Athletes' vacations are always short, especially for a strictly managed table tennis team.

In later generations, there were the main table tennis players of the national team, who were expelled back to the provincial team just because they returned to the team two hours late from annual leave, and they had to play back with their own strength.

Kong Zhendong only spent one day with his mother at home in Shunyi, and at dusk, he returned to the training base of the capital team with the bacon packed by his mother.

Although Kong Zhendong and Zheng Zheng can train with the official team members in February, they are still members of the junior team, and their lives are still with Wang Yi and Zhou'an.

On February 1, Kong Zhendong and Zheng Zheng reported to the official team, and the two of them were assigned to coach Zheng to be responsible for guidance.

If it were other units, father and son working together, it would be extremely avoidable. But the opposite is true in the field of sports.

Many table tennis players and basketball players have completed their enlightenment under the guidance of their father, and even let their father be their coach all the time.

Sister Na, a famous tennis star, is also okay to let her husband be a coach.

Coach Zheng personally taught his son, not only did no one gossip, but it was easier to produce results because he was more familiar.

Coach Zheng put a lot of thought into how to train Kong Zhendong and Zheng Zheng's basic skills.

He carefully studied Kong Zhendong's experience and found that he was flexible and smart in his play, but he only began systematic training at the age of ten, and his basic skills were rough.

This is a gifted child with weak basic skills.

Zheng Zheng is just the opposite, although Coach Zheng taught him enlightenment at a very young age and has solid basic skills, but he lacks targeted tactical changes in actual combat and has average talent.

There will be an annual vacation in mid-February, so in the ten days before the year, Coach Zheng still chose to accommodate Kong Zhendong, and the training subjects arranged for the two of them were the most basic technical exercises.

In order to familiarize the 'wild golfer' Kong Zhendong with professional and technical movements, Coach Zheng deliberately chose to teach with Zheng in the form of questions and answers.

Coach Zheng asked, "Don't underestimate table tennis, think of it as a sport where two people play plastic balls with wooden boards around a small square platform. When you enter the world of table tennis, you will find that it is much more complex and much more wonderful. Ah Chong, tell me, what are the most conventional hitting actions for table tennis batting? ”

Solemnly replied without thinking: "There are pulling the ball, smashing, chipping, pushing, high, and short." ”

Coach Zheng summed up with a smile: "Yes, pulling, pumping, cutting, pushing, putting, and swinging are the six words of the basic movements of table tennis. ”

Zheng thought for a moment and replied: "There are cover hits, rubbing the ball, picking, quick dialing, fast belting, bounce, forward rushing, and of course, Zhendong is good at backhand cutting balls." ”

Coach Zheng concluded: "Very good, cover, rub, pick, play, belt, punch, dial, cut, these are the eight offensive and defensive skills in addition to the six basic technical movements, Zhendong, do you have anything to add?" ”

Kong Zhendong said: "There are also backhand twisting, quick tearing, stabbing, and chopping strokes." ”

Backhand twisting is rare now, but in the future, it will be a very important technical move in the era of big balls.

Quick tear is the backhand trick of the future prince Zico.

Poking the ball and slashing the ball are all Qimen weapons in table tennis, which are suitable for winning by surprise.

Coach Zheng's eyes lit up and said with a smile: "Very good, plus the twisting, tearing, stabbing, and chopping you added, the most basic eighteen hitting actions of table tennis are comprehensive, and these eighteen characters can be regarded as the eighteen martial arts of our table tennis people." ”

Coach Zheng said with feeling: "Every time the national football game is played, the number of Chinese people watching on TV exceeds 100 million. A strong sense of national pride has promoted the status of table tennis, but the Chinese people who pay more attention to every point of victory and defeat have missed the opportunity to indulge in it and experience the mysteries. ”

Coach Zheng explained while swinging the racket to hit the ball, and Kong Zhendong could also hear the feelings and love of the older generation for table tennis. Coach Zheng said: "There are as many as 18 basic strokes in table tennis, which is probably beyond the reach of other ball sports. The most important thing is that the combination of these moves in pairs often gives birth to new tactical moves. For example, the backhand twist + pull ball is the backhand twist and pull that has gradually emerged in Europe in recent years, and the combination of fast belt and cutting the ball is also a killer backhand. In this way, there are hundreds of various tactics, and there are endless mysteries. ”

Coach Zheng then changed positions to do various hitting movements: "In addition to the combination of technical movements, the same technical movements, in the backhand position and forehand position, retreat and inside the table, sideways or not, will have different hitting effects. These different hitting effects will bring different speeds, strengths, spins, accuracy, and changes to table tennis. To be able to comprehend the beauty of these five elements is to truly enter the world of table tennis. And the duel of table tennis players, tactical choice, setting up and breaking the game, is nothing more than the competition for these five elements. Who can occupy the advantage of the five elements, and at the same time limit the opponent's play in the five elements, is the core of the table tennis duel. ”

Speed, strength, rotation, accuracy, and change are indeed the core elements of the development of table tennis for a hundred years.

To achieve mastery and ultimate pursuit of these core elements, the foundation is the proficiency and integration of the eighteen basic hitting skills.

Kong Zhendong understands the basic technical movements taught by Coach Zheng, but he lacks systematic training in this life. The practice with Li Jun is often practiced for several of them, and only a few of the most basic movements are simply integrated in several tryouts.

In the following days, Kong Zhendong and Zheng Zheng both began to practice eighteen kinds of technical movements, and the actual practice was far more than eighteen, such as the twisting and pulling in the stage and the twisting and pulling after retreating, from force to swinging, are completely different, almost two sets of techniques.

Throughout February, Kong Zhendong went home to reunite with his parents for a week on annual leave, and the remaining 20 days were spent practicing these basic movements with Zheng Zheng.

Kong Zhendong practiced muscle memory, and solemnly practiced integration change. Kong Zhendong's tactical literacy and technical integration ability also brought Zheng Zheng more thinking and improvement.

In March 91, Kong Zhendong and Zheng Zheng's practice arrangement had a new change, they conducted an hour and a half every morning, a total of six sets of technical movement basic training, and then, an hour and a half of strength and physical training.

In the afternoon, an hour and a half of targeted offensive and defensive tactical drills and an hour and a half of physical recovery training were conducted.

When he went home for the Chinese New Year this time, Kong Zhendong also officially had a deep talk with his parents.

Since he has chosen the path of professional table tennis again, he has to climb to the top that he had never reached in his previous life and enjoy more wonderful scenery. Since you have decided to do it, go all out.

After discussing with his parents, Kong Zhendong has only gone to school for cultural classes two afternoons a week since March, so that he can devote more time and energy to more systematic training.

The end of March is quietly approaching, and the list of the Chinese team to participate in the Chiba World Table Tennis Championships is about to be announced!