Chapter 4
"Su Yu?"
The assistant coach was stunned when he saw the name: "Ah, Brother Pei, I know Zhou Yuang. Before the summer camp started, the team said that we could focus on this kid, but this Su Yu..."
The assistant coach hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively: "Brother Pei, did you remember the wrong name?"
Pei Dingshan glanced at him and shook his head: "I remember correctly."
"Uh." The assistant coach was choked by Pei Dingshan's straightforward answer, but still asked in disbelief: "Su Yu, the one whose health was so poor that his parents asked the team to reduce his training?"
Pei Dingshan nodded calmly: "It's him."
"…But isn't he just one of the students who makes up the numbers at this summer camp?"
The assistant coach next to him couldn't help but ask the question in his mind directly.
Unexpectedly, Pei Dingshan actually laughed when he heard this question. He tapped the word "Su Yu" on the training booklet with his pen and turned to look at the assistant coach beside him: "Just to make up the numbers?"
"If every student who makes up the numbers has such talent, then there might be a few more. Who knows, China's sprinting program might just take off."
The assistant coach was first amazed by Pei Dingshan's smile, and then by his words.
"Tengfei?" The assistant coach named Wang Pengfei said, "Brother Pei, you are such a joker."
Before the summer camp started, there were already several well-known players in the team. One was Zhou Yuang, the 100m and 200m sprint champion in the provincial middle school sports meet at the beginning of the year. The other was Jiang Yuan, the dual champion in high jump and long jump.
Long before the summer camp started, the provincial team went to Zhou Yuang and Jiang Yuan's schools to learn about the two students. They wanted to use this summer camp to test the quality of these two little geniuses, and if suitable, recruit them into the provincial team's youth team.
In addition to Zhou Yuang and Jiang Yuan, there are several other young players who are worthy of attention, but Su Yu is not on the list of players to be watched by any provincial team.
In other words, although Su Yu is not on the list of people to be watched, all the coaches in the provincial team know that there is a student named Su Yu who comes to this summer camp purely for physical exercise.
Pei Dingshan's expression remained unchanged: "No kidding."
Listening to Pei Dingshan's words, Wang Pengfei was stunned for a long time before hesitating and said, "Brother Pei, are you serious?"
"Uh, no... I watched some of the morning training just now. That Su Yu is the one next to Jiang Yuan and Zhou Yuang, right? The pretty one?"
"The one who takes three breaths while running? I saw him running three laps to warm up and he was almost out of breath..." Wang Pengfei choked for a long time before asking with difficulty: "How do you know he is a good candidate?"
Wang Pengfei certainly knew that different coaches had different selection habits, and some coaches were able to pick out amazing talents from some seemingly ordinary students.
But even so, we still have to abide by the Basic Law!
In this entire summer camp, it wouldn't be surprising for Pei Dingshan to fall in love with anyone except Wang Pengfei, but this Su Yu... he really couldn't understand it.
Pei Dingshan glanced at the disbelief in Wang Pengfei's eyes, opened the training booklet in his hand, and opened to the page with Su Yu's name marked on it.
When Pei Dingshan opened the training booklet, Wang Pengfei subconsciously took a look and discovered that Pei Dingshan had made a unified form template, which divided the athlete conditions into different screening modules such as physical, talent, technical skills, psychology, and obedience.
As Pei Dingshan flipped through the forms, Wang Pengfei discovered that he had simply crossed out the names of all the students who were late or slacking off.
"This...Brother Pei, isn't this a bit too arbitrary?"
Pei Dingshan glanced at him and asked expressionlessly, "So you want to recruit a group of 'good seedlings' for the provincial team who are late, disobey training and are good at being lazy?"
Wang Pengfei choked again on the spot.
It's true that there were such a group of "good seedlings" in the provincial team in the early years. They had good physical talents, but joining the provincial team was like a stepping stone in their life. If they were lucky, they could make it to the national team. If they were unlucky, they could just get a regular position in the provincial team and finally have a good place to go after retirement.
You can't expect those players to abide by the training requirements and rules and regulations of your provincial team. They just go through the motions and at one point the atmosphere in the team was very bad.
