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When the game ended that night, all the team members had the same attitude towards Gu Kun, and no one had a competitive mentality towards him anymore.
Gu Kun wanted to take the opportunity to get to know his teammates better, so before returning to the locker room, he proactively suggested: "Let's go, I'm in a good mood today. How about we go out for drinks and skewers tonight? I'll invite you."
"No, the competition isn't over yet. You have to pay attention to your diet these days." Coach Chen quickly intervened to stop him, but his attitude was very tactful and friendly. "Xiao Gu, when everything is over next week, I will definitely take everyone with me.
Come on, we can’t do that today. I advise you to have the catering with us too.”
"Forget it, I've been used to it for so many years, but I'm not used to eating side dishes." Gu Kun declined politely.
Those boiled beef and chicken breasts are really unappetizing.
Coach Chen did not force it, but asked with a sense of service: "By the way, have you thought about which projects you want to apply for? I will help you get the registration materials tonight."
Gu Kun thought about it seriously: "I want to save the 1,500-meter freestyle test until the end, is that okay? That requires a lot of physical effort. In the next few days, I want to test the first and second breaststroke and backstroke first.
100 meters.”
Even though Gu Kun had already performed at an amazing level today, his understatement still left everyone speechless.
Coach Chen confirmed with surprise and joy: "Are you telling the truth? Are you sure about backstroke and breaststroke?"
Gu Kun: "Swimming is all about everything. Even if my breaststroke and backstroke are a little worse, I should have a chance to be shortlisted for the Universiade."
Coach Chen thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case.
Gu Kun's freestyle can easily surpass the Olympic A standard, and his sprint and endurance are very strong. These historical results are enough to endorse his other ambitions.
"Then I will help you report all the mileage of the three postures, and you can slowly explore your potential this week." Coach Chen readily agreed.
After chatting about business, Gu Kun was about to go back to his room to rest and order some takeout. However, when passing by his teammates, he accidentally saw Lu Lu - the classmate who was overtaken by him in freestyle last summer.
He expressed his kindness in a low voice: "Don't worry, I'm also aiming for the A mark in backstroke. If I can't reach the A mark, I won't have time to participate in the subsequent B mark playoffs."
Lu Lu didn't say anything, he was just dumbfounded and ashamed.
He worked so hard to get a B-list, but people didn't even look at him.
"He must have worked very hard. He must have lived a very hard life that is inhuman. Otherwise, it cannot be explained..." Luo Haili of the women's team was beside her, and she also tried her best to warn herself, and suppressed those thoughts that were damaging to morale.
Go down.
Gu Kun was also aware of the faint decadence of "giving up treatment" among his teammates, and felt that he needed to find a gunman when he went back, write some gun reports, and cover up his hard-working resume in swimming training.
Don’t those little freshmen also like to exaggerate how hard they worked as trainees?
Gu Kun actually doesn't care whether the image he presents to the world is harsh, but he hopes to convey positive energy to the school and society, so he might as well lie in good faith.
Otherwise, he will harm the human swimming world. What if others give up in the future and no longer want to work hard and feel that no matter how hard they try, they can't surpass it and there is no hope? What should we do?
…
The next day, Coach Chen handed in all the registration materials for Gu Kun.
There was no competition scheduled that day because Coach Chen wanted him to have a good rest and help him check whether his backstroke and breaststroke movements needed to be corrected.
Gu Kun indeed has two lifetimes of experience, but after all, he has not received professional swimming competition-level training, and his posture may be a little wild.
In addition, he doesn’t have a good grasp of the essentials and rules of the game, so he needs to make up for these——
The reason why there was no need to make up for the action rules in the initial freestyle competition was because "freestyle", as the name suggests, allows you to swim in any position, as long as you don't use equipment and rely solely on your own body to go as fast as possible.
The posture commonly used in "freestyle" competitions that everyone usually sees is actually not called freestyle itself. That posture is called "crawling".
Just because the crawl stroke has been tested by history and is considered the fastest, so in freestyle competitions, everyone invariably uses the crawl stroke.
Theoretically, if you can invent a weirder posture, swim faster than the crawl, and participate in freestyle competitions, the organizers won't care about you.
This is why in events such as the Olympics and Universiade, freestyle events have the longest distance.
Because the purpose of setting up those additional events is to test "the fastest limit of human sprinting in water by any means" and "the fastest limit of human long-distance swimming", there is no need to subdivide the actions.
When Gu Kun corrected his movements with Coach Chen for the first time, some loopholes in his movements and rules were quickly exposed.
"Xiao Gu! Your breaststroke is a violation. According to the rules of the competition, after you complete the first stroke of your arms after entering the water, you must breathe when you extend your arms forward and press down for the second time. Your ventilation action is lagging behind.
, fast is fast, but it is foul!"
After only swimming the first fifty meters, Coach Chen called him from the other side of the pool.
It's a very low-level mistake. Breaststroke rules did not allow cutting corners on ventilation frequency decades ago.
Therefore, Gu Kun sincerely admitted his mistake: "I'm sorry, actually I just remembered it halfway through the swim - this is an occupational disease. I have been a diver for too long."
