Chapter 297: The Core of the National Table Tennis Team (1/2)

Chapter 297: The Core of the National Table Tennis Team

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Cui's injuries were more serious than those of Xiangxian Zuo. What's more, Zuo had only really had a single waist injury, while Cui had several injuries in the waist, the knees, and the shoulders, among which, the shoulder injury was the most serious.

For table tennis players, their shoulders are always moving, as whether they serve or catch the ball, they must always be using their shoulders. Therefore, their shoulders would not get any rest, as long as they keep playing table tennis. Considering this, it is extremely difficult for table tennis players to recover from a shoulder injury.

As for a core player like Pengfei Cui, as long as he could continue to play table tennis, it would be impossible for him to take a year or so off in order to heal his injury. Therefore, his shoulder injury would get worse from overuse, until his injury prevented him from playing table tennis.

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Cui tried to rotate his shoulder, only to find that seventy or eighty percent of the distending pain in his shoulder had disappeared. If he did not deliberately press the shoulder, he felt no pain at all.

”My shoulder injury no longer affects my shoulder movement!” Pengfei Cui suddenly felt as he was in a dream. His shoulder injury had been a nuisance for him for several years. He had gone to see many expert doctors, including famous foreign experts, but all of them had offered no good method to treat it.

All the therapies and advice given by the medical experts were that, if he wanted to recover from his injury, he must give up playing table tennis for a while in order to then receive treatment. As such, their therapies wouldn't work unless he was willing to stop playing the games during his treatment.

However, his same shoulder injury that had troubled many medical experts was finally solved by Dai Li! Dai Li's rehabilitation massage therapy couldn't cure Cui's shoulder injury completely, but at least it could relieve the pain caused by the injury, and alleviate the impact on Cui as much as possible. Just for this reason, Dai Li won Cui's trust easily.

Cui knew that only by following Dai Li's suggestions, could his shoulder injury be relieved. Therefore, he strictly followed Li's training program. He became very serious in his training, and would do anything he was told. Based on this new leaf he was turning over in his behavior, it seemed that Cui had never been a troublemaker at all.

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”Keeping moving, faster! faster!” Dai Li said with a strict expression, it looked like he was scolding Pengfei Cui.

However, Cui didn't mind the way Dai Li spoke to him, and he clenched his teeth to try even harder to quicken his pace. Many people were extremely surprised by Cui's unusual performance, as Cui's rebellious temperament was known to everyone.

In fact, when Pengfei Cui had returned to the national table tennis team, there was no coach willing to coach him. Even those experienced coaches felt that they could not manage him.

But Pengfei Cui became completely obedient to Dai Li. This was unexpected to everyone. They all soon wanted to know what magic the new young coach had played, that he should have the ability to convince Pengfei Cui! Thus, Dai Li had an air of mystery in their minds.

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”Pengfei Cui became so obedient to him, so now, I'm becoming more and more curious about him,” Bin Wang said, shaking his head, but with a smile on his face.

”How long has Dai Li been in our team?” Zhizhong Gu suddenly asked.

Bin Wang thought for a while and replied, ”A little more than a month.”

”Ah, only just over a month!” Gu said with a loud sigh, ”We will have the closed training next week, and I am going to invite Dai Li to join the pre-match consultation.”

”What? He has only been here for about a month, and you want him to join the pre-match consultation? Isn't that too soon?” Bin Wang asked in surprise.

”It might be a bit hasty to get him into the core of our team. He has just been here for more than a month, but now he is responsible for the physical training of the main players of our team. From this point of view, his responsibilities are similar to the main coaches. So, I want to know what he thinks before the game,” said Zhizhong Gu.