Sprint: This champion is a bit weird

Chapter 56 Su Bingtian: I feel like I’m being fished
  In Wen Hao's past life memory, there are many game data and short stories about Su Bingtian.

For many non-track and field enthusiasts, perhaps they have only heard the story of Su Bingtian’s 9 seconds, and they only know that Su Bingtian is a representative figure of Chinese sprinting.

But it’s not clear how Su Bingtian grew from being underdog to an Asian sprinting legend step by step.

Before 2013, Su Bingtian's best time was 10 seconds, which was set at the Hefei National Track and Field Championships in 16, and this result also set a new national record at the time.

But after he achieved this result, the outside world commented on him: "Su Bingtian's limit is 10 seconds and 16 seconds. He can't make any progress."

why?

Because for people who don't understand track and field or sprinting, they will think that Su Bingtian's physical talent is limited. With a height of only 1 meters, his "predictable" upper limit is much lower than that of Zhang Peimeng, who is 72 meters tall. A few tall ones.

But what they don't know is that compared to Zhang Peimeng, Su Bingtian had never been exposed to "scientific" training in the true sense until the winter training in 2012.

In Su Bingtian's career, he met two coaches who helped him greatly and can be called "mentors".

The first one is Yuan Guoqiang, the sprint coach of the Guangdong Track and Field Team.

From joining the Guangdong track and field team at the end of 2006 until the 2021 Xi'an Games, Yuan Guoqiang has always stood behind Su Bingtian, cultivating carefully, teaching patiently, and never giving up.

Yuan Guoqiang is recognized as a good coach. Despite his great seniority and seniority, he has never relied on this, but devoted himself wholeheartedly to Chinese sprinting.

The Chinese relay team can continue to make breakthroughs, and Yuan Guoqiang is indispensable.

But Yuan Guoqiang, an old coach, also has the problem of weak theoretical knowledge, otherwise he would not have coached Su Bingtian for several years and failed to help him correct the huge problem of "suicidal starts".

Starting, supporting, running on the way, and sprinting, this is the most basic sprinting theory that is well-known among later generations of track and field enthusiasts. Su Bingtian only came into contact with and learned it for the first time when he went to the United States for winter training in 2012.

At that time, Su Bingtian suddenly realized: Oh, it turns out that the 100 meters should be run like this.

You should not raise your head immediately after starting. Instead, you should lower your center of gravity and use the forward angle brought by the starting block to continue accelerating under lower wind resistance conditions.

After being slightly exposed to the truly scientific sprint training concepts and systems in the United States, Su Bingtian quickly ushered in an evolution.

2011~2012这两个赛季，苏炳天只有借助顺风和极致的身体状态才能跑进10秒20，常态情况下的他只有10.2x的水平。

而2013~2014这两个赛季，他已经能够较为轻松的在逆风条件下跑进10秒20，自身状态条件好的情况下甚至能够跑进10秒10以内。

After tasting the progress, Su Bingtian's belief became stronger. He began to set his sights on the so-called "racial barrier" that his teammate Zhang Peimeng had touched before - the 10-second mark!
  If you want to break the 10-second mark, you must achieve comprehensive evolution in terms of physical fitness + technology.

Physical fitness is easy to solve. It is nothing more than conducting more scientific and higher-intensity training to improve your strength, endurance, flexibility, physical fitness, reaction and other attributes to a new level.

But technological progress is a big problem.

Between 2013 and 2014, Su Bingtian tried to improve his techniques countless times, but found that it was difficult for his body to integrate the new techniques.

It's that feeling where the brain clearly knows what to do, but the body keeps rejecting it during the execution.

Su Bingtian realized that this was because his body had formed a strong muscle memory through years of training.

If you want to continue to make progress, you must break this solidified muscle memory and re-create the technical rhythm of 100 meters!
  So, he made a bold decision: change the starting point!

At that time, his mentor Yuan Guoqiang, Zhang Peimeng, Xie Zhenye and others who were close to him all persuaded him that it was too risky to do so.

