Ping Pong Life

Chapter 368 The Master-Student Who Runs in the Same Way

Facts have proved that truth is always in the hands of a few.

When Wang Chao kept Bai Feng and Lin Li 4-0 in one day, the vast majority of people in the world table tennis world believed that the future had come, and the main force of Huaping had officially changed their dynasties.

They generally believed that although Wang Chao was young, his advantage in these two games was too great and the score was too disparate.

But Cai Guodong, who was watching these two live broadcasts in the imperial capital, didn't think so.

At least not sure.

Wang Wendong, who watched the game with him at the time, asked him: "Now, is Wang Chao's Olympic singles stable?"

Cai Guodong nodded, shook his head again, thought for a while, and smiled: "Don't worry, let me watch it for another two months."

Why wait another two months?

Because there is the World Cup at the beginning of August and the World Table Tennis Championships at the end of September, the coaching staff of Huaping has always believed that the concept of the Open Championship and the three major competitions is completely different for decades. good.

Wang Chao has always played in the Open, but the Olympics belong to the three major competitions.

So Cai Guodong has to see how Wang Chao plays in the World Cup and World Table Tennis Championships.

Another factor that affects Cai Guodong's judgment is that he believes that the apparent 4:0 score does not prove that the gap between the two sides is really such a big gap.

In fact, when any two contestants officially meet for the first time, it is very likely that there will be such a one-sided situation. The interference of various unexpected factors is full of randomness.

Maybe it just happens that the style of play is against each other.

Maybe he just can't handle a certain trick of yours, but in fact he only needs a little practice to handle it next time.

Maybe he just had a bad day today.

Maybe he was just unlucky today, and you hit too many edge balls in a row, but it just so happens that his mentality is not good enough.

Only when two players have played against each other enough times can their relationship between victory and defeat be stabilized, because at that time the two sides will truly know the basics, and most of the interference items can be eliminated, and only the most fundamental hard power can be decided. win or lose.

And how did Wang Chao win these two games today?
When beating Bai Feng, it was Bai Feng who made the first move, but Wang Chao perfectly broke the move. After that, Bai Feng fell into the scheme and was led by his nose. Bai Feng didn't figure out how he lost until he was finally eliminated.

When fighting Lin Li, it was Wang Chao who killed Lin Li from the beginning to the end. Although Lin Li resisted and created uncertain factors, he still couldn't get out of the scope of Wang Chao's pre-match preparations.

What these two games can really prove is that Wang Chao's wisdom can beat Bai Feng and Lin Li and the coaches behind them, not that Wang Chao's strength can completely crush Bai Feng and Lin Li.

In fact, after Bai Feng lost in the morning, his teacher Wang Lu found him immediately, patted him on the shoulder, and comforted him: "Next time, let's not go sideways and play a good game with him." Look, I think there's a chance."

Although Sun Tianlong didn't immediately comfort the losing Lin Li, he was also thinking about how to help Lin Li defeat Wang Chao.

Before today, he had no ideas, but after watching this game, he has ideas.

He believed that Wang Chao couldn't stop Lin Li's attack, which was actually a fatal loophole. If he made a fuss around this point and conceived a complete set of tactics, maybe Wang Chao would lose next time.

As for Fan Xiaodong who started the match with Wang Chao at the same time on another table, Sun Tianlong completely forgot about it...

Well, it is a bit of an exaggeration to say forgetting, it should actually be called stocking.

When Fan Xiaodong fought against a strong enemy like the water bird eagle, Sun Tianlong chose not to guide him at all.

Coach Cheng Aimin, who was with the team, reminded Sun Tianlong that he was very surprised when he learned that Sun Tianlong didn't want to guide, and offered to say that he could do it for him, but Sun Tianlong politely declined.

He did it on purpose.

Qin Huachang probably hoped that Fan Xiaodong would not lose a game after his debut, astonish the world, and go directly to the top, because this represents an extreme honor.

After all, Wang Chao has also been undefeated in a foreign war since his debut. Qin Huachang has a strong desire to compete. He hopes that his disciples can keep up with Wang Chao's footsteps, and even do better.

This is understandable.

