Original title: Strengthen physical fitness and focus on actual combat – the national wrestling team is actively preparing for the World Championships
On the 16th, the two-day national wrestling team’s in-team teaching competition ended in the wrestling hall of the Training Bureau of the State Sports General Administration. This competition aims to increase the actual combat opportunities for the players and select the key points for this year’s international competitions including the 2022 World Wrestling Championships. players. The young players performed well in the competition, and the preparations for the new Olympics cycle have shown initial results.
Physical fitness first, actively preparing for the World Championships
According to Shen Hong, the leader of the national wrestling team, the team assembled at the end of last year and launched the first training in the Paris Olympics cycle at the Beijing Shunyi Human Sports Performance and Health Development Center. “The training camp lasts for six weeks, mainly focusing on athletes’ injury screening, physical training, psychological construction, etc., to grasp the basic situation of athletes.” Shen Hong said.
After the Spring Festival this year, the national wrestling team started the second training camp of the Paris Olympics cycle at the Hainan Baisha Base—a ten-week special and physical training. This training camp realizes the rapid transfer of basic physical fitness to special physical fitness through special training with a large amount of exercise, laying a foundation for subsequent training.
“After returning to Beijing, we started the third stage of preparation training. Although the National Championships, Asian Games and other competitions have been postponed due to the impact of the epidemic, we still follow the established plan to complete the special physical fitness training in the middle and late June. The training goal of ability transformation, special ability to technical scoring ability.” Shen Hong said.
Women’s freestyle wrestling 76kg player Chan Degen Chagan said in an interview that he has improved in terms of physical fitness and technical and tactical abilities during this period. “There were loopholes in the leg holding technique before, which was easy to lose points. It has been greatly improved, including the kneeling technique, and it is easier to get points.”
It is reported that the national wrestling team will set off for Europe in mid-July to participate in the Poland and Romania of the World Wrestling Federation A-level tournament, as well as the Wrestling World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia in September.
Training young players with actual combat test
According to reports, the team has held team trials and wrestling elite competitions in March and May respectively. All games are played as official games, and high-level domestic referees are invited to referees to help players familiarize themselves with the new rules as soon as possible, and to form practical concepts such as daring to take the initiative to attack, encouraging continuous scoring, rational distribution of physical fitness, and focusing on defensive counterattacks in the final stage of the game.
In this teaching competition, the early physical fitness and special training results have received good feedback. Li Shujin, the coach of the men’s classical wrestling team, said that on the first day of the competition, there were several last-minute matches. It can be seen that the players have improved their control over the competition, including the results of strengthening physical training. .
“From the training and competition in the past few months, the young players have a great impact on the old players, but in turn, it can also promote the growth of the old players. Everyone improves each other, makes progress together, and drives the team to move forward. “Li Shujin said.
New Cycle New Team New Goals
In the new Olympic cycle, the national wrestling team has invited well-known wrestling coaches from Russia, Sweden, South Korea and other countries to join, while the Chinese coach team is younger, with an average age of less than 40 years old.
Zhang Chongyao, the coach of the women’s freestyle wrestling team, said that the younger generation of Chinese wrestling coaches will work hard to learn from the excellent foreign coaches in the team. Under their guidance, I hope athletes and young coaches can grow better.
“The whole team is still full of energy, surrounded by the strongest teams in Chinese sports, table tennis team, weightlifting team, diving team… Under the infection of this atmosphere, we must learn from them and improve ourselves better. We There is also a firm confidence that at this World Championships, we (the women’s team) will strive to win one or two gold medals, laying a solid foundation for the competition for Olympic tickets at the World Championships next year.” Zhang Chongyao said.
In terms of men’s freestyle wrestling, coach Ma Cunjun introduced that 57kg players Liu Minghu and Zou Wanhao, 86kg player Lin Zushen, and 125kg player Deng Zhiwei are domestic leaders at this level and hope to pass the international A-level competition in the second half of this year. , Athletes can communicate with international high-level players to increase their confidence and improve their ability to fight against each other.
“For key athletes, the coaching team will customize personalized training plans, and implement and implement them in accordance with the twelve-character policy of wrestling – ‘proactive, comprehensive, coherent, courageous and tenacious’, so that they can finally give full play to their performance on the field of competition. The greatest ability and potential.” Ma Cunjun said.
A change in the new cycle of the men’s classical wrestling team, the bronze medalist in the men’s classical wrestling 60kg category at the Tokyo Olympics, Warihan Serik, was troubled by age and injuries. On the basis, this season he will move to the 67kg class.
The new cycle ushered in new goals. Chan Degen Chagan said that he has adjusted his state and will take time to watch foreign players’ game videos during training intervals. “Isn’t there a World Championship in September? I hope I can rush it.” (Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Chujie)