Original subtitles

Sub by iQiyi & Ripped by skysoultan ♔ Follow @skysoultan on Instagram ♔

Ping Pong

This show is the selected drama by NRTA

in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the PRC,

and was funded under the 2019 Art Creation of Hubei.

Episode 4

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.

Every year, during the training,

when it comes to physical training,

many see it as

an opportunity to slack off.

This year,

in order to improve this problem,

we've asked the national team to dispatch

a very top notch fitness coach.

Please welcome Ms Liu.

It's the great beauty.

I'm telling you.

Don't slack off.

And don't be mischievous.

Go ahead.

Hello, everyone.

Liu Da Qiao, national fitness coach

I'm your fitness coach, Liu Da Qiao.

Today, we will

do some yoga training.

I hope you can be patient and cooperate with me.

Let's work hard together.

Work hard.

Pay attention to your breathing.

Breathe in.

Breathe out.

Slowly put your hands onto the yoga mat.

And lift the leg up.

You're doing it the right way.

Ms Liu, I'm doing it the right way, too.

Look at me.

I...

Hurry up!

Xu Tan.

Come quickly.

Here.

Where did you get these?

Eat.

This is the legendary

holy vacation spot.

Let me tell you.

This place is located behind the training center.

It's very secluded.

Look at how dense the trees are.

They can't find us at all.

Aren't you afraid of being punished for slacking off?

Even if she catches me,

I'm not afraid.

What are you doing?

It seems that I can't be too lenient with you.

Fifty squats. Not one less.

Wrong squats don't count.

Three points will be deducted from each of your training points.

If you ever slack off again,

I'll ask the coaching team to send you back to the provincial teams.

You don't want to train anyway.

That doesn't count.

Please don't, Ms Liu. I'm wrong.

I will never skip training again.

I will follow you.

I will go wherever you go.

I will always be with you.

How smooth-talking you are. You've had not enough?

Do another fifty squats.

Please don't, Ms Liu. I can't do this anymore.

Can you hurry up?

I can't do this anymore, Ms Liu.

This is the 45th squat.

Keep your feet.

This is the 46th one, right?

Look at your foot.

47th.

This is the crucial week in the training.

I wanted to join the first echelon.

But today,

I lost another three points.

The training is actually nothing.

What is hard is that,

I have to face failures again and again

every day.

I'm already used to feeling pressured.

Perhaps

it's really like what my three friends said.

Some were born to do this.

Don't slack off.

Just like Yu Ke Nan.

And we really have no talent.

But this training

is my only chance.

I can't quit.

Therefore, I must work hard

and bite on Yu Ke Nan.

If we know the sine and cosine,

we can identify the tangent.

These two formulas...

I know you train very hard.

I will go easy on you for the exam.

As long as you can solve Example One.

If you can't understand, you can memorise it.

Sir.

Yes, you.

Stand up.

Let me ask you.

What is the mnemonic

for the trigonometric value of a special angle?

Let me give you a hint.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

Three, four, five.

Go to the mountain and fight the tiger.

You can't even remember such a simple mnemonic.

How can you do the cultural exam?

Sir.

Do you know the next line?

You.

What is the mnemonic for a special angle?

I'm sorry. I fell asleep.

One, two, three. Three, two, one. Three, nine, twenty-seven.

Sit down.

It's okay.

You're listening to my lesson.

And you've jotted down notes.

Unlike someone else who not only didn't listen to it,

but also tried to seek attention with his claptrap.

He doesn't respect others at all.

Guys.

I've taught regional trainees for years.

Kids like you

keep coming here.

Now your lives are all about

playing ping-pong.

But in real life, it's not all about ping-pong.

It's impossible

for you to learn much

about Mathematics in a few days.

But you will slowly realise that

all knowledge is connected to each other.

So

I don't care how much attention you pay to my lesson,

or how much you get from it,

I will carry on with it.

I don't want you to become

a bunch of ping-pong players

who don't care about any other things.

On the contrary,

someone who is curious about

what he doesn't know

gets to explore more

in his own field.

Sit down.

You too.

Today,

you must remember

He's pretending to be a good student.

this form.

These two formulas...

Who's that?

I said, pay attention to the lesson.

Why are you making trouble again?

Sir, someone threw the eraser at me.

You can leave if you don't want to listen to it.

Don't interrupt my class.

I don't want to listen to it.

What did you say?

I said, I don't want to listen to it.

Instead of wasting my time here,

I would rather go do multi-ball training.

I'm aware you don't want to listen to me.

But I must say this.

No matter how unparalleled your skills are,

and even if you become a world champion,

you will have a hard time

if you don't know how to respect others.

Yes.

Let's continue the lesson.

Brother.

Xu Tan is really a piece of work.

He's even pretending to be good in the cultural lesson.

