Ping Pong Life

Chapter 154 The New Generation Candy Bar
With just this sentence, Wang Chao heard a strong fighting spirit.

Coach Wang Lu and Cai Guodong had an extremely cryptic look at each other, and both sides nodded slightly at the same time.

Yes, they guessed it.

When discussing this matter at the meeting yesterday, Wang Lu said that Wang Chao would choose Bai Feng, Cai Guodong agreed, and Zhu Zeshi remained silent.

Facts have proved that Wang Chao really chose Baifeng.

This is naturally not because of the difference between closeness and estrangement.

The relationship between Qin and Zhu is very good. The five main players of the national team, except Bai Feng, are all from Qin and Zhu. However, Wang Chao's selection of Bai Feng has nothing to do with these things. After careful analysis, he thinks that Bai Feng is best hit.

Soon, the net was set up, the players came on the court, the coaches lined up on both sides, and other national team players came to watch the fun, the coaches didn't chase them away, and let everyone fill up the surrounding area of ​​the table with a smile.

It is worth mentioning that there are not only male players but also female players watching the game.

This is actually a test.

Bai Feng and others have played in international competitions for many years, so naturally there is no problem of stage fright, but Wang Chao is still half a rookie. Although he performed well in the table tennis arena, it is because the table tennis is too weak, the pressure is too small, and it is not enough. To squeeze out the panic in his heart.

If it was changed to an international arena, such as the upcoming t2 Diamond Tournament, in a foreign country, in front of a crowd of foreigners, would he still be able to perform normally?
Psychological problems are sometimes more critical than strength problems.

These are all issues that Cai Guodong needs to consider.

Qin Huachang acted as a temporary referee, fetched a coin, tossed it high, dropped it, covered it with his hand, and looked at Baifeng.

Bai Feng shook his head: "Don't guess, let him serve first."

Qin Huachang looked at Wang Chao again.

Wang Chao smiled and nodded: "Thank you."

So the game officially began.

Wang Chao directly steals the long serve.

What he stole was Bai Feng's backhand.

At this moment, the corners of Bai Feng's mouth were slightly raised, and his eyes were cold, as if he had expected it.

Because he guessed it.

Yes, he guessed that Wang Chao's first ball would directly steal long.

He asked Wang Chao to take the initiative to serve, although he was embarrassed to guess coins with a junior, but it was also because he was waiting for Wang Chao to steal.

It's not because of a whim or blessing at this moment, but because he started to think about this question at seven o'clock last night, and after a night, he has already thought through it.

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"Get ready, you may have to play a game with Wang Chao tomorrow. You are the main team of the national team. It is only natural to win, but it will be embarrassing if you lose."

This is what Coach Wang Lu said to Bai Feng during dinner yesterday.

Bai Feng was very surprised, and asked the reason carefully. After asking clearly, he was very unconvinced: "Why would he choose me? I'm not the weakest of the five main players. If he really wants to win, he should choose Lin Li."

Bai Feng's imaginary enemy has always been Lin Li.

He came from a candy bar background, and the candy bar is inherently weak in today's table tennis world, so when he was a child, his performance in the sports school was not very good. When those friends who practiced the horizontal bar at the same time as him went out to compete one after another, they achieved results and became famous. At that time, he remained in obscurity.

Later, his sports school produced a big celebrity, who entered the national first team, and finally entered the main force, became the No. 1 handsome student of Huaping, and also became the pride of all the teachers in the sports school.

This person is Lin Li.

Bai Feng is a native of Western Sichuan Province, with a wealthy family. Because of practicing sports, he left Western Sichuan Province when he was very young and went to a sports school in the imperial capital to play, because the sports school in the imperial capital has stronger teachers and better students.

In the process of his practice, many friends who also practiced the candy bar chose to give up, some went home directly, and some chose to go straight to the horizontal. Even the candybar players who entered the sports school two or three years later than him had many Less chose to leave.

Only he persisted.

