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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 6

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

It's my fault.

I'm wrong.

I shouldn't have gone to your house.

Continue to slap yourself.

Don't stop.

Slap yourself.

When I was five,

Lei and the others

prepared a lot of gifts for me during my birthday.

And I had a big cake.

I was ecstatic.

But after that birthday,

my mother left.

I only found out later that

both of them

had filed a divorce.

So, during my birthday every year,

Lei and I will...

Birthday

is not a big deal anyway.

Life goes on.

It'll pass.

So,

I'm fine.

When are you going to join the national team?

Tomorrow.

That's great.

You got what you wished for.

Actually, I'm not confident at all.

But you know what you want.

Maybe.

Happy birthday.

Thank you.

General Administration of Sport of China: National Table Tennis First Team

Rubber Cleaner

Fang Yue

Do you have everything?

These uniforms and shoes are different.

These are our competition gear.

Our shoes are all from Li-Ning.

And they are all custom-made.

You are new here.

After month,

Guan Wei National Ping-pong Team Member

you'll know the difference

when you wear your new shoes.

You are here.

You are here.

Five paddles,

eight rubbers,

two bottles of glue

and one bottle of cleaner.

Okay.

You always help them out.

We have a newbie. So, I'm showing him around.

Okay.

How is it?

I'm definitely right.

Wait.

Fatty, calm down.

Zhang Chen National Ping-pong Team Member

It's still not too late to change.

Fatty.

Zhai Jia Chen National Ping-pong Team Member

How about you give it another try?

I admit defeat.

Awesome.

Fatty, you have to concede defeat.

Your three pairs of socks and one pair of shoes

will belong to me now.

If you don't have enough to wear for this month,

you'll have to buy some new ones.

He's new here. Don't bully him.

You are really on the same team.

You are already protecting him?

Why is it so lively in here?

Brother Fu.

This is my junior from Jiangsu Team.

He'll stay with me.

Ma Chuan.

Brother Fu!

Hello, I am Fu Jing Chun.

Hello, Brother Fu. You can call me Fatty.

Ma Chuan National Ping-pong Team Member

Don't mind them. They like to bully newbies.

No.

I didn't bully him.

When I just came here,

I couldn't choose the right one too.

The thing is,

they are too similar. I...

The difference is 0.001 gram.

It's more accurate than gold.

One year,

a ping-pong court thought that this weight difference

would be negligible.

So, they made 10 balls.

And every ball is different by 0.001 gram.

Then, they let the national team tried them out.

Guess what?

The national team managed to perfectly line them up

according to their weight.

Fatty.

If you can play with the national team for a year,

you'll be able to tell the difference.

Zhang Chen, you should submit this for publication.

An anthology of 10 years in the ping-pong world.

Are you mocking me again?

Men's first team is at the top.

Below them is the women's first team.

Our training court is at the third floor of the arena.

Will this be opened for 20 hours?

It'll be closed after 10 at night.

Our team's training regime

is strictly set by

our coach.

We don't need to train on our own.

Unless

it's a special training.

For example, Fu Jing Chun

and Zhang Chen.

With the permission from their main coach,

they can arrange for extra training.

But Xu Tan,

no matter it's about the training time or the equipment,

the better you are,

the more powerful your words are.

It's quite tasty.

Give it a taste.

Zhai, this is what you ate in Jiangsu Team?

You had been fed well.

Fatty,

from now on, you'll be our

soup chef.

No problem.

I think our new general is here.

I'll go and take a look.

Guan Wei, why are you so late?

Come and drink some soup.

You are back.

Let me help you.

I can do it myself.

Well...

You are at the wrong room.

Only the main players can stay in a double room.

You'll stay in the triple room.

That room is Zhai Jia Chen's room.

It's my room too.

I...

Come and drink some soup first.

No need to unpack yet.

Yes. There's still a lot in the pot.

I'll get you a bowl.

It's okay.

Wait. What just happened?

I never thought that Yu Ke Nan will be back.

Yu Ke...

He is that...

The infamous Yu Ke Nan who beat up his opponent.

It's quite crammed in the triple room.

And we are missing one cupboard.

Zhai Jia Chen's room has an empty cupboard.

How about you put your luggage there first?

It's okay.

I'll be back in the double room soon.

Finally, you are back.

Did you take Ma Chuan's equipment for him?

I have everything.

Thank you.

I'll put your equipment in your room then.

Okay. Thank you.

I'll serve you some soup. We have enough for everyone.

This newbie is not bad.

He's even more attentive than you are.

You are here.

