Diamond Ace Takanono

Chapter 6 Ninomiya Coach
The Kinoshita (Youth) Little League Club was formerly a sports equipment store, located in the current West Tokyo City. The owner, Kinoshita Moriyuki, was in his prime at the end of the golden age of Japan. With spare money, he bought the adjacent sports club The stadium, but just after the renovation was completed, the Plaza Accord started Japan's "lost 20 years". The capital chain of Kinoshita's boss was broken, but fortunately the club has been built.

In the first year of the club, Kinoshita cooperated with an elementary school. This elementary school had limited space and could not accommodate another baseball team, but the parents wanted their children to be familiar with baseball from an early age, so the club set up facilities, and the parents were responsible for the coaching team and The logistics team is crooked, and the first year of the club is finally over.

Soon some old students left and new students joined. Parents who are coaches are also constantly updating. At the same time, some parents who have some experience in teaching baseball are left behind. Even after their children graduate, the parents themselves still choose to stay as coaches. In this team, but the coaching staff needs a head coach. After several years of selection and replacement, an orthopedic doctor named Nigong finally became the head coach of the entire team and has persisted until now.

Coach Ninomiya is such a person. He successfully turned his career into a hobby, and turned his previous hobbies into a career. Now he, the clinic has been handed over to others, and he has been officially hired as Kinoshita Many of the head coach of the club and the coaching team around him are also children who have been in the Little League team. It can be said that the Kinoshita Club grew up under their noses like their children.

Such a second palace coach, with drooping eyelids and a big bag under his eyes, his black eyes and the look inside are all hidden, looking at the two brothers who have just finished the physical examination with a calm expression.

My brother is 1 meters tall. It is said that he has grown two centimeters in the past six months. He has good explosive power. He has practiced sprinting for several years. I have been guerrilla for several years, and I was selected by Yulan Junior High School. It can be seen that my body is well coordinated. When it comes to hitting, my brother's ability to follow the ball is good, but the hitting posture needs to be adjusted. Still not enough.

After taking stock of the existing team members in my heart, I said to Shen Qing: "Yes, Mrs. Sasaki, both brothers can join our club, but I still need to make it clear to you first that Kinoshita is a team. A team that wants to perform well. In the Little League, it takes a long time for the children to develop a tacit understanding. Here, there are many children who have been together since elementary school for three years and joined halfway, especially with only one and a half years left. Joining, it may be different from your expectations."

"Mr. Ninomiya, the expectation of my husband and I is that they get a formal hardball education. By the way, it would be even better if they can enhance their relationship." Shen Qing understood what the coach meant, that is, if you sit on the bench, don't ask The coach protested and had to follow the team's arrangement.

Coach Ninomiya raised his eyelids, his mind flicked on the different surnames of the two brothers, and he understood the meaning of the woman in front of him, "In that case, Kinoshita will definitely meet your expectations, and because we are a team For the team that pursues performance, if there are children with outstanding talents, we will definitely try our best to find them."

"In that case, I'll leave it to you." Shen Qing thanked.

Coach Ninomiya returned the salute, and at the same time assigned a middle-aged coach: "Mr. Fujii."

He greeted the woman behind him again: "Mrs. Sasaki, next, please follow the coach of the team to take the test with you and your child." He whispered the key points to be observed to Coach Fujii, and then bowed to everyone and left up.

"Then, please follow me to the bullpen for a pitching test." Mr. Fujii is a skinny man with a sense of joy. His face is long, and his skin is very shriveled and falls on the bones. When he smiles, his muscles As the skin moves up, too much skin has accumulated on the entire face, and the folds seem to bloom.

"Takano-kun, is that right? Have you practiced pitching before?" He asked while leading the way.

"No, the posture was just learned a few days ago."

"Oh, that's it. Have you ever measured your pitching speed?"

"It's about 110 by visual inspection." Lang Zhi interjected behind him, and Mr. Fujii smiled at him.

"That means you don't know how to pitch. The characteristic is...the accuracy of throwing things is high, so you want to try the pitcher position?"

"Anyway, I'm still a beginner, so I just want to give it a try."

Mr. Fujii knows that in the mouth of the parents, his children will be regarded as great talents if they have a little bit of talent, but in fact, talent and expertise are two completely different things, and expertise is only a relatively strong point compared to all of their abilities. And talent is born on the top of the cliff. Seeing those people who work very hard to climb to the top of the cliff, of course most of them will not be able to climb it in their entire life. The best part, those talented people have already used this time to go to places they can't reach.

