Ping-Pong Life
Chapter 124

Theoretical Heights

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The game continues.

When the score became 2:2, the right to serve came to Lu Jia.

Lu Jia glanced at Wang Chao.

He is waiting for instructions.

Wang Chao put his hand under the table and gave a strange instruction.

He didn't tell Lu Jia what to serve, but told Lu Jia: "Don't serve short backspin."

Lu Jia is very confused, because before Wang Chao joined the team, he almost only served short backspin, but now, Wang Chao asked him to change his serve?

He tried to get more instructions, but Wang Chao stopped looking at him. He wanted to ask more questions, but the referee blew a whistle and urged him to serve quickly.

Lu Jia ran out of moves. In desperation, he subconsciously Sneak Long Serve.

This ball was not stolen by Gao Ming. Zhao Li'an successfully predicted it at the first time and attacked sideways. With a "pop" sound, the ball was drawn cleanly and flew straight to the Wang Chao backhand baseline.

Then Zhao Li'an suddenly felt a thump in his heart and realized something was not right.

Facing an opponent with a forehand racket, it is actually normal to hit the ball to his backhand position. It was Zhao Li'an's subconscious muscle reaction after practicing countless doubles games. But then he thought of what Wang Chao had just done.

Sure enough, Wang Chao quickly changed hands.

In fact, when Wang Chao sent out the ball from Lu Jia, he had already predicted that Zhao Li'an would attack, so Zhao Li'an had already changed his racket before the ball came over.

And when the ball flew over, he counterattacked directly without hesitation.

He slapped the board hard.

There is no friction action, just a hard shot, because he still chooses to use the raw rubber side.

This is the classic rubber shot.

Ma Angxing My scalp felt numb again.

He would rather Wang Chao use reverse glue and make a hundred fake moves than face something as strange as raw glue.

His playing style determines that what he fears most is this feeling of "uncontrollability".

He stared at Wang Chao's wrist, trying his best to judge Wang Chao's movements.

But what he didn't expect was a simple and crude slap.

This ball has no technical content at all, the only characteristic is that it is fast.

Under normal circumstances, hitting the ball with raw rubber is about 30% faster than hitting the ball with reverse rubber.

The speed of hitting the ball directly is much faster than the speed of looping the ball.

After all, a straight line is always shorter than an arc.

So this shot is not about skill, but speed.

But Ma Angxing just got stuck in the vicious circle of skills and never came out.

Before he could figure out what kind of power and spin the ball had, the ball had already flown off the table from his side.

Spade Q 3:2 overtake the score.

When Lu Jia got the ball again, the moods of Ma Angxing and Zhao Li'an were completely different from those two minutes ago.

Zhao Li'an I don't know how to do it well.

In the Poseidon doubles team, he actually takes on 70% of the attacking tasks and is the main attacker.

And Ma Angxing is most suitable as an assistant because of his strong control and judgment.

But Zhao Li'an doesn't know whether to attack now.

The ball just now was obviously an opportunity, but as soon as he attacked, Wang Chao directly changed hands and hit hard, and then... Ma Angxing couldn't catch it.

This is not the first time.

Two consecutive balls, Ma Angxing proved that he really couldn't deal with raw rubber balls.

At this time, he saw Ma Angxing put his hand under the table and made a gesture, indicating that he should continue the attack.

Zhao Li'an gritted his teeth and nodded slightly.

"Since Xiaoxing can't break Wang Chao's raw rubber, then I will kill Wang Chao with a single blow without giving Xiaoxing a chance to face the raw rubber!"

Lu Jia continues to serve.

He still longs for Wang Chao's guidance, but Wang Chao still doesn't look at him.

Lu Jia also took the risk and directly stole another long one.

There was really nothing he could do. Apart from short backspin, the only serve he could serve that was pretty good was Sneak Long Serve. With other lob or chop serves, he was afraid of committing suicide by serving.

