Chapter 14 (bug fix)
Ever since all the members of Dormitory 303 entered the youth team's training ground, their interactions with the students in the summer camp have become much less. Most of the students in the summer camp had almost forgotten about these three people until the end of the training that day, when all the students in the summer camp were called together and informed about the closing test match the next day.
"The camp closing test match will be held tomorrow. At the same time, this camp closing test match will also serve as the preliminaries for the National U16 Track and Field Base Competition two days later. Once selected, you will have the opportunity to compete with young athletes from various sports schools and provincial bases across the country. This will also be a promotion competition, and the results obtained by the contestants in the competition will also be used as promotion results."
If at the beginning of the summer camp, the participants had no idea about whether they had reached the next level or the U16 base competition, now that the trainees have had one foot in the professional circle, they have a rough idea of these things.
Therefore, when Liu Wenjian announced the news, the summer camp students below quickly exclaimed.
Although this news had already been circulated in the summer camp, private news and official announcement have two different effects after all, and many people discussed it in a low voice.
"The preliminaries! I asked, and they said we were lucky this time. This base competition happened to be held at our base, so we had this opportunity. We didn't have such a good thing in the previous summer camps!"
"But you have to be in the top three in each event in the preliminaries, can you do it?"
"Whether it will work or not, don't we know until we try it?"
"Hey, did you notice? Those three are back!"
"Which three?"
"Those three from 303! The special team!"
Although the students in the summer camp were not familiar with Su Yu and the other two, and many of them had even forgotten about them, there were still some who remembered them. After all, they were greatly shocked when Su Yu improved his time by more than three seconds in two days during the test match at the beginning of the camp.
"Oh, them." Some students said nonchalantly, "They came back if they wanted to. The three of them were originally in our summer camp. They were just taken to the next door for training by the coach."
"After training for so long, I don't know how effective their training is."
"I don't know. I feel like Zhou Yuang is pretty good. He was already over 11 seconds before training. After more than a month, he must have made another step forward. But I don't know what's going on with Su Yu."
"That should be pretty impressive, right? Didn't you say that you improved your time by more than 3 seconds?"
"It's hard to say. Didn't you hear what the big guys in the youth team said? He improved by more than 3 seconds all of a sudden because he had never practiced before. If he learns some techniques, he will improve quickly. But it's not easy to go further from more than 14 seconds. It all depends on talent. Look at that Su Yu, he's so skinny. He hasn't gained any muscles after practicing for a month or so. How much improvement do you expect him to make?"
"In our summer camp's sprint group, although not everyone is awesome, Xu Ziqi and Liao Weiwei can run over 12 seconds! And haven't they even broken their own PBs during this period of training? Xu Ziqi has run 12.07 and will soon break the 12-second barrier. If we really compare them, Xu Ziqi is not afraid of even Zhou Yuang. Even if Su Yu can improve from 14.32 to under 13 seconds, do you really expect him to beat Xu Ziqi and Liao Weiwei?"
After Liu Wenjian announced the news about the preliminaries, he looked at the summer camp students who were discussing quietly and smiled: "In tomorrow's preliminaries, I hope that our summer camp students can compete with style and achieve good results. During this period of time, everyone has experienced the hard work of athlete training. I also hope that in tomorrow's camp test match and the national U16 base competition preliminaries, everyone can live up to their efforts during this period and achieve the best results!"
After announcing the news, the assistant coaches organized the signing of groups for everyone. Finally, after all the preparations were completed, Liu Wenjian also announced the official disbandment, and the summer camp participants present immediately dispersed.
Su Yu, Jiang Yuan and Zhou Yuang from Dormitory 303 gathered together as usual and were about to leave when Xu Ziqi and Liao Weiwei, who were previously discussed by everyone, appeared in front of Su Yu and the other two.
From the looks of these two people, it's clear that they are here to cause trouble.
However, this time, the target of their trouble was not Su Yu, but Zhou Yuang.
"Zhou Yuang, losing to you in the previous provincial middle school sports meet was just an accident. We'll see the result in tomorrow's preliminaries!"
The two knew Zhou Yuang before the summer camp opened. It was Zhou Yuang who became famous for his second place in the men's 100-meter race and third place in the men's 200-meter sprint at the provincial middle school games.
They are all teenagers, and they all have a youthful arrogance. They think that although they may not be able to beat the big guys in the provincial team's youth group, challenging Zhou Yuang may not necessarily mean a losing battle.
Because Zhou Yuang's results in the preliminaries and semifinals of the provincial middle school sports meeting were just average. He was in great shape in the finals and ran a time of 11.33 seconds, which put him below them. However, in the previous opening camp test match, Zhou Yuang's result was only 11.83 seconds.
