All-round Athlete

Chapter 147 The King of Athletics Internationalization of Athletes

Although Sharapova is a Grand Slam winner, she is a female player after all. It is still difficult to catch a ball with a speed of more than 120 miles per hour, at least in terms of angle and control of the landing point. However, Zhang Guan, a rookie, obviously has a bigger problem. In Sharapova's view, Zhang Guan's ability to catch the ball is considered a big victory.

The tennis ball was hit back by Sharapova across the net, and then I saw Zhang Guan running over in small steps, and then returned the ball smoothly.

The angle of this return is not tricky, it can only be regarded as quite satisfactory, but as a rookie, the quality of this return is already very high.

"The ball came back! The angle is pretty good." Sharapova subconsciously ran towards the ball, and then hit the ball back over the net again.

Then, Zhang Guan took another small step, and then returned the ball smoothly, the angle was still not tricky, but the landing point was still very stable.

"The return of this ball is not bad! Could it be that the return just now was not a coincidence? What's going on? A few minutes ago, he obviously played badly and had no tennis talent. Not bad, at least he passed. Could it be that he just pretended not to know?” Sharapova suddenly felt that Zhang Guan had been pretending not to learn.

"I seemed to be teaching him hand in hand before!" Sharapova suddenly remembered that when teaching Zhang Guan how to play tennis, the two of them kept sticking together, and Zhang Guan seemed to be enjoying it.

The quality of the tennis outfit is very good, and it also shows off your figure. Of course, Zhang Guan enjoys the feeling that Sharapova puts on it.

"This damn guy, no wonder he can't learn it all the time! It's all intentional, it's all fake! The stinking rascal..." Sharapova blushed slightly, and then added a difficult side spin to the next return .

Zhang Guan obviously wouldn't return this kind of side spin ball, he still followed the original method, and then the ball returned naturally high.

"Let you pretend that you can't!" Sharapova directly gave Zhang Guan a high-pressure smash.

"Oh!" Zhang Guan was caught off guard, and the tennis ball hit his face directly...

...

After learning tennis, Zhang Guan and Sharapova have more common language. Sharapova began to talk with Zhang Guan about some interesting events in the previous games, such as defeating Davenport at Wimbledon and winning the championship at Birmingham. Kovic, the reversal of Serena Williams in the year-end finals, etc. Zhang Guan has some tennis knowledge anyway. When Sharapova talks about professional tennis, Zhang Guan will not be blind.

The two chatted together, went shopping together, played tennis together, played sports together, all kinds of sports... Then entered 2006, Sharapova was about to start preparing for the Australian Open again, and Zhang Guan also ended his vacation , bid farewell to Sharapova and returned to China.

According to the usual practice, the indoor track and field competition is still from late January to early March, and the first stop of this year's IAAF indoor competition is also the Moscow indoor track and field competition. However, Zhang Guan has no plans to participate in this year's track and field indoor competition. Only the 11th IAAF Indoor Track and Field Championship in March is worth participating in. For the rest of the time, Zhang Guan felt that it was more important to strengthen the training of the 400-meter sprint.

In outdoor track and field competitions, the competitions in the first half of the year are actually quite scattered. For example, before the IAAF Golden League, there were a total of six IAAF Grand Prix, which were held in Senegal, Japan, Brazil, the Netherlands, the United States and the Czech Republic. Six games spanning five continents. It is impossible for athletes to visit all the venues in such a scattered manner. It is basically the principle of participating nearby. Zhang Guan can only participate in one IAAF Japan Grand Prix at most.

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Xinzhuang training base.

On the big screen in the electronic classroom, Zhang Guan was carefully watching the video of Jeremy Variner's game.

"How is it, what do you think?" Director Yu asked.

"The follow-up ability is very strong!" Zhang Guan exclaimed.

"You can see it too." Director Yu continued: "This is just Variner at the Athens Olympics. At that time, he used the same running style as the other two American athletes. In the first 200 meters, he did not actually lead Advantage, after entering the second corner, yes, you can see here, his teammates accelerated a little earlier, and then he started to accelerate. The recent American 400-meter running method generally starts to accelerate. .”

Director Yu continued to play the screen: "Look again, when entering the straight runway, Variner was only in second place, about one meter behind his teammate Harris, but in the final sprint, just at the beginning Variner caught up with Harris. Let me step back and compare you. Harris’s sprint speed is actually not slow, and even faster than other athletes, but Variner can still surpass Harris. .”

"Let's take a look at the video of Varina's World Athletics Championships last year." Director Yu changed a video.