Xu Tan.

Senior.

We meet again.

I've put your equipment in your room.

Thank you.

I'll leave you two to it then.

I'll go back to my room now.

Let's eat together tonight.

Okay.

I never thought that we'll be in the same room again.

The treatment that the national team gets

is better than the provincial team.

Take your pick.

I only use 95 grams paddle.

Ninety-five.

Yes. Guan Wei said that our paddles and shoes

will be custom-made for us.

But we have to become the main players first.

But with your skills,

I'm sure that you'll become

a main player soon.

Xu Tan.

Come out and drink your soup.

The three of us will be roommates now.

Here you go.

There are only two cupboards in this room.

We'll have to cram our things into one.

It's okay.

I won't be here for too long anyway.

Why are you here?

Why are you looking for me?

You wouldn't visit us.

Am I not allowed to visit you too?

Take it.

Open it.

Actually, your father

dotes on you.

Why didn't he send it himself?

Why are you asking me that?

He already bought this for you a long time ago.

At first, he planned to give it to you when you went back

for Chinese New Year.

But in the end,

you ran away from home.

This paddle

is custom-made. It's not cheap.

So what if it's custom-made?

Ask him not to waste money.

Both of you are really shameless.

Do you really think that I'm your footman?

There's a box of clothes in the office from your mother.

Looks like you won't need them.

Good.

I can donate them together with this paddle.

I'll go to the office to take my clothes.

The food of the national team

is indeed different.

Nonsense.

Fatty.

Are you a pig?

How many plates already?

This is your third plate? Your stomach doesn't hurt?

Xu Tan.

Why aren't you eating?

I'm full already.

This is too much.

You can have mine too.

Are you kidding?

Champion Fang!

One by one! Don't push!

I got his signature!

It's such a big deal

when Fang Yue comes back.

He eats here too?

They just competed in the ping-pong league.

Next, the first team is going to get ready for World Ping-Pong Tournament.

Enough!

I have to go and eat now.

Let him eat first.

You can get his signature later.

The canteen has gotten quite nice lately.

Thank you.

Is it empty here?

Yes, it is.

Xu Tan from the second team.

To

Xu...

Tan.

'Tan' as in completely at ease.

'Tan' from soil and dawn.

To: Xu Tan

Champion Fang Yue

Champion. This...

This is good.

Champion.

Durian flavour?

It's quite unique. I'll choose it then.

Okay. Thank you.

Xu Tan.

Master.

I thought you are coming tomorrow.

Men should always struggle upwards.

I'm going upwards too.

I can't lag behind.

How's the preparation?

Of course I'm ready.

I'm just waiting for you.

I'm waiting for you to coach me.

This place

has many coaches who had trained

many world champions.

They are more capable than I am.

You don't have to

insist for me to be your coach.

No. If it wasn't because of you, I wouldn't be playing ping-pong now.

How could you say that?

Such a sweet talker.

What were you doing just now?

By the way, I ordered a cake for Lei Lei.

You...

You ordered a cake?

She just celebrated her birthday yesterday.

Yesterday's celebration

was like a celebration for me.

It doesn't feel right.

Why are you so particular?

No. It's just a gift for her.

I get it. You are quite rich.

No.

Fine. I know what you mean.

Go.

Okay.

You are here too early.

What if someone

turn me away if I'm late?

We should be like a honey bee.

We should chase after the light.

Even if we are blocked by a glass,

we have to bump against it again and again.

We'll die then.

When a fly and bee are put inside a glass bottle,

the fly flies around aimlessly

while the bee flies again and again

towards the candlelight in front of the glass.

The mentality for this essay

is for you to head towards the light

without wavering like a honey bee.

But if we are dead,

how can we chase after the light?

This is a bonus question, Lei Lei.

You should talk about chasing the light.

Not about the fly.

But I think we should learn from fly for being so adaptable.

Finding the exit is the key.

You need to be alive first before you chase after the light.

Life is precious.

Don't turn things upside down.

My fellow students. If you want to be as stubborn as

Lei Lei,

you'll get zero mark.

What does zero mark mean?

It means that when you are treated unfairly in the future,

you won't even have the rights to say no.

If you compromise now,

will you say 'no' in the future?

Lei Lei, if you want freedom

and insist on your stubborn ways,

you can do that at the university. No one will stop you.

But now, you are in my class.

My duty is to teach you how to sit in an exam

and get high marks.

Sit down and think about it.

What is true freedom?

Let's read this together.

Ready, start.

We should be like a honey bee.

We should chase after the light.

