Ping Pong Life

Chapter 216 The Heart of the King

This unexpected game finally started.

Gao Mingyuan stood in front of the table, feeling his fully activated state at the moment, and didn't feel that this was a disadvantageous match.

He has watched all of Wang Chao's games. Although he has won all the way since his debut and broke the records of countless rookies, after analyzing all of them, Gao Mingyuan believes that Wang Chao's strength lies in the details and calculations. , rather than strong in hard power.

The so-called details and calculations include the delicate touch, the flexibility when handling the ball, the prediction and attack on the opponent's psychology, and the use of various off-court factors.

But it never includes the quality of the shot, the power of the crush, and so on.

Gao Mingyuan is not as obsessed with quality balls as Liang Kunpeng. He also knows that a player must play smart if he wants to reach the top, but at least at this stage, he thinks he is also smart.

It is difficult for a smart person to be calculated by a smart person, but only to be defeated by brute force.

So last year in the autumn competition of the Table Tennis Super League, he lost when he met Liang Kunpeng.

But facing Wang Chao who defeated Liang Kunpeng, he was more confident.

He said to Wang Chao: "Don't guess the coin, let me serve first, can you?"

Wang Chao was a little surprised, but without hesitation, he nodded and agreed.

He found that Gao Mingyuan is indeed a very smart player. Under the current situation, Gao Mingyuan is not foolishly seeking absolute fairness, but is very good at seeking benefits for himself.

He is ranked first in the Six Dragons, and Gao Mingyuan is ranked fourth in the Six Dragons. It is of course okay if the two sides directly guess coins, but now the fourth ranked player wants a serving right to the first ranked player, and the first ranked player is forced to The situation must agree.

If you don't agree, you will lose your momentum in front of everyone.

Gao Mingyuan got the right to serve, and carefully served the first ball with a short backspin.

He stands very forward, with his legs spread apart, determined to play a fast pace with Wang Chao, because he is talented with extreme speed and has a very beautiful backhand twist, he thinks that he is in a sense similar to Lin Zijun Their technical features are relatively similar. If so, then when he beats Wang Chao, he can reproduce the way Lin Zijun beat Wang Chao on T2.

Although Lin Zijun lost in T2, Wang Chao messed up his mentality in the first two rounds. In the last round, he didn't hold back his mentality. In terms of the scene alone, Lin Zijun took the lead overall. The style of play is naturally reasonable.

So this short backspin lands on the bottom line of Wang Chao's backhand position.

Gao Mingyuan thought that Wang Chao could only rub the ball.

But Wang Chao did not hesitate to tear it with a backhand.

This move is equivalent to directly releasing the winning hand, which means that he does not want to fight against each other, but wants to fight directly.

As soon as the ball was shot, several big shots who were more familiar with Wang Chao, such as Qin Huachang and Wang Lu, let out a low "Huh".

Because this treatment is very unfair to Wang Chao.

Wang Chao's style of play last year, on the whole, carried out the characteristics of "watertightness". Under normal circumstances, he never gave the opponent a chance to take the initiative to take the initiative, and never made an attack with insufficient power. His philosophy is: rather than forcefully attack, it is better to The stable bucket is short.

After all, as a player with the talent of "diving into the subtleties", there are few people in the world who can match him in a short fight.

At least Gao Mingyuan couldn't beat him.

But today, Wang Chao's tear was just an attack with insufficient power. While releasing the winning hand, it was a naked opportunity for the opponent to attack.

This backhand tearing action is actually very reluctant, because Gao Mingyuan sent a long ball, and it stands to reason that if you want to backhand tear, you have to take a step back, but Wang Chao refused to retreat. It bounced off the table but before it could jump off the table, it forcibly tore the board.

This hitting point was obviously irregular and could easily lead to mistakes, but Wang Chao's hand feeling was excellent, and he managed to pull the ball over and landed on Gao Mingyuan's backhand position.

Gao Mingyuan twisted his backhand without saying a word.

His racket was custom-made, and with the blessing of his not-so-explosive strength, he unscrewed a super fast ball in the pool and landed in Wang Chao's forehand.

This is an extremely high-quality screw ball, theoretically speaking, it can make Wang Chao passive.

If Wang Chao does not step down, he may not even be able to catch up.

But Wang Chao didn't back off the stage, he swung his arm swayingly, just in time to pull the ball along the way, and pulled the ball almost perfectly.

Gao Mingyuan moved quickly to the right, shouted, the pronunciation was similar to "chua le", and made a forehand burst.

At this moment, his shoulders were erected again, and he was still habitually using the wrong posture for exerting force.

But he is a master after all, even if the posture is wrong, the ball still followed the correct trajectory and plunged into Wang Chao's backhand position.

