[Japanese Edition] Love at First Kiss] Female Supporting Struggle

While her teammates practiced sets, Reiko Matsumoto went to the side to practice catching and throwing equipment.

Throwing the ball, Yiliuxin turned his body, backed the ball out of sight, and caught the front soft flip.

Except for the moment of throwing the ball and the moment of Ilyushin's turn, the whole movement can be seen. At other times, it is invisible and can only be achieved by proficiency in the equipment.

Unlike the elegance and softness shown by athletes, rhythmic gymnastics is a sport that requires high strength.Good equipment throwing catches need enough strength to be able to complete.

Top athletes can throw equipment up to an average height of six meters.The floor height of an ordinary residential building is [-] meters, which can be said to be higher than a two-story building.Moreover, for equipment with a large contact surface such as belts and ropes, including wind resistance and other influencing factors, to achieve this throwing height, the strength requirements for athletes are very high.

Therefore, Matsumoto Reiko has always carried out special core strength training.

Yoshiko Yamazaki watched Matsumoto Reiko's training and gave her some advice from time to time.

She will tell Matsumoto Reiko where the movements are redundant or not done properly.

In the eyes of Yoshiko Yamazaki, Matsumoto Reiko is a perfect student.This is not to say that she is talented, but that she communicates well, point out a problem to her, and she can accept it without resistance, think about it, and then correct it.

Not only as an athlete, but as a human being, her conduct is impeccable.

Reiko Matsumoto's explanations to her teammates every day, she sees in her eyes, this is a rare quality.

As long as a person embarks on the path of professional sports, no matter how old she is, she can basically be said to have entered the society.Although he still has the name of a student, he is actually a member of society.

Once entering the society, things to consider are complicated. Money, fame, and social status are not like students who only need to focus on their studies.Rhythmic gymnastics has a small scope of employment and few resources. All kinds of nasty things may happen in order to compete for limited resources.

Yoshiko Yamazaki has experienced such a struggle, and she is afraid that such a situation will happen to her students again.

When she first learned that Reiko Matsumoto was injured, Yoshiko Yamazaki also doubted Yuka Yamada. After all, no matter how you look at it, she is the most motivated.

Yuka Yamada is already 20 years old. In the world of rhythmic gymnastics, she is already considered an old athlete. Even if injuries and other issues are not considered, she will not be able to last for a few years with full play.Although Shengdu Nan Academy waived her tuition and miscellaneous fees and provided sponsorship, it also needed to see her show good athletic performance accordingly.

In another year, not to mention Reiko Matsumoto, Momoko Noda, a sophomore in high school, and several other team members may challenge her position.She's in good shape this year, if she doesn't take advantage of this moment to make a fortune, when will she have to wait.

It's not that Yoshiko Yamazaki insists on thinking badly about girls, it's mainly because the resources in this circle are too scarce.Where resources are scarce, conflict is inevitable.

Because of such worries, after knowing that Reiko Matsumoto was injured, Yoshiko Yamazaki went to the affiliated hospital to find out the situation immediately. She also communicated with the teacher in charge of the student who caused the accident, and knew that she was an ordinary student and had nothing to do with bad things in society. There has never been a bad record in the internal audit book, at most, it is a bit careless to comment on her personality.

Knowing her reason for coming, the teacher in charge of the student who caused the accident also apologized to her, but what's the use, I have already missed it, so I can only say that Matsumoto Reiko's luck is not very good.

Thinking of this, Yoshiko Yamazaki couldn't help but sighed again.It's really a pity, otherwise this World Championships may be able to achieve Japan's zero breakthrough in new gymnastics. With luck, even a gold medal may be possible.

That's right, unlike Reiko Matsumoto who just wants to catch the referee's attention, and her biggest goal is to squeeze into the individual all-around final, Yoshiko Yamazaki believes that Reiko Matsumoto has the strength to compete for medals, even gold medals.

The huge deviation between the two can only be said to be the gap of the times.

All sports are moving forward. With the continuous improvement of the understanding of human physiological functions, more scientific analysis of technical movements, better nutrition, and more professional training, the athletes' competitive level has been continuously improved.

Before Reiko Matsumoto was reborn, the development of rhythmic gymnastics had reached an extremely demanding level, requiring not only extremely difficult body movements, but also thrilling equipment.

Athletes' training is also more specialized. Strength, balance, flexibility, jumping, equipment, and dance are all split into different modules for specialized training.