This is the cruelty of baseball. Mr. Fujii smiled slightly after thinking about it, "Well, this is it."

This is a closed stadium with plenty of sunshine. Several people are practicing pitching, but they all just glanced at it, and then focused on their actions again.

"Hayakawa-kun, please catch this classmate's ball"

Mr. Fujii turned around and introduced to several people: "This is the catcher of our Second Army."

Then he looked at Gao Zhiye: "Mr. Gao Zhiye, you first warm up the throwing and catching, and then I will guide your pitching movements, and then evaluate your development potential as a pitcher, haha, but since you Being new to baseball, this evaluation period can go on for a while."

Gao Zhiye nodded, after a few days of special training with Mr. Sasaki and Lang Zhi, now he looks good after warming up.

'He's so tall, is he a beginner? Is there anyone in Japan who grows up this big and hasn't played baseball yet? 'This is what Hayakawa thought.

"Okay, the warm-up is over." Mr. Fujii stepped forward, explained the pitcher's position to Takano, asked him about his dominant hand, and asked him to demonstrate his current pitching action without the ball.

'Traditional right-hander, the pitching action is still standard, someone taught it. '

"Then, let's try throwing a few balls, will the four seams work?"

Gao Zhiye nodded, and turned his gaze to the catcher who was squatting in front of him.

"Huh—" Even after several days of learning, throwing the ball to people is just getting used to it. What he wants to do now is to throw into the glove in the distance.

"Bump—" the ball went straight into Hayakawa's glove.

The speed of '110, very good control came in, is it a coincidence? Hayakawa took the ball out and threw it back to Takano.

Gao Zhiye sorted out the ball in his hand and threw another ball.

'It's no coincidence. '

"What's your top speed, and did you slow down the speed in order to make a good shot?" Mr. Fujii asked.

"If you throw it with all your strength, it will hit someone."

"It's fine with me." Hayakawa sounded like a very cheerful young man, "After all, it's the catcher's job to deal with the pitcher's burst."

Gao Zhiye nodded, and used the strength of his wrist to throw a ball, and the speed of the ball was obviously much faster.

"It's 115." Lang Zhi whispered to Shen Qing, they are about the same height now.

Mr. Fujii saw the problem, "Don't use the strength of the wrist, but use the strength on the hind legs that push the ground, pull the shoulders from the chest, and then drive the elbows from the shoulders, and finally push the ball out with your fingers when you hit the ball." .”

Gao Zhiye is a person with very well-coordinated limbs. The so-called uncoordinated limbs means that he knows what to do in his heart, but his limbs often don’t listen to people’s commands. This kind of movement requires a lot of mechanical training to shape the movements. Understand, the body can react immediately.

So, after a few balls, Gao Zhiye's throwing action became much smoother than before, and the speed of the ball increased to about 120, but the scene of hitting people did not happen. Although it was a little more floating than 110, but it was well thrown into the glove. It can be done, so Gao Zhiye was led by the nose by the arrester, and cast four corners.

"Not bad," Hayakawa stood up to deliver the ball, praising the pitcher cautiously to Mr. Fujii.

"Well," Mr. Fujii nodded, stopped pitching, and said to Shen Qing: "As you said, Takano-kun does have a lot of talent in pitching. I am very happy to receive your child."

"Then, let me take you, Takano-kun and Sasaki-kun together to visit the venue facilities, and the relevant club rules. Granny Hazuki from the logistics department will explain to you."

Even in the afternoon of the holiday, there are still many children doing exercises under the guidance of the coach, and everywhere they go is lively.

"Currently we have about 56 players, 12 under the age of 15, a total of 8 coaches and coach Ninomiya, 4 support staff, venue facilities include an off-site baseball field, an indoor bullpen and a Small indoor driving range . . . ”

Gao Zhizhi listened absent-mindedly, and unconsciously grasped his hands twice, but the smile under the mask flashed in front of his eyes, "Is that the catcher of the team?".

　The preparation is not enough. I frantically saved the data in various places yesterday. I hope to make up for the National Day in a few days.

　　There are 56 children in the club because there are 56 flowers from 56 nationalities. The author really has no idea~
　　In addition, thanks to the friends who commented, it is not a stand-alone machine, it gave me great encouragement

　　
　
(End of this chapter)