Is it alarmist to beat Guo Ping and Japanese table tennis in Tokyo Olympic Games?

In the past year, Japanese netizens lamented Guo Ping's powerful passage and Guo Ping's popular propaganda film on Japanese TV stations.

When Japanese netizens lamented that China players continued to win four gold medals like "Big BOSS" in the competition, the Japanese team also quietly won the silver medal of 1 and two bronze medals (silver medal for men's team, bronze medal for women's team and bronze medal for men's singles).

"The Japanese team is a strong opponent and the threat will be even greater by 2020." Liu, head coach of table tennis, lamented after the men's team final. In fact, Japanese table tennis, which is launching the "2020 Plan" in an all-round way, is trying its best to copy the China model and investing huge sums of money in the hope of beating Guo Ping at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Zhang Benzhihe.

Domesticating teenagers in China is only a small step.

At the London Olympics, the Japanese women's team delisted and won the historic first Olympic medal. At the Rio Olympic Games, the achievement of 1 silver 2 bronze made Japanese table tennis see a further possibility at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

In fact, since 20 13, as Japan won the right to host the 2020 Olympic Games, the Japan Table Tennis Association began to launch the "2020 Plan", hoping to beat Guo Ping to win the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

In terms of men's table tennis, in response to the new policy of overseas players' naturalization in the past seven years, they naturalized three China teenagers-Zhang Benzhihe, 12, Jia, 14, Hamamoto Youwei, 17 four years ago.

However, naturalization is not the hope of the Japanese Table Tennis Association to catch up with China. On the contrary, they began to train young athletes with all their strength, hoping to reap the future at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Kenji Kimura, president of the Japan Table Tennis Association, does not deny that China used to have an enviable table tennis talent training system, but now Japan is catching up in youth training.

They made a detailed study of short athletes in China, such as Deng Yaping and Liu.

"We find that China players are generally stronger than our players, so we will take nutrition intake and training more scientifically to ensure that the physical quality of young players is not lost to China children of the same age."

Taking Deng Yaping as an example, Kimura pointed out that even though China players are short, they have great muscle strength and play not far from the table. "These are all things we can learn from."

Vigorously invest in youth training

As a breakthrough in the Tokyo Olympic Games, since 20 13, the Japan Table Tennis Association has received 300 million yen (about19.84 million RMB) from the Japanese Olympic Committee every year. It is reported that this number will increase further from this year.

With huge financial support, the Japan Table Tennis Association invests more than 6 million yuan (654.38 billion yen) in youth training every year.

Starting from this Olympic cycle, the Japanese Table Tennis Association began to spend a lot of money to let potential young players participate in the ITTF Tour, feel the world-class competition in advance and accumulate competition experience.

"We are now sent to play the tour players are middle school students, why? Because of this, they can improve faster. Since there must be a breakthrough in the Olympic Games at home in 2020, we must make special efforts, because only by cultivating them from an early age and letting them play high-level competitions from an early age will they not lag behind China athletes. "

Kimura's strategy of cultivating young people has achieved results.

At the German Open in 20 14, Miki It?, who was 13 years old and 160 days old, and Miyuki, Ping Ye, who was 14 years old, won the German Open women's doubles championship. Mikei Ito surpassed Guo Yue to become the youngest women's tour champion in history. The two are also key members of the "2020 Plan".

In April this year, 15-year-old Miki It? defeated Ding Ning, the new Olympic champion, with 1/4 in the women's singles final.

At that time, Japan's "Daily Sports" ran the title of "15-year-old Ito Mikei defeated the queen of the world", and the Japanese table tennis community was also excited.

Take Miki It? as an example. From 20 14, she has about 10 opportunities to go abroad to participate in the competition, not counting the Asian youth competition, only the world tour and the youth competition.

In order to promote young players, the Japanese Table Tennis Association has also made a selection mechanism following China's example, so that more young players have the opportunity to make their mark in world competitions.

Ito's coach Zhang Xian is from China.

Imitate China's model and dig coach China.

With the support of funds, the ambition of Japanese table tennis to win gold in Tokyo Olympic Games is increasing day by day.

"Learning from foreigners to control foreigners" became the strategy of the Japanese Table Tennis Association, and they began to imitate the "China model". Training has also become the biggest change in Japanese table tennis.

Kimura revealed that at the beginning of 20 14, the Japanese Table Tennis Association set up a national training base, drawing on the training model of China.

"The cost of training and living for small players there is also paid by the state. There are no schools in the base, and there are several schools around. Everyone goes to school there and concentrates on training together in the afternoon. "

Another advantage of the training system is that Japanese national team members can have the opportunity to train and improve together for a long time. Because there is no professional league in Japan, players like Shuigu Junchun and Kazuo all go abroad to play. "With the training mode, in addition to concentrated training before the game, everyone can concentrate on training many times during the season, which has a considerable effect on improving the level of players."

The head coach of Japanese women's table tennis, Miyaka Murakami, also admitted that the Rio Olympic Games and the improvement of Japanese table tennis level cannot be separated from the contribution of the training system.

According to the consistent way of table tennis in China, Japanese women's table tennis has been trained for nearly two months before the World Table Tennis Championships and the Olympic Games.

Training for 5-6 hours a day is equivalent to the training volume of closed table tennis training.

Complementing the training system is the introduction of high-level coaches from China.

According to Japanese media, there are 28 coaches in Japanese women's table tennis teams at all levels, including 8 coaches from China, accounting for nearly 1/3 of the whole coaching team.

Among them, Olympic men's doubles champion Wei (Wei Guang) served as Hamamoto's only coach, while Hebei table tennis team's Ping Ye and Zhang Yi coached Ito Meicheng respectively. These young players are all future stars made in Japan.

Ito and Fukuhara Ai.

The rise of Japan is not a bad thing.

After this year's World Table Tennis Championships, the female team coach Kong said frankly that the young Japanese team should not be underestimated. "In fact, our women's group has always regarded Japan as an imaginary enemy before. Now it seems that the men's team should also pay attention to Japan. "

Nowadays, the Japanese team, whose average age is over 23, has gained a lot of competition experience, and the national table tennis should be upgraded in the new cycle.

In the eyes of the outside world, "winning is nothing, losing is not normal", and head coach Liu Ye said frankly that the pressure of Guoping is everywhere. "(During Rio), it's really like a year. This time, I was so stressed that I didn't even do an exercise, so I stayed in my room. In fact, I must be the most awake when the whole world is happy, otherwise I will eventually capsize. "

Of course, many people hope that the rise of Japan will bring more attention to table tennis.

Previously, the scores of Japanese table tennis prodigy Zhang Benzhi and Cao Yanhua Table Tennis School were 1 win and 7 losses, including a girl of the same age.

In recent years, Japan has spent a lot of energy and material resources on table tennis, and many prodigies have lost their aura as adults.

Even Han Yang, Zhang Yibo and other native Japanese players disappeared after a brief flash.

"Compared with the quality and intensity of table tennis training in China, Japan is incomparable in training."

A table tennis coach told this reporter, "In fact, for table tennis, only competition can develop and strong opponents can emerge, which is good for players, coaches and even this project."