Su Bai, who was in the audience, watched Wang Shen calmly leave the landing area and was a little worried about Wang Shen's condition, so he silently called up his current dynamic data in the system. After realizing that Wang Shen was in good condition, he was relieved.
So far, among all the players that Su Bai has coached or given training plans to, the one with the best psychological self-control is Wang Shen.
Rational, restrained, pursuing victory and breakthroughs, but also able to relax moderately. It can be said that Wang Shen’s mental state has always been the ideal state for many players.
But even such a mentally strong player is not completely without psychological weaknesses. Previously, this weakness was Wang Shen’s grandfather’s expectations of him.
As the old man grew older and his health deteriorated, this expectation gradually turned into a pressure on Wang Shen.
However, Wang Shen has been aware of his stress problem since very early on, and he has been working hard to control his mental state so that he will not collapse due to excessive stress.
It can be said that Wang Shen knows very well how much impact the mental state will have on competitive players like them.
However, the reason why psychological problems become a serious problem that troubles players' competitive state is that even if you clearly know the existence of this problem and even know its root cause, you will still be troubled by it.
Over the past year or so, Wang Shen has been facing such a situation. He believes that he can counsel himself psychologically, and he also believes that this psychological pressure does not have much impact on him. But in fact, whenever he reaches the critical moment of the final, there will be a tug-of-war force in his heart. On the one hand, it tells him that he should try his best, and on the other hand, it tells him that it is the critical moment of the game and he needs to be cautious and not anxious.
There is nothing wrong with both of these ideas, but they will cause him to hesitate and ultimately miss the victory.
Since Su Bai made a training plan for Wang Shen, he also had a long talk with Wang Shen. During the talk, Wang Shen also told Su Bai very frankly about his family problems and the psychological difficulties he had encountered before.
From their perspectives, the goal was to cooperate as much as possible to solve Wang Shen's problems from training to psychology. However, Wang Shen's rationality, restraint and control over his own mentality became obstacles to solving all of this when he encountered psychological problems that needed to be solved.
He can analyze his own problems rationally, but he can't really be like those emotional players who have a channel to vent completely after encountering problems.
Wang Shen’s problem was that as he exerted strong control over his own psychology day after day, he wanted to relieve the pressure in his heart, but the pressure accumulated over a long period of time, and he developed a negative psychological tendency in the arena.
The better a person's psychological self-control is, the more difficult it is for them to recover after encountering psychological problems.
During this period of training, Wang Shen's other training went very smoothly, but the counseling of his psychological problems did not proceed very smoothly.
After a long talk with Su Bai, Wang Shen of course became more aware of his own psychological problems. Both Su Bai and he currently hope to help him gradually get out of this psychological state through more active training.
It is precisely because of this that in the arrangement of Wang Shen's training load, Su Bai chose for him high-load training that exceeded the reasonable training volume but did not harm his body. The purpose was to adjust and sort out Wang Shen's running and jumping techniques normally, and to gradually mediate Wang Shen's psychological problems.
After two and a half months, in Su Bai's opinion, Wang Shen's overall condition has not yet adjusted to a state that is particularly suitable for participating in the competition, but Wang Shen insisted on giving it a try. Su Bai finally considered that the actual competition experience might indeed be beneficial to Wang Shen's psychological state, so he agreed to Wang Shen's request to participate.
However, looking at Wang Shen's current condition on the court, Su Bai still felt a little difficult.
"Xiaobai, what's wrong?" Pei Jinan was sitting next to Su Bai. He noticed that Su Bai seemed to be worried about something, so he asked casually.
"Well, Coach Pei."
Su Bai thought about it, and pseudonymized Wang Shen's situation as a 'hypothetical' contestant, and asked Pei Jinan: "In the current situation, how should this contestant's situation be handled?"
Pei Jinan raised his eyebrows when he heard Su Bai's question, and then asked very directly: "Are you talking about Wang Shen's situation?"
Seeing that Pei Jinan pointed out directly that it was Wang Shen, Su Bai did not deny it.
Pei Jinan saw that Su Bai did not deny it, so he thought for a moment and said, "According to what you said, Wang Shen's condition is already a bit stubborn. I haven't heard Li Mingzhuo mention Wang Shen's problems before. As the old saying goes, it's better to relieve than to block. But according to what you said, Wang Shen's problem cannot be relieved. In this case, I have a suggestion."
?
Su Bai looked at Pei Jinan seriously.
Pei Jinan smiled and said to Su Bai, "If you can't 'unblock' it, just try to put pressure on him! Can't he resolve it and adjust himself? Thinking about it over and over again, the result is actually that he is not firm enough in his goal. In this case, it is better to give him a goal from the beginning and require him to achieve this result."
