Chapter 011: Facing off against the left-handed warrior
Kong Zhendong and Li Jun's table tennis duel is scheduled to be after school on Friday.
Several of Li Jun's comrades-in-arms were usually bombarded by his violent straight board, but today I heard that he was going to challenge a primary school student, so he ended the military training of his respective class early, came to the table tennis table tennis area and occupied two tables.
Kong Zhendong stuffed the racket of Hong Lang of the capital team into the canvas bag at random after school, but the schoolbag was shot by Guo Bing.
Guo Bing said seriously: "Dongzi, save your strength, I'll take the schoolbag!" Shall we take a table and warm up? ”
Kong Zhendong's seriousness towards Guo Bing is inexplicable. He really didn't take this game very seriously.
Li Jun is just a sparring partner for him to exercise his reflexes and strength.
In order to avoid Guo Bing's blind work, Kong Zhendong began his own unique warm-up method.
He flattened the racket with his right hand, put the table tennis ball on the racket with his left hand, and then carried his schoolbag on his back as usual, and went downstairs with Guo Bing with a smile.
From leaving the classroom to going down the stairs, the speed was faster than before, Guo Bing looked at the table tennis ball on Kong Zhendong's flat racket in horror.
When Kong Zhendong went down the stairs, he deliberately added a few large movements to his hands, but the table tennis ball seemed to have suction, rolling regularly in a small area on the racket.
This is Kong Zhendong's unique way of cultivating ball sense. In between training in his previous life, Kong Zhendong often trained his ball sense like this, and he tried his skills in this life, and his kung fu has not yet fallen.
When Kong Zhendong came to the table tennis table, Li Jun was already on another table with the help of his comrades-in-arms to warm up.
If Kong Zhendong's warm-up is as quiet as Tai Chi's pusher, then Li Jun's warm-up is the ultimate in full firepower and movement.
If it weren't for the fact that there would be a formal contest later, no one among the onlookers would think that Li Jun was warming up.
He runs all over the court, reaching the limit with every shot, and as a left-handed straight player, he uses speed and ferocity to the extreme.
Li Jun's warm-up purpose is very simple, anyway, the army training allows him to have absolutely abundant physical fitness, warm-up and mobilize the body, it is better to directly enter the official game state to play half-court football first, and face Kong Zhendong directly in a state of full firepower.
After Kong Zhendong came to the court, the two of them didn't have any kind words, and directly on the empty other table, they pushed a few table tennis balls back and forth quickly, and there was no problem in adapting to the elasticity of the racket and table tennis.
After trying a few balls, Kong Zhendong always felt that something was wrong.
Of course, it's not the racket and the ball that are wrong, and it's not the table. This table is the flattest of the four tables, and the bricks on it have also changed from a patchwork of crooked melons and cracked dates to a few decent red bricks.
Kong Zhendong looked around and finally found that something was wrong. Since the last self-study class in the afternoon, I haven't seen Ye Xiaoya.
Since teaching Hong Tao a lesson on the court, Guo Bing and Ye Xiaoya have become their fan brothers and sisters, this ball game has so many people's attention, Ye Xiaoya has no reason not to cheer for herself!
But Ye Xiaoya just asked for leave this afternoon.
"Hey, don't get distracted! It's not fun to eat the serve! Li Jun was ready to serve and reminded Kong Zhendong.
Kong Zhendong cleaned up his mood and seriously dealt with Li Jun's straight serve.
The straight grip is inherently weaker than the horizontal board in holding the ball, especially in the backhand position.
However, in the development of the table tennis world in recent decades, the straight shot fast attack has always stood foot with the horizontal board cutting ball and the arc circle, and even for a long time, the straight board suppressed the horizontal board and dominated the table tennis world.
is obviously weak, why can it counterattack and rule?
It relies on the huge advantage of a straight shot on the serve.
The reason why East Asians, led by China, have taken straight shots to heights that European inventors have never reached, because the grip of a straight shot is exactly the same as the posture of pinching chopsticks.
Grip the racket with the thumb and index finger in place, hold the racket with the middle finger on the back, and balance the ring finger and tail finger.
If the straight grip is similar to holding chopsticks, then the horizontal grip is equivalent to pinching a kitchen knife.
Originally, pinching a kitchen knife was also very flexible, but playing table tennis is equivalent to using one side of a kitchen knife to make movements, and naturally it is not as flexible and free as holding chopsticks.
The strongest thing in the straight shot is the wrist, and the grip posture determines that the wrist flip of the straight shot can exceed 360 degrees.
Therefore, although Li Jun is not like Liu Guopang in the future, he can perfectly integrate his waist strength into the serve, but with only the flip of the wrist, coupled with the restrained and surprise effect of the left-handed player to the right-handed player, Kong Zhendong's first serve is quite difficult.
Li Jun served with his left hand and sent a long ball that was straight but spinning at high speed.
The long ball goes straight to the far platform.
If it is a right-handed serve, the high-speed straight ball will hit the backhand position, and Kong Zhendong can solve it with a backhand catch routine facing Hong Tao after stepping forward.
But the weirdness of the left-hander is that the ball often exceeds the prediction.
The high-speed long ball attacked the forehand, and Kong Zhendong only had two choices, either to retreat and play to hold on.
Either that, it is the sideways transition board that Kong Zhendong has now chosen.
Although the quality of receiving the ball is not as good as retreating, the body maintains the pressure of the near stage and can better face Li Jun's follow-up attack.
Today's Kong Zhendong is only 1.6 meters, and retreating from the stage to fight with Li Jun, who is running all over the field, is tantamount to suicide.
Kong Zhendong's sideways transition board, but the line control is excellent. Although the ball was passive, the return point was straight to Li Jun's backhand triangle.
This is Kong Zhendong's unique skill, in passivity, through ball control, with a perfect landing point and line to regain the initiative.
The last time Li Jun watched was Kong Zhendong's second game of violently killing Hong Tao with a Japanese straight single juniper.
He didn't see the first game of using a horizontal board to control the ball, and he was shocked to see such precise control at this time.
Li Jun's professional football skills may not be as good as Hong Tao, who was taught by his father and eldest brother. However, he was better than his height and length, and the high-intensity warm-up in the early stage allowed him to fully move, stride to catch up with the table tennis, and hit the ball back with a backhand.
Li Jun hurriedly retreated, retreated, and prepared to meet Kong Zhendong's smash.
Because although he tried his best to return the ball over the net just now, the initiative has completely reduced to passivity.
Kong Zhendong's second trick is to never smash at the opponent's best time to attack.
Obviously he had a chance, but Kong Zhendong still played the control ball, dispatched Li Jun to two boards, and then smashed to score.
This smash, the strength and speed can only be regarded as mid-to-upper, but Li Jun, who has been exhausted by scheduling, is no longer able to take this ball.
Winning this point, Kong Zhendong moved his arm slightly, just this time to kill the ball, he did not mobilize the strength of his waist, but took the elbow as the center, and deliberately tested the power limit of the forearm muscle group.
The power is limited, but there is a lot of room for growth.
The second point is Kong Zhendong's serve. Today, he held the mentality of treating Li Jun as a sparring partner, hoping to have multiple rounds and fight in all aspects, so he did not put as much effort on the serve as he did in the face of Hong Tao, but deliberately let Li Jun take the initiative in receiving the serve.
Li Jun is a typical troop fighting style, and they will attack if they don't agree with each other. His ferocity erupted, and even punched a few boards, and Kong Zhendong's several landing point controls were washed out of shape, losing this point.
This ball also made Kong Zhendong carefully feel the delayed state of the body's reaction to various rushing balls, and benefited a lot!