Prologue: Lin Dan's london defense to this day, exactly eight years. In the past, Lin Dan went from the trough of Athens to the peak of London, which was also eight years. Take this moment to recall Lin Dan's brilliant career and talk about his growth history.
Lin Dan has super-first-class strength in 2004, and in the years to come, he has improved more than technical tactics, but some crucial excellent athlete qualities: the strong psychology honed after the fiasco in 2004 and 05, the domineering self-confidence ignited after the victory in 06 and 07, the calm that gradually took shape after 08 years, and the tenacious persistence in the face of pressure after 09 years.
After 10 years, Lin Dan has completely grown into a top athlete who is very good in all aspects. So, naturally, he played the best game in 11 years and created an unprecedented feat in 12 years. Badminton is a part of Lin Dan's life, from Athens to London, he created brilliant results while also writing his most wonderful life course.
First, fall down and get up
The story begins in 2004. As early as before the Athens Olympics, Lin Dan had become famous and was called "Super Dan", but Li Yongbo did not want everyone to call Lin Dan that way, because he was worried that Lin Dan ranked so high, won so many championships, and heard so many praises. As a result, the young and vigorous Lin Dan really lost miserably in Athens, and in the most important event, he created his worst record of the year, which was a big surprise.
As a crisp killing ball landed, Tawfik's yellow robe was added, and Lin Dan, as a spectator, could not help but applaud him: Tawfik is not easy, and this champion should be his. Later, people returned this sentence to Lin Dan.
Lin Dan is more difficult than Tawfik. After a round trip to Athens, he was once depressed, just like Tawfik four years ago, it was difficult to accept his loss, and it was even more difficult to accept another four years of long waiting. He was even very sensitive to the three words he was proud of, "Super Dan", and as soon as others mentioned it, he said busily, "Don't, don't, the Olympic Games have no achievements, I am not Dan." ”
Lin Dan was very painful and unwilling, and his way of venting was to train, train, and retrain. "In a single swing, after hitting the ball again and again, I found that the pain slowly drifted away from me, replaced by a force to get back up. This force in turn pushed me to strive for excellence in every beat, and to run every step into place. Just like that, Lin Dan, who had fallen, got up again. In the next three open tournaments, he was in a brave state, taking all the championships into his pocket, announcing the strong return of "Super Dan", telling the world that Lin Dan was still full of fighting spirit and had not been knocked down.
Second, you can't do it again and again
However, in 2005, the storm did not leave Lin Dan, but came more violently. First in the All England final at the beginning of the year, he who was determined to defend his title was reversed by the opponent with a disparity of 15:5 and 15:2 in the case of the first victory, which was undoubtedly another blow for Lin Dan, who had just come out of the shadow of the Olympics. At the World Championships in August, he suffered another crushing defeat, being swept by Tawfik in the final with a score of 3:15, 7:15.
Lin Dan's victory over Tawfik in the Sudirman Cup final in May gave him confidence in winning the World Championship, but the outcome was so unexpected. This huge psychological gap is not something that ordinary people can bear. Reality poured Lin Dan a basin of cold water, but this did not discourage him, but made him calm down.
Lin Dan, who suffered a fiasco in the competition again, no longer appeared to be manic and painful as a year ago, but behaved quite calmly, and he used Ye Chengwan's story to motivate himself and show his ambition: "Ye Chengwan also debuted at the age of 17, and only reached the championship and runner-up final of the Olympic Games for the first time at the age of 27, and won the World Championship at the age of 29. I just want to learn from this spirit of his, hold on to a momentum, and do not do it again once. There is no best, only better, give me some time and I can definitely do better. If Lin Dan, who regained his strength after the 04 Olympic fiasco, was just scrappy, then this time, he added calmness and perseverance to his blood, and began to gradually grow into the Lin Dan we are familiar with later.
Third, it finally broke out
Probably at that time, not many people took Lin Dan's words to heart. But what is unexpected is that in the years to come, he will actually honor these words one by one. In 2006 and 2007, he won his dream world championship. Successive major victories have made Lin Dan full of confidence in the future. During this time, his realm went up another level and began to look for ways to maintain his peak state.
Before the Sudirman Cup in 2007, Lin Dan once said: "To my extent, the most important thing is to control the state of the game, because the technical and tactical improvement is already very limited. So, freely regulating the state became a new goal set by Lin Dan for himself, he first tried to look at the game with a calm mind, but unexpectedly lost to Li Zongwei in the Sudirman Cup. Later, under the guidance of Li Yongbo, he decided to regain his domineering self. "A calm mind may be part of maturity, but the murderous and domineering spirit and even the shouts on the field are not contradictory to the maturity itself."
At this point, the fighting spirit that appeared countless times on the playing field later exploded, and the mature and calm but domineering Lin Dan began to take shape! Such a Lin Dan, to the 08 Beijing Olympics, after holding back for four years, finally ushered in a big outbreak. Some people say that Lin Dan of the 08 Olympics is a "reckless man", and I don't think so. It is true that many of his killings are unreasonable, but if you look closely, his performance on the field is quite stable, which is by no means an impetuous "reckless man" can play.
Generally speaking, the faster the players are on the field, the higher the error rate, but Lin Dan of the 08 Olympics has maintained a very low turnover rate in the case of extremely fast speed. In fact, at this time, Lin Dan, under the appearance of fanaticism, already hid a calm heart. He was no longer the impulsive, manic teenager he had been four years ago.
