[Epoch Times News on August 3, 2021](Compiled by Epoch Times reporter John Wu) Taiwanese badminton men’s doubles players Wang Qilin/Li Yang (with Lin Yang) defeated the Chinese combination Liu Yuchen and Li Junhui 21-18, 21-12 to win Won Taiwan’s first badminton gold medal in Olympic history.
The key to victory with heavy artillery
At the Tokyo Olympics this year, badminton players from all over the world gathered to show off their skills and make good use of heavy artillery killing skills to maximize the effectiveness of each game.
The Reuters report carefully analyzed the heavy artillery shots of badminton, from leaping into the air, inhaling, and pressing down on the racket from a large angle. The overall rhythm can be fast and violent enough to make the opponent almost unable to parry. For strategic applications, sometimes targeting the upper body attack can also catch the opponent off guard.
Malaysian men’s singles badminton player Tan Boon Hoeng (Tan Boon Hoeng) measured the killing speed in 2013, reaching a top speed of 493 kilometers (306 miles), which is the world’s first badminton heavy artillery killer.
India’s PV Sindhu, the last Olympic silver medalist in Rio, can hear her shrill yelling every time she smashes at the Musashino Forest Stadium in Tokyo. She hit a ball at the 2015 Danish Open at a speed of 349 kilometers (217 miles) per hour.
On Saturday (31st) in the East Olympic Women’s Singles Final Four, Xin Du hit a ball at a speed of 336 kilometers (208 miles) per hour to grab a point from the world’s number one Taiwanese badminton queen Dai Ziying. Although Xindu still swallowed the defeat 18-21, 12-21 at the end.
Of course, Dai Ziying is not much better, having shot a speedball of 360 kilometers (224 miles) per hour at the All England Open. Xiao Dai’s excellent skills are especially shown in soft shots close to the net and unexpected return shots.
“Skilling is certainly an extremely powerful technique, but it cannot be used alone. You must have good defensive skills and dexterity in front of the net.” Former Danish national team coach Steen Pedersen (Steen Pedersen) )Express.
A tall smash has an advantage
Height plays an absolute advantage in the skill of heavy artillery. The taller the body, the stronger the arm, the better the effect will be when blasting the ball at extreme speed. This may also be the reason why professional male players are better at hitting fastballs than female players when they are taller.
In the men’s singles semi-finals, Chinese star Chen Long, who is 187 cm (6 feet 2 inches) tall, played against Taiwanese badminton brother Zhou Tiancheng. He scored a smash in the game on Saturday (31st), which once made Zhou Tiancheng tired. , Sit on the ground panting.
And with a height of 194 cm (6 feet 4 inches) and the world’s second-ranked men’s singles, Viktor Axelsen (Viktor Axelsen) can also shoot a speedball at a speed of 404 kilometers (251 miles) per hour.
With his heavy artillery firepower, Axelon defeated the current East Olympics Guatemalan player Kevin Cordón in the men’s singles semi-finals on Sunday (1st). Corden also used a quick smash as a weapon to advance to the top 4 all the way.
Corden defeated South Korea’s Heo Kwang Hee in the semi-final on Saturday (31st) earlier, saying that he was talented for wide-angle shots, and he used heavy artillery to kill all the way through.
The following is the ranking of the heavy artillery kills of the Olympic champions in this Tokyo Olympics:
man–
Tan Boon Hoeng, Malaysia: 493km/h
Lee Chong Wei, Malaysia: 408km/h
Viktor Axelsen, Denmark: 404 km/h
China Lin Dan (Lin Dan): 401 km/h
Kento Momota, Japan: 399 km/h
Chen Long, China: 392km/h
woman–
Ratchanok Intanon, Thailand: 372km/h
Tai Tzu Ying, Taiwan: 360 km/h
Carolina Marin, Spain: 356 km/h
Akane Yamaguchi, Japan: 352km/h
India Sindhu (PV Sindhu): 349 km/h
Nozomi Okuhara, Japan: 347 Kosato / hour
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