He didn't deserve to receive the quota at all.

Pretending is all he's good at.

He's disgusting.

But it's game over for him.

He's too lousy to make the second national team.

That's not true, Brother.

He's very ambitious.

He wrote in the notebook.

That he wants to be a world champion.

It's written clearly on the last page.

"Bite on Yu Ke Nan."

Bite on Yu Ke Nan. That's disgusting.

Did you read my notebook?

Wait.

What are you talking about?

Did you put my notebook into the water?

What? What notebook?

You didn't read it,

but you know what I wrote.

You're pretty amazing.

I did read it. So what?

What can you do to me?

Loser.

Who's the loser here?

What did you say?

A backstabber

is worse than a loser.

What are with you?

Fighting with him won't do you any good.

Indeed.

You know the consequences

when I beat people.

Yu Ke Nan.

I didn't cause your departure

from the national team.

It's your own doing.

Do you still remember it?

You did me wrong.

Yu Ke Nan.

You have the cheek to say that.

Didn't you?

If you get into a fight again, you can't make it back to the national team.

Don't worry.

I will not fall into your trap again.

Your brother has left.

Quickly bite on him.

You should train tomorrow.

It's getting late.

My goodness.

Auntie.

You may lock the door.

Fine.

Thank you.

Bite on Yu Ke Nan.

He wants to bite on me?

Gather around!

Hurry up.

You.

Hurry up.

Stop playing. Quick.

Hurry up.

Here's the thing.

The general administration sent us

this formal notice today.

They've set

the rules for the tournament.

Until the next weekend,

your cumulative scores

will be on hold.

The top three provincial teams

and the three players

ranked bottom in the second national teams

will have

a single-elimination

on the last day of training.

After that,

the top three players

will join

the second national team.

And the rest

will be eliminated.

It's a stage

as intense as the major training.

At the same time,

there will be

more training matches.

For those who are leading,

don't think you can slack off.

Those who are behind

might overtake you anytime.

And...

The training is going to end soon.

And you need to be take things more seriously.

If anyone of you

commits misconduct,

he doesn't get to take part in the tournament.

Okay, I would like to add something.

The cultural exam in this week is very important, too.

You must spare some time to do revision.

Got it?

Got it!

Start your training. Dismiss.

Xu Tan, what's wrong?

They'll calculate the scores next week.

I'm calculating how many games I need to win

for the tournament.

Don't worry. There's still time.

I have faith in you.

Come.

Let's go practice.

14 days until the tournament

12 days until the tournament

8 days until the tournament

Using

the discriminant of the root of quadratic equation in one variable,

we can identify the root of the equation.

When the discriminant is...

When the discriminant is zero,

the two equations are equal.

6 days until the tournament

Xu Tan.

You moved up the ranks without us knowing.

No. 21, Xu Tan

Not bad.

Excluding the players from the second national team,

you're ranked sixth in the provincial team. You stand a chance of it.

What's so great about that?

Brother Chang isn't saying anything even though he's ranked second.

See you at the tournament.

Attention everyone.

Those who score in the exam

will receive extra training points.

Wait.

There was no such rule before, Coach.

I've told you so many times.

Cultural lesson is very important.

Got it?

What?

Lin Hao Zhi.

No talking during the exam.

Subject: Mathematics

Come.

For the cultural exam,

Xu Tan has had an outstanding result.

He's the top scorer.

The coaching team has had a discussion.

And we've decided to reward him four points.

Give him a round of applause.

The provincial players behind there.

Do check out your results.

Xu Tan, now that you've gotten the extra four points,

you should be able to become

one of the top three provincial players.

I guess so.

It's just four points.

You're so happy as if you're celebrating Chinese New Year.

What?

Champion Yu, you're not happy

because you're not the top scorer?

I have no problem with that. Because Xu Tan worked hard for it.

Even though he did well in the cultural exam,

he still needs to play well.

Don't let others overtake you.

Good luck.

Did you give us the wrong answers on purpose?

What do you mean?

Look.

I copied all your answers.

But I didn't get any marks.

I'm sure you gave us the wrong answers.

Lu Xiao Bei, you took my scratch paper.

And you have the cheek to argue with me.

Can't you see some questions are missing?

Forget about it. It blew up in our face.

But one needs to play well

in order to make the national team.

Xu Tan, see you at the arena.

What a bunch of losers.

What did you say?

Forget about it. Let's eat.

Skills are what we need

to make them shut up.

Yes, we need skills.

But

we're no match for Su Chang

even if we join hands.

We can't defeat him.

But Xu Tan can do it.

Xu Tan.

You lost three points because of us.

Let us help you prepare for the tournament.

We will beat Su Chang down and get back the lost points.

How can you help me?

Xu Tan.

I've done some calculations.