Later, the team made up its mind to rectify the situation and cleared out a group of players who had violated the rules too many times and had extremely poor training and competition results. After that, the atmosphere in the team improved a lot.
Just like what Pei Dingshan said - does he want to recruit another batch of such "good seedlings" into the team?
But he was still a little hesitant, and said, "Today is only the first day of the camp, and it is possible that those students may not be able to adapt for a while..."
Pei Dingshan nodded without comment: "So I gave them three days to be late."
"Uh, that lazy guy... OK, Brother Pei, I understand!"
Wang Pengfei felt guilty after talking about it - come to think of it, those who are late are fine, but those who are lazy and slack off obviously don't have much interest in improving themselves, and there is no need to recruit kids with this mentality.
Thinking of this, Pei Dingshan's training booklet turned to the page where Su Yu was.
Name: Su Yu, Age: 14, Height: 169cm, Weight: 50kg
Wang Pengfei frowned when he saw this and started to mutter: "He is 169cm tall and weighs only 50kg. He is too thin..."
He muttered as he continued to look down.
Conditions and characteristics: naturally large stride, fast step frequency, good body elasticity, obvious step rebound, naturally stable body center of gravity, strong body recovery, strong understanding, rapid and standard mastery of basic techniques, strong stress resistance...
Wang Pengfei looked at it in confusion: Ah? Who wrote this? Is this written for Su Yu? There are so many damn things, how come he didn't see any of them? !
"Brother Pei..." Wang Pengfei looked at Pei Dingshan in confusion: "Are you serious?"
Pei Dingshan reached out and pointed at the data record in the training booklet in Wang Pengfei's hand: "Just based on this, why shouldn't I take it seriously?"
"No, Brother Pei, it's okay to master the basic skills quickly, but just now when Su Yu was jogging for warm-up, how did you know that he naturally has a large stride and a fast stride frequency?"
"With his speed, he's probably in the middle or lower range among those students, right?"
Pei Dingshan let him finish, and finally asked: "Yes, then tell me, what are the physical conditions of the other students, what is Su Yu's physical condition?"
Wang Pengfei was stunned when he heard this.
Pei Dingshan asked again: "According to statistics, there are a total of 101 junior high school students participating in the summer camp. Except for Su Yu, all of them have received track and field training to varying degrees."
"Perhaps you could consider what this means?"
"During the warm-up run, Su Yu maintained his maximum speed and stride length and frequency within his physical limits from beginning to end. Without training, his stride length was equal to that of most trained students."
"I was able to maintain a stable personal state even at the physical limit, and my overall running posture did not change significantly throughout the whole process. When my physical energy consumption was close to the limit, I still had a certain control over my body to keep my technical movements intact."
"Regardless of whether Su Yu's technical moves are right or wrong, what do you think these represent?"
Wang Pengfei originally really didn’t think that Su Yu had any talent that Pei Dingshan would really appreciate, or even if he did, it couldn’t be any really important talent.
But after listening to what Pei Dingshan said, Wang Pengfei was really shocked.
"Oh shit, Brother Pei, is everything you said true?!"
As soon as Wang Pengfei asked this question, he slapped his head and said, "Ah, what kind of question is this? Brother Pei, you are not a joker!"
After saying that, Wang Pengfei stared at the data of Su Yu in his hand and muttered, "Fuck, so this Su Yu is really a talented and good seedling?"
"But this is not right!" Wang Pengfei looked at Pei Dingshan anxiously: "This Su Yu's talent may be good, but Brother Pei, his physical condition is really too poor!"
"You saw it, too, didn't you? The one who was running and panting every three steps, almost dying at the end. That's what we all saw just now, right?"
Pei Dingshan nodded, but pointed to the item "strong physical recovery": "Just now, when his body was warming up at the limit and almost collapsed, he basically recovered after just three to five minutes of rest. At the same time, in the subsequent single skill training process with a higher intensity than the warm-up run, it is obvious that he has basically stabilized his physical condition."
"He is a very smart kid. He quickly understood the limits of his physical condition and maintained a very stable state during the single skill training. He controlled it within his own recovery ability and did not let himself be overwhelmed like he did during the previous warm-up run."
"Huh?"
Wang Pengfei was stunned when he heard this - how come he didn't know about this?