Let’s make a simple analogy: A table tennis player who has been holding the racket with his right hand for eight years and is one of the best in the country decides to switch to a left-hand grip in pursuit of progress.

I'm afraid Ma Long would be stronger than Ma Long in making such a bold decision, and he would never dare to try it easily.

In fact, Su Bingtian himself was unsure about the decision to change the starting foot, and he didn't know whether he could succeed in doing so.

And after being persuaded by people around him, he began to hesitate.

After all, even if he doesn't change, he is already one of the best sprinters in Asia. Apart from Qatar's naturalized athlete Ogunode, he has few opponents. When he was hesitant to make this bold change, the second person in his career who could be called a "mentor" appeared and helped him strengthen his confidence with only a small "experiment".

"What's the little experiment?"

Facing Su Bingtian's curious questions, Wen Hao just smiled lightly: "Young man, don't be too anxious. You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Let's finish the current game successfully first."

After saying this, Wen Hao said hello and took Zhang Peimeng to start warming up.

A confused Su Bingtian was left messy in the wind.

No, brother, don’t say it halfway!

If you say half of it, you will be struck by lightning! ! !
  After this episode, Su Bingtian became full of curiosity and thirst for knowledge about the "little experiment" Wen Hao mentioned, which made him a little absent-minded even in the warm-up and preliminaries.

Fortunately, the competition in the preliminaries was not too fierce and the opponents in the same group were not very strong. This prevented him from overturning in the first round and successfully advanced to the semi-finals.

At night, after discovering that he was too excited to sleep because he was too entangled in what happened during the day, Su Bingtian finally realized it later.

He felt as if he was being fished for.

The schedule of the Luohe Youth Championship is 4 days in total.

The men's 100m preliminaries are on the 28th, and the semifinals and finals are on the 29th.

The men's 100 meters has the largest number of participants, with 28 provincial teams, 4 sports college teams and the People's Liberation Army team, including Wen Hao, a special individual athlete, a total of 54 athletes participated.

There are 7 preliminaries groups with varying numbers of people, separating the strongest seeded players one by one.

In the first group of preliminaries, Jiangsu team Lu Bin ranked first with a time of 10 seconds.

In the second group of preliminaries, Chen Yibo of the Henan team ranked first with a time of 10 seconds; Li Yong of the Hubei team ranked second with a time of 72 seconds.

In the third group of preliminaries, Zhang Peimeng of the Yanjing team ranked first with a time of 10 seconds.

In the fourth group of the preliminaries, Liang Jiahong of the Guangdong team ranked first with a time of 10 seconds.

In the fifth group of preliminaries, Sichuan team Yin Hualong ranked first with a time of 10 seconds; Guangdong team Su Bingtian ranked second with a time of 63 seconds.

In the sixth group of preliminaries, Guangxi team Lao Yi ranked first with a time of 10 seconds.

In the seventh group of the preliminaries, Wen Hao, who competed as an individual athlete, ranked first with a time of .10 seconds!

At 4:20 pm, when the audience in Luohe Stadium witnessed Wen Hao running out of the national master level with extremely ease, their slightly worried mood before the game completely calmed down.

It’s not that there are no contestants who let off steam in the preliminaries. After these seven groups of competition,
  Except for the Hubei team's Chen Yibo and the Guangxi team's Lao Yi, who seemed to be close to their full performance, the Sichuan team's Yin Hualong was forced even more by the Guangdong team's Su Bingtian.

The rest of the seed players who ranked first in the group were very obvious in their efforts, and they basically only used less than 80% of their strength.

But again, with less than 10% of their strength, the results of these players were all outside 60 seconds.

And what about Wen Hao?

10 second 44!

Even in last year's National Games, this result would have defeated Guo Fan, the leader of the Fujian team, and finished sixth!
  After the results of the preliminaries came out, a reporter from Henan Daily interviewed his own player Chen Yibo and asked him what he thought of Wen Hao's performance.

Chen Yibo faced the camera with a wry smile and said:

"There's nothing to say. The difference in strength is too big. If someone only needs to make a small move, it's already the limit of our segment."

(End of this chapter)