Your biggest problem is that

you're lack of fire.

What does that have to do with ping-pong?

You don't know it, do you?

"Raiding and plundering like a fire."

It means, when we're having a match,

you must be offensive

and aggressive.

You need to pressure your opponent

with different means.

Put pressure on him

so that you can win.

Are you asking me

to strengthen my attacking skills?

No, attacking is the most basic playing style.

I'm going to talk about a more advanced one.

Attacking one's heart.

There won't be any referee in training matches.

The players will count their own scores.

It is 5-5.

And you will ask your opponent,

"Is it 6-4?"

It's okay if he corrects you.

Because

you've successfully messed up

his tempo.

What do you think?

People play ping-pong with their hands.

And I'm going to play it with my mouth?

I'm not going to do that.

Then they're going to do that to you.

I want to beat Su Chang down properly.

We need to train our concentration.

Not bodies.

When your concentration reaches a certain stage,

you can control your body better.

Now

concentrate on

your breathing.

Control your breathing well.

And you can control the tempo well.

Was that fast?

Not only was the toss serve not high enough,

but it's also not straight.

That's a foul.

How can I combine the forces with a straight serve?

This technique will become useless.

What if we toss it high?

That's fast, Brother.

Let's do another one.

Sure, let's have another one.

What's the matter?

Yu sent you this.

Take it back.

Take it away.

I told him not to send me this.

Wait.

If you win the tournament,

put this on.

If you lose it,

keep it as a souvenir.

No need.

I'll put it on at once.

Do you know

Jia Yu's joining the tournament too?

What does that have to do with me?

There's fire in your eyes.

Everyone knows what you're thinking.

It's good to be an aggressive player.

But you need to be careful.

Someone might use your aggressiveness

to counterattack you.

The uniform

is not only a souvenir,

but also a reminder for you.

Take it.

-I'll get going. -Okay.

What's wrong?

I came to do some training.

But the rubber's broken.

I tore off the old rubber.

And I've been wondering

if I should paste a new one on it.

You can't play without a new one.

I might not be suitable for ping-pong.

Don't you say that.

You've made it here.

That means you're pretty skilled.

Thank you.

If it hadn't been for you,

I would've given up long ago.

Actually,

I thought of giving up before I came here.

My mom doesn't want me to play ping-pong.

She thinks it's a difficult path.

And I've had asthma when I was young.

Therefore, in their eyes,

there's no way I can make it my career.

So I thought

maybe I

wasn't a ping-pong player material.

But I slowly realised that

I like ping-pong

not because

I want to win some world championship.

Or to prove how powerful I am.

I just like how it feels

to do my best on the arena.

So no matter how difficult

this path is,

I will keep moving forward.

I'd like to see

how far I can go

so that I won't regret it.

I really envy you.

You've found out

what you want to do in life.

If I were

as passionate as you,

I guess I wouldn't be feeling upset.

Life is not

all about ping-pong.

I think you will figure out yours eventually.

How about I help you with the rubber?

And you'll play with me.

-I've already brushed it. -All right.

Xu Tan, you're not bad.

Xu Tan, you're one of the top three provincial players.

You're joining the tournament.

It's true.

Quick.

Come.

Who else?

Of course Yu Ke Nan is ranked first.

Su Chang is ranked second.

The ones ranked bottom in the second team are Jia Yu, Guan Wei, and Han Xin.

All six of you will have a single-elimination tournament.

With his scores,

I'm afraid Four-Eyed Boy can't come here anymore.

He wasn't at the training session.

Could he have gone?

Gather around!

Hurry up!

I'm going to tell you this first.

Lin Hao Zhi

has left the training early

for personal reasons.

All right.

Next,

let me announce

the shortlist

for the tournament.

Su Chang.

Xu Tan.

Yu Ke Nan.

Congratulations to them.

For those who didn't make it, don't lose heart.

After this training,

I'm sure your result

will be improved.

After getting back to the provincial team, do train well.

And seize the next opportunity.

Today's the day before New Year's Eve.

The coaching team has decided

to give you all a day off!

Yes!

Yes!

Those who are joining the tournament.

Do take a good rest.

And get ready for the tournament tomorrow.

Dismiss.

Lin Hao Zhi.

You left without saying goodbye.

I'm sorry.

What are you apologising for?

I'm sure everyone's looking down on me.

Mr Teng asked me to hang in there for a few days.

But what's the point of doing so?

This is my limit.

Xu Tan.

I'll stop playing ping-pong.

That day, I ran out here alone.

And I spent a long time sitting here.

And I kept looking at that way.

Actually, we can't see it

from here.

I've made up my mind.

There are many things out there that are worth exploring.

I don't have to trap myself in this small island.

In this past,

I thought I was Harry Potter.

But then I realised

I didn't even

have the right to face Voldemort.