Pei Dingshan's eyes flashed with a smile: "Think about it, during the single skill training just now, did Su Yu feel as uncomfortable as before?"
"Uh, it seems...really not?!"
Pei Dingshan smiled: "His basic physical condition is indeed very poor, but there are many world-class athletes in our country who initially participated in training because they had poor health since childhood and hoped to improve their physical fitness through physical training."
At this point, he paused, then smiled and said, "As for how many athletes in the international sports world are taking drugs legally, I don't need to tell you about that, right?"
“Ah, this…”
Wang Pengfei scratched his head in frustration.
After Pei Dingshan's series of analysis, he actually felt that Su Yu was a good kid?
The main thing is that Pei Dingshan was rarely seen smiling since he joined the provincial sports team of their S Province. Today, when Su Yu was mentioned, he actually smiled. It can be seen that their Brother Pei really feels from the bottom of his heart that he has picked up a good seedling.
Even though he still had some doubts about Su Yu's talent in his heart, Wang Pengfei was now truly convinced by Pei Dingshan.
"Then Brother Pei, remember to give feedback to the team. By the way, what about Zhou Yuang? Brother Pei, what do you think of this kid?"
Pei Dingshan glanced at the training booklet in his hand: "He is tall and has long legs. He is 181cm tall at the age of 14. He still has a lot of room for improvement. He has a large stride and strong hip thrust ability. He already has a good technical foundation. His overall conditions are excellent. He is a good seedling."
Wang Pengfei: “…”
No, you seemed to be in a bad mood when you commented on Zhou Yuang, which made it hard for people to be convinced.
In fact, Pei Dingshan just returned to his usual speaking habits when evaluating Zhou Yuang, while when he commented on Su Yu before, he had the joy of seeing a good horse as if a horse had been discovered.
Even though Pei Dingshan was not a person with great emotional fluctuations, he felt full of joy at that moment.
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Su Yu didn't know that Pei Dingshan and Wang Pengfei were discussing him at the moment. After the morning training, his body, which had not been exercised for a long time, was covered in sweat, and he felt sticky and uncomfortable, which doubled his irritability index.
Fortunately, although the dormitory of the provincial sports team was simple, the bathroom facilities were complete. Su Yu returned to the dormitory, took out some clean clothes and towels, and was about to go to the bathroom, but when he looked up and saw Zhou Yuan and Jiang Yuan, he frowned and stopped.
Zhou Yuang and Jiang Yuan were stared at by him for two seconds. This time, before Jiang Yuan could speak, Zhou Yuang smiled with his big white teeth and said, "Are you going to take a shower? Yuanzi and I need to rest for a while. You go first."
Su Yu then responded sullenly and went to the bathroom with his clothes.
As Su Yu and Zhou Yuang passed by each other, Zhou Yuang heard another very soft "thank you", so he smiled, showing more of his big white teeth.
After Su Yu went into the bathroom to take a shower, Zhou Yuang whispered to Jiang Yuan outside the door: "Hey, Yuanzi, our little ancestor is so cute."
Jiang Yuan rolled his eyes at him: "Okay, stop calling him our little ancestor. He is my little ancestor."
After he finished speaking, he laughed. After a moment, he whispered to Zhou Yuang, "Although Xiaoyu has a bit of an awkward personality, he really doesn't have bad intentions. He has a very good personality."
"Don't be fooled by his cold face. He is actually like a kitten. He can be coaxed and you can get his fur soothed."
Zhou Yuang also laughed: "That's cute, but why? The little ancestor is still distinguishing between your family and my family."
Jiang Yuan snorted: "That's right, Aunt Lin said Xiaoyu is my little child bride, but isn't that my little ancestor?"
After saying that, Jiang Yuan himself also laughed awkwardly: "Okay, no more jokes, anyway, you know Xiaoyu has no ill intentions, that's all. I'm just afraid that someone will say they don't mind at first, but then dislike his quiet personality."
Listening to Jiang Yuan's words, Zhou Yuang blinked and nodded in understanding.
When Su Yu came out, he saw Zhou Yuang coming over to touch his head. He was caught off guard and was touched on the head by Zhou Yuang, and at the same time, a fluffy dry towel was placed on his head.
