Ping Pong Life

Chapter 311 The Art of Defense

At this moment, many viewers watching the live broadcast in front of the screen couldn't help laughing.

The two faces, one big and one small, have the same expression, they really deserve to be a pair of good master and apprentice.

As for the Swedish fans at the scene, it was even worse.

The unexploded smiles on their faces froze completely. Their bodies took off, flew into the air, and fell, but they couldn't shout out cheers. Instead, their buttocks fell heavily on the chairs, and they couldn't help letting out a muffled groan.

"What the hell is going on?" Some fans shouted angrily, but the voice was soon covered by more other voices.

The big screen above the stadium began to replay the scene just now, and the audience clearly saw that the ball hit the table on Wang Chao's side, bounced up, and hit Wang Chao's racket that had been waiting there.

Because of the high-speed slow playback, the audience can even clearly see the racket shaking slightly when the ball hits the racket, while the ball moves faster along a straight line. The speed bounced back.

The racket suspended in the air was still shaking slightly, and even the slight deformation of the rubber could be seen clearly, as if telling all the fans at the scene: Look, this ball is really heavy and very fast.

Michelle was a little confused.

He came here with a lot of courage, and thought that he played the first two shots without any problems. Whether it was the short-handedness, the flexibility of changing lines, or the ability to find offensive opportunities, they all showed to the fullest.

In fact, he did attack before Wang Chao, which shows that he did a good job of restricting Wang Chao, but Wang Chao did not do a good job of restricting him.

Especially the second ball, in fact, he gave Wang Chao a chance to pull back, but he forcibly relied on his strong backhand stalemate ability to turn passive into active.

With both goals, he has a chance to hit a lore.

But unfortunately, this killing plan was blocked by Wang Chao.

This is unreasonable.

The reason why the kill board is called a kill board is because it is used to score points.

If even a kill will turn into a loss of points, then why fight for the initiative when playing?
Michel got the right to serve, he inhaled hard, lowered his head and quickly thought about what happened just now and what it meant, and finally he came to a fairly reassuring conclusion: my style of play should be fine, otherwise how could I Maybe get the initiative in a row and hit the kill board?

If hitting the board can be called a strategic error, then nothing in this world is right.

It can only be said that he can catch my kill board, this is not my problem, but his problem.

He fucked up.

Of course, Michelle has also heard the legend about the Huaping hook. It is said that the hook was used by the main players of the Huaping national team in turn. , Once used for seven years, the rest dared to be angry but dare not speak.

Later, when Wang Chao joined the team, head coach Cai bestowed him with the title of Unparalleled Dragon, and he became the top player in the team. He finally snatched it from Sun Tianlong and has been using it until now, maintaining an undefeated game.

It was only when Wang Chao beat Sun Tianlong that the two players rushed to use it. As a result, one of them used it once, and the other won a game.

If we deduce it from the theory of consequences, no matter how we look at it, this hang-up still exists.

Michelle was originally a staunch materialist, but now he believes in metaphysics.

He decided to try again.

……

"This person is very strong, head coach, I have a hunch that he will become our confidant in the future."

It was Qin Huachang who spoke.

When Fan Xiaodong fought Zhang Benkuang, he was not there, so Wang Chao guessed that he had a heart attack, but it was not.

Wang Chao also guessed that he was rescued in a hospital in Sweden, but it was not, because he was already in a third-class hospital in the imperial capital, and this time it was not a temporary rescue, but a temporary long-term stay.

But he still couldn't stay idle, and when Cai Guodong came to see him, he begged Cai Guodong to find a notebook, and then the two of them watched the live broadcast together.

He didn't think much of Michelle at first. In the past years, even though Michelle had reached No. 7 in the world, he still felt that this player was full of ingenuity, only brute force but no spirituality, and he was destined to fail. to the top.

It wasn't until later that he heard that Lao Wa was going to help Michelle with special training, so he paid more attention to Michelle.

And this time in the Swedish Open, Michelle played Gao Mingyuan, which really caught Qin Huachang's attention. After watching it, he admitted: "I was wrong."

And today Michelle hit Wang Chao, even though he only hit two balls, and both of them were scored by Wang Chao, but it really shocked Qin Huachang into a cold sweat.

He saw a very scary prototype in Michelle's style of play.

He even easily thought of Luo Jiu.

