Chapter 3 magic jump

Unexpectedly, my diving career started from the first grade of elementary school. In September 1986, I became a first-grade student at Xinhua Road Primary School.My preschool was completed in Zhourong Road Primary School, and my parents also hoped that I could study in that school, because it was a famous school and it was close to home.However, since my registered permanent residence was located on Xinhua Road, and my family's economic conditions at that time, I had no ability to choose a school at all. Xinhua Road Primary School is about 20 minutes away from our home. My memories of my limited (six months) primary school years are always fragmented. (When the Sichuan team was training, I also took classes at Jinling Road Primary School in Chengdu, next to the Sichuan Provincial Swimming Pool. I was a transfer student at the time, and I was in the third grade. But a year later, as I was recruited Calling back to Chongqing, those beautiful days will soon pass.)

When many athletes are in school, they may have a headache for the very basic mathematics, but I am on the contrary. Every time I am the first in the class in mathematics.Now that I think about it, my good grades in mathematics may be due to my "thrifty nature" since I was a child.From matching sticks when playing games, saving change to various calculation methods for buying stamps, many practical hands-on education gave me a broad space to improve my math performance.Of course, compared with those children with top grades at that time, there is still a certain gap in my study.In addition, because of my introverted personality, I was always an "ugly duckling" who was not valued at school until the school picked people.

Two months after the start of school, Xu Guilu, the coach of the diving team of Chongqing No. 1 Amateur Sports School for Youth, came to the school to pick out young students.At that time, we had just finished our first music class, and the teacher had just taught us simple staves and the song "Our Motherland Is a Garden".When I was still immersed in the beautiful melody of the song, the class teacher stepped onto the podium: "Students, gather at the playground later, there is something important to announce." Hula, everyone rushed to the playground like sardines, and found that the students from other classes in the first grade were there.At that time, there were three classes in the first grade, and we were in the second class. There were about 40 people in each class. "What kind of game requires so many people!" I muttered to myself.

When it was our class's turn, a very capable old man appeared in front of us. The class teacher introduced him as Coach Xu.Coach Xu has the unique refreshingness of sportsmen: "Students, I will test the standing long jump for everyone today." Then, he drew two lines on the concrete floor with a distance of 1.60 meters. Coach Xu then asked the players to line up and jump one by one. Obviously, no one crossed the line. When it was my turn, I made a sudden effort, and there was a commotion among my friends when I landed, and I surpassed that line!Surprised Coach Xu then asked me to jump three more times, crossing the line again and again.In fact, long jump is just a small case for me.Chongqing is very mountainous. When I go out with adults, I never like to take the straight road, but choose to jump up and down the slope.In the long jump competition with my partners in the courtyard, I was always much farther than them.

All the students in the three classes finished dancing, and I was the only one left behind by Coach Xu. Coach Xu then called me to the head teacher's office.At that time, in the eyes of naughty children, the office was "the gate of hell".When I came to the office in fear, Coach Xu ordered me to stand on the table and take off my shoes and coat.It was November, and the weather was a bit cold, but I didn't dare to disobey the coach's words, so I took off only my vest.Coach Xu took a "rope" and made gestures on his arms, legs and buttocks for a long time.Later, he said to the class teacher, "This child has long arms, flexible shoulder joints, good coordination and jumping ability, we accept it!"

Later, coach Xu wrote a note, which was written on the copy paper of the school fax, and it smelled very heavy of ink.The teacher told me: "Take this strip back to your parents, don't lose it." This is the first time that I have been treated differently by the teacher. Therefore, in my mind, this note is as sacred as the red-headed document issued by the central government.However, I didn't realize how my fate would change that day. I still watched video games for half a day on the way from school, and then rushed home.When I got home, I happily described every detail of the day to my parents, and finally told them that the whole grade, "I was the only one selected."

However, after they read the note, they threw cold water on me: "Go to the sports school for training?! We are so busy and tired at work, how can we have time to send you there? Don't make trouble for us." I rushed to answer: "You don't want to send it, I will go by myself. The teacher said that the opportunity is rare, so I must try it."