For a long time after that, Dai Li's life was very fulfilling. In addition to participating in the training of athletes at the national team's training base, he also followed Xue Li and participated in several national track and field events.
Xue Li is indeed the top track and field coach in the country. Whether it is theoretical knowledge, practical training, or team leadership experience, he is the highest level among the coaches that Li Dai has ever seen. Li Dai can clearly feel that Now that I am with Xue Li, I am making rapid progress every day.
Two years ago, when Li Dai was seconded to the Beikou training base, he also worked with coach Ding Jihai and participated in training Lin Feixiang. But at that time, coach Ding Jihai did not take the initiative to teach Li Dai training knowledge and techniques, so at that time Li Dai could only observe and figure it out by himself. At that time, as a seconded employee, he didn't even have many opportunities to ask questions.
In comparison, Xue Li is more like a teacher. He imparts his knowledge and training skills to Dai Li, and also shares his experience accumulated over the years with Dai Li without reservation.
Xue Li is nearly 60 years old and has been engaged in sprint-related work for more than 40 years. He has 30 years of coaching experience as a coach and has been the deputy head coach of the national team for almost ten years. To put it bluntly, Xue Li is the best coach in China. Witnesses of the development of athletics. His level and experience make him worthy of being considered a "famous teacher".
It is certainly much better to have a teacher teach you than to study on your own. Under Xue Li's guidance, Dai Li's progress in sprint training has been rapid.
At the same time, the resources of the national team are also unmatched by the provincial team. The national team has a special data room, where journals and magazines related to sports training from around the world are subscribed and then classified and summarized. National team coaches can access the world's most advanced training concepts at any time and learn about the latest track and field action techniques.
Although not every coach can read English journals, many data analyzes in the journals can be understood by professionals. This is like many scientific papers. What professionals read is not the conclusion at all, but the experimental data. A data table can allow scientists to gain what they want to know.
Dai Li's English level is pretty good, and although his speaking ability is a bit poor, he can still make do with it in reading. In Li Dai's view, the national team's data room is simply a big treasure. He comes here almost every day and stays for an hour or two, and every time, he can gain something new.
Dai Li entered a crazy learning mode. He felt as if he had returned to his college days, or that the current Dai Li was more thirsty for new knowledge than the Dai Li in his college days.
People are always like this. When they go to college, they probably don’t focus on studying. It’s normal to skip classes occasionally. Many people wait until the exam is about to begin, and then they start to review hard and sharpen their skills before the battle. The average calendar leads a lazy and wonderful life.
But after working, you will gradually realize the importance of knowledge, and then you will know how to learn and enrich yourself. That’s why so-called on-the-job graduate students or adult education have become so popular in recent years.
This is what Dai Li is like. In the past few years after graduating from college, Dai Li feels that he has experienced some things and has met various athletes and coaches. Especially after a few rounds of angry arguments with Zhuang Xue, Dai Li became more and more... I feel that I need to constantly enrich myself. Only knowledge truly belongs to me. With more knowledge, I can go further and further on the road of coaching.
Therefore, Dai Li cherished this opportunity very much. He worked very hard, and Dai Li's efforts were recognized by Xue Li.
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"Xiao Li, next month, I plan to arrange for you to go to Tsinghua University." Xue Li paused, then added: "Represent the national team and go to Tsinghua University."
"What are you doing there? Does Tsinghua University still need sports coaches like us?" Li Dai asked with some confusion.
Tsinghua University is the highest institution of higher learning in the country. In Dai Li's impression, Tsinghua University should be a place for scientific research, leading everyone. The professor with gold-rimmed glasses wears a white coat and is immersed in the laboratory. And physical workers like coaches should have nothing to do with white coats and laboratories.
"Tsinghua University has a sports department, don't you know that?" Xue Li asked.
"Tsinghua University also has a sports department? I have always thought that Tsinghua University is a place to train scientists." Li Dai found that he was really ignorant.
The university that Li Dai went to was neither a 985 nor a 211 university. It was just one of the most common second-tier universities in China. It was far different from Tsinghua University. For Li Dai, Tsinghua University was an existence that could not even be seen. This gap is really too big. Why would Dai Li care about whether Tsinghua University has a sports department
"Tsinghua University not only has a sports department, but their sports department is also very powerful. Some projects have achieved excellent results in world-class competitions." Xue Li went on to introduce: "Tsinghua University's sports department has 26 sports departments. Projects, 36 representative teams, they not only have traditional sports such as track and field, basketball, football, but also Go teams, chess teams, bridge teams, rock climbing teams, etc.”
"Isn't this just a student association in the university? I thought it was a dedicated sports department!" Dai Li found that he had misunderstood. He originally thought it was a major specialized in sports training offered by Tsinghua University.
"Student club organization? This is not an ordinary student club organization. Among their athletes, there are many first-class talents, and some of them are good prospects. Our national team is jealous. What's more important is that the Sports Department of Tsinghua University has a sports and health department. The research center and sports human science laboratory are equipped with several professors, dozens of associate professors, doctoral supervisors and master's supervisors, a total of more than a dozen people. The most important thing is that they are research bases appointed by the State Sports General Administration !" Xue Li introduced.
"So amazing!" Li Dai was immediately jumped when he heard about the teaching staff. This kind of teaching staff, even in those 985 and 211 universities, can support a first-tier discipline.
"As expected of Tsinghua University, it's really amazing!" Li Dai thought to himself, and asked at the same time: "Then why should I go to Tsinghua University? There are so many professors and doctoral supervisors whose levels are many times higher than mine. Their research, I I can’t help, well, it’s not like I’m going to be ‘researched’!”
Hearing Li Kan's ridicule, Xue Li also laughed: "There are so many athletes at Tsinghua University. Even if they are 'researched', it is not your turn! If you are allowed to go, of course it is to train athletes. You are the only one who should As a coach, what else can you do if you don’t train athletes?”
"Is this considered helping? Or is it really training? Don't be like being seconded to the Beikou training base and working as a handyman?" Dai Li couldn't help but recall his daily life at the Beikou training base two years ago.
"The thing is, our national team and Tsinghua University are also related units. Tsinghua University also has sports coaches, but they are not many. After all, their main job is teaching, not training. And the level of their coaches is compared to ours There is still a certain gap when it comes to the coaches of the national team, so they will borrow people from us.”
When Xue Li said this, he sighed with embarrassment: "Actually, we and Tsinghua University are also mutually beneficial. You should know the High School Affiliated to Tsinghua University, right? It is a famous school! The coach of our national team also has children, and he also wants to have children. Go to a prestigious school. Every year, Tsinghua University gives the children of our national team coaches a few places in the Tsinghua Affiliated High School. They are short-handed and short-handed, so when Tsinghua University is short of manpower, we will send people over to help. "
After Xue Li said this, he put on a serious expression and continued: "Under normal circumstances, I would send the official coach of the national team to Tsinghua University, but you have been with me for a few months, and you will definitely learn a lot in this short period of time. I got a lot of things, so I plan to send you there to do some practice, which will also test the results of your study these days."
"Remember, you represent the national team, and I also boasted about Tsinghua University, saying that you are a close disciple who I taught you step by step, and you went to Tsinghua University to get some results for me. , don’t embarrass me!”