Chapter 24: Change, Surprise

Of the four athletes who appeared after Zhao Feng, only one successfully jumped over a height of 1.77 meters. As a result, the six athletes, including Zhao Feng, will only have one last chance to challenge the height www.biquge.info of 1.77 meters. Otherwise, they will end their high jump competition early.

And just after Zhao Feng didn't jump over the 1.77-meter crossbar for the second time, Feng Quan quickly stood up from his position and walked straight to Zhao Feng, who was near the high jump venue and was repeatedly practicing technical moves.

"Hey, buddy! Is your foot injury affecting your strength? Feng Quan asked with concern.

"Well, even though I endured the pain, I still couldn't exert my full strength. Otherwise, I wouldn't be so hardcore at such a height...... I don't know if after this project is over, I will fall out of the top five again......" Zhao Feng said helplessly.

"Come on, don't think about it so much now, let's find a way to win 1.77 meters in the last chance to try the jump." Feng Quan said.

"But as you can see, even when I jump with all my might, I'm basically sticking to the bar. If you make a slight mistake or shake your leg a little slower, you will fail......"

"Hey, that's really a problem......" After a moment of silence, Feng Quan continued: "By the way, you can try it like this, how can you ......"

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When the two athletes who came out to challenge the height of 1.77 meters before Zhao Feng ended their high jump competition with failure, Zhao Feng also appeared.

Different from before, Zhao Feng shortened his running distance by two steps, and changed his original 12-step running distance to 10 steps. Not only that, Zhao Feng's choice of starting point is also different from the previous two attempts.

In general, athletes competing in the high jump will choose their starting point at a distance of 60 to 100 centimeters from the bar. The average domestic high jumper basically chooses his starting point at a position of about 70 to 80 cm from the bar. However, many European and American high jumpers, especially black competitors with excellent explosive power, choose the starting point more than 100 centimeters from the bar.

Perhaps because the muscle type is closer to that of European and American athletes, Zhao Feng is used to choosing his starting point at about 105 to 110 centimeters, just like them. This also led to the situation that Zhao Feng relied very much on the starting height in the high jump event. Because of the influence of the earth's gravity, after jumping off the ground, people will inevitably fall back to the ground after reaching a maximum point.

Theoretically, the closer the starting point is, the better the athlete can perform. However, since the vast majority of high jumpers have chosen the way of back-to-back high jump, athletes still need a certain amount of space when completing the turning action after the take-off. This also leads to the fact that when the athlete chooses the starting point, he should not be too close to the crossbar, otherwise the athlete will not complete the rotation and the body will touch the crossbar.

Therefore, choosing a suitable starting point has become an important topic for high jump athletes. For some athletes who have a mature high jump technique and have a very smooth transition between movements, they will choose to take the jump as close to the bar as possible. For example, Guan Heyou, the strongest person in the high jump event in this competition, chose his starting point at a position about 65 cm away from the bar. For an athlete like him, who is more than 1.90m tall, it is quite difficult to complete the maneuvers at this starting point. Because of the height jump, the athlete's ability to control the body will be relatively weakened, and such a height will inevitably lead to a large amplitude of the high jump, which means that a lot of space is needed to complete a series of articulation movements.

However, it is incredible that Kwan Heyou has done what seems very difficult to many people. He's a genius when it comes to high jump.

Having said that, the fundamental reason why Zhao Feng chooses the starting point farther away like a black athlete is that he relies too much on his explosiveness in the high jump event, and ignores the practice of high jump technical movements. Therefore, if he does not have enough jumping height, it will obviously affect his performance.

But what else could he do when he only had one last chance to jump over 1.77m?

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According to Feng Quan's suggestion, Zhao Feng changed his number of running aids to 10 steps. Because Feng Quan told him that "running will also increase the pressure of your steps, try to reduce the number of steps you run, and strive to get the maximum height when you take off."

Not only that, Zhao Feng also boldly changed his starting point to about 80 cm away from the crossbar on the third attempt. It was also because Feng Quan advised him: "Although your foot injury is not very serious, it will still affect the height of the jump to some extent." So, try to move the starting point closer to the bar to make up for the lack of your starting height. ”

Although Zhao Feng had such doubts before the jump: "However, once I change the position of the starting point, then when I complete the take-off action and the rotation action, I may hit the crossbar in advance......

However, in the end, Feng Quan still helped him dispel his concerns: "Don't think about it so much, anyway, it's just the last chance, and you will earn it after it passes; Can't get by...... At least you still have 1.74 meters. Moreover, you may not have noticed that your body is still far away from the bar when you reach the highest point due to the fact that your starting point is relatively far. So even if you choose the starting point closer, you won't hit the bar directly......"

In fact, Feng Quan didn't really observe Zhao Feng's highest point of his body so carefully, he just said the above just to dispel his friends' concerns. But...... Zhao Feng really believed it...... However, Feng Quan's "little deception" made Zhao Feng receive unexpected results.

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As a decathlon athlete, it is impossible to study the technical movements of a certain event in great detail, so many times they leave a lot of habits that are not very good in training. In Zhao Feng's previous training and competitions, he chose a far starting point, which is the case.

At the beginning, when Zhao Feng first came into contact with the back-to-back high jump technique, because the completion of the technical movements was not accurate enough, and the connection between the movements was relatively jerky, his initial head coach helped him choose a farther starting point.

However, with years of repeated practice, Zhao Feng's high jump skills are not very good, but they have also made some progress compared to the beginning. Therefore, choosing the starting point closer to the bar may be more beneficial for his play.

It's a pity that Zhao Feng, who has developed a habit, is unwilling to change his starting position. If it weren't for his footstep injury, I'm afraid he wouldn't have accepted Feng Quan's suggestion and chose his starting point closer to the bar.

Sometimes, making changes in some things will bring unexpected surprises to yourself, and Zhao Feng's change is even so.

Zhao Feng, who changed the starting point, endured the pain in his feet and jumped with all his strength, and when he completed the back arch posture, there was still at least seven or eight centimeters between his back and the crossbar. Even though his leg flick was a little sluggish again, and he scratched the crossbar slightly, the crossbar only shook a few times and then hung there "quietly".

This means that Zhao Feng successfully jumped over a height of 1.77 meters in the third attempt, and continued to retain the hope of impacting better results......