Wang Chao still did not step back from the stage, he thrust his arm to the left like lightning, and turned his wrist outward. This action was bigger than twisting the ball, but it was not a complete reverse pull, but the effect was excellent. As soon as the ball bounced, he quickly hit it back, fast and spinning.

At this time, Qin Huachang and the others couldn't help thinking "Huh", because they could tell that Wang Chao's ball was very...beautiful.

It's beautiful and it's very adaptable.

As we all know, table tennis has many fixed hitting movements, but most of them are actually similar in general.

For example, when dealing with a backhand ball, backhand twisting, backhand tearing, and backhand pulling, to put it bluntly, are just different ranges of movement, different degrees of arm swing, and different strengths.The forehand lob, the forehand heavy arc, and the forehand burst, to put it bluntly, are just different ratios given to the two factors of the racket's upward friction and forward swing.

Athletes clearly distinguish these similar postures into different technical modules and perform classified exercises, not because the distinction is really good, but because they can easily form different muscle memories in this way , handle backhand balls of different lengths, heights, and speeds.

But in fact, if the hand feel is good enough, any pose can continue to be subdivided.

For example, when twisting a ball, ordinary people can only twist a part of the ball that is not enough to turn low enough, but Lin Zijun can twist the ball very low. There are obvious differences.

The same billiard ball is still near and far.

The same way billiards are played, there are near and far.

The more specific and nuanced you can be with the same ball, the better the quality of the ball you'll hit.

This thing is a bit like the "no move to win, there is a move" in martial arts novels. When you first practice, all the postures must be fixed. The more standard the posture you practice, the higher the success rate of hitting the ball.

But when you really hit a certain level, you don’t want to force your posture to be too standard, because sometimes, if you have a little more strength, a little more inclination of the racket, and a little less swinging action, you can do some fine-tuning in this area. Hit the ball more beautifully.

After all, the ball played by the opponent is not in such a standard position as the ball fed to you by your partner during practice.

Wang Chao's backhand wave at this moment already has the meaning of this aspect.

The action is not standard, but it is very beautiful, giving people a very reasonable feeling.

Gao Mingyuan's side was very well-behaved, and he adjusted his footsteps again, pulling back with one hand.

Everyone watched Wang Chao and Gao Mingyuan engage in a fast-paced stalemate on the stage at the first ball. After five or six rounds, Gao Mingyuan's footsteps became scattered, and was pierced by Wang Chao's seemingly random plank.

1: 0.

Even though it was just a short goal, because everyone on the scene is an expert, even the bottom of the assessment is the best of their respective provincial teams. In terms of eyesight, everyone is not bad, so everyone is a little abnormally quiet at this moment. Because they could all see that Wang Chao's style of play today was completely different from what they had seen in the video and live broadcast.

In the past, Wang Chao calculated step by step and was careful. Although he could win every time, it always gave people a feeling that he was racking his brains and struggling. But today, he was too casual, standing there and swipe left and right, looking like It's laziness during practice. If you yawn long while paddling, there will be absolutely no sense of disobedience.

But such an understatement of play defeated Gao Mingyuan's first ball that he tried his best.

So this kind of understatement should be replaced by another word called "lifting weight as if it is light".

It's not that he shouldn't move, but that he doesn't want to move. Since he doesn't want to move, he can only adjust the posture of his hands, so almost every movement of him is not completely standard, but in After fine-tuning, they can pull the ball well.

Cai Guodong glanced sideways at He Jingping, vaguely guessing.

Sure enough, although He Jingping had a sullen face, the smile in his eyes and the corners of his mouth could not help but betrayed his heart.

Zhu Zeshi didn't even need to look to guess what He Jingping must have done to Wang Chao.

After all, when Wang Chao called He Jingping half a month ago, He Jingping didn't stay at home by himself at all. He was a loner, and every New Year and holiday, he would go to Zhu Zeshi's house early to eat, and he never put himself Be an outsider.

So when He Jingping went to Jiangcheng City, it was Zhu Zeshi's wife who called the company secretary to help book the tickets. Otherwise, how could it be so easy to buy tickets in the imperial capital during the Spring Festival travel season?
Gao Mingyuan served again, he hesitated for a long time, and finally stole a long ball to the bottom line of Wang Chao's forehand.

He knew that Wang Chao's forehand attack was not sharp, because he was not strong enough to kill anyone, so Wang Chao usually did not charge the ball explosively, but had two choices: either directly swing it short, or pull the heavy arc to change it. Line, look for opportunities to play combination punches.

But he didn't expect that as soon as he moved, Wang Chao turned sideways directly, and then came a fierce and unreserved burst.

