Coach Li didn't know what medicine was sold in Zhang Guan's gourd, so he asked, "What about triple jump?"
"Tell me some basic knowledge, I know nothing about the triple jump." Zhang Guan said.
"What?" Coach Li looked at Zhang Guan in amazement. Ordinary track and field athletes will certainly not be too lacking in track and field knowledge. After all, it is the same big event. It like you eating pork but never seen pigs run? And at the level of the national team, they are made from the top athletes in the country. Many people have practiced several projects. Many people have participated in all-around events in low-level competitions. For example, Liu Feiren has won the national youth team all-around championship.
Zhang Guan is different. He is not an athlete trained in the traditional system. His track and field knowledge is very lacking. In his last life, he only practiced track and field for more than a year just for the college entrance examination. Eventually, he barely passed the second-level athletes, so he at best knows nothing about track and field events he hasn't touched. It is for this reason that before he practiced 400 meters, he had to go to other athletes to learn.
It took coach Li several seconds to figure this out, and then he gestures Zhang Guan to sit down and said, "I won't tell you about the history of the triple jump you can go back and check it online. It is said that the triple jump is made up of three consecutive jumps. Compared with the long jump, the triple jump has one more single jump and one stride jump, and for this reason, the triple jump has higher technical requirements than long jump. Moreover, the overall burden on the lower limbs of athletes is very large. It should be regarded as the most burdened exercise on the lower limbs out of all the track and field events."
"Is it easy to practice the triple jump?" Zhang Guan asked.
"Technique is not difficult to master. Compared with the long jump, the triple jump has higher requirements for technique, physical fitness, flexibility, and coordination, while long jump requires slightly higher explosive force and run-up speed." Coach Li thought for a while and then said, "There are still many athletes in the world who practice long jumps and triple jumps and can achieve good results. For example, our country's current long jump record holder, his triple jump results is also close to 17 meters. There are also many double champions in the world long jump and triple jump."
"Then I will practice long jump later, and try a triple jump." Zhang Guan said.
Coach Li laughed, "Ah, definitely not! I don't mean that you can't jump long, nor that you can't jump well, but you are not suitable for practicing triple jump."
"Why? I have no problem practicing the long jump." Zhang Guan asked immediately.
"Because you are the holder of the 100-meter world record." Coach Li continued, "I didn't say that triple jump requires high flexibility and coordination of the body, while the 100-meter sprinter has very big muscle density. Simply put, it's too stiff to practice triple jump. Look at the American Carl Lewis, the world champion of 100 meters, 200 meters and long jump, why didn't he try triple jump? Not because of the lack of skills, but because it is not suitable. Many of our sprint and long jump athletes will not try the triple jump event. However, hurdle athletes go to the triple jump."
"Because of stepping?" Zhang Guan asked.
"For this reason, hurdler athletes have better body flexibility and coordination than long jumpers, and their muscles are not weak. There is also a slight intercommunity between the technique of striding and hurdles." Coach Li said.
"Skip step? I'll try it first." Zhang Guan stood up and jumped once.
"Where are you stepping? At most, you have taken a big step." Coach Li said as he stood up, and then said, "You have a good look, I will show you again."
After a few jogs, Coach Li began to make five or six steps in a row, and then said, "See it different!"
Zhang Guan nodded, and coach Li then explained, "The step is to jump, the key point is not to jump, but to jump! Since it is a jump, you need to fly, you just jumped, you can't see the flight, so it can only be considered a cross, not a jump."
"I'll try again." Zhang Guan memorized what coach Li did. He walks for a few steps and then starts to jump.
"Not right!" Coach Li smiled and waved his hand, "This is not a step jump, although the movement is very similar, the force is not so, your force is still biased towards running, not jumping."
Zhang Guan stopped. As coach Li said, he also felt that he was not jumping right. He frowned, as if thinking, but he found skill in the system.
"The skill of "stride" should be used for obstacle races and triple jumps, but to learn "stepping" and the skill of "strengthening knees", it requires a total of six skill points. But it's fine, there are still a lot of skill points, so let's learn it!" Zhang Guan thought of this and learned the two skills of "strong knee" and "stride".
"Okay, don't think about it. It doesn't matter if you don't practice triple jump, whether you jump or not. let first go back to take a bath, then go to dinner, and rest well at night." Coach Li said.