During this period, other colleges in the summer camp thought that Xu Ziqi was the only one who ran 12.07 seconds in the 100 meters. In fact, in their private training, Xu Ziqi and Liao Weiwei had both run under 12 seconds. Even though their condition was not stable enough, they felt that they could definitely compete with Zhou Yuang.
Facing the "declaration of war" from his two opponents, Zhou Yuang smiled and said, "Okay, let's compete. We'll see the result tomorrow!"
After he confidently sent Xu Ziqi and Liao Weiwei away, his face fell, and he hugged Su Yu beside him, sighing: "Little ancestor, I'm done!"
Su Yu had slapped Zhou Yuang's claws away countless times during this period. He never knew that this Chinese team's No. 1 sprinter who looked steady and reliable ten years later had such a personality when he was a teenager.
Because he was not as strong as Zhou Yuang, he could only frown and pry his hands apart while saying, "Let go."
Zhou Yuang let him pull for a while, and just when the little ancestor was getting annoyed, he blinked and let go of Su Yu, and turned to pull Jiang Yuan, who was more talkative, and continued to sigh: "Alas, Yuanzi, my life is miserable."
Su Yu glanced at him and didn't bother to pay attention to him.
Zhou Yuang noticed that Su Yu's eyes had turned away, so he continued to play the victim: "During the entire summer camp, while others were training skills, I was changing my power leg; while others were training strength, I was changing my power leg; while others were developing speed endurance, I was changing my power leg... I was really, suffering."
Su Yu felt that Zhou Yuang was not so shameless more than a month ago, but more than a month later, his face had become as thick as a wall.
He pointed out bluntly: "Your training program is not just about changing your active leg."
"Your overall technique has been reshaped, including your overall running posture and technical stability during running, which have been greatly improved."
In the past month, Su Yu can be said to have quickly developed from an ordinary person who only had a basic understanding of sprinting to an insider who has a preliminary understanding of the overall knowledge system of sprinting.
All this is thanks to Pei Dingshan’s 1v1 exclusive theoretical course.
If he still had some doubts about each of his training items at the beginning of the summer camp, now he has a relatively sufficient understanding of his training items.
This includes why Pei Dingshan asked Zhou Yuang to change his active power leg and why he wanted to reshape Zhou Yuang's complete set of basic technical system. All of this is related to the athlete's long-term development in the future.
Of course, under Pei Dingshan's guidance, he also understood why Pei Dingshan always limited his training volume but improved the quality of training. Compared with the training volume that had been repeatedly adjusted by Pei Dingshan this time, in his previous life, it was precisely because of the inappropriate training volume and his own perseverance that he caused some irreversible damage to his body during the summer camp.
Although he still had an inexplicable resistance to Pei Dingshan in his heart, what Pei Dingshan said was right - he needed to trust Pei Dingshan.
Zhou Yuang, who was standing next to him, saw that his pity-playing was exposed by Su Yu, but he didn't feel embarrassed at all. Instead, he continued to put his arm around Jiang Yuan's shoulders, showing his big white teeth and smiling: "Although this is true, my best result is actually not as good as before I changed my active leg."
Su Yu: “…”
Su Yu was too lazy to pay attention to him. He just glanced at him and turned away.
Jiang Yuan was too lazy to pay attention to him. He grabbed Zhou Yuang's claws on his shoulders and threw them away, then left with Su Yu.
After Zhou Yuang chuckled, he followed the little ancestor of their dormitory 303 and his brother and walked towards the dormitory - their little ancestor was right, after changing the active force leg and basically relearning a whole set of techniques including starting from the starting block, full-speed acceleration, mid-running, arm swinging and sprinting, he felt awkward at the beginning, but now he finally feels the pleasure brought by the correct technique that suits him.
In the past, although he had strong explosive power at the start, he always felt that some of his strength was not used in the right place, so he ran uncomfortably. Moreover, he always had some uncertainties in the connection between the starting acceleration phase and the mid-run phase. Sometimes he ran smoothly and sometimes not, which also led to his fluctuating performance.
During this period, although he has received less training in strength and explosiveness, he has learned to better use his explosiveness and strength.
To put it simply, his 'running efficiency' has improved.
Although his current results have not yet achieved a breakthrough due to the need to change his active leg and adapt to new technologies, just as their ancestor said, his current results have been gradually improving steadily.
He could even see the moment when he would break his own PB after mastering his overall skills!
But...
Zhou Yuang looked at Su Yu who had already left in front of him and smiled - his old opponents wanted to challenge the wrong people this time, because because of the technical changes, he might lose to Xu Ziqi and others, but the people who will win the game in the end may not be him, Xu Ziqi and Liao Weiwei!
