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At the 2024 Badminton World Federation Awards Ceremony, Liang Weikeng/Wang Chang took the stage to receive the Best Men’s Doubles Team Award. Director Chen Qiqiu, who was sitting in the audience, took out his mobile phone and recorded the entire process of his disciples receiving the award with a 59-second video, including panoramic views and movements. Mirror, close-up, radio… Upload to Weibo for publication, the operation is smooth and smooth, and he is worthy of being a super chat host who has been surfing 5g all year round.
Two years ago, the Liang Wang combination made their debut in the international arena. Coach Chen Qiqiu once said with emotion, “With you, I didn’t know that there are so many men’s doubles in the world.”
Everyone knows the story after that. The Liang Wang combination, which started from scratch, has soared from 444th in the world to the current number one in the world.
Why do you think you provoke him? !
After the badminton men’s doubles final of the Paris Olympics, some excited netizens went to the Weibo account of Chen Qiqiu, coach of the Chinese badminton team’s men’s doubles team, and commented: “Thank you for tearing down King Liang.”
Director Chen Qiqiu was not used to it and replied: “Get out of here.”
Some netizens who are obsessed with metaphysics suggested that Coach Chen should change his name. When playing men’s doubles, you can’t hit the ball too much. Once you hit the ball, you will be very passive.
Chen Qiqiu’s guidance: I will change your situation.
Enthusiastic netizens want Chen Qiqiu to guide and give players opportunities.
Chen Qiqiu responded in a clear-eyed manner: Aren’t others going to work hard?
Today, when sports are increasingly eroded by fandom, a word that is not rigorous will be misinterpreted by weird fans and cause online violence. It is rare for a national team coach to have such a fierce attitude on the Internet.
This is not the first time that Director Chen Qiqiu has directly criticized fans and irrational netizens in the fandom. From the beginning, he has shown an uncompromising attitude towards the fandom and fan groups, just like what he said to fans of Liu Yi : “Who doesn’t work hard?”
Fans in the extreme fan circle are fighting over why my brother cannot get privileges. Director Chen Qiqiu tells you, here, no one has privileges. Even if Wang Chang and Liang Weikeng, who have the most fans, fail to play well, they have to come back honestly. train.
What extreme fans like to do most is to make up their minds. With an extremely limited amount of information, they can make up a big drama and come to the weird conclusion that the whole world is targeting my brother.
For a long time, the sports world’s usual response to extreme comments from extreme fans has been to ignore them. But often the more they disdain to explain to fans, the more convinced the extreme fans are that their conclusion is the truth of the matter.
The arena of public opinion is always lively.
Writing articles and editing videos, this coach also talks seriously about techniques with fans
Guo Degang once said this: “I told a rocket scientist that the fuel of your rocket is not good. I think the best way to burn firewood is coal, and it must be clean coal. Water-washed coal is not good. If that scientist looks at me seriously One glance and he loses.”
But Chen Qiqiu is the scientist who is not only willing to take things seriously, but is also willing to patiently argue with netizens about what the rocket should be burned for.
Looking at the national team, you may be hard-pressed to find a coach who is willing to take the initiative to open up about himself and share his long-distance running track. He regularly writes columns for magazines to analyze the recent team performance, opens social media, and occasionally posts videos of the team’s training matches and follows them. Everyone shared the recent training performance of the team members, and they were even willing to discuss the complex badminton men’s doubles tactics with netizens in a serious manner.
In today’s increasingly public relations-oriented news system, players and coaches give official answers, while the media has to ask polite questions. Interesting information has become increasingly precious.
A coach like Chen Qiqiu who is willing to share, speaks without official talk, and speaks to the truth should be a rare treasure. However, due to the diversity of human beings displayed on the Internet, there will always be some weird people who find some weird things. Shooting at an angle: Why doesn’t your rocket burn coal?