"Coach, I'll try again." Zhang Guan finished, and started a small run-up again, and then made continuous strides.
This time, Zhang Guan's first few jumps were still the same, but afterward, it seemed that he gradually found his feelings, and the following few jumps were considered to be a model.
"The knee joint feels a lot easier, and the effort seems to be easier." Zhang Guan stopped slowly and began to reminisce about the feeling of just stepping.
"Well, this time is not bad. I found some tricks. The next few jumps are barely a step jump!" Coach Li commented, and then began to urge Zhang Guan to eat.
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There is only more than one week left from the second leg of the Golden League. Except for the time to reach the adaptation and the road, they left two days in advance, the preparation time for Zhang Guan is only five or six days. To prepare for the Golden League, the training of long jump has stagnated. Zhang Guan mainly conducts 400-meter sprint training.
On the track, Zhang Guan started to run with the instruction of Yu Gui.
"I haven't seen you practice these days, the curve level has improved a lot compared to a month ago, and the speed has also improved." Yu Gui nodded with a smile.
Next, Zhang Guan entered the straight track, and his rhythm still did not change significantly. However, Zhang Guan's pace was not the same as usual, and the pace was getting faster and faster. When he reached the middle of the straight line, Zhang Guan's pace started to stabilize. At this time, Zhang Guan's pace was almost ten centimeters larger than usual.
"Huh?" Yu Gui took a breath. "Zhang Guan is deliberately increasing the pace? Is he learning Varina's technique? This technique is difficult. If you use it blindly, it will affect the distribution of physical strength, affects the speed behind, and the final score will not rise but will decline. Zhang Guan did not run like this when training yesterday. It is estimated that he was cranky again last night."
Yu Gui shook his head helplessly. This technique of large strides in the straights is currently only used by Varina in the competition. Other athletes have also tried, but the pace of increase is not the same as that of Varina.
In terms of increasing the pace of running, athletes can do it, but then physical fitness will become a big problem. When we walk normally, we will not be tired for a long time at a normal pace, but we can increase the pace of walking, and we will feel tired after a while. The same is true for athletes. They may learn the method of Varina's running, and they may get a 0.5-second advantage in the second 100 meters, but because of excessive physical exertion, it will cause a weak sprint in the end, and the final time lost will exceed 0.5 seconds, this is not worth the loss.
Therefore, Yu Gui can foresee that Zhang Guan's use of this large-scale step in the second 100-meter run will disrupt his normal physical fitness and cause problems during the final 100-meter sprint.
However, Yu Gui immediately discovered that Zhang Guan on the runway was faintly proud.
"Is this kid still able? I thought he ran well? He couldn't keep up with the physical strength for a while, and he cried!" Yu Gui thought.
Yu Gui didn't know that it was difficult to cover up the ecstatic excitement in Zhang Guan's heart. At this time, Zhang Guan's physical exertion did not change as he had imagined, but there was no change compared with before.
"I learned Varina's running style! It's striding, it's striding skills! I used to think that striding skill was only useful in obstacle running and triple jump. I didn't expect it to be a 400m sprint event. I can also use it. If I knew that this skill could be used at 400 meters, I would have learned it! Thanks to yesterday, while I was learning how to jump with Coach Li, otherwise, it may have taken a long time to remember to learn this stepping skill. This gave me a big surprise."
At this moment, Zhang Guan felt that it was necessary to reexamine the skills in the skill bar. Although many of the skills in the skill bar are indeed specialized sports skills, many of them are general skills. For example, the most primitive sprint skills, as long as they are used in running-related projects, and the more general sports items, the greater the value of the skills.
"This technique is estimated to increase my 400m speed by 0.5 seconds!" Zhang Guan thought while adjusting the pace quickly and then entered the corner area.
Zhang Guan's pace and rhythm did not change, as usual, and when he was about to enter the final straight, he started to sprint. The sprint speed was still like the athlete who ran 200 meters, and it was not as directed as imagined, physical problems.
"He still so fast?" Yu Gui was surprised by the misjudgment. The physical distribution problem he had expected did not appear, which proved a fact.
"Zhang Guan mastered that kind of technique!" Coach Yu felt that this surprise was too sudden and suddenly made his mind dizzy.