Ping-Pong Life
Chapter 218

The Meaning of Staying Close to the Table

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Lu Feiyang's request for a fight made the situation a bit delicate.

Gao Mingyuan's previous challenge was excusable, because it was indeed the first time for him to meet Wang Chao, and it was true that Wang Chao was the only one among the six dragons that he had not played before. Moreover, he had just lost the promotion and relegation match and was in a very passive situation.

In this situation, he tried to prove his strength by defeating Wang Chao. It was actually a small calculation. He was trying to win the attention of the national team coaches and let himself be among the seven special recruits.

The challenge mentality of Liang Kunpeng is even more clear. He was so unlucky this time that he was directly eliminated by Fan Xiaodong. He was not even qualified to compete in the big cycle. Staying here to watch the game these days is like sitting on pins and needles. He needs to prove himself more than Gao Mingyuan.

Both of them are actually quite stupid. They were not selected two years ago when they were the most popular. Two years later, when their performance was not good, they were recruited by the national team to participate in the trials. This signal was actually very clear, but neither of them got it.

But the nature of Lu Feiyang's challenge has changed.

He is a regular member of National Second Team, and he just played T2 with Wang Chao last year. It stands to reason that after T2, the winning relationship between him and Wang Chao has been determined.

But he was not convinced.

This 15-year-old kid has no other merits except his big heart.

Although he was beaten 4:0 by Zhu Ding, and Zhu Ding was beaten 4:1 by Wang Chao, he did not feel that he was weaker than Wang Chao. The reason was that in the T2 final, Zhu Ding played so happily.

So happy that it's like letting go of water.

Lu Feiyang is strong because of his talent and instinct. His vision is a mess. He can't see what's hidden behind Zhu Ding's weird playing style. He just feels dissatisfied.

"Brother Ding, why did you hit me like I was the enemy who killed my father, and when you hit Wang Chao, it turned into flirting?"

He has wanted to fight Wang Chao since he first met Wang Chao last year, but it has been delayed until now, and he has never had a chance.

So he didn't want to miss it again this time.

He wants to defeat Wang Chao while everyone on the coaching staff is present and seize his position as the leader among the younger generation of Chinese table tennis players.

As for how well Wang Chao played in the first two games, he didn't care.

After all, table tennis actually requires some insight into the game.

Watching the same game, people at different levels will see completely different things.

"Gao Mingyuan that bitch, he can't hit the ball on the stage, but I, Lu Feiyang, can hit the stage."

"Liang Kunpeng is that reckless guy, he can't do his backhand well, but I, Lu Feiyang, am very good at it."

Cai Guodong turned to look at Zhu Zeshi. After all, Zhu Zeshi was the head coach of Lu Feiyang.

Zhu Zeshi's face darkened, and he said, "Then let's have another fight."

Lu Feiyang stood in front of the table happily.

This time both parties guessed the coins fairly, and Wang Chao finally got the right to serve.

Wang Chao sent a short back spin very casually.

It was really casual, because the ball was not rigorous, not low enough, and not close enough to the net, so it was considered a chance.

Therefore, Lu Feiyang did not hesitate to attack, challenging each other on the stage.

There is no deliberate change in the ball on the line, because Lu Feiyang's priority is to ensure power and rotation. He does not dare to add too much mass for fear of killing himself.

What's more, Wang Chao is left-handed. If Lu Feiyang is a normal hit, if he hits someone else, he will hit the other person's forehand position, but when hitting Wang Chao, he happens to hit the backhand position, which can be said to be a double benefit.

According to what he learned during private practice with Wang Chao in T2, he felt that this ball would at least force Wang Chao to step down.

As long as Wang Chao retreats from the stage, he will seize the initiative and use the near stage to hit the far stage. He has strong enough and comprehensive forehand and backhand pulling skills to launch waves of continuous attacks until Wang Chao is killed.

——This is the main reason why Lu Feiyang always feels that he can beat Wang Chao.