In terms of physical difficulty, for first-line athletes, 1080 degrees is standard, but in this era, if you can do 360 degrees, you are considered a top-level athlete.Not only the degree of rotation, but also the types of rotation are extremely diverse, such as unassisted leg loops, assisted leg loops, rear legs, and Arabesque twists with the torso backward.All in all, it is an action beyond the imagination of this era.

Matsumoto Reiko's current level of competition, if placed in the era before her rebirth, she would indeed be able to squeeze into the finals of the individual all-around, which is already an explosion of character; but in this era when the post-communication movement has not yet become popular , Matsumoto Reiko's level is absolutely capable of competing for the gold medal.

So whether Reiko Matsumoto knows her own level is a bit complicated.

She seemed to know, but she couldn't realize it so clearly.

This feeling is very strange, it is a bit like a temporary surprise before the exam.You memorized the textbook all night, and saw the question during the exam, "A person is the sum of ____."

You think the words are familiar, but you just can't remember them.

Turn over the book after the exam, it's so simple, isn't it that "a person is the sum of social relations".But once you close the book, you can't be sure again.

Matsumoto Reiko is in this situation. If you let her watch the games of the top athletes, she will say, well, it's not difficult at all, and I have no problem.But as soon as the TV was turned off, she started to benchmark against her pre-rebirth level. She only felt that her current level was too bad. She had to practice harder and try her best to reach the final.

The key is that if you don't have a sense of personal experience, you always use the previous experience.

So in the eyes of Yoshiko Yamazaki, Reiko Matsumoto is a very magical little girl.

I don't have a clear understanding of my own level at all.

He is already at the top level in the world, but he still says he is far behind.But you can still hear that she is not humble, she really thinks her level is very average, and there is a lot to work on and improve.

I heard that there are people who are beautiful without knowing it, but Yoshiko Yamazaki has never seen such a capable athlete without knowing it.

For a coach, the happiest thing is to teach such a student, who is talented, willing to work hard, and humble.

Yoshiko Yamazaki thought so too.But since she took over Matsumoto Reiko, she found that this is not entirely true, and a premise must be added, that is, the coach must ensure that the students have more knowledge reserves.

What if students know more than they do?Yoshiko Yamazaki encountered this problem when teaching Matsumoto Reiko.

She has her own ideas about everything, has a clear understanding of every movement, and knows the essentials of every movement.she seems

Have experienced this movement in a previous life and know every aspect and all the keys of this movement.

She is like a mature work handed over to her own hands, you know, she knows; you don't know, she also knows.

As a coach, it can be troublesome if the student knows more than you do.

You see her make a movement, you think, she can still make such a movement;

You see her using the equipment, you think, the equipment can still be used like this;

You can only marvel.

Yoshiko Yamazaki always remembers the first time she met Reiko Matsumoto.

It was at the National Sports Conference for Middle School Students in Heisei 1993 ([-]). At that time, she had just returned from Bulgaria, and she heard from a friend who worked in the New Gymnastics Association that there was a particularly outstanding student in the middle school who believed that she could lead the Japanese new gymnastics team. A talented girl who has made great leaps in gymnastics, so she must go and see it.

For this, Yoshiko Yamazaki does not quite believe it. She has trained in Bulgaria and knows what the level of the world's top athletes is, at least to the extent that Japanese players will not be able to catch up within ten years.

But she also wanted to know the current level of development of new gymnastics in Japan, and she also needed to dig out some good new gymnastics seedlings for the new gymnastics school that she just took office, so she went anyway.

Iwate Prefecture, where the competition was held.

Iwate Prefecture in July is in the rainy season, and the two days of the competition happened to be the coldest time.It was raining continuously and the weather was cold. It seemed that the spirit of the whole person was about to turn into cold air and drift away.

Perhaps affected by the weather, Yoshiko Yamazaki was not very energetic at first.

But when Reiko Matsumoto made the first movement, kicking the swallow 360-degree turn and kicking the rope, she immediately understood why her friend said so firmly, "It will definitely be the future of Japan's new gymnastics."

Whether it is the difficulty of the body, the quality of the movement, or the skill of the equipment, it is beyond her imagination.

With such a level, it is no exaggeration to say that it is possible to compete for a gold medal even if you go to the Olympics immediately.

What a pity, Yoshiko Yamazaki thought.She really looks forward to Reiko Matsumoto's participation in the World Championships, and she will surely surprise the world at that time.

She felt like a gatekeeper guarding a treasure she desperately wanted the rest of the world to appreciate but couldn't because of accidents.

The only thing that can comfort her is that there will be the Asian Games this year. Although it is not an international competition, I just hope everything goes well this time.

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