Persisting until the age of 17, Bai Feng finally ushered in a small dawn: he reached the quarter-finals in the U17 World Youth Championship.

Then there was another two years of silence.

When Bai Feng was 19 years old, he got a chance to enter the second national team.

Not because of how well he played, but because Huaping has always had a support policy for straight players over the years. According to the regulations of the Huaping National Table Tennis Association, no matter the city team, the provincial team, the second national team, or the first national team, There must be at least one straight singles player.

His sports school ranked first in the imperial capital, and he ranked first among the few candy bar players in this sports school. The opportunity came because of this, which was a bit like "the first thing you get when you are close to the water".

Bai Feng met many masters beyond his imagination in the national team. He was also asked to imitate the style of play of a certain bar player in Kimchi Country, and to be a training partner for the main players of the national team.

It was during the sparring that he met Lin Li.

At that time, Lin Li was high-spirited and high-spirited, and had already won the gold medals in the world's three major competitions, while Bai Feng was just an unknown young player.

Lin Li was very friendly to him, because they came from the same sports school, and they were even brought out by the same teacher when they started out.

But the better Lin Li treated him, the more unconvinced he was.

He felt that his talent was no worse than Lin Li's, and even his foot speed, guard area, and hitting speed were faster than Lin Li's. Why is Lin Li the main player, but I'm just a sparring partner?
Just because I'm straight, is he horizontal?
Why should a candy bar be looked down upon?
Isn't Huaping's original reputation established by the straight fast break style of play?
Of course, these are all excuses.

The real reason is that Bai Feng's father is also a table tennis player, and he learned the traditional fast-break straight style of play.

His father only climbed to the position of the provincial team's substitute throughout his life. After retiring, he did not choose to switch to coaching or work in related industries. Instead, he left the table tennis world directly and chose to change careers completely and went to work in a state-owned enterprise. Unit, and later complained to Bai Feng after getting drunk many times.

"I shouldn't choose the candy bar. Really, I only knew that the backhand position of the candy bar is relatively weak, but I didn't expect it to be so weak..."

My father has obsessions in his heart. He feels that the wrong choice of shooting has ruined his ping-pong career. He regrets it very much and wishes to start his life over again.

But the father never expected that his complaints like Mrs. Xianglin's did not affect his son, but instead caused him to have the opposite emotion.

In Bai Feng's childhood memory, his father was super handsome when he played with a straight board.

It is the kind of handsomeness that no horizontal board player can match.

It was precisely because he saw his father smashing all sides with a straight board in the internal competition of that state-owned enterprise that he had the idea of ​​playing basketball.

"Such a handsome, cool, and great straight board, of course it cannot be annihilated. Even if it has weaknesses and loopholes, it also has advantages that the horizontal board cannot match!"

"If there is a candy bar player in the new generation who can rise, I hope that person is me."

Bai Feng is talented, coupled with enough hard work and persistence, he finally got his wish at the age of 20 and achieved results in the team's relegation match, and he was able to step on the pass line and enter the national first team.

Then he had his own dedicated head coach: Wang Lu.

Although Wang Lu is far less famous than Qin Zhu, he is actually an excellent coach in the national team. He found that Bai Feng's posture when facing the backhand ball is very strange, which is completely different from the conventional push and block, and even actively exerts force. part, he couldn't help asking Bai Feng what kind of posture this was.

Bai Feng told Wang Lu that this was actually something his father tinkered with after retiring, but he tried this thing many times, but it still couldn't take shape, and he could only do it occasionally.

Wang Lu was keenly aware that a great new technology, a new door to the evolution of table tennis bar players, was slowly opening in front of him.

He turned to the entire coaching staff, also known as Shang Baifeng, and after arduous discussions and analysis, he finally finalized this technique after three months.

This is the greatest backhand technique recognized by all candy bar players in the world today: the candy bar horizontal strike.

Although the facts in the next few years have proved that the candy bar is not suitable for all candy bar players.