Luo Jiu plays forehand and backhand, and Michelle uses forehand and backhand. They both use the two sides of the racket to play two completely different attribute styles, so as to cause strong discomfort to the opponent.

The reason why Wang Chao seems to be able to do anything with ease is only because Wang Chao is a pervert who is proficient in too many technologies, so he doesn't care about any complicated changes in technology.

But if you switch to any other player, you will be very anxious and make continuous mistakes in judgment due to this constantly changing batting attributes.

In fact, Wang Chao was the same as Luo Jiu, and he was afraid that the other party would be unreasonable.

Fortunately, at this moment, Michelle, although he is already playing extremely vigorously, the core of his style of play is still very reasonable.

Others can't see how Wang Chao catches the ball, but Qin Huachang can.

In the final analysis, there are still two words: prediction.

When Wang Chao told Lin Zijun about defense in the restaurant yesterday, he was not just talking about it for fun, but after careful consideration, and even, he was already doing it himself.

The first two goals he hit Michel was a defensive victory in an absolute sense.

Lin Zijun's inability to make perfect predictions about Hu Ke is because Hu Ke is too unconstrained.

However, there are still traces of Michel's style of play. Although his forehand has been changed to a pull, the problem of too square placement is still unresolved, and it is very difficult to solve.

why?

Or because he is too tall.

Being too tall leads to too much sideways movement, and the movement is not flexible enough, so Michelle doesn't turn sideways very much, and he doesn't turn sideways. When he shoots the ball, the angle that can be adjusted by his arms and wrists is bound to be limited, which also makes him unable to shoot. That kind of super line change that is completely unreasonable.

The direction of his every attack can be roughly determined. If you carefully observe the details of his movements, as well as the subtle changes in his shoulders and elbows when he touches the ball, and supplement it with rich experience, you can Deduce exactly where he wants to hit the ball.

Not sure, but at least the success rate is not low.

Using this method, Wang Chao completed two estimates in a row, caught Michelle by surprise, and suppressed his high morale at the beginning.

And the reason why he has been thinking about it is also because it is a very brain-consuming thing to speculate on Michelle's hitting point in such a high-intensity confrontation.

He was really thinking all the time.

"Wang Chao is so mature. Sometimes I feel that he doesn't need a coach at all. At best, he needs a nanny to help him with chores outside of the game." Cai Guodong said with emotion: "He obviously doesn't need a coach. He beat Michelle in such a thankless way, but he wanted to fight like this. He didn't pay attention to Michelle at all. Get ready."

"It's not all like that." Qin Huachang laughed dryly twice, as if his illness had been aroused, he coughed several times in a row, and his voice was a little weak: "He probably saw Lao Wa coming, so he deliberately wanted to hit like this... this No matter how mature the kid is, he is a child after all, and there will always be conflicts between emotions."

Cai Guodong couldn't help laughing, nodded and said: "Lao Wa's famous name will be ruined today."

Although Lao Wa is a god, after all, he has not been in the table tennis world for a long time, and Cai Guodong also competed with Lao Wa at the beginning, and he has always been in the front line of table tennis for decades. His achievements as an athlete are not as good as Lao Wa, but a long-term neglect , a person who has been working hard, looking at the table tennis market today, he has a more accurate view than Lao Wa.

Lao Wa is wishful thinking.

Lao Wa must have carefully analyzed all the videos of Wang Chaoyao since his debut, and he also tried to analyze the details of Wang Chao. He was once the god of ping-pong and had absolute confidence in his own vision. , Finally came to a conclusion: Wang Chao's weakness lies in defense.

In fact, this is the conclusion that any insider will naturally draw when analyzing Wang Chaoshi.

Even the Huaping coaching staff had come to such a conclusion before officially contacting Wang Chao.

But only when you really get in touch with Wang Chao, you will find that all your cognitions about him can be easily subverted by him.

In all the official games so far, Wang Chao has indeed reflected the problem of insufficient defense. This is because he always advocates offense, either through strength, change, technology, or mind attack.

He doesn't emphasize defense himself, so how strong can he show his defensive ability?

Lao Wa came to this conclusion based on his conventional understanding of table tennis players, that is, every player must have strength distribution, shortcomings, and technical defects.

Theoretically speaking, there is no player with perfect technique, even if he is as strong as Sun Tianlong, his backhand position is still problematic, but very few people can force his flaws.