He Sneak Long Serve, Zhao Li'an and sure enough he turned sideways and attacked again.

In the sideways attack just now, Zhao Li'an only used seven points of force, because he is used to directing the ball into stalemates and playing hard, and because Coach Wang Shou has warned him more than once, "Don't play with too much force, because once you encounter an opponent with a good defense, you can't beat him with ten force, and you will lose the rhythm later."

But this time Zhao Li'an didn't care. He rushed forward regardless of everything, and with twelve seconds of force, the ball was knocked out hard. His body also jumped forward, and his lower abdomen almost hit the edge of the table.

He no longer considered the follow-up.

Such a good offensive opportunity.

So much ball speed and spin.

He felt that he should have this indomitable spirit.

If he doesn't believe it, he really can't kill Wang Chao!

He saw Wang Chao changing hands as before, using raw rubber, settling in early, and hitting the ball.

Zhao Li'an I understood at this moment.

It turns out that in this doubles match, there is no difference between me and Lu Jia. They are both here to serve as foils.

It turns out that I tried my best to attack, but I really couldn't penetrate Wang Chao.

No wonder Wang Chao allows Lu Jia to serve Sneak Long Serve, because he is not afraid of attacking at all.

On the contrary, it is precisely because of his own attack that Wang Chao can play those fancy things.

For example, this time, Wang Chao actually made a side cut.

God knows what's the significance of side cutting on raw rubber?

But Wang Chao really cut the ball over.

Regardless of the effect, the action is a genuine side cut anyway.

As for whether the ball spins or not, whether the trajectory deviates left or right, whether the speed is fast or slow, whether the ball sinks down or climbs up when it touches the bat, no one knows at present.

Ma Angxing sighed.

He was a little angry, and he wanted to throw the board at him desperately and let fate bring him down.

But he can't.

Because the person he respected the most in his life once said something to him.

"Your greatest advantage lies in your judgment, analysis, calculation and court intelligence. Remember, kid, you are different from most people. You must see the situation clearly in any situation, and never be impulsive, blindly take action, or play like a gambler."

"Because if you play like that, you will become an ordinary player who has no aura and will be ignored by everyone. You will never be able to make it to the national team in this life!"

Ma Angxing was born in the northwest border. The northwest is barren, and Gansu Province is relatively economically backward among the more than 30 provinces in China. Therefore, neither Table Tennis First Division nor Table Tennis Super League currently has a northwest team.

He fell in love with table tennis at the age of six and showed great talent. After just playing casually on the school's cement table for a few days, as a first grader, he defeated the strongest kid in the school in the sixth grade.

So he was sent to the only sports school within a radius of two hundred miles to practice ball, trying to change his destiny through playing ball.

Initially, Ma Angxing's family was poor and could not afford the expenses of the sports school. After three months of training, his parents almost asked him to go back to school. However, the teacher at the sports school thought he had good talent and took the initiative to apply for most of the tuition exemptions for him, and even several work-study subsidies, so that he could continue playing.

He practiced football at the sports school for four years. When he was ten years old, he was already able to interact with the main players of nearby Wushan County Team.

Later, he joined the Wushan County table tennis team and continued to practice quietly for another four years.

He has the unique silence and humility of a farm boy. Even though he has defeated all the invincible opponents in the team, he has never taken the initiative to fight for anything. Instead, he is very satisfied with the team's monthly subsidy of 3,000 yuan, because this is a high income that he will never get from studying or farming.

The country of Hua is too big, with too many teams at the county and city levels, and the level difference between teams at the same level is extremely different. Wushan County Team, in terms of management and strength, is actually a very weak team.

It is even far away from Jincheng City Team, the capital of Gansu Province.

The gap between Jincheng City Team and Jiangcheng City Team is also very far.

The differences in regional strength are far greater than those outside the industry imagine.

For example, the monthly subsidy for Jiangcheng City Team is 5,000, but in Wushan County it is only 3,000.