"See, Variner's running style has changed. After entering the first straight track, his stride has become significantly larger, but the rhythm has not changed. Then he entered the corner, and his pace It has become smaller, the frequency has become faster, and the speed has started to increase. As I said just now, the time for Americans to accelerate has been increasing. In the past, they started to accelerate at about 250 meters, and now some players began to speed up at 230 meters. Wariner But when entering the corner, he started to speed up." Director Yu went on to analyze.

"It's very scientific to run like this. We increase our pace in the straight to maintain speed. After entering the curve, other runners adjust first and then speed up. He speeds up first and then adjusts, but this requires a lot of physical fitness!" Zhang Guan asked.

Director Yu nodded: "Yes, this is very demanding on the body. At least I haven't found other athletes who can do this. But Wariner will still maintain good explosiveness in the end after running like this. You can continue to watch Here, they entered the final straight from the cutlass. At this time, Variner actually entered the straight almost at the same time as the second place, but in the final sprint, his abundant physical strength ensured that he could win the championship."

"This kind of running is very special." Zhang Guan continued.

Director Yu glared at Zhang Guan: "Your running style is even more special!"

Zhang Guan smiled awkwardly. He wanted to use some normal running methods, but he couldn't do such a rigorous physical distribution.

The sense of rhythm of 400-meter athletes is accumulated over time and acquired through a lot of training. They are already very familiar with their bodies, knowing when to run fast, when to slow, and when to run with what rhythm. It can be said to be a sprint feeling. But Zhang Guan's training time is too short, and he hasn't cultivated this feeling yet, so he can only rely on the skill of "incomplete impulse activation" to limit his movement rhythm.

Generally speaking, the current Zhang Guan adopts a running method that requires the least technical content. In the front, he relies on "incomplete sprint activation" to run. In the end, he withdraws this skill and sprints directly with one brain. He can sprint for multiple blocks. Many pieces. The whole process does not require too many physical adjustments, just pay attention to the basic movements and running routes.

Just listen to the guide and then said: "Everyone has their own running style, and I don't force you to change your running style, but I think there is still a lot of room for improvement in your current running style. At the same time, you can increase the distance of the pace on the basis of the same rhythm as Wariner did; the second is to grasp the sprint point, you can properly advance the sprint point, put the sprint point in the corner, even if it is only five Meters or ten meters is also a kind of improvement."

Zhang Guan thought about it carefully. It is actually a difficult technique to master while keeping the rhythm unchanged while running straight. of.

"If I use the stamina potion to increase the stamina to over 90, I should be able to start sprinting earlier, so that the speed can be faster. I should be able to run within 44 seconds." Zhang Guan thought silently.

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The New Year in 2006 was at the end of January, and Zhang Guan didn't have any important events in the first half of the year, so he had a holiday more than ten days in advance.

But Zhang Guan didn't go home right away. He still had two commercials to shoot, one for air-conditioning and one for insurance. There is also an endorsement of a watch. Among them, the watch endorsement is an international brand, and the final endorsement amount reached 3 million US dollars.

Since winning the final prize of the Golden League last year, some international brands have already contacted Zhuge Wenbo to discuss Zhang Guan's endorsement contract. This change is undoubtedly good news. In fact, for domestic athletes, advertisers and endorsers sign contracts with them mainly for the Chinese market. Even some multinational companies will not place advertisements for Chinese athletes in the United States or Europe. The recent attention of these international brands to Zhang Guan is not just for the Chinese market, and many are planning to use Zhang Guan as a spokesperson for global publicity.

In fact, among Chinese athletes, there are very few who can truly achieve internationalization. Even Liu Feiren only participates in the promotion of the domestic market. In the advertisements of various major brands we see abroad, it is difficult to see Chinese athletes. figure.

In many domestic advertisements, especially those of some international brands or luxury goods, it is easy to see well-known foreign athletes. This is the difference in the internationalization of athletes.

This international difference is also directly reflected in money. Liu Feiren’s endorsement starts at 4 million a year, and the highest endorsement is 15 million a year for a high-end car, all calculated in domestic currency; while Bolt’s endorsement starts at about 2 million U.S. dollars, and the highest can get tens of millions of U.S. dollars level of endorsement fees. Bolt is not like Liu Feiren, who has a huge Chinese market behind him, but he earns several times more than Liu Feiren, which is the benefit of internationalization.

Entering into the global publicity strategy of a major international brand, so that people all over the world can see you, the advertising endorsement fee is naturally much higher than that only in the Chinese market.

After all, Zhuge Wenbo has worked in CAA and knows how much internationalization can improve an athlete's income, so he has been working on related things for the past six months. Zhang Guan's latest watch endorsement is the result of Zhuge Wenbo's operation.

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