Chapter 171: Backward Rotation Technology Across Era
Chen Qiang said several of Daviddorf's shortcomings, but they are all real "dry goods". These are all more advanced discus throwing technology. If Daviddorf can follow what Chen Qiang said and make technical improvements, his performance will definitely be greatly improved.
Unfortunately, Chen Qiang's words were really honest and were not listened to by Daviddorf at all.
Daviddov is a first-class discus athlete in the Soviet Union. Chen Qiang listed so many shortcomings, which is naturally very hurting his self-esteem. He instinctively becomes hostile to Chen Qiang.
Daviddoff even thought that if you, Chen Qiang, is a throwing athlete, it would be fine if you, come and find fault with me, but why should an athlete who is sprinting and long jumping begs about throwing events? Did you come to cause trouble on purpose?
If it were an American athlete, he might think carefully about the "drug goods" that Chen Qiang said, but the Soviet Union was isolated by the world for too long, and the athletes were out of touch with the world. At this time, you point out his shortcomings, which will arouse the other party's rebound.
It was like the China, which was closed to the country back then, felt that it was a country of the Celestial Empire, and other countries were all foreign barbarians, looking like the best in the world. It was not until the great powers bombarded the country with guns and cannons, lost power and humiliated the country to cede land and pay compensation, and signed a series of unequal treaties that China realized that it was already behind the world!
The same is true for these Soviet athletes now. They are used to being arrogant in their own country. They feel that they are already outstanding and somewhat arrogant. If they want them to be more sober, the best way to defeat them so that they can recognize the reality.
Moreover, Chen Qiang also felt that Yurasov, the head coach of Moscow Central Track and Field Team, seemed to be tricking himself.
"This Yurasov, could it be that I beat their athletes by sprinting and long jumping, so I pulled me to the throwing training ground, wanting to regain my face? If this is the case, this guy is too scrupulous!" Chen Qiang said in his heart.
The Soviet people around him looked at Chen Qiang with a look of "You can do it, you can go", which also aroused the anger in Chen Qiang's heart.
At the same time, Chen Qiang's face also showed a sense of confidence. He really can do it, he can really get on!
Many people think that the throwing competitions must be played by tall and burly athletes. Throwing athletes look like fat. Athletes like Chen Qiang, who are not fat, cannot participate in the throwing competitions.
But in fact, in throwing movements, technology is more important than strength.
Especially in the discus sports, most athletes do not look fat, and at best they can only be considered to be healthy. For example, the sculpture of the "discus thrower" by the Greek sculptor Miron, the man who throws the discus is not a fat man.
In the future national athlete test, there are many people who weigh 130 to 40 kilograms and can meet the national second-level athletes.
When we look at the discus competitions in the Olympics, there are many tall fat people, mainly because the Olympics are the highest-level competition in the world. Athletes who can stand on the Olympics are all people with outstanding physical talents, so they are naturally tall and big...
Moreover, for those athletes at the world's top level, everyone's skills will not be much worse. When the technical level cannot improve their strength, they naturally need to seek improvements in their strength.
But most athletes cannot reach that level. They do not have such good physical talents, and naturally they will not be as tall as Olympians.
This is like basketball. Those who can enter the NBA are the best physical talents, and they all look strong and look like a cow. However, ordinary basketball players do not have such explosive physical fitness.
In the 1930s, discus athletes' skills were still in their early stages, and athletes were fat and thin.
For example, at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the silver medalist American Gordon Dunn was 193 cm tall and weighed 110 kilograms, which was definitely tall and big. After the 1960s, there were many players with a height of more than two meters and a weight of more than 130 kilograms.
Also at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the bronze medalist Italian George Oberweg was 190 cm tall and weighed only 82 kilograms. Just imagine a big man who was 1.9 meters tall, but weighed only 160 kilograms. As an athlete, his body fat rate must be relatively low. This man looks like a thin bamboo pole. But even so, he can still win the bronze medal in the Olympic discus event.
So in the 1930s, athletes participating in the Olympic Games were not very perverted. Even if the athlete was a thin man, as long as he had good skills, he could still achieve good results in throwing events.
Chen Qiang's height and weight are definitely far behind Daviddow. Daviddow's height of more than two meters and his weight of 300 kilograms is much taller than Chen Qiang's strength.
However, Chen Qiang is much better than Daviddorf in terms of discus throwing skills.
When Daviddorf was throwing just now, he didn't even use the discus throwing technique that rotates backwards, which is enough to show how backward the throwing technique was.
The discus throwing technology with a back-turning rotation is one of the most basic technology of this sport and a revolutionary technology. This technology was first used by Italian athlete Adolf Consolini in 1941. With this technology, Adolf Consolini also broke the world record of the discus project three times.
It is only 1935 now, so the back-turning technology has not yet appeared.
Chen Qiang was not surprised that Daviddorf would not turn his back to the rotation technology. It is estimated that in this era, Chen Qiang will only use this technology in the world. However, the other technologies Daviddorf still lag behind the world, at least far behind American athletes.
