Dahe Daily · Yu video reporter Cai Junyan
On October 11, Chung Yeung Festival, Guo Hongyan, who has been retired for 10 years, continued to spend his time in a busy situation.
At 11:30 a.m., when the reporter met Guo Hongyan, the 65-year-old coach of the Henan Provincial Disabled Swimming Team, she was in the swimming training hall of the Henan Provincial Employment Service Center for the Disabled (Henan Provincial Cultural and Sports Service Center for the Disabled), busy guiding the training of more than 10 athletes in the pool to prepare for the 12th National Games for the Disabled to be held in December next year - this was the fourth batch of disabled athletes she guided that morning.
As a para-athlete, she is good at sign language communication and has also created her own training sign language
Guo Hongyan is tall, with a ponytail and sportswear, which makes him look particularly capable. By the pool, she holds a stopwatch in her left hand and waves her right hand downwards to guide the athletes to complete the training as required. In the pool, athletes are alive and well, chopping waves and the sound of water is rattling.
This morning's training focused on turnaround speed and explosiveness. "It's a speed to turn in 0.6 seconds, okay? Ready, go! Guo Hongyan shouted while cooperating with sign language, when the athletes trained, she followed closely by the pool to observe, and reminded in time who needed attention to their movements.
At 11:45 a.m., the morning training ended. Guo Hongyan told the children to go to dinner quickly. During this time, she communicated with a 15-year-old female athlete face-to-face in sign language and asked if she needed to change her breaststroke technique. The girl nodded vigorously and left with a smile.
Among the para athletes in Guo Hongyan's belt, there are people with hearing impairment, speech impairment, intellectual impairment and visual impairment. She admits that when she is with an able-bodied athlete, she can accurately express the meaning and make the other party understand the difference through a look and a movement, and it is more difficult for para athletes to teach, and they need to communicate with sign language and repeat it constantly to make the other party understand.
In the long-term relationship with para athletes, Guo Hongyan has learned sign language and can communicate with everyone fluently. In order to better guide each other's training, she also "created" a set of training sign language, which can not only express professional technical requirements, but also make athletes fully understandable.
On the long table by the pool, there are two boxes and a notebook. Inside the box, there are pens, stopwatches, and "bone conduction" equipment that directs the training of blind athletes. The notebook is densely filled with training plans for each day and each session, the completion of the athletes, the physical sensation after training, as well as the weekly weight of the athletes, the pulse before and after training every day, and so on. Some technical content is presented through "symbols", such as preparation for activities, technical training of legs and strokes, speed training, etc., which may not be understood by outsiders, Guo Hongyan said with a smile: "Every coach has his own 'language'. ”
No matter what you train in each class, there is one "thunderbolt": each lesson is 98 minutes, and all training plans and tasks must be completed with quality and quantity.
"24-hour companionship" She still enjoys half a day off every week
Speaking of Guo Hongyan, he is a well-known name in the Henan swimming coach circle.
Over the years, she has cultivated a lot of outstanding talents in the field of swimming in Henan, the first to win the swimming medal for Henan, and the first to win the swimming medal for Henan National Games, Wang Dan, the first to win the Asian Games swimming gold medal for Henan, etc., are all from her disciples, and she is also the enlightenment coach of "Asian Flying Fish" Ning Zetao.
In order to help the development of sports for the disabled in Henan, Guo Hongyan was invited to work part-time as the coach of the Henan Provincial Disabled Swimming Team in 1998. In November 2014, 55-year-old Guo Hongyan officially retired, and after that, she continued to fight in the front line of coaching, and cultivated batches of "good seedlings" for the provincial disabled swimming team, which has been 10 years.
How busy is Guo Hongyan in his coaching career after retirement?
"The nature of my job here is that I need to be accompanied 24 hours a day." Guo Hongyan said that these athletes need to "practice twice a day", some athletes need to go to school, and some do not go out to school to train here for a long time. Therefore, she is basically on the swim team 24 hours a day, with half a day off every week. In the past half day, she returned to her home on Jiankang Road to get some change of clothes, gather with her family, and then rush back.
As a swimming coach for many years, Guo Hongyan also feels tired, especially when she gets older, her body, energy and endurance are limited.
However, when she saw the desire in the children's eyes and felt that the other party needed her help, she couldn't bear to give up, because she was "needed", and she has persevered to this day.
Guo Hongyan said that although he is retired, he still loves this career, after all, he has been doing it all his life. "These kids need me and make me feel worthy. So, growing up with them and seeing them go from not being able to swim to being able to swim to becoming national champions and world champions is also very proud for me! Speaking of this, she was in high spirits and had a very bright smile.
In recent years, Guo Hongyan's para athletes have achieved remarkable results in domestic and foreign competitions. Among them, visually impaired athlete Zhu Hongyan won the Paralympic championship and national championship, and broke the world record and national record. Paralympic athletes Liu Rui, Ma Zhiliang, Yang Yikang, Wang Wenhui, Qi Junqi, Sun Tianyu, Wang Kejun, etc., worked hard in the arena and won the national championship, and many broke the national record.
What makes Guo Hongyan even more gratified is that some of the para athletes she brought with her have been specially recruited to enter universities for further study due to their outstanding performance in competitions, and some have found good jobs and started families...... Seeing the growth and change of the athletes, she feels that all her busy work is worth it and valuable.
She knows that for these para athletes, swimming is not just a sport, but also a life-changing opportunity. "The children are engaged in this sport out of their love and hope to show their talents through this sport, and as a swimming coach, since I have this special skill, as long as the children need me, I am duty-bound!" After many years of busyness, Guo Hongyan has long looked down on fame and fortune, and attaches more importance to the sense of achievement and happiness brought by busyness.
Source: Dahe News · Yu Video Editor: Yu Xin