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On the morning of the next day, the provincial sports team's track and field themed summer camp closing test match and the national U16 base competition preliminaries officially kicked off.
Based on the overall characteristics of the summer camp, this camp closing test match only examines the students' performance in short jump related events, including men's and women's 100m, 200m and 400m, long jump, high jump, 110m hurdles (women's 100m hurdles), 400m hurdles and other events.
The summer camp coaches provide each student with 1-3 individual registration options based on their circumstances, and the final number of registrations is decided by the students themselves.
The coaches of the provincial sports team's sprint group had been looking forward to this day for a long time. Almost early in the morning, the coaching staff had already appeared outside the competition venue and began to discuss in groups of three or four.
"Old Liu, how have you been watching Su Yu during this period?"
The person everyone was asking about was naturally the head coach of the summer camp, Liu Wenjian.
Liu Wenjian shook his head. "I can't really tell. Although Xiao Pei and I teach at the same venue, there are a lot of people to manage in the long jump and high jump groups. Xiao Pei's training is quite separate from my daily training, so I can't really see Su Yu's training situation."
After receiving this answer, the coaches present did not find it strange.
In fact, the coaches of the sprint group have secretly observed many times during this period, but one thing that is clear is that the amount of training Pei Dingshan gave Su Yu was really small. It cannot be said that training is the same as not training. At least in their opinion, they absolutely dare not give their athletes only this amount of training.
Of course, it is common for the arrangement of training volume to vary according to the individual physical conditions and training directions of the players. However, without developing explosive power, how can Xiao Pei ensure that Su Yu's results are good enough to amaze them?
After all, according to Xiao Pei, once they see Su Yu’s performance in the final test match, they will forget about Zhou Yuang!
Because they were always looking forward to the answer, the coaches were scratching their heads while waiting for the test match to begin.
Fortunately, the start time of the final test match had been arranged in advance. Although they arrived early, more than ten minutes later, all the summer camp students had arrived on time for assembly and registration, including Su Yu, Zhou Yuang and Jiang Yuan.
Among the three, Zhou Yuang was the one talking and laughing as usual, Su Yu had no expression, and Jiang Yuan occasionally responded to Zhou Yuan with a smile.
Because it was not a very formal competition, Liu Wenjian just came on the court to encourage all the summer camp students when the game was about to start, and then quickly announced the official start of the game.
Afterwards, the first two events to start were high jump and long jump.
At Liu Wenjian's suggestion, Jiang Yuan finally signed up for both events. If there were still students in the summer camp who could compete with Zhou Yuan in the 100-meter and 200-meter sprint events, then in the long jump and high jump events, after more than a month of training and instruction by Liu Wenjian, there was no opponent for Jiang Yuan in the entire summer camp.
Especially in the long jump, just the first jump basically determined Jiang Yuan's victory.
The coaches of the sprint group on the sidelines were also familiar with long jump and high jump. After seeing Jiang Yuan's first jump, their eyes lit up and they praised Liu Wenjian for finding a good seedling.
"This Jiang Yuan's talent in long jump and high jump is definitely not inferior to Zhou Yuang!"
It was obvious on Liu Wenjian's face that he was very satisfied with Jiang Yuan. Jiang Yuan was not only talented but also had a good temper and patience. He was able to adjust well to the guidance he gave him.
If I had to say something not so good, it would probably be...
"The desire to win is not strong enough."
In Liu Wenjian's opinion, Jiang Yuan's temper was a little too good. If he could win, he would win, and if he couldn't win, it didn't matter. During this period of time, he also let other players in the junior group provoke him, but this kid could make the kids in his junior group angry just by talking.
I don't know how he can have such a good temper and yet have such a sharp tongue.
But in short, it is true that Jiang Yuan’s desire to win is not strong enough, which has troubled Liu Wenjian for a long time, and he couldn’t find any solution for the time being.
The first round of long jump and high jump is still in progress here, and the first round of 100-meter competition is about to begin.
There are a total of 101 students in the entire summer camp, including 73 boys and 28 girls, among which nearly 50 male and female students are learning sprinting. Among these 50 students, except Su Yu who only signed up for the 100-meter event, the remaining 80% signed up for both the 100-meter and 200-meter events, and the other 20% signed up for both the 100-meter and 400-meter events.
Overall, the proportion of athletes in the provincial teams is not much different from that in the 100m, 200m and 400m events.
Because 28 boys have signed up for the 100-meter sprint test match, this is also the most competitive event in this test match. These 28 students are divided into 4 preliminary groups. After the first round, the top 2 players in each group will be selected to advance to the second round, which is the final to decide the final winner.