This impact was extremely powerful, far beyond the expectations of everyone present, and hit a super fast ball with strong rotation. Gao Mingyuan was negligent because of the accident, so he rushed to save it. , directly rushed out of the stage.

2: 0.

"Wow!" The young contestants exclaimed in low voices.

They could see that Wang Chao's plan never came back, and they never thought of a follow-up at all.

But the power of this board is much greater than what they have seen in the video.

Only then did everyone realize a problem: Wang Chao's strength had increased significantly.

Wang Chao got the right to serve.

Gao Mingyuan was a little confused. He suddenly realized that with the arrival of the new year, some of his cognition seemed to be out of date...

The last game he saw Wang Chao played was against Liang Kunpeng in the relegation match, and after that, Wang Chao never played again for two full months.

But think about it, Wang Chao has made so much progress from July to November last year, so how could there be no progress from December to January?
He's fucking doing special training secretly.

Gao Mingyuan panicked.

When he panicked, problems started.

Wang Chao made a short backspin, and Gao Mingyuan twisted backhandedly, committing suicide.

Wang Chao sent another short backspin, Gao Mingyuan twisted his backhand again, barely crawling over the net, Wang Chao directly threw a short ball with a wide angle, Gao Mingyuan didn't even have the intention to save it, he just watched the ball pass from the side of the table fall.

The score quickly pulled to 4:0.

Gao Mingyuan got the right to serve and directly stole long. This time he stole Wang Chao's backhand baseline.

But Wang Chao had a prediction, moved his steps ahead of time, and it was still a powerful forehand burst, killing Gao Mingyuan directly.

Gao Mingyuan stole again, but this time it became Wang Chao's forehand bottom line.

He already knew that Wang Chao's strength had increased and his explosive charge was strong, but he still made a forehand, which was actually the opposite. He bet that Wang Chao would move to the left earlier.

But Wang Chao has never suffered a disadvantage in predicting the game since his debut, and this time is no exception. He stood still, waiting for Gao Mingyuan to feed the ball to his mouth, and directly made a forehand Blast and score.

It took only half a minute for two goals, and Wang Chao led 6:0.

By this time, Gao Mingyuan had completely panicked. Although it was still cold in the imperial capital in January, there was a fine layer of sweat on his forehead.

He began to regret not provoking Wang Chao.

Because today's Wang Chao is too abnormal, there is no saying that every step is calculated at all, and he is playing a very domineering frontal crushing game.

"Could it be that he thought I was going to challenge him? He deliberately trained his strength, just waiting to defeat me in this different way?" Gao Mingyuan began to think wildly.

His mentality has always been very bad, so it is normal to have this kind of persecution paranoia.

He didn't know that Wang Chao had already made a deep introspection after the conversation with He Jingping in the Jiangcheng base in mid-January.

He realized that his style of play last year was really evil, because when he faced a strong enemy, he subconsciously did not dare to confront it head-on, unknowingly lost the courage to see the red bayonet, and always wanted to seek the weak point of the opponent. Tear open a little more.

Finding the opponent's flaws is of course not a mistake, but the problem is that this is actually a very typical coach's thinking. As a coach, it is understandable to help your disciples find the opponent's flaws and make them play more easily.

But his disciple himself, as a player, should not have this kind of fear of difficulties that only wants to find flaws, but should have the mentality of facing difficulties and never turning back.

Like the stubbornness of Liang Kunpeng and Bai Feng, although there is a headache and annoyance, but from another perspective, it also represents their extremely vigorous self-confidence. They firmly believe that their style of play is king, and they are determined to Conquer everyone with your own kingly style of play.

This is the heart of a king.

If you don't have enough talent, or your cognition is objectively wrong, then the heart of the king will become a muscle, will not listen to persuasion, will not hit the south wall and will not look back, and it will take two years to improve your Grind your will, and then help you rebuild your cognition.

But if you have enough talent, then you should be less opportunistic in normal times, and even deliberately use the most difficult style of play to face your opponent, with an upright momentum, let him play to his advantage, and then take it from the front. He was completely crushed.

Mencius said: I am good at cultivating my noble spirit.

Wang Chao is now, even if he would rather lose, he must first cultivate this kingly spirit.

At this moment, he was deeply grateful to his teacher He Jingping, because it was He Jingping who awakened him with such enlightening words.

He used to think that he was omnipotent when he crossed over, but now he understands that he still has the confusion of the authorities. After all, he did not reach the pinnacle as a player in his previous life, and he would often confuse players and coaches. The difference, unknowingly switch to the wrong mode of coaching thinking.

　Thank you for the 5000 coin reward from "I was also a king once." Warm applause, congratulations on becoming my third rudder master.

　　Thanks for the 100 coin reward from "Ten Wu", a new face, a good phenomenon, hahaha.

　　
　
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