“This is actually a way to shift goals and mindsets. He had been under a lot of pressure before, so he was very cautious about the success rate of high-difficulty challenges and made himself cautious. As a result, all his attention was focused on being cautious.
If you tell him seriously that his goal in the competition is to jump over 2.30 meters, then the thoughts in his mind may change. ”
Hearing Pei Jinan's words, Su Bai was stunned at first, and immediately began to seriously consider the feasibility of this method.
In fact, when he consulted the coach in the system about the "goal shifting method", he received the same response, but his thoughts at the time were all about "relieving stress", and he didn't think of the method of reverse pressure.
To be honest, Wang Shen has been living under his grandfather's pride, glory and expectations for him for many years. It was in the past year or so that this expectation really began to cause him psychological problems, which was also the time when Wang Shen's grandfather became seriously ill.
The combination of 'expectations that are difficult to achieve' and 'limited time that is not enough to fulfill such expectations' is Wang Shen's real psychological problem!
After figuring this out, Su Bai suddenly felt enlightened. He smiled and thanked Pei Jinan, then began to think with interest - the load of Wang Shen's physical and technical training should be considered to be reduced. Perhaps, in the next training, Wang Shen should also be given some "psychological training load"?
Given Wang Shen's personality, 'reverse pressure' might really produce unexpectedly good results.
While Su Bai in the audience was thinking about Wang Shen's question, on the field, after Wang Shen, Bahrain's Che Robben also completed his first attempt of 2.26 meters. Unfortunately, this attempt also ended in failure.
In the first round of trial jumps of 2.26 meters, only Ye Wenhao succeeded among all the contestants.
After Cheroben also failed in his attempt to jump, the next step was to enter the second round of trial jumps at 2.26 meters.
This means that the remaining four contestants only have two attempts at the 2.26-meter height.
The reduction in trial jump opportunities and the breaking of Abdullah and Wang Shen's 100% one-time clear rate cast a psychological shadow over the remaining four players present.
Although Ye Wenhao has a rough temper, he also knows the level of pressure that the players will feel when the competition reaches this stage.
He glanced at Wang Shen who was resting with his eyes closed, thought for a moment, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Old Wang, don't forget, we agreed at the beginning that we would win the first and second place in the high jump together!"
Wang Shen, who was resting his eyes and adjusting his state, was a little amused when he heard this. He knew that Ye Wenhao's words were for his own good, to cheer him up, but if he was really under too much pressure, wouldn't Ye Wenhao's words to him add to his pressure?
Wang Shen didn't say much, just smiled and nodded - he certainly wanted to win the first and second place. After this period of training, he also had the desire to try to reach higher heights in the arena. However, this idea went around in his mind and was instinctively suppressed temporarily.
Anyway... let's jump over the 2.26 meters in front of us first.
After the second round of trial jumps began, the first to perform a trial jump was Tomoaki Yamashita from the Japanese team. From his expression, it was obvious that he was in a relatively anxious state, which was not conducive to the athlete's competitive state.
Yamashita Tomoaki's condition was not relieved until he started his sprint and jump. Wang Shen, who was in the player's preparation area, glanced at Yamashita Tomoaki's sprint and shook his head slightly.
Abdullah also noticed that Yamashita Tomoaki was in poor condition. Abdullah was very disdainful of Yamashita Tomoaki's condition. He just stood aside with his arms folded, waiting for the next one to come on stage.
On the field, Yamashita Tomoaki was so anxious and nervous that he could not relax. This directly led to his lack of elasticity in the run-up on the track, and his take-off leg force was also deviated when he took off. He even rotated his body when he took off...
Because of the series of mistakes caused by pressure, it seemed a bit poor. With the blessing of these poor mistakes, Yamashita Tomoaki naturally failed to successfully jump this time.
After landing with the horizontal bar and turning over, Yamashita Tomoaki hammered the cushioning mat angrily. This mistake was too low-level for him, but in the previous jump, he made the same low-level mistake again.
Yamashita Tomoaki stood up angrily, but perhaps because he had just made all the mistakes he could, although the opportunity for a second attempt had been lost, his mental state actually stabilized at this moment.
Yamashita Tomoaki didn't say much. He shook his head and returned to the preparation area with an indifferent expression. This time, there was no trace of anxiety on his face.
Corresponding to Tomoaki Yamashita is Bahrain's Cheroben, whose strength was originally the weakest among the four people who made the second attempt. 2.26 meters has always been a difficult threshold for him to cross. Now, seeing Tomoaki Yamashita's mistake, his whole state has become visibly more nervous.
Abdullah did not pay attention to the situation in the preparation area. After the referee remeasured the horizontal bar data of 2.26 meters, he started to run and jump very easily at the referee's signal.
