The time entered June, and the aftershocks of the national team's Chiba fiasco continued to rage in major newspapers.

Head coach Xi Muen resigned, and most of the coaching staff was transferred from his post.

Mi Xingbang, who stayed in Italy and returned to China at the beginning of the year, was promoted to the acting head coach of the Chinese men's team.

The word agent is quite intriguing!

Wei Qingguang and a group of veterans chose to retire in the scolding, and the only thing waiting for them was the position of coach of the local team, or going abroad to make money, trying to rejuvenate the second spring of their careers.

Mi Xingbang decided to take advantage of the vacated quota of the national team to vigorously promote the national youth team, and the members of the national youth team entered the front line to reserve strength for the turnaround battle in three or five years.

This kind of long-term responsibility is really not like the work of an 'agent' transitional figure.

At the same time, Mi Xingbang wrote, and the national team issued to the provincial teams. Breaking the previous practice of selecting and sending provincial team members to the national team, the performance assessment system was implemented.

Taking 91 as an example, the young players of the non-national team who enter the top eight of the Table Tennis Association Cup will be given priority in the assessment and selection, and there is no threshold for the top three young players to enter the national team.

As soon as the document came out, it stirred up a thousand waves.

This year, because there is no National Games, the importance of the Table Tennis Association Cup has been raised to the highest point in history. Now the top eight can be selected for the national team, which is no less exciting for young players who have no way out, than in the ancient imperial examinations.

In the hustle and bustle of Chiba's fiasco and the competition for the national team spot, Kong Zhendong has been practicing silently.

For more than a month, he was still practicing backhand twisting, and found a solution to the backwardness in rhythm.

Coach Zheng is not optimistic about this road. Nothing new under the sun. Table tennis technology has been developed for more than 100 years, so how difficult is it to give birth to a new technology that no one has before?

Nor is it a new technology that appeared in the nineties. But why didn't anyone use it before? Because in the era of small balls, the return speed is extremely fast, and this kind of thankless backhand twisting and pulling slows down the rhythm of confrontation, and the effect is not as good as the backhand fast dial and fast play.

The technical trend in the small ball era was originally a quick transition to the backhand and a forehand to hit the world. Even famous generals such as Kong Zhendong, who has a strong backhand, can't escape the iron law of establishing an advantage with a backhand, creating opportunities, and solving the battle with a forehand.

Therefore, the backhand twisting and pulling is a very weak technique in the small ball era. Hearing that Kong Zhendong wanted to develop it as the main offensive weapon of the backhand, Coach Zheng refused at first.

But in the end, Coach Zheng did not stop it, because of more than half a year of basic training, Kong Zhendong behaved too demonicly.

It took him half a year to complete the basic exercises of other junior team members for three or four years. Most importantly, Kong Zhendong never makes mistakes. Kong Zhendong did not have any technical flaws and psychological fluctuations that would occur in the past training of young players, which was too talented.

Coach Zheng knows that a young player who does not make mistakes and does not hit a wall is immature. Without setbacks, it is difficult for him to mature mentally, and if defeat comes suddenly in an international tournament, it will be doomed.

Therefore, for a teenager who trains several times faster than ordinary people, suddenly has to learn a technique that is doomed to failure, considering that Kong Zhendong is only 11 years old, Coach Zheng decided to let it go. If you are frustrated, it is also an experience to look back. What's more, he is still young, he has never made detours, and Kong Zhendong, who has never made a mistake, has the capital to try.

Backhand twisting and pulling is thankless in the small ball era, Kong Zhendong knows it. This is also why in the starry nineties, only a few people such as Kerber and Glinka used this technology, and the international results were not outstanding.

Kong Zhendong's practice of backhand twisting is first of all to reserve strength for the big ball era. If the big ball reform in this life still happened in 2001, then it would be very difficult for me in my twenties to relearn the big ball technique, and I would have to end my sports career early if I couldn't adapt to the big ball.

Therefore, it is necessary to practice the big ball technique as a reserve in the formative period of technology before the age of fifteen, in the strange eyes of everyone.

What's more, Kong Zhendong firmly believes that the backhand twisting is by no means a technique that can only be used by big balls. The predecessors did not use this technique well because it could not be integrated into a mature backhand tactical system.

Kong Zhendong's current backhand fast belt + quick cut tactics are unique, and there is also room for expansion.

Kong Zhendong's improved backhand twisting and pulling tactics in the small ball era are first of all from the fusion of the fast belt + fast cutting tactical system.

After all, the backhand twist and pull is just a board, and in the era of the big ball, the next step can be to pull back and hold each other, and then solve the battle with a forehand smash.

In the era of small balls with extremely fast ball speeds, no one pulls back with you. Then before and after twisting and pulling, if it is equipped with a fast fast belt, fast cutting, and the slowdown of the rhythm of the twisting and pulling plate will not be obvious.

In addition to integrating into the tactical system, Kong Zhendong has also improved the timing of the shot with a twisted board.

In the era of curveball, in order to cope with the curve and spin of the opponent, almost all players chose to hit the ball when the table tennis ball rose to the highest point or was about to fall.

In this way, you can completely judge the opponent's arc, and hit the ball when the kinetic energy of the incoming ball is the weakest, which is convenient to control your own rotation and arc effect.

For techniques such as fast flicking, quick dialing, etc., it is no problem to hit the ball in this way. However, the backhand twist and pull, the action is large, the force is late, if you still receive the ball at this time, the speed and rhythm are too slow!

How to speed up? Kong Zhendong chose to advance the timing of the shot to the rebound and rise period of table tennis and return the ball in advance.

The backhand twist at this time has many benefits. The first is the faster return of the ball, which makes up for the disadvantage of the slow technical action of the backhand twist itself.

Secondly, returning the ball in the ascending period can allow the table tennis ball to fully rub against the racket, and the resulting spin and power will be superimposed.

Even more perfectly, the return arc is extremely low.

Once the opponent hits your backhand, the purpose is to take the initiative and return the opponent's forehand ball with your backhand, which is a passive disadvantage.

However, once the arc of the return ball is extremely low, so that the opponent cannot attack the ball and can only passively transition, then you have successfully reversed the passive into the active.

With such advanced hitting skills, why is no one using the famous players in the eighties and nineties before Kong Zhendong?

First of all, because the ball speed is too fast and the spin is too strong, judging the highest point of the shot requires strong reflexes and agility. All athletes practice before the age of fifteen to lay the foundation for their entire career. Even if you can hit the ball like this with excellent reflexes before the age of fifteen, what about after the age of twenty?

Table tennis players are different from normal people, who only enter the peak of their bodies after the age of twenty. After the age of 20, table tennis players have declined their reflexes and entered the era of playing by experience and skill.

A fast attacker like Liu Guobang can only play until he is 24 years old, and a player like Wang Dali, who reacts slowly and has a lot of strength, can only play until he is 28 years old.

For a batting skill that can't be kept up after the age of 20, no young player has to try hard.

Kong Zhendong is not afraid, after the age of 20, my reaction is to decrease, but in the era of big balls, spin and ball speed have also decreased by 20%.

In this world, only Kong Zhendong knows that after he is twenty years old, his declining reflexes and agility are enough to cope with the speed of the big ball rounds of that era.

There are no worries, such a big killer is destined to become the killer of the young Kong Zhendong!