"Hurry, hurry, Xiaoyu, dry your hair first, breakfast will be served soon."
Before Su Yu could glare back at Zhou Yuang for his sudden attack, Zhou Yuang grabbed a bath towel and some clothes and darted into the bathroom, followed by a series of splashing sounds in the bathroom.
With his head covered by a dry towel, Su Yu looked like a confused kitten with wet fur. The cold expression on his face disappeared in an instant, replaced by a look of confusion.
Jiang Yuan found it funny. He stood up and pushed Su Yu onto his bed. He picked up a towel and started to dry his hair. While doing so, he kept mumbling, "Uncle Su and Aunt Lin have told you many times to dry your hair after taking a shower, so as not to catch a cold..."
Su Yu was a little annoyed by his nagging, but he also knew that he was in the wrong, so he just kept silent.
Jiang Yuan didn't care whether his little ancestor was angry or not, and he used a towel to carefully wipe Su Yu's hair over and over again. When the hair was half dry, he lowered his head and asked: "How is it? Are you feeling well now?"
Su Yu shook his head and just said "It's okay" when Zhou Yuang came out of the bathroom at the speed of light after taking a shower.
"Yuanzi, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up and go to breakfast, the morning training will start again at 8:30!"
Jiang Yuan then threw the towel to Su Yu and asked him to dry his hair himself, then quickly went into the bathroom and took a quick shower.
By the time the three of them finished taking a shower and went to the provincial team canteen, many people were already eating there. The provincial team of Province S has ample funding, and in recent years has hired special sports nutritionists to prepare nutritional meals for athletes in different events. The canteen is also equipped with a special electronic screen for meal reference. As long as the athletes of the provincial team swipe their fingerprints, the nutritionist's recent meal recommendations will pop up. This can be said to be a leading configuration among provincial teams in the country.
Of course, there is no one-to-one meal recommendation for these students who come to participate in the summer camp, but the nutritionist of the provincial team has also given a unified "Summer Camp Student Meal Recommendation" based on the age group of the students and the intensity of their training in the next 40 days. As long as they eat according to the meal list, it is enough to ensure the nutrition needed during the summer camp training.
Of course, having said that, it doesn't mean that summer camp students can only take meals from the recommended meal areas. The cafeteria is a buffet style, and the kids are all around fourteen or fifteen years old, and they are greedy for everything they see. Just like at this moment, many students take it themselves when they see something they like.
When Su Yu and the other two arrived at the cafeteria, Zhou Yuang asked casually, "Xiao Yu, what would you like to eat?"
Su Yu ignored him, swiped his fingerprint at the electronic food preparation counter, took a look at the recommended nutritional combinations for summer camp students that popped up, then wrote down a few of the options and went to the food preparation counter.
Zhou Yuang laughed when he saw Su Yu's actions, and secretly bumped Jiang Yuan with his shoulder: "Hey, our little ancestor is not picky about food. I was just about to suggest that it would be better for him to eat according to the nutritionist's prescription."
Jiang Yuan was too lazy to pay attention to him: "Xiao Yu has never been greedy for food. He has been weak since he was a child and can't eat many things. Even though he has been taking medicine since he was a child, Uncle Su and Aunt Lin don't have to worry about it. What they worry about is always how to make Xiao Yu eat more nutritiously with limited food."
"Just based on the dietitian's meal suggestions, this is already quite rich and varied for Xiaoyu."
Zhou Yuang listened to Jiang Yuan's words, smacked his lips, and sighed: "Hey, don't tell me, I think our little ancestor is really a good material for being an athlete. He has good body flexibility, good comprehension, and learns quickly. He can endure hardships and is self-disciplined in his diet..."
Jiang Yuan didn't bother to pay attention to Zhou Yuang's chatter and complained, "Then I said Xiaoyu is a good material for being a top student. He was sick since he was a child and didn't go to school for a few days. He relied on the tutor hired by Su Shulin and Aunt Lin for tutoring and self-study. He was always in the top three in the grade in the exams every year."
The two of them took their meals and sat down next to Su Yu while arguing with each other.
Perhaps because of the summer camp organized by the sports team, the topic discussed by the students in the restaurant at this moment was the last World Youth Championship to be held in Nairobi, the capital of the East African country of Kenya, in a few days.