Chen Qiqiu took over as the men’s doubles coach from the Rio cycle. In 2018, Li Junhui/Liu Yuchen won the men’s doubles championship at the World Championships. In 2019, when the men’s doubles in the national badminton did not perform well, various netizens went to Chen’s WeChat account. Bo Xia started to spray: Why is it that either you challenge me to jump and I jump to kill, or I challenge you to jump to kill? Can you do some continuity training in the first half?
There are even more voices saying “Chinese coaches are not good, please hire Indonesian coaches to teach”.
The most cruel thing Director Chen ever said was: “You can row away if you don’t like it. As a coach, I know what I’m doing. It’s not your turn to make arrangements for me!”
Returning to the men’s doubles group, the balloon coach starts a cool script
Due to the poor performance of the men’s doubles, Chen Qiqiu left his position as the coach of the men’s doubles team at the end of 2019, leaving a message: “I first posted on Sina Weibo two and a half years ago. By the end of 2019, I marked a milestone for my 2019. Full stop, this year’s running mission has been successfully completed, and more than two hundred articles will be continued next year, which is dubbed “Chicken Soup” by everyone. I accept all the titles, affirmations, praises, criticisms, and insults. I would like to thank everyone for their positive and encouraging words. They are not always correct. I am just being myself. I always believe in the power of the spirit. I am not good enough! , I happily accept everything today and wish the Chinese Men’s Doubles continued success in the Tokyo Olympics!”
Chen Qiqiu, who has been appointed as the mixed doubles coach of the second national team, still uploads training videos of the second team members from time to time after work.
On the last day of 2021, Chen Qiqiu recited a poem called “Planting Rice Rice” written by Buddhist monk Budai of the Tang Dynasty: “Planting green rice seedlings into the field with your hands, lowering your head and seeing the sky in the water. Only when the heart is pure is the way. It turns out that retreat is forward.” “
In May 2022, Chen Qiqiu returned to his position as the coach of the men’s doubles team.
On August 8, Chen Qiqiu wrote a sentence under the uploaded video: “Friends who want to watch the hair extensions can directly watch the game when the time comes to watch us send hair extensions with the Indonesian team.”
Looking back today, we find that from that time on, Chen Qiqiu had begun to consciously seek a technological revolution in Chinese men’s doubles in hair and return techniques and tactics.
Soon after, the coaching career led by Chen Qiqiu ushered in a slap-in-the-face plot that can only appear in online novels. In early September, at the Super750 Japan Open, Liang Weikeng/Wang Chang won the men’s doubles championship. Chen Qiqiu released a photo with Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang and the championship trophy, as well as screenshots of the remarks he made scolding him on Weibo one by one, with the caption Wen: “All of these are the driving force for us to move forward!”
It turns out that he actually wrote it all down in his little notebook – “You were the ones who said the rockets needed to burn coal back then, weren’t you? Come out and get beaten!”
Sincerity is the greatest nirvana. It is Director Chen Qiqiu’s character that has always been willing to share sincerely that allows most fans of men’s badminton doubles players to maintain a sense of rationality and sense of proportion. Now facing the mindless charge from some extreme fans, Chen Qiqiu can easily handle it with guidance. There was a response, and the rational fans supported me.
Other fans were posting “My brother is awesome”, “My brother should be happy”, “My brother has worked hard”, “My brother should have a good rest”, while fans of Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang were all posting on Balloon Guidance Weibo. “Hurry up and get King Liang to practice football!”
Not bowing to traffic, Balloon Coach brought out such men’s doubles
If you carefully look at the training videos posted by Chen Qiqiu on Weibo, you will find that he never compromises on traffic. He will only post videos that he thinks are of high enough quality, even if the players in the videos are not well-known. These video materials are likely to become very valuable materials in the future.
For example, Cheng Xing and Zhang Chi, who were brought up by Chen Qiqiu in the second mixed doubles team, have already made their mark at the Japan Open.
Regarding fans’ requests to see his brother, Chen Qiqiu did not compromise: “I’m sorry, this is my private dish. You can eat whatever I serve.”