But Qin Huachang and Cai Guodong knew very well that Wang Chao's defense was fine.

They had watched the old video of Wang Chao's team assessment when he first joined the Jiangcheng team.

Now that Wang Chao has become famous, the video of the team entrance examination in July last year has become a top-secret top-secret, sealed and sealed by Luo Zhihong, and only Cai Guodong and Qin Huachang, the top leaders of the national team, are eligible to watch it.

It can be seen from that video that in fact, at the beginning of Wang Chao's career, he has perfectly grasped the supreme essence of defense: anticipation.

On that day, when his physical strength was completely exhausted, he completely resisted the strong attack of the city team players by presetting the position and tilt angle of the racket, and achieved excellent results.

No one can achieve perfect defense in hindsight.

All incredible god-level defenses must have come from predictions.

Yesterday, Wang Chao suggested Lin Zijun to play regular ball for Hook, to lure Hook to also play regular ball, in fact, he was trying to set up a predictable situation.

It's just that this level of thinking is beyond the reach of ordinary city team and provincial team coaches.

And what he is showing on the court at the moment is a true master of defensive art.

……

Michelle, who got the right to serve, directly sent a forehand to the bottom line.

He tried his best not to fight against Wang Chao, hoping to introduce a stalemate.

Wang Chao pulled the ball sideways, the ball was very fast, and went straight to Michelle's backhand position.

Michelle backed away and pulled back.

Wang Chao continued to pull the forehand, but he didn't want to end up in a stalemate, so he changed the line and placed the forehand at a wide angle.

The ball was pulled very tricky, and it was extremely difficult to land. The ball flew out from the side of the table.

But Michelle's height advantage showed again. He just took two steps and directly crossed the vast space, and he just went around the side of the table and gently pushed the ball back to the table.

If it were him before, this kind of ball would definitely close his eyes and hit the board directly.

But in the two months with Lao Wa, he learned a lot, and even improved his xinxing. He learned a very simple truth that many professional players don't understand: if the attack can't kill people, it's better to be cautious. Do a good job of defense.

So he pushed the ball quite well. Apart from not spinning, it was close and low, and it flew a long oblique line at a large angle, directly flying from the far right side of the net to the far left side of the net. , which is equivalent to giving Wang Chao a big angle.

It has to be said that this was a stroke of genius that even Wang Chao didn't expect, so that when the ball flew over the net, Wang Chao had to go around half of the table to catch the ball.

Fortunately, the speed of the ball was not fast, so Wang Chao managed to catch up to the end. Before the ball was about to hit the ground, he used his racket to push the ball underneath, and with his excellent touch, he picked up the ball and just flew over the net.

This is completely the ultimate play of the nuanced feel.

In fact, when encountering this kind of ball, it is reasonable to say that a normal player can't take into account so many details on the defensive end. He just wants to return the ball safely. The point is too positive, there is no time to think about these issues at all.

But this is the difference between super first-class and first-class. It is obviously a super passive situation, but Wang Chao can rely on his excellent touch to make the return of the ball without any flaws.

So after the ball went through a stalemate in the middle and the stage and hanging corners with each other, it actually returned to the stage of fighting. This rapid change of the rabbit's ups and downs made the audience couldn't help applauding.

In a blink of an eye, there were several short rounds, and Wang Chao returned the ball slightly high.

Michelle immediately seized this opportunity, stepped forward, and slapped hard.

And far away in a certain ward in the imperial capital, Qin Huachang and Cai Guodong leaned forward at the same time, trying to see this moment more clearly.

Michelle probably thought that this time he had won the duel and caught Wang Chao's flaws.

But the two bosses knew in their hearts that this was just because Wang Chao still wanted to try to defend, so he deliberately sold a loophole.

(About the examples of Jianzong and Qizong in "Swordsman" mentioned in yesterday's chapter, I have to explain. I said that Jianzong had the last laugh, and this last of course refers to the situation at the end of the book. Linghu Chong is based on Jianzong's Dugu Nine Swords has been standing until the end, and Huashan School Qizong was completely abolished under the leadership of Yue Buqun. In the end, even Yue Buqun himself went to learn the evil sword technique, which is equivalent to embarking on the sword Zong Zhizhi. So I did not give a wrong example, brothers who raised doubts, it is your own fault.)
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