Chili Koyama yelled "Yoshi", Mima Ito rolled her eyes, the weird expressions we encountered in Japanese table tennis

In the Tokyo Olympics table tennis mixed doubles final, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen won the silver medal.

While netizens across the country cheered and congratulated the team members, they also sparked heated discussions about Mima Ito’s weird smile throughout the game.

"Do all Japanese people laugh like this? I laugh so hard that I get goosebumps."

In fact, behind Mima Ito's weird smile, there is a Japanese table tennis player who has always The existence of strange tactics has been throughout the decades of fighting against Japanese table tennis players.

Some of the strange tactics of the Japanese table tennis team are derived from Japan’s own cultural characteristics, some are specially designed by the team, and some are specifically targeted at our national table tennis. Including but not limited to the following aspects:

1. Grunting and yelling

2. Showing a weird and mysterious smile throughout;

3. Rolling eyes Provocative eyes;

4. Demonic dancing and exaggerated body language;

The first time Chinese people experienced this weird tactic of Japanese players was back 27 years ago in 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games.

In the table tennis women's singles final, Deng Yaping met the former national table tennis team member Xiaoshan Zhili (that is, He Zhili) who had joined Japan.

Needless to say, the result of the game has become history.

But what left the most profound impression on the Chinese people at that time was not the loss of the game, but the fact that Chili Koyama kept shouting in Japanese throughout the game, and even shouted "Yoshi".

This action of Chili Koyama aroused the disgust of many Chinese people: After joining Japan for only a few days, he has completely learned the Japanese habits vividly?

Later, professionals pointed out that this was actually not just an expression of emotion, but a tactic deliberately designed by the Japanese side:

Create an momentum from the sound to Disturbing Deng Yaping's mood and profiting from the game.

Later, the national table tennis team met another Chinese-Japanese player Tomokazu Harimoto many times, who was also the "master" of Japanese table tennis's weird expression tactics.

This person was once regarded as the "genius boy" in the Japanese table tennis world:

His parents are from Sichuan, and his mother was once a teammate of Deng Yaping and Qiao Hong.

Later, his parents immigrated to Japan, and Tomokazu Harimoto was also naturalized in Japan when he was 11 years old.

Zhang Benzhihe often yells loudly during competitions, and his body movements are very exaggerated.

Especially after Zhang Benzhihe defeated world number one Zhang Jike 4-3 in 2018, he took this roaring tactic to the extreme.

Even the mother who trained him admitted that this was a tactic to suppress the opponent and boost his own morale.

In the mixed doubles final of the Tokyo Olympics, Mima Ito undoubtedly brought these weird tactics of Japanese table tennis to the extreme!

Throughout the game, Mima Ito showed such an image to the domestic audience in front of the TV:

First, he kept yelling, then showed a weird smile, and rolled his eyes. Eyes.

Like Harimoto Tomokazu, Mima Ito’s strange tactics also come from the mother who trained her when she was a child.

Mima Ito’s mother once revealed very proudly:

When she was a child, in order to improve Mima Ito’s self-confidence in playing table tennis, her mother often quietly played table tennis during her light sleep. Sneak into her bedroom silently and whisper in her ear:

"Remember, only you can defeat that powerful country!"

The whole process is like hypnotic brainwashing. .

Under such long-term hypnosis, Mima Ito formed the same tactical habits as in the final:

As long as he faces our team members, the above-mentioned will appear. These weird tactics.

What do you think of these strange tactics of Japanese table tennis?