But Sun Tianlong feels that these details are really not important.

Because in the final analysis, many years later, when the world table tennis world looks back at a certain player, it is by no means how long he has been undefeated since his debut, but how much he has achieved in the end when the final conclusion is made.

Sun Tianlong himself was not taken seriously when he first joined the national team. He lost countless balls in the internal assessment, but today, who still remembers those things?
So Sun Tianlong felt that it was not a bad thing to lose a few games when he first debuted.

Fan Xiaodong had defeated the Water Bird Eagle once before, so this time Fan Xiaodong should have a psychological advantage. At the same time, from a purely technical point of view, Fan Xiaodong also had an advantage over the Water Bird Eagle.

Under such circumstances, Sun Tianlong thought that if Fan Xiaodong still needed to guide him outside the field, it would be too shameful.

If Fan Xiaodong wins in the end, then Fan Xiaodong's independent combat ability and self-confidence will be greatly improved.

If Fan Xiaodong actually loses in the end, then the lessons he has learned will be very profound, and he will reflect on himself. Once he understands where he lost, he may gain more in the end than winning.

Sun Tianlong sees the current situation of Huaping very clearly: Fan Xiaodong will not be able to go to the Olympic Games at the end of the year anyway, so his goal must be the next Olympic Games in four years.

So Fan Xiaodong's current victory or loss is really irrelevant, what really matters is to increase his combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time.

Sun Tianlong even hoped that Fan Xiaodong would touch Wang Chao a few more times, because in this way, Fan Xiaodong could taste the feeling of being firmly suppressed by the same person.

Wang Chao is still so young, he can suppress Fan Xiaodong for many years, as long as Fan Xiaodong does not collapse, his future achievements will be limitless.

Before Qin Huachang was in office, it was difficult for him to say these things, but now that Qin Huachang is gone, Sun Tianlong naturally has to display his ambitions according to his own ideas.

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In fact, it is not without reason why Sun Tianlong's coaching concept has such a huge difference from Qin Huachang's.

Qin Huachang's coaching philosophy back then was to do everything personally, and to be meticulous. He wished that everything from the first serving posture to the last way of catching the ball would be determined for you, so that you could play multiple-choice questions. For example, when the opponent serves Short backspin, what should you do, what should you do when the opponent pulls your backhand to the bottom line, what should you do when the opponent pulls you short.

For another example, suppose the opponent is still sending short backspin, but the opponent is a speed player, how should you deal with it, the opponent is a power player, how should you deal with it, the opponent has a certain specialty, how should you deal with it, and so on.

There are many specific situations in actual table tennis combat, and they are very delicate. Even if the ball lands on the table a little bit off or short, it is a completely different possibility. If we combine the opponent's different styles for analysis, then There are countless details, but what Qin Huachang did was to use exhaustive methods to let you figure out all the correct solutions.

The reason for this is that Qin Huachang himself has super insight in technology and tactics, he has a lot of details, and he is a Virgo. As we all know, Virgos are perfectionists, so once he sees his disciples playing When there are any details that are wrong, and the handling is not good enough, even if there is only a slight flaw, he feels that he can't stand it, like a thorn in his heart, he must point it out and order his disciples to correct it.

Does it seem extreme?

But don't think that it is wrong to be so extreme. In fact, Sun Tianlong was raised by Qin Huachang in this way.

Sun Tianlong does not have any outstanding talent. His greatest strength is his hard work and obedience. He had no concept when he first played. He made various mistakes in handling the ball before the battle, so he always failed in the team assessment. At this time, It was Qin Huachang who taught him little by little and helped him correct all the details and loopholes, and he was willing to listen, learn, and correct. This process was like polishing a stubborn stone into a diamond. Every detail he improved was like carving a diamond. Every knife at the time.

Therefore, Qin Huachang is definitely a great master of technique and tactics. If he wants to polish a diamond, he must first have the specific shape of the diamond in his mind, so that he can really carve this stone into the shape of his imagination according to his idea. look.

Of course, in this process, the stone may be directly shattered due to too many knives, such as Fan Pingnan who broke his leg.

Only a tough enough stone and a great enough sculptor can create a unique brilliant diamond.