"It turns out it's an occupational disease. Just know the rules and get used to it slowly," Coach Chen encouraged.
Then, he carefully corrected Gu Kun's breaststroke and backstroke.
After the lunch break, when they practiced again in the afternoon, Coach Chen also called the other two seed players in the team to demonstrate to Gu Kun's partner:
"Qin Ke, Luo Haili, you will each practice with little Gu for two hours. Qin Ke will be responsible for demonstrating the technical details of breaststroke, and Xiaoli will demonstrate the backstroke."
"Understood, coach." The two agreed in unison.
Anyway, the sparring partner didn't delay his own training, he just swam side by side and looked at Gu Kun's posture to see if there were any fouls.
Gu Kun practiced with his seniors for a while, and then he completely mastered it, and his speed was obviously faster than Qin Ke and Luo Haili.
To him, it was as if he already possessed the internal power of the Nine Yang Divine Art. If he could learn some moves temporarily, his learning progress would naturally be very rapid.
"How tall are you and why can you swim so fast? If I practice with you, my confidence will be destroyed by you."
When she came ashore in the last lap of backstroke, Luo Haili was as tired as a dead dog and couldn't help but want to vomit water. She lay there very frustrated.
Because the field of view in the backstroke was not very good, the competitors could not easily see the position of their opponents. So Gu Kun used more force and threw Luo Haili far away. Luo Haili only realized how far behind she was when she reached the shore.
"Well...men and women can swim two hundred meters apart for ten seconds, don't mind." Gu Kun could only comfort him like this.
"You didn't just pull away for more than ten seconds! When I was less than half of the pool touching the bottom in the last half lap, you had already bounced back and joined me, okay!" Luo Haili said to expose Gu Kun's show of weakness, "Here
It's really miserable for you to be a teacher. You have only been good as a teacher for half an hour, but you are surpassed by your disciple."
As she spoke, she couldn't help but observe Gu Kun's body with a doctor's eyes, always trying to find out what made him different from ordinary people.
After a while, I used my own feet to make gestures with Gu Kun, trying to find out how much bigger Gu Kun's feet were than normal people, and whether this was causing abnormal paddling efficiency.
After a while, he grabbed Gu Kun's palm again and pressed it on his own palm for comparison.
"It's true that the palms and soles of the feet are big. God will give you food, and you are born to be good at swimming and running in the sea, but it's not that bad. There must be other tricks." Luo Haili thought about it without any distractions.
Finally, she had an idea and couldn't help but touch Gu Kun's chest and abdominal muscles, wiped them with a bath towel, and touched them a few more times.
"Ah! I understand, why is your skin so hard to dry out? It's so slippery after being immersed in water! Did you apply oil, or is your natural sebum different from other people's? It must be, otherwise your underwater resistance would be
Why are you so much smaller than normal people?"
As Luo Haili said that, she took Gu Kun and jumped into the pool again. After getting wet, she continued to touch and conduct comparative experiments. Finally, she felt that she had grasped the truth.
"It would be great if I could be so smooth in the water... You can't count on being born. By the way, do you usually use skin care products? Can you introduce me to them?"
Gu Kun was speechless for a while,
Can you be any more martial-artistic?
This is touching a boy's chest and abdominal muscles openly in public, and he does it in such a frank manner, with a calm look like a doctor looking at the patient for surgery.
Would you like me to touch it for you and assess your skin resistance?
Gu Kun really didn't know how to answer, so he could only make a joke: "Why don't you try smearing loach and eel mucus on your body before the next competition? Maybe then the underwater resistance will be as small as that of fish."
"You're not serious, are you?" Luo Haili was dubious.
Gu Kun could only cover his face and end the chat.
…
After a day of hard work, Gu Kun was finally able to master all his other swimming styles.
On the third and fourth days, he scheduled a race in the morning and afternoon each day, the 100-meter race in the morning and the 200-meter race in the afternoon.
In just two days, he successfully obtained four A-level marks in breaststroke and backstroke.
During the test match, because the red pole with the rhythm was right above the pool and could be seen directly when raising the head in the backstroke, Gu Kun's rhythm was very good. From the beginning to the end, he was almost stuck two or three meters faster than the A mark.
Yes, converted into time it is just over 1 second.
This also makes his backstroke performance appear to be relatively the worst among all disciplines.
After the backstroke selection test, the fate of the other two members of Jiaotong University was also decided.
Lu Lu, who competed in the men's backstroke, even failed the B mark challenge twice, so he packed up and returned to school early, buying a sleeper ticket.
As the second seed of the school team, Luo Haili barely reached the A mark and became the third Jiaotong University team to qualify after Gu Kun and Qin Ke.
I just don’t know if she actually bought loaches and eels and applied mucus on them before the test.
"The bonuses are about to be distributed now. The number of participants and the number of participants are overwhelming. The task has been exceeded!"
The most excited person is Coach Chen. He has already seen the extra high bonus promised by the school leaders and is waving to him.
Originally he thought he would only earn tens of millions, but now it seems that it may be tens of thousands.