An athlete without shortcomings is definitely a huge challenge for a coach.
Ordinary physical exercise is to strengthen the body, but the essence of professional physical training is targeted enhancement. For example, if your strength is weak, increase your strength; if your speed is slow, increase your speed. In other words, professional sports training must have a strong purpose.
However, when an athlete has no shortcomings, he loses his goal during training, and at this time, the coach's level really needs to be tested.
Athletes like Wang Anshan have achieved perfection in all aspects and there is nothing that can be improved. Therefore, the most important thing is to maintain their own condition. This is also what the coach has to do.
However, sports training is like sailing against the current. If you do not advance, you will retreat. Especially for high-level athletes, if the training is unreasonable, the athlete's competitive level will actually decline.
So after meeting Wang Anshan, Li Dai began to think about how to arrange Wang Anshan's training plan.
Gu Zhizhong continued to introduce other athletes to Dai Li.
"That's Cui Pengfei over there, and you must be familiar with it. He is the most popular athlete in our national table tennis team, and he has the support of a large group of 'fan girls'." Gu Zhizhong introduced.
Cui Pengfei is also a table tennis Grand Slam player. As the world's top table tennis player, Cui Pengfei is certainly impeccable in terms of technique. What's even more impressive is that his playing style is very fierce and belongs to that type. Dare to fight and dare to fight style. Thanks to this style of play, in the past few years, Cui Pengfei's performance even surpassed that of Wang Anshan.
Dai Li immediately detected Cui Pengfei.
"Talent S, a little worse than Wang Anshan in this aspect. The ability value is 905, which is much worse than Wang Anshan. Oh, it turns out it is because of injuries!"
The detection results showed that Cui Pengfei's shortcoming was not his technique, but his physical injuries. Shoulder injuries, waist injuries, knee injuries, and ankle injuries, Cui Pengfei is now covered in injuries, both major and minor.
Dai Li was not surprised by this result. The news media had long reported that Cui Pengfei was injured. And with Cui Pengfei's desperate fighting style, it would be strange if he didn't have any injuries on his body.
In table tennis, athletes who play more aggressively are often more susceptible to injuries and their playing life will be relatively shorter. In particular, athletes like Cui Pengfei often rely on their bodies to perform some difficult technical movements, which are indeed pleasing to the eye, but they are also destructive to the body and will inevitably lead to injuries over time.
So four or five years ago, Cui Pengfei's results were better than Wang Anshan's, and he won the championship almost every time he participated. At that time, Wang Anshan was even labeled as the "second child in ten thousand years." In recent years, due to injuries, Cui Pengfei has been unable to maintain his original style of play, and his competitive status has rapidly declined.
Gu Zhizhong then introduced: "This is Zuo Xiangxian. You must also know him. He is the only left-handed pen-hand shooter in our team."
Zuo Xiangxian is also a world champion and once reached the top of the world rankings. He is now ranked third in the world.
Since Zuo Xiangxian is a left-handed pen-hand shooter, it is easier to match up with doubles. He has appeared in doubles events much more often, and he has won many more doubles championships than singles championships.
In today's table tennis world, there are very few pen-hold players. In the pen-hold style of play, the return of serve is relatively more flexible, the ball handling on the table is also better, and the front three boards are more advantageous. However, with the changes in table tennis rules, these advantages of the pen-hold grip have been weakened. What can be done with the pen-hold grip can also be done with the horizontal grip.
Moreover, the trend in the table tennis world in the past two years has been that backhands have been strengthened. For backhands, horizontal shots are obviously easier to generate power than pen-hold shots.
Especially after the emergence of the "pen-hold shooting" technology, it has now become a must-master technique for pen-hold shooting players. However, the technique of pen-hold shooting and horizontal hitting is very demanding on the wrist, and it is very difficult to practice it well. Even if you practice it well, you may not be able to achieve the power of the horizontal backhand. Therefore, the current benefits of pen-hold shooting are not great, and fewer and fewer athletes practice pen-hold shooting.
Dai Li detected Zuo Xiangxian. His talent was also S, his ability value was 937, and he also suffered from shoulder and waist injuries.
Gu Zhizhong continued to point to the fourth athlete: "Yanshuang, the genius of our national table tennis team."
Li Dai knew that if there were no accidents, this unshuang should succeed Wang Anshan and become the next generation leader of the national table tennis team's men's team.
Yanshuang is the youngest talent in the national table tennis team. At the age of fourteen, he could defeat most of the national second team players. At the age of fifteen, Yanshuang entered the national team. The following year, Yanshuang passed all the competitions within the team and won a spot within the national table tennis team to compete in the World Table Tennis Championships. Also in that year, Yan Shuang won the world championship in the German and Polish Table Tennis Opens.
Although today's Yanshuang is only nineteen years old, he already has more than a dozen world champions in singles or doubles. His current world ranking is second only to Wang Anshan. In terms of strength, the gap between Yanshuang and Wang Anshan is The gap is not big either.
"S+, Yanshuang's talent is also S+! My previous prediction was indeed correct. All the leaders of the national table tennis team have S+ talent. However, Yanshuang still has some shortcomings. He is not like Wang Anshan, who has no shortcomings. . But considering that Yan Shuang is only nineteen years old this year, it is only a matter of time before he reaches the level of Wang Anshan." Li Dai thought to himself.
The four main players of the national table tennis men's team, Wang Anshan, Cui Pengfei, Zuo Xiangxian and Yan Shuang, are all S-level talented athletes. Two of them have even reached the terrifying S+, which is enough to prove the strength of the national table tennis team.
Later, Gu Zhizhong introduced several other athletes in the first team. There were no athletes with S-level talents among them, but they all had A-level talents. The worst ones were A-, and none of them had B-level talents.
After getting this result, Dai Li couldn't help but start to worry about Zhu Feng. Zhu Feng's talent is only B+. At present, it seems that it is difficult for this kind of talent to enter the first team.
Then Gu Zhizhong took Li Dai to the National Table Tennis Women's Team.
There are also two athletes with S+ talent in the women's team, but they are about the same age, while there is only one athlete with S-level talent in the women's team.
However, there are three S-talented athletes on the women's team, and there are even five A+ talented athletes. Among the first team of the national table tennis women's team, the one with the worst talent is A talent, and there is no one with A- talent. It can be seen that the competition of the women's team is more intense than that of the men's team.
Next, Gu Zhizhong took Li Dai to the second national table tennis team and met Liu Feihong, the head coach of the second national table tennis team.
The players of the second national table tennis team are indeed a notch lower than the first national table tennis team.
The situation of the women's team is still better than that of the men's team. There are also athletes with S-level talents in the women's team, but they have just joined the national table tennis team and have not yet achieved results. However, there are no young people with S-level talents in the men's team. Human beings, most athletes have A and above talents. Zhu Feng's B+ talents can only be considered below average among the second team.
After introducing all the team members, Gu Zhizhong said: "Xiao Li, you have just arrived. You are mainly familiar with the environment, so I will not arrange training tasks for you. You are the physical fitness coach, so you will first give the athletes of our team, Everyone does a physical training plan. Our first team and second team add up, there are 78 people in total. I will give you a month, you can do whatever you can."
"No problem." Dai Li nodded immediately. He knew that the training plan this time was the "entry test question" given to him by Gu Zhizhong.