It has too high requirements on the wrist and too strict requirements on the force posture, and if it is not practiced correctly, it is easy to cause physical damage.

But there is no doubt that this technique fundamentally solves the problem of the weak backhand of some candy bar players.

It allows the straight style of play, which is inherently deficient and about to be submerged by the torrent of history, to regain the confidence to fight against the horizontal style.

Bai Feng rose like lightning, from the initial policy support player to the real main player of the national team, and in the team match half a year later, with the hard power of forehand and backhand stalemate, defeated the same player who also played forehand and backhand Luo Jiu, who plays the loop ball all over the table.

It was this battle that made He Jingping disheartened, so he voluntarily resigned and left Jiangcheng City.

In the following three years, Bai Feng began to participate in various international competitions, but his goal was always Lin Li.

Because the level of the dragon team is too high, it can't be touched no matter what, and Xiao Fei is already old, maybe he will retire in the next year or two.

As for Luo Jiu, he was just his own defeated opponent.

Therefore, Bai Feng hopes to completely defeat Lin Li. In this case, after Dragon Team and Xiao Fei retire, he will be the leader of the new generation of Huaping.

He will represent the new candy bar, stand on top of the world, and create a bright future that his father never dreamed of.

But how difficult is it to defeat Lin Li?
He and Lin Li have played against Lin Li seven times in major domestic and international competitions in three years, with three wins and four losses, and the overall record is slightly behind.

But this does not mean that he is weaker than Lin Li, because the mutual record between players is largely affected by various factors.

For example, when facing Xiao Fei, Lin Li's record in the past three years was two wins and seven losses, and he was very restrained by Xiao Fei.

But Bai Feng had six wins and three losses against Xiao Fei, and his style faintly restrained Xiao Fei.

And in the foreign war, both of them lost the chain at the World Table Tennis Championships in July, and no one was better than the other.

So in the cafeteria this afternoon, when Bai Feng heard that Wang Chao was going to choose someone tomorrow, his first reaction was: Why choose me?

He is 24 years old this year, Lin Li and Luo Jiu are 27 years old, Xiao Fei is 29 years old, and Dragon Team is 31 years old. He feels that he is the youngest, with the most physical strength and the most flexible mind, so he should not be Wang Chao's first choice anyway.

But his most trusted coach Wang Lu told him with certainty: "Wang Chao has at least a [-]% chance of picking you, so you should prepare well."

Bai Feng agreed.

He didn't underestimate Wang Chao at all, because he had seen the game where Wang Chao played Zhu Ding.

At night, he lay in the dormitory and watched all the videos of Wang Chao playing in the table tennis, one by one, analyzed Wang Chao's playing style and mentality before the battle, trying to find a breakthrough, and finally let him find it.

Wang Chao is good at psychological warfare and likes changes, but the changes in table tennis are not layer by layer. In many cases, it is just a simple game of "yes" and "no".

For example, serving the ball, no matter how deep your calculations are, it is just a few serving methods.

For example, in the shocking match between the Peacock Kingdom Dragon Team and Luo Jiu yesterday, how did these two people who are at the top of the world in ball counting choose to serve?
Team Dragon sent out two steals in a row, and Luo Jiu beat them all to death.

Why did the Dragons send two steals in a row?Because the dragon team thinks that they are superior in ball counting, the dragon team believes that they can succeed in stealing. The simpler and rude the opponent is, the more unexpected it will be.

So in the same way, what about Wang Chao fighting with himself?

Obviously, Wang Chao will also think that he has an advantage in calculating the ball by himself.

Because Bai Feng himself is not a player who likes to calculate. He is the one with the fastest footwork and the fastest body movement among the five main players of the national team. Fear of the opponent's various small moves on the serve.

Bai Feng is not good at psychological speculation, but he can infer by analogy, comparing Wang Chao to Sun Tianlong.

Even the dragon team can steal the leader, how can Wang Chao not steal the leader?

　Thanks to "Meow's Schrödinger jin" and "Quilt II" for their rewards.

　　
　
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