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After eating a take-out lunch box and taking a short break in the baseball club's office, according to the arrangement, Li Yuanrang will have a strengthening training of his leg muscles here in the afternoon.

"Strengthen the muscles of the lower plate, and use the running one. For example, running on the river embankment at sunset, and then the female manager riding her bicycle and following behind to cheer up......"

While using the equipment to practice, Li Yuanrang muttered these words.

It's not that he is dissatisfied with the practice in the gym, but Li Yuanrang always feels that it is a little different from the baseball training he imagined.

"You're looking for something from a baseball comic, right?"

Nominally, they came to practice together, but the actual task was to supervise Li Yuan, so that Yabe Akio who was not lazy asked.

"Isn't it wrong in the comics?"

"Not really. But there is no embankment near our school. ”

The Nishi-Tokyo area is hilly, and the nearest water system is the Tama River to the south. It's not that close to the Peace Academy.

"As for the manager, our school always has this."

"Yes, yes, but can you imagine Asakura riding a bicycle and encouraging the team to run?"

"Isn't there still Aki Suzuki?"

"Suzuki has work this afternoon, and their group has two performances today."

"Performance? Where? ”

"The basement of a commercial building near the aqueduct. Majors has a theater over there. ”

"Isn't that next to Tokyo Dome?"

Tokyo Dome was built on the site of the original Korakuen Stadium. However, there are few lines available at Korakuen Station on the subway north of the Dome. If you want to get to Tokyo Dome by subway or train, you can get off at Suidobashi Station on the south side of the dome. The distance is about the same, but there are a lot more lines that can be used.

"It's just a street away from the Dome. The straight-line distance seems to be one hundred and eighty-three meters. Anyway, she doesn't have time to run around the sunset with you today. And I think it's better to strengthen your muscles with equipment than to run all the time. ”

"What's so good?"

Compared with boring equipment exercises, Li Yuanrang actually prefers to jog while listening to music, even on a treadmill. However, according to today's practice menu, his training content is all about using equipment.

"For the good of your knees. Everyone knows that the pitcher's arm is a consumable. But in fact, the trapper's knee is also a consumable. ”

"I'm just a catcher now. And the average baseball celebrity isn't all endless laps. ”

Recently, Li Yuanrang began to make up for all kinds of knowledge about college baseball. For example, watch the videos of the previous dozens of episodes of the show hosted by Kazuya Takeda from a video website.

There are a lot of special reports on college baseball. Introducing all aspects of the training life of these teams.

Li Yuanrang compared his experience in the baseball club with the content in these programs and found many differences.

"Baseball's workout menus aren't all scientific. For example, the 100-meter sprint needs to be run dozens or 100 times a day. Did you find this helpful? ”

"Isn't it useless?"

"Without scientific training, no amount of sprint speed will increase. Besides, in baseball, it doesn't take more than 100 meters to sprint in a straight line. ”

The distance between bases on the baseball field is ninety feet, about twenty-seven and a half meters. Even taking into account the distance that an outfielder can move while on guard, a straight sprint in baseball will not exceed fifty meters.

"Back to the lap. If you lose the game, you have to run laps, if you make a mistake during practice, you have to run laps, and if the supervisor is in a bad mood, you still have to run laps. You remember the southern predecessors of Yangno. ”

"Of course."

Nanbu Yoichi of Metropolitan Yono High School, who was a student of Peace Gakuen in middle school, went to a baseball club in Kanagawa Prefecture next door when he went to high school, and transferred back to Tokyo because he couldn't get a chance to play.

Later, I heard him tell a lot of stories about famous baseball clubs. For example, the supervisor asked all the team members to run laps, and he fell asleep in the department without paying attention. After waking up, the whole team had been running for more than four hours straight. ”

"No one dares to stop?"

"If you stop, you face more punitive practice. Many of the practice methods of the famous baseball club are not really to improve the strength of the players, but to let the players develop the habit of absolute obedience. ”

In those old-school baseball schools, except for a very small number of players with outstanding ability. It is often obedience and tactical execution that determine whether other players can get back numbers and whether they can play.

For those private schools that invest heavily in baseball clubs. It is more important to achieve good results in the name of the school in Koshien, increase the popularity of the school, and then gain an advantage in the increasingly fierce enrollment war.

The development of a player's individual baseball career is not a primary consideration.

"But didn't the famous family achieve better results in this way."

No matter how much Yabe describes those famous baseball clubs as an evil empire. In terms of grades, these schools always hold the seats in the preliminary round of Koshien in each region all year round.

So much so that Takano had to add a "21st century slot" to the spring selection meeting to ensure that those well-developed ordinary college teams had the opportunity to participate.

"That's because there are better 'materials' than other schools......"

A true baseball school doesn't recruit only ordinary local students. They have their own scouting system.

Some are centered around the area where they are located, and there are many more baseball scout networks throughout Japan.

The competition for students in college baseball is more brutal than the professional baseball draft. There is no luck factor in the lottery like the draft. The two-way choice between the school and the student is completely based on strength.

Players who have been making their mark since middle school can choose from dozens of prestigious private schools. There are sometimes a variety of commitments made by the school. From the training menu to the game scheduling method, it can be agreed in advance.

Not only is the school responsible for all the funds used for baseball training, but the tuition and living expenses are often subsidized either explicitly or implicitly.

Ambitious schools recruit a few or a dozen players of this level each school year. The main lineup of the future is often produced among these people as well.

The baseball clubs of these schools often have hundreds of staff. More than half of the members are ordinary members who do not receive special treatment.

These people are either ordinary students who are enrolled from general channels. Or players who want to follow the path of baseball, but their performance in middle school has not attracted enough attention.

These players have to start from the lowest level of cannon fodder at the beginning, and there are few opportunities to be promoted to the main force in the future. Naturally, there is no preferential treatment for tuition fees and the like. They also pay tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yen to the baseball club every year.