Fourth, the blood is not extinguished, and the pace does not stop
However, this is not all there is to Lindane. Over the next four years, he showed even greater charisma. Many people will change their mentality after they have achieved fame, begin to lose their fighting spirit, and go downhill, but Lin Dan is an exception, and it can even be said that he is a counterexample. As early as the Beijing Olympics, he said: "Olympic champion is my ultimate goal, but it will never be my highest mountain." "After winning the Olympics, he became more and more courageous, created new heights, achieved the world championship three consecutive championships in 2009, and created his most dominant year, as he said in 2005: there is no best, only better!
By 2010, he won the Asian Games in Guangzhou, becoming the first full-time player in the men's singles. At this time, people could no longer think of any reason for Lin Dan to persist. As everyone knows, persistence has become a habit in Lin Dan, who has experienced countless winds and rains. The previous violent play could not last, so he began to explore new ways of playing, in short, to continue to fight. As a result, the former "violent full-time man" quickly changed his career to "Taiji Shendan".
Lin Dan, who had experienced an ankle injury, was no longer as fast as before, and he could no longer take off at any time to volley. However, he continued to harden Li Zongwei with his experience in the competition, his domineering spirit, and the psychological quality of the transformation. The violent Lin Dan is terrible, but the transformation of the ball control Lin Dan is equally terrible, he can not only switch tactics back and forth in different games, but even in the same game.
In the final of the 11th World Championship, Li Zongwei won two consecutive match points, and Lin Dan responded calmly and calmly in the face of danger, first creating opportunities with split ball defense and high-quality rubbing, and then turning things around through violent killing. In the game, killing the ball is the most morale of oneself and the most demoralizing of the opponent, especially in the key points. After Lin Dan's continuous critical hits were chased to 21 draws, the strength and weakness of the field had begun to reverse, and then, he suddenly changed tactics and began to control the deathline, which was a tactical conversion of "first soldiers before courtesy", allowing him to completely control the rhythm of the field and finally win the game. The final of the 11th World Championship is the peak battle of Lin Dan's technical tactics.
Fifth, persist in creating greatness
After setting a record of four world championships, Lin Dan began to move towards a higher goal: to defend his Olympic title. If Lin Dan of the Beijing Olympics can be described as "erupting in silence", then Lin Dan of the London Olympics is "insisting on creating greatness". Lin Dan's journey this way is really not easy. In the Beijing cycle, he first lost miserably at the World Championships, and then lost successively in the Su Cup and tang cup. Everyone knows that Chen Long has suffered a lot of accusations for losing the team game, but in fact, Lin Dan also received a lot of criticism at that time. Carrying the pressure of the whole country made him even more overwhelmed. For some time before the Olympics, he often fell on the beat during training, and he was criticized for this. Fortunately, Tang Xianhu, as a person who came over, understood Lin Dan very well: "If you feel too much pressure, just fall." The battle for the Beijing Olympics, for Lin Dan, is both an outbreak and a release.
The Lindane of the London cycle is also under pressure. During this period, he really realized what it means to climb to the top is not easy, and it is even more difficult to climb down after climbing. After Lin Dan achieved three consecutive World Championship titles, the outside world has had three reverie for the height of his career: four consecutive championships, Grand Slams, and Olympic title defense. When responding to the media, the pressure-ridden Lin Dan "lower and lower" requirements for himself: before the 10th World Championships, he said: He did not think about four consecutive championships, and playing the best level is the only requirement for himself. As a result, Lin Dan still played abnormally and was out early. Before the Asian Games, he said: I am already a Grand Slam, and the Asian Games are not among the Grand Slam champions. In the end, Lin Dan withstood the pressure and successfully crowned. Before the Olympics, the outside world not only expected Lin Dan to create history, but also expected Lin Li's summit duel to be staged again. Lin Dan was under unprecedented pressure, and this time he simply said: You can allow yourself to lose.
It can be seen that in the four years from Beijing to London, Lin Dan has withstood tremendous mental pressure and gritted his teeth to persevere. People only see his brilliance in front of people, but they don't notice the torment behind him. The heights were cold, and he endured the solitude that the hero of the world had to endure.
It was hard to survive until the beginning of the great war, but difficulties followed. First, the impact of Sho Sasaki, the Japanese player has been staring at him since the victory over Lin Dan in Indonesia 11, and this Olympics is to fight lin dan. As a result, he played at a high level and played with Lin Dan for three full sets, even forcing him to go crazy on the field. The second is the brittle defeat of Chen Long, who has defeated Li Zongwei three times in 11 years, but he is one-sided in the Olympic arena and failed to create too much resistance for Li Zongwei.
Finally, Li Zongwei put pressure on Lin Dan. In this game, Li Zongwei played a super high rush attack, Internet speed, resulting in Lin Dan once passive on the field, and even appeared the ultimate rescue to deform the ground glue and continuous fish jump to save the ball such magical operations, the high error rate also made Lin Dan chagrin, and kept patting his head. Although he fell behind many times on the field, fortunately, Lin Dan was determined, physically energetic, and defensively excellent, and insisted until the end when his speed was inferior, and survived to the moment when Li Zongwei's physical fitness declined, and successfully laughed to the end with his strong psychology as always.
It seems to be a game, but in fact, Lin Dan has been struggling for four years for this game, fighting against opponents and fighting with himself. It seems to be a game, but Lin Dan has poured out all he has in this game: the fighting spirit that re-emerged after the 04 Olympics, the calmness that was revived after the 05 World Championships, the confidence that was ignited after the 06 consecutive victories, the domineering spirit that was regained after the 07 Su Cup, the calm that gradually took shape after the 08 Olympics, the invincible psychology after the Beijing cycle after the wind and waves, and the bitter persistence of the London cycle in the face of huge pressure. If you really understand Lin Dan's eight years from Athens to London, then I am afraid that he will not be surprised by his Olympic title. He was surprisingly powerful, but he was justifiably successful.
Source: [Ling Dan]