He couldn't beat Zhu Ding because Zhu Ding's power was too strong, but Wang Chao's power was weak. Lu Feiyang believed that this was mutual reinforcement, just like the five elements, and no one was necessarily stronger than the other.

But Wang Chao didn't make any movement at his feet. He just leaned his body slightly to the left, raised his arms to meet it, and pulled the ball over with a simple reverse pull.

The ball was pulled so naturally that the young players had calm expressions and did not realize the profound meaning of this action.

But several big guys were slightly moved at this moment.

The forehand fight with Liang Kunpeng just now seemed too hard and too deliberate, but at this moment, this easy and simple reverse pull clearly showed the results of Wang Chao's winter vacation training.

In fact, strength is the basis of all movements. Lu Feiyang judged that Wang Chao would retreat, precisely because he was very powerful in this challenge. He believed that Wang Chao could not stretch his movements without retreating, and did not have enough strength to overcome the spin he imposed on the ball and pull the ball back.

But Wang Chao easily pulled the ball back with only a small movement range.

This means that his strength when he pulls back with his hands now is equivalent to the strength he used to pull back with his arms after exiting the stage last year.

He Jingping said that his system requires a critical value of strength, and this is its significance.

When your strength exceeds the critical value, you can complete various technical movements of your left and right hands without retreating from the stage.

Not retreating is the most prominent feature of the new generation of table tennis players, which represents faster rhythm, faster ball speed, and faster changes.

Therefore, the He Jingping system is said to have the best attack power in the world because it essentially requires that all technical actions be completed without retreating at all.

Last year's Wang Chao had no technical shortcomings, but he was forced to retire at every turn. Therefore, when he used this system, he always felt that it was mediocre, neither fast nor powerful. It was just a more flexible offensive method. He couldn't figure out the reason for this, but he was keenly aware that this thing could not kill anyone with his excellent ball sense, so he came up with all kinds of weird calculations to deal with powerful opponents.

And when he doesn't have to step down, he fundamentally stands on the same level as Lin Zijun, Pike, Hook and others. Under this premise, his system is truly the world's strongest offensive system.

At this moment, "Wang Chao who will not retreat from the stage" truly emerged.

Lu Feiyang is a forehand pull and Wang Chao is a backhand pull.

Lu Feiyang backhand pull, Wang Chao forehand pull.

Lu Feiyang pull again, Wang Chao pull again.

The pace of both sides is astonishingly fast. In this short-distance stalemate near the stage, it seems that the power cannot be fully exerted. However, because the distance between the two sides is extremely close and the ball flies very close, the requirements for nerve response speed and movement speed have reached the extreme. In this rhythm that is so intense that there is no time to breathe, the players actually have no time to really think about how to make changes, and most of all actions are instinctive.

The most powerful part of He Jingping's double-sided loop ball offensive system is that it provides many sets of preset offensive routines in such an environment that is too fast to think.

This is Wang Chao's fastest-paced game since his debut.

But it was also the easiest game Wang Chao had played since his debut.

The reason for the ease was that he wasn't thinking at all.

He doesn't need to stare at the opponent's movements, predict the opponent's ball route and landing point, and then quickly think about how to counterattack like before.

He was just playing a trick, just like Duan Yu walked with his eyes closed when he met Murong Fu.

On the eleventh board, he penetrated Lu Feiyang.

1:0, Wang Chao took the lead.

This ball Wang Chao changed the line three times, changed the length twice, and had a wide angle.

But none of the changes were calculated by Wang Chao's brain. He was just used to this kind of changes. Every time he hit them, they were all changes.

With a sound of "Wow", all the little players shouted out and then started to applaud crazily.

In their eyes, the ball was so beautiful that it was almost dazzling. The changes reflected by both sides in this dazzling scene required them to watch the video many times afterwards and analyze the players' thoughts during the game, ball by ball.

They don't know that there are actually no ideas, just routines...

The so-called "double-sided loop ball offensive system", in a sense, is just to extract all the changing modes that can be actively initiated when playing, and then use the most reasonable way to embed them one by one into different positions.