Even if we are blocked by a glass,

we have to bump against it again and again.

Head towards the path of light without wavering.

Essay.

I can't write it.

I feel that both answers make sense.

But you have to choose the correct answer.

Did your coach give you a correct answer?

There's no answer in ping-pong.

Let me tell you.

The better the player is, the more unruly that player is.

That's right.

I want to be the person to break this confining rule.

Why are you laughing?

Do you think I can't do it?

Of course you can.

Although I still don't know

what true freedom is,

not having a choice is definitely not freedom, right?

I'll have no freedom

if I follow that wasp.

We will be split into arts and science anyway.

I just have to make sure that I don't take her class.

I think you choosing your teacher

is like us choosing our coach.

We have to choose the one we trust the most.

Let me tell you something.

My father cooked

dinner for me tonight.

Is it good?

It's bad.

I've eaten the cake too.

How's it?

It smells weird.

Weird?

I'm just kidding.

It's quite delicious.

Durian-flavoured cake, right?

It smells bad but it tastes good.

You picked a good cake.

This has nothing to do with me.

Mr. Lei is the one who picked out the cake for you.

Enough.

You are a bad liar.

There are words on the cake.

Thank you for your birthday cake.

You are most welcome.

Well.

Rest earlier.

Bye.

Bye.

China: Xu Tan

China: Yu K.N.

There are currently 26 people in

China national ping-pong second team.

There are 13 ping-pong tables in the training centre.

The tables are assigned

according to the cumulative marks of each player

from the circuit training competition.

The most eye-catching table

is the table located in the middle of

the training centre.

Only the best and the second-best player

in the team have the rights

to use this table.

And it is the target for

all players in the second team.

Yu Ke Nan.

If you want to train,

you should train at your own table.

The new battle chart for the ping-pong table is out.

Go and take a look.

Previous World Cup Women's Singles Champions

Fang Yue

Gather up!

I heard that Mr. Mo is retiring early.

The ITTF has made some new changes recently.

After Mr. Mo leave,

do you think there'll be

any changes within the team?

Why are you so noisy?

I know about the rumours

that are spreading around lately.

The changes that ITTF made

is a challenge for us.

We have our own plan.

No need to think about anything.

Just remember this.

Do your best.

Understand?

Yes.

Understand?

Yes!

Good.

Next, let's us welcome

our new head coach,

Fu Chuan Zhi, from national first team, Mr. Fu.

To be honest,

Fu Chuan Zhi National Ping-pong Team Main Coach

it's a challenge for me that

Mr. Mo is handing you over

to me at this very moment.

Our country has always been known

for having a strong ping-pong team.

No one would believe that

our team will lose.

Because ping-pong

is our

dignity and pride in the international arena.

But for the past few years,

we've been stuck in a bad place.

During the 2000 World Ping-Pong Tournament in Kuala Lumpur,

our men's team lost to Sweden in the finals.

During the 2003 World Ping-Pong Tournament in Paris,

we failed to enter the finals for men's singles.

And then, in 2004,

we lost in the men's singles during the Olympics.

You are the second team.

You are the successor of the national team.

You are the future of the national team.

I hope that all of you

can have a keen competitive side to you.

Get yourself into the first team soon

and surpass them.

Do you have that confident?

Yes!

The three newcomers, step out now.

Introduce yourself to everyone.

Shanghai Team, Yu Ke Nan!

Jiangsu Team, Ma Chuan!

Beijing Team, Xu Tan.

From today onwards,

you are officially part of our team.

From now on, not only you are competitors,

you'll be closely associated teammates.

Okay. Go and stand at the end of

the second row.

Besides these three newcomers,

for our training this year,

we'll have two new coaches joining us.

They are

Lei Cheng from Beijing Team, Mr. Lei,

and his assistant coach, Qin Zhen. Give them your warm welcome.

Qin Zhen National Ping-pong Team Assistant Coach

Okay. All of you are here.

Turn to the back!

Train hard! Fight for the country!

Train hard!

Don't think that you can slack off because you are on the national team now.

If you keep on losing,

it's because you didn't turn your trainings

into strategies!

I heard that Mr. Zheng

asked Fu Jing Chun

to go to the first team and compete with Fang Yue. He lost.

It's normal to lose to the best ping-pong player in the world.

Of course.

And he lost badly.

Or else, he won't be like this now.

The centre table in our second team

is no match for the table used by the main players in the first team.

They have the best table.

Fu Jing Chun lost to him.

But it doesn't mean that people from the second team can't win him.

So confident.

You can win Fu Jing Chun?