In terms of results, Daviddorf scored a score of 40 meters, which was already private. However, American player Eric Krenz raised the world record to more than 50 meters in 1930, reaching 51.03 meters.
Daviddorf's body may not be worse than Eric Krenz, and it is natural that Eastern European athletes are taller and stronger than American athletes. So what Daviddorf lacks is technology! You should know that Eric Krenz also does not have back-turning technology, but he can shoot more than 50 meters. This also shows from the side that after excluding back-turning technology, Daviddorf's throwing technology is still very bad.
At least in Chen Qiang's eyes, Daviddorf's throwing skills are very bad.
However, the Soviets and Daviddov himself did not agree with this.
So Chen Qiang could only tell Daviddov to recognize the reality with practical actions.
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Facing the Soviets' "You can do it, you can go" expression, Chen Qiang smiled slightly, then spoke to Yurasov, "Since that's the case, then I'll be ugly!"
The surprise flashed in Yurasov's eyes. He didn't expect that Chen Qiang really dared to throw a discus.
In fact, when Chen Qiang pointed out Daviddov's shortcomings just now, Yulasov also felt that Chen Qiang was just bluffing and talking nonsense in order to save face, so he asked Chen Qiang to come forward to demonstrate in person.
Yurasov also expected that Chen Qiang was just a mouth-handkerchief, but he didn't expect that Chen Qiang really wanted to demonstrate throwing discus.
"Okay, you are embarrassed, and I won't stop you anymore!" Yurasov said in his heart.
I saw Chen Qiang standing on the throwing area and doing some warm-up exercises.
"Pretending!" Daviddow snorted coldly.
After a while, Chen Qiang completed the warm-up exercise and planned to start throwing.
Chen Qiang's five fingers were naturally separated, his thumb and palm were flat against the discus, and the last knuckles of the other four fingers clasped on the edge of the discus, the center of gravity of the discus was between the index finger and the middle finger, his wrist was slightly bent, and the upper edge of the discus leaned against the forearm, and the arms holding the cake naturally drooped on the side of the body.
"It's still like it!" Daviddorf said.
The discus athletes around him have also seen that from this preparation posture, Chen Qiang is not an outsider, he has some understanding of discus exercise.
Then Chen Qiang made a pre-tower pose, opening his legs and standing about one and a half shoulders, standing on both sides of the throwing center line near the back edge of the circle. The legs were opened parallel, the cake arm was naturally drooping on the side of the body, and the eyes were facing straight ahead.
The key is that Chen Qiang is facing his back to the throwing direction!
"Huh? What is Chen Qiang doing? Why is his back facing forward?"
Everyone showed inexplicable expressions. They had never seen the technique of throwing discus with their backs, so they were naturally confused now.
Then Chen Qiang began to pre-swinging. He also used the pre-swinging method of sitting on the right back. The cake holder's arm swung naturally on the side of the body. When the discus is behind the body, the weight is close to the right leg. Then use the torso to drive the cake holder's arm to sway to the upper left. When the discus is on the upper left, the left hand is on the lower support of the cake, the weight is close to the left leg, and the upper body turns left.
"He really wants to throw a discus with his back to the front?" someone exclaimed.
Before the exclaim was over, Chen Qiang's body began to rotate. He saw his bent right leg pushing the ground, his upper body turned to the left, and the center of gravity of his body moved from his right foot to the left leg, which was bent and turned, and then his legs actively turned. When the left foot landed on the ground, his right foot continued to thrust forward and swung the cake with explosive rapid force.
At this moment, Chen Qiang focused all his strength on the iron discus in his hand. When the iron discus was swinging to the same height as the right shoulder, Chen Qiang's little finger to the index finger and used force to push the cake in turn, causing the iron disc to rotate clockwise and fly forward.
After the iron discus took action, Chen Qiang's body turned left with inertia. He lowered the center of gravity of his body to keep his body balanced.
This is a back-turn discus throwing technique from later generations, many of which are not even available in the next few decades. And these Soviets around them have never seen this technique, and they all look stunned.
"You can throw a discus even if you turn your back to it!" David Doff suddenly felt that everything he saw today exceeded his understanding of discus movement.
The discus kept spinning like a flying saucer, passing through the sky, and then easily crossed the 40-meter marker and landed on the ground.
Everyone looked at the place where the discus was landing in front of them with shock, as if they could not believe what they saw.
"It must be 45 meters!" someone said.
No one answered, because it was obvious.
And Daviddov just now, he only threw 40 meters.
"How is it possible for more than 45 meters?" Daviddorf turned his head and looked at Chen Qiang. He could not understand how the small man in front of him who was shorter than him and had several laps of thinner than him could throw a discus farther than he did.
At this time, Chen Qiang's height had grown to 1.83 meters, which was a relatively perfect height for athletes. This height could be used in almost all sports.
1.83 is definitely a tall Chinese at that time. Even in many Western countries, 1.83 is considered to be relatively tall, but compared with Daviddorf, who is more than two meters tall, Chen Qiang is really a small man.