“Balloon” – is Chen Qiqiu’s nickname when he was coaching players, a homophone. When he was a player, Chen Qiqiu was guided by all kinds of geniuses. Before him, there were many Indonesian men’s doubles greats such as Goh Junming/Tan Jialiang, Subagia/Mainaki, etc. who became more and more sophisticated as they got older. After him, He was the golden generation of Cai Yun/Fu Haifeng. He was considered the most inconspicuous among the men’s doubles players of that era.
Players like Chen Qiqiu have a lot of the style of the older generation of Chinese sports people. There is not much talent to squander, you can only rely on your own hard work and thinking, just like what Zhang Beihai’s father said to Zhang Beihai in “The Three-Body Problem”: “Think more.”
Such players can often become good coaches after retirement.
We all like to say that talented players are “their ancestors rewarded them with food”, and the young people under Chen Qiqiu are already competing with their ancestors for food!
It is true that we miss the strength and fearlessness of the golden generation, but no young people are willing to listen to the older generation chattering about the past. The new generation of fans also needs their own heroism.
Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang are the victory of youth of this generation of young people. I hope they can write their own heroic epic one day.
“I hope every one of my teammates is better than me!”
Chen Qiqiu will not only cherish the talent and personality of his disciples, but at the same time he will not relax his demands on his disciples. Unity, tension, seriousness and liveliness are vividly reflected in him. “The biggest feature of my team leadership is that no one is like me. I hope that every one of my players will be better than me, and every one of them will be better than me.”
Chen Qiqiu tolerated Wang Chang and Liang Weikeng’s “laughing and laughing”, and even took the initiative to repost netizens’ emoticons: “Doubles players should be more cheerful, and they should have a release of passion. Why are you not happy if you play well? Well played Why can’t you laugh? I think only if you are happy and joyful from the heart, you will have the motivation to pursue (honor) again.”
“So our training is like this, hitting a lot of good shots and showing off to each other. When I hit a beautiful shot, I want to be seen. In fact, these players are eager to be seen. This feeling of happiness is something else. It’s incomparable. I think they are also the new generation of players. Their emotions are indeed more relaxed than those of our time.”
But at the same time, Chen Qiqiu will not relax his demands on Wang Chang: “Actually, Wang Chang was relatively inexperienced at the beginning. He is very agile, his ball has many changes, and he can hit a lot of what we are talking about.” “Fairy Ball”, but after a small amount of “Fairy Ball”, there were a lot of mistakes, or the training was not solid. Through his subsequent efforts, he also realized that “Fairy Ball” is only a small part, and more of them are more common things. ”
“Wang Chang’s understanding of the ball, some of his very creative shots and moves, if Liang Weikeng can have a deeper understanding, they can cooperate better. Liang Weikeng is a very important guarantee for Wang Chang to play freely on the court. He can provide a very strong offensive power for Wang Chang to use.”
“They have very good personalities and are good to their teammates. Their communication, feedback, and execution with the coach are very valuable qualities for them.”
Chen Qiqiu would say, “They didn’t sit on stools in the final. I think they might have won if they had sat on stools.” He would also be realistic: “I only gave Wang Chang 60 points. Maybe Liang Weikeng’s score was higher.”
Cherish experts like “Balloon” who are willing to argue with us ordinary fans about what men’s doubles should be. At least here in the “Balloon” guidance, “expert” is a complimentary word – it means hard work, tolerance, enterprising, pragmatism, and courage.
Coach Chen Qiqiu said something in an interview after the Olympics: “I not only coach them, I also coach the entire Chinese men’s doubles. The most important thing is whether our Chinese men’s doubles are competitive, and whether our Chinese men’s doubles can Have a place in the world.”
If you have seen the “darkest moment” when the men’s doubles of the Chinese badminton team was weak 30 years ago, you must feel gratified and proud of the Chinese men’s doubles under Chen Qiqiu today.
Original title: “This coach has never been used to the rice circle”
