but by God."
After four years of hard work, Cheng Fei's heart is full of confusion and depression.
During that time, Cheng Fei deliberately avoided games and everything related to them.
Cheng Fei said: "People who have never engaged in competitive sports will not understand that kind of confusion and depression. At that time, I couldn't even listen to songs like' you and me'. "
Although depressed, Cheng Fei came out bravely on the day of seeing his teammates off.
On July 15, the China women's gymnastics team is ready to start. Cheng Fei, who didn't show up for a month, appeared at the entrance of Tiantan apartment to see off his teammates who were about to go out.
In a month's time, Cheng Fei has changed a lot, with a blue scar on his right ankle and a slightly fatter posture than before.
Cheng Fei tried to keep smiling when he was with his teammates, but it was still difficult to hide his regrets.
When the car carrying his teammates drove away, Cheng Fei looked in a trance.
After seeing off his teammates, Cheng Fei returned to his hometown in Hubei.
After staying in Beijing for a long time, Cheng Fei wants to change his place and mood.
During Cheng Fei's rest, his father gave Cheng Fei great encouragement.
Different from before, her father didn't blame her for being careless, but gently said to her, "Otherwise, take a break and live a normal girl's life."
During the rest recovery period, Cheng Fei decided to retire.
Long before the London Olympics, Cheng Fei won the vault gold medal in the National Gymnastics Championships and the London Olympics trials.
Many people think that this is the early performance of Cheng Fei's "comeback", but experts say that Cheng Fei has no strength to fight London again.
After the achilles tendon healed, Cheng Fei officially announced his retirement. After retiring, Cheng Fei became an assistant coach of the national team.
20 13 On May 28th, Wuhan Institute of Physical Education announced that the personnel relationship between Cheng Fei had been officially transferred to Wuhan Institute of Physical Education, and the school would give associate professor Cheng Fei the rank of treatment.
Cheng flew back to his alma mater for a long time.
After retiring, Cheng Fei studied for a master's degree in Wuhan Institute of Physical Education. After graduation, Cheng Fei entered Wuhan Institute of Physical Education.
Wuhan Institute of Physical Education is very kind to Cheng Fei, and assigned her a dormitory with one room and one living room.
From the athlete to the teacher, the change of identity made Cheng Fei at a loss.
In order to take care of Cheng Fei's mood, the school specially hired Cheng Fei's father as a gymnastics coach.
Wuhan Institute of Physical Education arranged for Cheng Fei to live with his father to alleviate Cheng Fei's maladjustment.
Facing the podium, Cheng Fei is not very skilled.
"Although I have a master's degree, I have never participated in systematic school education or college entrance examination. Facing the podium, I always have an unspeakable embarrassment, worrying that my knowledge reserve is not enough, which has delayed the future of students. "
In order to become a real teacher, Cheng Fei paid the hardships of athletes.
Cheng Fei spends all his spare time in the library to supplement what he doesn't understand.
In addition, Cheng Fei also tried to give lectures in Hubei Library on a regular basis and went to middle schools in Wuhan.
Cheng Fei's efforts paid off. Cheng Fei became more confident in class, became a popular teacher and the youngest associate professor in Wuhan Institute of Physical Education.
When he was a teacher and lecturing, Cheng Fei found that the brain drain rate of gymnastics in China was far beyond his imagination, and the basic gymnastics education in many places was very weak or even non-existent.
Cheng Fei decided to do more for China Gymnastics.
She and her colleagues actively applied for international gymnastics, and with their efforts, the International Gymnastics Institute officially settled in Wuhan Institute of Physical Education.
From specialty setting to student selection, to daily teaching, professional training, and even students' retirement and employment, Cheng Fei followed up and actively participated.
In view of Cheng Fei's outstanding achievements in gymnastics, the gymnastics school also invited Cheng Fei to be the "promotion ambassador" of the college.
Cheng Fei has also put a lot of thought into basic gymnastics education.
Cheng Fei started the "Happy Gymnastics" project in the form of an entrepreneurial team of Wuhan Institute of Physical Education, aiming at giving basic gymnastics education to the majority of primary and secondary school students in Hubei.
Starting from Wuhan, Cheng Fei recruited a group of children from 3 to 10, and started classes on weekends, starting with the most basic gymnastics movements.
She hopes that more children will know about gymnastics and love it.
Many athletes will gain weight after retiring, and Cheng Fei has not been spared. Now, at the age of 33, she is out of shape, weighing nearly 200 pounds and bloated.
Because of the injury before the London Olympics, Cheng Fei left the root of the disease. Every rainy day, Cheng Fei's old injuries will recur, and his back aches.
The injury made Cheng Fei unable to do strenuous exercise or even sit for a long time.
Cheng Fei is prone to obesity. Before attending the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Cheng Fei, who is still in his adolescence, will overcome the obesity problem.
After retiring, Cheng Fei has been taking drugs to alleviate the pain caused by injuries.
After leaving the national professional gymnastics training and strict diet control, Cheng Fei's weight began to increase uncontrollably.
Cheng Fei also tried to lose weight, but the effect was not satisfactory.
Besides weight, what worries people around us is Cheng Fei's personal problems. She is still single, and her teacher was still worried about her lifelong events.
Because Cheng Fei has been in the national training team since he was a child, apart from male gymnasts, Cheng Fei has little contact with other boys.
In addition, the national team has strict regulations that gymnasts are not allowed to fall in love before retiring, so Cheng Fei's understanding of love has always lagged behind his peers.
When Cheng Fei won the championship and achieved a zero breakthrough in women's vault in China, Cheng Fei had changed from an ordinary player to a "big sister" in the eyes of many male players, and people only felt respect for her.
After retiring, Cheng Fei has never been able to make a breakthrough on personal issues. Even before his death, Shanzhen Lu, Cheng Fei's mentor, hoped to find a boyfriend as soon as possible and hold a wedding reception there as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, coach Shanzhen Lu died of illness in 2020.
Cheng Fei's good friend once enthusiastically "set up a game" and dragged Cheng Fei and another boy her age out for an outing.
Good friends hope that playing together can spark a spark between Cheng Fei and boys.
Unexpectedly, Cheng Fei finally became friends with boys.
Good friends around me are very depressed about this and understand that this matter cannot be forced.
On personal issues, the most anxious thing is Cheng Fei's father.
Father knew Cheng Fei's temper and probably wouldn't listen to himself, so he wrote a letter to Cheng Fei.
In the letter, Cheng Fei's father recalled that Cheng Fei practiced gymnastics when he was a child, and there was tenderness between the lines.
At the end of the letter, Cheng Fei's father wrote:
"Now that you have transformed into a teacher, your mother and I are happy for you. We don't want you to be brilliant, we just want you to do everything in a down-to-earth way. Now that your mother and I are old, we are looking forward to having a good son-in-law to treat you well and let you live a happy life. "
Looking at his father's letter to himself, Cheng Fei's eyes were moist.
Once upon a time, that strict father gradually became gentle, and maybe gentleness was him.
After reading his father's letter, Cheng Fei began to realize that solving his lifelong events is not only for himself, but also for his parents.
Cheng Fei has officially put marriage and love into her life, but she is still a person who believes in fate.
As Cheng Fei himself said, "I believe in fate. My life itself is a wonderful journey. I never felt like a' leftover woman'. "