Of course, this kind of mosaic is not done casually, but should consider the rationality and difficulty of the technique, and try to use the lowest difficulty, the fewest movements, and the smallest force to achieve the best effect.

He Jingping The reason why it took seven long years to complete this system is precisely because with the development of table tennis technology, there are more and more changing modes of playing, and there are more and more new technologies, and every technological innovation will bring many fresh changes.

This is a lot of details.

He Jingping has always adhered to the idea of "looking for super geniuses", and it is precisely because of his system that non-super geniuses cannot learn it.

Ordinary people can't remember these details, but super geniuses don't need to remember them. They just need to comprehend, understand, and then forget them all. Then, they can naturally make the right choice subconsciously when playing.

That's why Cai Guodong tolerated He Jingping's irresponsible resignation and welcomed his return without any grudges.

Because the head coach knows that although He Jingping's scheming is at the bottom of the coaching staff, in terms of pure technology, he ranks first among the coaching staff, even above Qin Huachang.

The game continues.

Wang Chao continued to serve, still with a very casual backspin. This time he didn't even bother to serve it short, but directly sent it out.

He increasingly felt that this style of play was too comfortable and he didn't need to be cautious at all, because facing players of Lu Feiyang's level, he felt that he could win no matter how he played.

Therefore, in order not to fall into a stalemate, he is willing to take the initiative to give opportunities to his opponents to take the initiative to attack.

Lu Feiyang is indeed another forehand with a heavy arc.

Wang Chao lowered his shoulders, raised his elbows, and threw his forearms outward. This time it was a beautiful backhand twist.

Lu Feiyang pulls again, directly giving a large angle to the forehand.

Wang Chao only moved half a step with his feet, stretched out his arms and just within reach, pocketed the ball.

This ball is quite random again.

In fact, the correct approach should be to move to the forehand position, and then do a standard Forehand Loop.

But he didn't want to move, and he barely moved half a step just to reach the ball. So he couldn't assume the standard pulling posture and could only bring the ball back at will.

Yes, he is giving another chance.

He increasingly has the feeling of "having everything under control" and is able to do things with ease and with ease.

He was too tired from playing last year, racking his brains and racking his brains, so he wanted to play simpler this year, especially in this kind of internal game that is not open to the outside world at all.

When he first entered the national team base last year, he would have definitely won, but now he feels it doesn't matter. Even if he loses to Lu Feiyang, it doesn't seem to be a big deal.

This is of course not that he has fallen, but that he gradually began to understand the meaning of "King's Heart".

A lion doesn't mind being bitten by a small insect, even if it hurts a little, it doesn't matter. When faced with weak creatures, he will be surprisingly tolerant.

Only when he meets another lion will he be aroused to win.

Lu Feiyang was in a state of vitality at the moment, and his heart was filled with the belief that he would win. Facing the high ball returned by Wang Chao, he took half a step back from the stage, shouted loudly, and tried his best to charge forward.

This height, this intensity, this perfect posture of stepping back from the stage and turning sideways means that this is a real smash.

Wang Chao still did not retreat, even though the power and spin of the ball made him feel great pressure on the way over.

He gritted his teeth and tipped the racket up.

This ball definitely cannot be pulled back because it is too powerful. If you want to pull it back, you have to step back from the stage to unload the force on the ball, making the ball become a stalemate on the mid-range stage.

But Wang Chao has realized the benefits of not quitting. In this inconsequential game, he is willing to take risks and give it a try.

He snarled forward fiercely.

This is a very retro, hard-hitting block.

The ball hit the racket with a "bang" sound that shook my hand, and bounced back faster than it flew over. However, because Wang Chao was completely fighting and had no time to rub, the ball rose slightly, hung and flew forward, flew over the net, flew over half of the table, and almost went out of bounds, but at the last moment, there was a very light "brush" sound in the air.

Wang Chao smiled and felt a little lucky.

Lu Feiyang directly cursed "Fuck".

This is a marginal ball, very, very light, and completely impossible to catch.

2:0.

Thanks to "Passing by a Giggling" for the 5,000-coin reward. Come on, you will soon become the helmsman, haha.

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