There were 4 preliminary groups, Zhou Yuang and Su Yu were in the first and second groups respectively. Coincidentally, Xu Ziqi and Liao Weiwei, who had "declared war" on Zhou Yuang yesterday, were also in the first and second groups respectively. It just so happened that this pair of "specially selected groups" from dormitory 303 faced off 1v1.
The first person to confront Zhou Yuang was Liao Weiwei, which made Xu Ziqi a little dissatisfied.
After all, although they were all members of the special group selected by Pei Dingshan, there was a rumor in the summer camp that Pei Dingshan chose Su Yu just because he was too weak, and he made him a pendant to help him exercise and take extra care of him.
There's no point in winning a 'special group' match like this.
Of the two, Liao Weiwei was obviously much happier. Looking at Zhou Yuang, he wished he could fight him on the spot in the preliminary round.
As for Su Yu and Zhou Yuang, they didn't care what Xu Ziqi and Liao Weiwei thought.
What Su Yu needs to pay more attention to in today's game is the two full-speed runs in the preliminaries and finals, and whether his physical condition can support his overall schedule well.
As for Zhou Yuang?
What he cared about was whether he could maintain his training condition in this relatively formal test match.
Therefore, both Liao Weiwei and Xu Ziqi felt the disregard from Su Yu and Zhou Yuang, the two members of the "special group". This made the two who came with the momentum of "declaring war" feel particularly depressed, and they all made up their minds to teach Zhou Yuang and Su Yu a lesson in the next game.
Especially that Su Yu!
A guy who can only run 13.32 seconds, even if he is in the special group, why should we ignore them?
It was with such momentum that Liao Weiwei, Zhou Yuang and five other first group preliminaries came to the starting line together. At the starter's command of "on your marks", the first group of runners went to their respective starting blocks and stepped onto the front and rear pedals of the starting blocks with their hands.
After more than a month of training, the trainees' starting techniques from the starting blocks have improved significantly, and each of them looks quite capable. However, there is still a difference between whether they are just showing off or have truly mastered the technique.
Outside the field, the coaches of the sprint group had already focused their attention on the competition in this group, and soon someone noticed the change in Zhou Yuang's starting posture.
"Eh? Zhou Yuang's running posture?"
During this period of time, although these coaches occasionally observed Su Yu's training, they happened to not catch up with Zhou Yuang's starting training course. Therefore, it was not until this moment that they were surprised to find that Zhou Yuang had actually changed his active leg.
"Xiao Pei he...!"
"Can the active power leg be changed so easily?!"
The coach of the sprint group couldn't help but exclaimed, thinking that such a change was too imprudent. After all, who could guarantee that Zhou Yuang's performance would improve rapidly after changing the active leg?
For these sprint coaches, every technical adjustment to the athletes needs to be repeatedly thought about and discussed. This only refers to smaller issues such as the folding angle of the thigh and calf. Once it comes to big issues like replacing the active power leg, they wish the whole group of coaches would discuss it repeatedly before they can finally make a decision.
None of these coaches had expected that Pei Dingshan could easily make such a big technical improvement to Zhou Yuang during this summer camp.
"This Zhou Yuang... Could it be that Xiao Pei had already decided to give Zhou Yuang a technical upgrade, so he said that Su Yu's performance would be better than Zhou Yuang's?"
Some coaches made such incredible speculations, but other coaches did not think so.
"Let's take a look first."
Looking at Zhou Yuang who had changed his active leg from right leg to left leg on the track, all the coaches knew that it was too late even if they wanted to persuade him now, so they could only look at Zhou Yuang on the starting blocks with serious faces.
Is it just over a month enough time for Zhou Yuang to make technical adjustments?
In just over a month, even after the technical changes, can Zhou Yuang adapt so quickly and catch up with his previous achievements?
It's not possible that Zhou Yuang, who ran under 12 seconds in the opening test match, couldn't even make it to the finals in the closing test match, right?
With such worries in mind, the coaches focused their attention on the test match at hand.
Not only the coaches, but even the students learned about Zhou Yuang's technical changes from the discussions of some coaches around them. Xu Ziqi frowned, thinking that after the sudden technical changes, Zhou Yuang might not be able to meet him in the finals.
Among all the people present, except Pei Dingshan who was standing alone not far away, only Su Yu who was standing on the sidelines did not have any doubts about Zhou Yuang.
He glanced at the guy squatting on the starting blocks with sparkling eyes, then turned around and went to the nearby area to warm up - after Zhou Yuang's group was finished, it would be his turn.
Although his body is indeed weak now and his talent may not be as good as Zhou Yuang, he thinks of Xu Ziqi and Liao Weiwei who did not take him seriously both the day before and in the provocation just now.
Su Yu pursed his lips, and the expression on his face gradually became stubborn.
Facing such an opponent - he really... didn't want to lose!
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