More importantly, in a place where there are no table tennis talents all year round, the level of both coaches and teachers will be relatively low, and their ambition will also become weak. This is a vicious cycle.

Information is blocked, playing style is backward, vision is shallow, and training quality is low.

The coaches of Wushan County Team cannot see how good Ma Angxing is.

They have never understood. This kid Ma Angxing is not strong enough, fast enough, his style of play is not gorgeous enough, and his skills and tactics are not rich enough. He only makes a few simple moves every time, but why can he always win in real games?

It seemed like those opponents who were much more powerful than him would inexplicably lose control when encountering him.

Ultimately they chalked it up to luck.

Therefore, they did not report the name Ma Angxing during the provincial team selection for several consecutive years.

Not because of selfishness, but because they feel that Ma Angxing cannot be selected and it is a waste of quota.

Isn't it ridiculous?

It's not actually funny.

Sometimes, lack of vision and knowledge can really create a lot of seemingly absurd farces. Even in the professional field, there are always a large number of people who are not professional enough.

Until that year, Coach Wang Lu occasionally traveled to the Northwest on business. Occasionally, on a whim, he planned to take a look at the teams in various provinces and cities to see if there were any flowers blooming in this ping-pong desert.

In the end, he didn't take a fancy to any of the main players from Gansu, Qingzhou and Ning provinces, but he chose the dark and skinny little Ma Angxing hidden in the little Wushan County Team.

Coach Wang Lu temporarily changed his itinerary and gave up his planned half-month-long trip to the northwest. He solemnly took Ma Angxing to the imperial capital.

Wang Lu held Ma Angxing's hand, personally took him to visit the national team training, told him many things he had never heard of, took him to watch a Table Tennis Super League game of Imperial Capital Panlong team, and went to the national team cafeteria to eat with the national players. Finally, he entrusted him to his biological brother Wang Shou.

Of course Wang Lu does these things not out of boredom, but to broaden Ma Angxing's horizons and improve Ma Angxing's mind. He doesn't want the previous years of experience at Wushan County Team to obliterate the ambition and long-term vision that children should have.

Before leaving, Wang Lu told Ma Angxing: "When you break into the national team with your own strength, remember to come to me. I will always be waiting for you."

Coach Wang Lu has a halo in the mind of Ma Angxing.

His parents told him that this coach is a noble person in your life, and you must not let him down.

Ma Angxing nodded vigorously, his two pure eyes shining brightly.

He recalled his brief experience of the Imperial Capital, like a dream. The splendor of the Imperial Capital and the loess mountains in front of him were separated by reality into two completely different worlds.

Only after climbing over this mountain can you see the distant scenery.

In order to fulfill this agreement, Ma Angxing began to train more silently and harder. Until he was 18 years old, Wang Shou personally went to Wushan County to pick him up and told him, "You are an adult. Come with me to Table Tennis First Division. You need to meet the masters outside and learn how to deal with various situations in actual combat. If you play well enough, next year, I will send you to the national team."

In this way, Ma Angxing entered Table Tennis First Division. Except for Wang Shou, no one knew his origin because he was unknown in Wushan County Team.

He was like jumping out of a crack in a stone. When he first appeared, he stunned the entire Table Tennis First Division with his unique style.

Only here can everyone see how powerful he is.

It's not strength, it's not speed, it's not fancy skills or a unique personality.

But the judgment that points directly to the source.

In the words of Coach Wang Lu.

"You are a rare player who can play with judgment, vision, calculation and IQ. You are the tactical talent that China Table Tennis Team urgently needs. The goal you will pursue in the future is not Lin Li and Bai Feng who play with their bodies, but Luo Jiu and Sun Tianlong who play with their brains."

"The former can only be a general, and the latter can be a commander."

"Yes, theoretically, Dragon Team is the ultimate height you can reach."

Thanks to "King's Victory Song", "Big Han Farmer" and "Three Emperors Are Honored" for the reward. Happy New Year to my fellow readers!

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