His entire trial jump process was as if this was just his first trial jump, and the first mistake before seemed to have completely disappeared in his eyes.
And just as he showed confidence, after a run-up, he easily crossed the bar and completed his jump. The whole process was extremely smooth, without any lag at all.
Abdullah, 2.26 meters, second attempt - success.
Following Abdullah's successful trial jump, the audience gave him a round of applause. This applause was an encouragement to Abdullah and also a cheer for Wang Shen who was going to perform next.
Amid the applause of the audience, Wang Shen stood at the starting point of the run-up area. He reviewed in his mind the reasons for the mistake in the angle of his take-off leg when he took off in the previous round of jumps. Then, when the time limiter was about to give him a time limit warning, he started his run-up steps.
During the more than two months of training, Wang Shen adjusted some of his previous running and jumping habits. In the last round of jumping, the angle of his jumping leg was wrong, which caused pain in his left leg at that moment. Fortunately, after landing, he briefly checked himself and found that he was not injured.
This time, after paying special attention to the take-off angle, he perfectly achieved the angle he had been pushing off for more than two months when his left leg stepped on the springboard and the force exploded. The explosive force allowed him to successfully take off and generate rotational force in the air, causing his body to leap backward and flex and extend over the bar.
Wang Shen, 2.26 meters, second attempt, success!
After this successful trial jump, Wang Shen breathed a sigh of relief - OK, everything was still under control.
When Wang Shen successfully completed his second trial jump, cheers broke out again at the scene, and the audience in the live broadcast room also excitedly cheered for Wang Shen.
Shao Minyi and Li Sen also had smiles on their faces: "Okay, our players Ye Wenhao and Wang Shen have successfully jumped over a height of 2.26 meters, and Ye Wenhao even cleared the bar in one go, which means that so far, our players still maintain an absolute advantage!"
It was not only the audience present who understood this, but of course the athletes present as well.
Among the remaining three players, only Abdullah remained calm. After seeing Wang Shen successfully pass the pole, Yamashita Tomoaki frowned, and Che Robben even turned around in place anxiously.
After Wang Shen, it was Che Robben's second attempt to jump. Unfortunately, the Bahraini athlete, who was always nervous, failed to successfully clear the bar in the second round of attempts.
In the third round of trial jumps, only Yamashita Tomoaki and Cheroben were left. In the end, only Yamashita Tomoaki successfully passed the third round of trial jumps, while Cheroben was eliminated after failing three rounds of trial jumps.
At this point, the only players left on the field were the four strongest players initially expected. The current ranking of the four is Ye Wenhao, Abdullah, Wang Shen and Yamashita Tomoaki.
When Cherobene left the field, the horizontal bar was raised to a height of 2.28 meters.
Generally speaking, if a player can successfully jump over this height within a season, it means that the player has reached the top 50 in the world.
In last year's season, Wang Shen was also one of the players who successfully jumped over 2.28 meters. Unfortunately, he still failed to beat Ye Wenhao in that competition.
At this stage, even Abdullah no longer had an overly arrogant look on his face.
For the four of them, they were all capable of clearing this height. The only problem was that they needed several attempts to jump over it.
This basically means who will win this game.
According to the order of appearance among the four people, the first to appear is still Yamashita Tomoaki.
This time, Tomoaki Yamashita was not as anxious as he was in the previous attempts. However, despite this, he was in a stable state and still failed to clear the 2.28-meter bar in the first round of attempts.
After landing, Yamashita Tomoaki frowned and didn't say much.
Abdallah, who was the second to try the jump, adjusted his condition, looked carefully at the horizontal bar in front of him, patted his thigh, and suddenly started to run.
His running speed was very fast; speed and explosive power were his strengths. After his left leg stepped on the springboard and pushed off the ground, his body quickly flew into the air, leaned back, and then... passed the bar!
The horizontal bar is firmly erected on the pillars on both sides without falling off!
Abdullah, 2.28 meters tall, cleared the bar successfully in one go!
After seeing this result, the track and field fans at the scene couldn't help but applaud, but everyone present also understood that if this happened, it would most likely mean that the championship of this game... would belong to Abdullah.
After clearing the bar, Abdullah turned over from the cushion, pointed at himself excitedly with both hands, and a confident smile of a winner appeared on his face.
He really deserves to be confident and proud, and in this case, he has almost firmly secured the victory seat.
After Abdullah left the stage, Ye Wenhao came on stage. He obviously also wanted to clear the bar in one go, but his explosive power was slightly insufficient when he jumped, and he did not get enough air, so he still brought down the bar when he cleared the bar.
Up to this point, among the four contestants challenging the 2.28-meter mark, only Wang Shen had not yet appeared on the field.
When the horizontal bar was raised again, Wang Shen stood at the starting point with the expectant eyes of countless people at the scene...
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