Xu Tan.

In the final battle,

Ron gives Harry his own magic wand.

And the rest follow suit.

With everyone's faith,

Harry finally defeats The Dark Lord.

Keep it for me.

Let it see

the other world

that belongs to it.

The other world

that doesn't belong to me.

Let me introduce you to

the veteran Chinese ping-pong player.

Mr Ding Yu Sen.

He just came back from a field trip abroad. What do you think?

Let's hear from Mr Ding.

Yes!

I'm so happy

to meet you all today,

who are the young future Chinese ping-pong players.

You came from all over the country,

and made it to our training team

after a series of selection processes.

In fact,

you

have reached

the peak of the pyramid.

Whether or not you can make the national team

after this training,

you should be proud of yourself!

Yes!

Yes!

Actually,

what I want to say is that,

you're not selected

not because you're not skilled.

You just happened

to be born

in China.

Hey.

What's up?

Are you making the national team?

Not yet. I haven't had the tournament.

My dad sounded so excited.

I thought you're making the national team.

How are you doing?

I...

As usual.

Xu Tan.

Master.

Why are you here?

I'll leave you to it.

Is Lei there?

Ask him.

Tell him

that your mom's sending him regards.

Mom?

Yes.

Are you talking with your family?

Well,

my mom is

sending you regards.

Mrs Xu, happy new year.

Don't worry. He's doing good here.

All right.

Well,

ask Lei

when he will come back.

How can I ask him that when he just reached here?

Ask him with your mouth.

Master.

It's New Year.

My mom's asking when you will be back to Beijing.

She'd like to send you some souvenirs.

Don't bother herself.

I'll stay until the regional training ends.

And I'll head back to Beijing with you guys.

Sure.

He'll be back on Tuesday.

Roger that.

I can go out and have fun.

Don't tell Lei.

Okay, sure.

I'm hanging up.

You naughty kid.

Why were you so cold to your mom?

Isn't that the way to talk to a mom?

I know you're busy training.

But when you're free,

you should always call and talk to your family.

Sure.

So...

Are you catching up on the training?

Not bad.

Oh yeah, I've made the tournament.

You brat.

You asked to leave the team

before coming back to it.

I asked many for favour

so that you could join this training,

you know.

Play the tournament well.

Definitely.

What are you waiting for? Come, take me to the bedroom.

This way.

It's quite joyful.

It's new year. Yet, you keep asking me to train.

What kind of father are you?

I'm done!

I'm done. I'm hanging up.

Why don't you eat with them?

I don't feel like eating.

I see.

Are you nervous about the tournament?

That's understandable.

If you lose it,

your dad is going to kill you.

I won't lose it.

Sometimes

I like how stubborn you are.

In fact,

I was pretty naughty when I was young.

I was always in a fight.

And my dad beat me for it all the time.

There was a time

when I went into hiding at the sight of him.

I remember there's this one time

when I had a fight with a group of people.

And it was a bad one.

They pushed me down to the ground.

And I knew it's all hands and fists

over my head.

Out of the blue, a hand

pulled me up.

Guess who it was.

Who?

My dad.

I remember my dad was

shouting at them.

"Scram!"

"He's my son! Only I have the right to beat him!"

Well,

after that fight,

I realised that

all fathers love their sons.

They just do it

differently.

All right.

Don't forget to eat later.

Ping Pong Little Drama

Physical Training.

Physical Training

Special physical training

is a method

used in different sports.

It involves unique training methods,

which are used to improve

a trainee's physical fitness

in a particular sport.

When it comes to ping-pong,

the four things to be improved are

strength,

Strength

speed,

Speed

endurance,

Endurance

and sensitivity.

Sensitivity

One,

Strength

strength.

In ping-pong,

the main types of strength we focus on

are

lower limb strength,

Lower Limb Strength

abdominal strength,

Abdominal Strength

and upper body strength.

Upper Body Strength

Two,

speed.

Speed

The primary training methods include

reaction speed training,

Reaction Speed

Movement Speed

movement speed training,

and coordination speed training.

Coordination Speed

Three,

endurance.

Endurance

Usually, the trainee gains endurance

from a middle and long distance running.

Special endurance training for ping-pong

is primarily done through ping-pong training.

For instance, multi-ball training,

Multi-ball Training

training match, etc.

Training Match

They are used to train endurance.

Four,

sensitivity training.

Sensitivity

It is done by the trainee

who quickly determines the direction of a ping-pong ball,

the type of spin, and etc.

Thus, it requires the trainee to play more with others

so as to increase his sensitivity.

Every sport

has its own special physical training.

It is to achieve

balanced physical development in the trainee.

This requires the trainee

to choose from the four aspects above

and improve your weaknesses

through enhanced training

so as to improve his athletic performance.

Ping Pong