"When is the World Junior Championship held?"
"July 12 to July 16?"
"Speaking of which, this World Youth Championship is the last one?"
"Yeah, the IAAF is reforming. They say the athletes are too young, and that countries are over-exploiting young athletes in order to achieve good results in the World Junior Championships. So they're not allowing us to play anyway."
"Actually, it has nothing to do with us. We can't possibly participate in the World Junior Championships. Each country is only allowed to register two people for each event. If you want to participate in the World Junior Championships, you must first get into the top two in the country's World Junior Championship trials! And the results must meet the standards. I won't talk about other things. Can you run the 100 meters in less than 10.85 seconds? If you can't, don't think too much."
"Huh? 10.85 seconds for the 100 meters? That's already in the national first-class standard, right? Hehe, if you ask me, I don't have any hope for electronic timing, but if it's manual timing, I can just let the timing coach shake his hand, right?"
"It's so funny, I'll give you a 9.85 second world u18 record, okay?"
"Tsk, open your mind a little. You're already shaking, but you still think 9.85 seconds is too much. You can just go for 8.85 seconds to break the human limit, okay?"
Su Yu and his friends were listening to the nonsense discussion nearby, and Jiang Yuan also started chatting: "Hey, by the way, Angzi, didn't you participate in the trials for the World Junior Championships? You were the champion of the 100m and 200m events in our provincial middle school sports meet this year, right?"
Zhou Yuang shook his head and said, "I can't do it. I'm just the champion of the first grade. My 100m time is 11.33 seconds, and I can never break 11.30 seconds. The teacher of my school's track and field team said that I'm still in the development stage and lack of explosive power. I will naturally be able to break 11 seconds as my body develops and my muscles grow. He told me not to worry. But I don't think it's right. I have problems with my start, acceleration, and mid-run, so I want to find a better coach to teach me."
Su Yu ate his meal while listening to Zhou Yuang's words without saying a word.
Among the three people in their dormitory, or among all the students in the entire summer camp, Zhou Yuang is probably the one who is most determined about his goals.
Jiang Yuan also admired Zhou Yuang's determination and ideas. He patted Zhou Yuang on the shoulder and said, "You are so talented, and you still have the idea to go down this path. As long as you perform well in the summer camp this time, you will definitely get what you want!"
Zhou Yuang chuckled and asked Jiang Yuan what he thought.
"Me?"
For Jiang Yuan, since he was a child, various coaches and teachers told his parents that he had good athletic talent and it would be a pity if he was not trained professionally. This included in this year's provincial middle school sports meeting, where he not only won the double championship in long jump and high jump, but his winning results also surpassed those of the students in the second grade group.
Compared to the popular events like basketball and football in the past, he seemed to be more interested in long jump and high jump, which were not popular at all, but he had not thought too much about whether they were professional or not for the time being.
Among young people aged fourteen or fifteen, there are very few who are as determined as Zhou Yuang to pursue a professional career.
Jiang Yuan scratched his head: "I don't know either, let's talk about it later."
Zhou Yuang did not force Jiang Yuan's answer. He turned the question to Su Yu: "Xiao Yu, what about you? Do you want to be a professional athlete?"
Jiang Yuan, who was standing next to him, heard Zhou Yuan's question and was about to say "How is that possible" with a smile, but he heard an answer that stunned him.
"Um."
? !
Just a small syllable made Jiang Yuan freeze in place.
Before he could ask Su Yu when he had this idea, another voice came out from behind them: "In that case, are you interested in training with me?"
When Jiang Yuan heard this, he turned around in astonishment and saw Pei Dingshan, the man who had shocked all the summer camp students with his devilish memory during the morning training... !
The author has something to say:
Zhou Yuang: (Erkang hand) Wait, wait, teacher, can you look at me too?
Zhou Yuang: (touching his chin) Speaking of which, teacher, you are not only old, but you are also the third party. Xiaoyu is Yuanzi’s child bride! (Dog head, bushi, don't believe it)
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Although Lao Pei is Lao Pei, he is only 22 years old now
The age difference is 8 years. After all, our Lao Pei is also a genius. It is reasonable for him to skip a grade in the middle (thumbs up)
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