Chapter 2 Chapter 2 What Gymnastics Brings Begins with Gymnastics

A 6-year-old boy, as stocky as a little potato, is competing on handstands with his friends in the open space in front of his house.Once again, he won.He was always the one with the best handstand and the longest time among his partners, which made him very proud. This little boy who naturally likes to hold a big top and do somersaults is simply the favorite of parents who want their children to become a success.Different from children who need to be forced and encouraged to develop a special skill, this honest and clever child pestered his teacher to join the school's extracurricular gymnastics group when he was just in the first grade of elementary school. After tossing and turning, the bed frame was erected again to practice leg lifts.Gymnastics is so fun to him. In school, as the class monitor, he led the whole class to self-study in the morning, but he ran to the podium and stood upside down, flipping the word "big" down, making the students laugh loudly laugh.

When he was more than 8 years old, the little boy was spotted by the provincial gymnastics team and left his hometown to join the provincial gymnastics training team. After 4 months, only 3 of the 20 children recruited in the same batch remained, and the youngest boy was among them. Since then, the little boy has left his hometown and his parents and started his gymnastics career with his coach.The year was 1971. He is Li Ning, a boy who was born in an ordinary teacher's family in Liuzhou, Guangxi in 1963, and was nicknamed "Little Monkey". Little Li Ning has made rapid progress in the Guangxi Gymnastics Team. In the spring of 1973, 10-year-old Li Ning made his debut on stage, and accompanied the team to the Nanchang Gymnasium to participate in the National Junior Gymnastics Competition. "Prince of Gymnastics Li Ning" records: "When the Guangxi team played the game, there was a burst of laughter. It turned out that Li Ning was walking behind the players like a group of chickens, and the little guy was still staring at the stands with big eyes. Looking around. What makes people laugh even more is that he always likes to playfully stick out his tongue at the audience after performing moves. At that time, Li Ning was only 1.29 meters tall, not as tall as a vaulting horse. He stepped on a thick stack of coach mats The mats barely reached the parallel bars. But it was this ridiculous little guy who actually made a difficult move that few people could do at that time-swinging in front of the parallel bars into a handstand, and doing somersaults neatly. All the audience Sweat for him. Li Ning won the fourth place on the parallel bars and the champion of floor exercise in the first competition. His parents were overjoyed when they heard the news. They kept the prize - the porcelain cup made in Jingdezhen as a treasure. This humble little guy It's just showing off." During this match, Zhang Jian, the coach of the Jiangxi team, noticed this little guy.In the article "Zhang Jian: Without me, there would be no Li Ning" in Yunnan "Life News" on July 6, 2007, Zhang Jian recalled the scene when he saw Li Ning at that time and said: "Among so many young athletes, he is too He stood out, and I concluded that he had great potential. Since then, I have been studying him." As the coach of the Jiangxi team at that time, he had been leading his disciple Tong Fei.During the period in the late 1970s, "Tong Fei" could be said to be the most dazzling new star in the Chinese gymnastics world. Basically, as long as he participated in many competitions, he could win the championship. However, the situation changed after Li Ning appeared. It's different."

At this time, Li Ning was already a handsome 17-year-old boy, with handsome features, bright eyes, and serious work.He has spent his teenage years with gymnastics, he grew up in the gymnastics room, and established his own ideals.In the future, he will conduct more intense and rigorous gymnastics training in the country's highest-standard training team that all gymnasts expect to enter.Although he still lives a monotonous life of two points and one line from the gymnastics room to the dormitory, he still cannot predict that right here, under the supervision of the coach, he will get rid of his little habit of sticking out his tongue after the game, and will learn more advanced skills. Difficult action.He is even more unpredictable, right here, he will meet a teacher who appreciates and cultivates himself, a future wife, teammates and colleagues who will be like brothers in the future, and he will face endless struggle, supreme brilliance and piercing pain fail.