Yurasov, the head coach of the Central Track and Field Team next to him, also looked at Chen Qiang with a confused look on his face. In the throwing event, Chen Qiang, who is shorter, also shot further than Daviddorf, and this result was indeed unexpected to Yurasov.
And this result made Yurasov feel a little painful!
Because of his strong self-esteem, Yurasov deliberately set a trap for Chen Qiang, hoping to give Chen Qiang some colors and also to win back the honor of Soviet athletes.
However, Chen Qiang is good at running and jumping, whether it is comparing running or jumping, Soviet athletes are not Chen Qiang's opponents, so Yurasov chose to throw events.
According to Yurasov's original idea, he led Chen Qiang to the throwing training ground and then showed him the strength of Soviet athletes in throwing events. The so-called "asking for Chen Qiang to guide" is nothing more than some polite words. Yurasov predicted that Chen Qiang was not good at throwing events and could not give "guidance". What Yurasov really wanted to hear was Chen Qiang's words praising Soviet athletes.
Unexpectedly, Chen Qiang took Yulasov's enthusiasm seriously, and Chen Qiang really knew the skills of throwing discus, so he went to "guid" a few words when he "was hard to refuse his affection". He happened to meet Daviddov, who was more than a tall man, and it turned out to be the current situation.
What Yurasov never expected was that Chen Qiang really dared to throw discus, and he could do it, and he was even more powerful than Daviddorf!
"How is this possible? Chen Qiang's figure is so far inferior to Daviddov. Why is he more powerful than Daviddov!"
Yurasov was in a mess. It would be fine if a track and field athlete could run and jump. Even throwing discus is so powerful. Where can I reason about it?
The next second, Yurasov suddenly recalled that when Chen Qiang threw the discus just now, he turned his back to the front. At that time, Yurasov didn't understand why Chen Qiang did this, but now it seems that Chen Qiang is using a new discus throwing technique.
"This is a new technology, and it is precisely because of this new technology that Chen Qiang can beat Daviddorf! Chen Qiang can use this new technology to seep 45 meters. If Daviddorf also uses this new technology, then he can't make a score of more than 50 meters!"
When Yurasov thought of this, he felt hot.
However, he thought about it carefully and suddenly realized that when Chen Qiang threw just now, he did not pay attention to Chen Qiang's technical movements at all! Now he only remembered that Chen Qiang had his back facing forward. As for how Chen Qiang threw the discus out, Yurasov didn't remember it at all.
"Damn it, if I had known this, I should have stared at Chen Qiang's every move!" Yurasov secretly regretted it.
"No, I have to let Chen Qiang do the action I just did again. This time I must observe carefully and learn as much as I can!"
Yurasov didn't give up. He turned his eyes and began to take the lead in applauding, and praised while applauding: "Comrade Chen Qiang, your throw is really great..."
Yurasov took the lead, and other Soviets began to praise Chen Qiang.
Yurasov put a little hat on Chen Qiang, and then said, "Comrade Chen Qiang, I'm not sure. I just watched your wonderful performance. I feel that I'm still not satisfied. I don't know if you can throw it again so that we can feast our eyes!"
Chen Qiang smiled slightly, rubbed his arm, and said, "Coach Yurasov, I'm very sorry. I probably haven't thrown a discus for too long. I just seemed to have some strained muscles. Now my entire shoulder is a little sore. I'm afraid I can't do the second discus throwing. After all, I'm not a professional discus athlete. I'm not a good at throwing discus, and straining is inevitable. Please understand."
"Oh, that's a shame!" Yurasov knew that Chen Qiang was looking for an excuse to refuse.
At the same time, Yurasov began to complain in his heart: "A athlete who can throw discus and throw 45 meters is more than enough to participate in the Olympics. He is also embarrassed to say that he is not good at throwing discus. If you believe you, you will have a ghost!"
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Chen Qiang is not a fool, he has already seen that Yurasov wants to secretly learn his back-to-turn throwing technique.
Yurasov deliberately set up a trap for himself. How could Chen Qiang let the Soviets learn this advanced cross-era discus throwing technique as he wished? So Chen Qiang simply said that he had muscle strain and could not throw it for the second time.
In fact, Chen Qiang also knew that even if he no longer made a second demonstration, the Soviets had already seen the technology of back-to-turn throwing. Given the Soviets' background in throwing projects, they would definitely be able to develop this technology by themselves.
However, Chen Qiang was not worried that the Soviets would develop their own back-to-tower throwing technology, because the Soviets would not return to the Olympics until 1952. Before that, they had always played their own All-Soviet Games. So even if the Soviet Union mastered the back-to-tower throwing technology, they would have to wait until 1952 to use it in the international arena.
The discus' back-to-tower technology was invented by the Italians in 1941. By 1952, this technology had basically become popular, and other countries' movements also mastered this technology. It didn't matter whether the Soviets would turn to throw technology at that time.
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Chapter completed!