Therefore, Qin Huachang and Sun Tianlong can definitely be regarded as mutual achievements, not who has benefited from each other.

But the interesting thing is that because Sun Tianlong is the biggest beneficiary of Qin Huachang's teaching method, his teaching philosophy will run counter to Qin Huachang's.

He is actually a player with a lot of savvy, but in the most critical stage of growth, he rarely has the opportunity to take the initiative to understand, because he has a very powerful teacher. Once he makes a mistake, the teacher will tell him what is right. Therefore, all the correct answers were told to him directly by Qin Huachang, rather than his own independent thinking.

For a long period of time, he was in the state of "knowing it, but not knowing why".

It wasn't until he played more and more games that he gradually integrated all the correct answers in his mind and formed his own understanding.

It was also from that moment that he no longer had to memorize the answers, and the judgments he made while playing were naturally correct. In a sense, it was also from that moment that he formally changed into the shape of Qin Huachang.

In fact, it was only after Qin Huachang found out that all the details of Sun Tianlong's game were exactly in line with his own ideas that he stopped coaching Sun Tianlong on the spot and chose to be lazy and stand by.

But what Qin Huachang didn't know was that in the deepest part of Sun Tianlong's heart, there were actually some regrets.

He has played too smart in his life, and has been playing according to the standard answer from the beginning, but in fact he occasionally has some impulsiveness.

For example, when he sees a ball that should be slung short, he suddenly has a whim, and he especially wants to slap the ball hard, because at that time he was just young, and he really wanted to vent the prehistoric power in his body for no reason.

For example, when you see a topspin ball that is pulled to your own COSCO platform, you know that the best response is to reverse the pull and change the line, but you suddenly want to try your own hand feeling, and try to see if you can cut a super ball that is miraculous. Come, because he has seen other teammates play a lot of super balls, although they may not be able to score, but they are really handsome.

Or when you see a ball that is too high from the near point, you should pick it directly, but you really want to try to see if you can push it lightly, and rely on your delicate touch to hit a clean tennis ball that you can meet but can't ask for. , and by the way, appreciate the depressed but speechless look of the opponent.

This was impulsiveness and willfulness when he was young, but he overcame them with great perseverance, because Qin Huachang wanted him to win and didn't want any unexpected accidents to happen.

He played more and more rigorously, more maturely, without leaking water, until the last impulse in his heart was annihilated as he grew older.

In the end, he achieved unprecedented glory and transformed into a coach logically.

He felt that being a coach like Qin Huachang was too tiring, he was tired, and his disciples were also tired.

He wants to make everyone happier and more relaxed, just like Zhu Ding who is still very happy in the training partner position, he is very envious of such happy ping-pong as he likes.

In essence, Sun Tianlong didn't have great ambitions. When he was a player, he just didn't want to live up to his teacher's expectations. As a result, he became No.1 in history without knowing it.

And now, he doesn't want to be the No. 1 handsome player of Huaping. He thinks that Lin Li is already the main force of Huaping. The current situation does not require him to step up.

As for Fan Xiaodong, he is already a genius enough, and he has laid such a solid foundation under Qin Huachang's personal guidance for several months, so now, he doesn't need to work too hard, and he should be able to let Fan Xiaodong occupy Huahua steadily in the future. A place in the main table tennis team.

He really felt no pressure because he didn't want to fight.

He is very happy to see Wang Chao's rise, because there must be only one big devil in each era of Huaping. If Wang Chao must be the big devil and can indeed suppress an era, then he just saves worry and effort. Anyway, as long as As long as Hua Ping's prestige is not lost, it is not mandatory whether the big devil is from the rich family or the Qin family.

With such a relaxed attitude, after watching the game between Wang Chao and Lin Li, Sun Tianlong still sat in the auditorium with peace of mind, chatting with He Jingping, which made He Jingping quite depressed , because Lao He couldn't wait to talk to Wang Chao about the game, but Sun Tianlong refused to move, and he was embarrassed to be too eager.

After all, a coach who loses doesn't talk, but you who wins are so anxious?

This seemed too unreasonable.

(End of this chapter)