Who is better than Fu Jing Chun?

One minute and 59 seconds.

While you are standing here,

other people have worked harder than you

for one minute and 59 seconds.

Why are you still standing here?

Are you waiting for me to give you your task?

Fine. Go and run around the court.

Go on.

I'm done.

Go to your table now.

Where are you going?

Did I ask you to stop?

The three of you

will run for ten more rounds.

Go on.

The national team

doesn't owe you a place!

It doesn't owe you any glory!

To stay here,

you have to complete your training.

Or else,

you'll be kicked out

if you miss a ball

or miss a step.

That Mr. Zheng is too vicious.

We'll have a hard time with him as our coach.

But Mr. Zheng is really good.

Look at Fu Jing Chun and Zhang Chen.

They are both under him.

I'm nothing.

Kang Ning and Nie Rui Feng from the first team

are his real disciples.

Don't be so humble.

If Mr. Zheng chooses to coach you,

it means that you are halfway into the first team.

I can't take it.

Moreover, Yu Ke Nan is my competitor.

Yu Ke Nan will have no chance.

Why?

Mr. Zheng has Fu Jing Chun now.

So, he doesn't need to trouble himself.

What do you mean by that?

He's the infamous player.

He was late to the competition because he got drunk

and he hit his teammate to vent it out on him.

Expect him, have you seen anyone else in the national team

being expelled because of fighting?

You are right.

But there must a reason that he got into the fight.

No. Wait.

Were you telling the truth?

Did you see it with your own eyes?

Everyone saw it.

We were at the training centre.

Yu Ke Nan hit him first.

That's too much.

So, when he was punished,

his main coach back then

didn't even help him out.

I was confused at that time too.

Why would Jia Yu

befriend someone like him?

I think

he befriended him out of pity because

he didn't have many friends.

Let's go to eat.

Come, let's eat.

What do you think about Zheng Hao?

You care so much about me.

Aren't you afraid that I'll hit you?

You can't do that.

Which coach will you choose?

Of course I'll choose Mr. Lei.

You trust him so much.

He is my coach since young.

If it wasn't because of him,

I wouldn't even get into the regional team.

Let alone the national team.

I think Mr. Teng treats you quite well.

Am I right?

Teng Biao is my father's messenger.

We won't be good together.

Xu Tan.

This is not the provincial team.

And this is not a training.

You should care about yourself

before you care about others.

Yu Ke Nan.

Do two more sets.

How long does it take for your muscles to recover?

I don't remember.

Xu Tan vs Yu Ke Nan

How are they?

Yu Ke Nan

is in tip-top shape

physically wise.

I need someone like him.

But it depends on

Mr. Zheng.

I think

Ma Chuan is better.

Although he doesn't have perfect data,

he just has some minor problems that can be fine-tuned.

I'm confident that I can help him improve.

As for Yu Ke Nan,

I don't have high hopes in him.

He has a notorious record. It'll be hard to manage him.

Actually, everybody knows that

everything is in the past now.

What do you think?

It's not only about the fighting.

When he was on the national team, he drank, skipped his training

and didn't come back for the whole night. He's indeed troublesome.

I think we should our resources

on someone who's more worth it.

I think this decision

is too rashly-made.

Now, Yu Ke Nan...

Last one.

What about Xu Tan? Who wants to be his coach?

It's painful, right?

You can stop sucking it in now.

Don't look down on me.

I'm better than Xu Tan.

I have more mass than him.

Let me tell you.

Xu Tan is little Guan Wei.

Guan Wei has been training for two years.

But he is still the same.

I think Xu Tan is worse than Guan Wei.

You want to compete with him?

You have to compete with someone stronger.

That's right.

They were here?

Why do they have their clothes on?

Interesting.

What do you mean by interesting?

Ping Pong Little Drama

The loop shot.

The Loop Shot

A loop

is an offensive technique

where the players stand close or semi-close to the table

and do a topspin

to score.

To make it into a kill loop,

the style of the loop is

spin,

Spin

speed,

Speed

power

Power

and versatility.

Versatility

You can do it with either the Penhold Grip

or the Shakehand Grip.

The loop technique

is an advanced offensive technique.

Its advantage is that

it's the combination of a complicated topspin

with speed.

It's very effective

to score when you are dealing with

a complicated oncoming ball.

Not only you can use this technique

when you are close to the table

or when you are semi-close to the table

to perform a powerful attack.

It has a wide range of applications,

it's technical and it's very versatile.

Thus,

it's currently

the most popular

offensive technique

in ping-pong.

Ping Pong

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