The 3-year-old prodigy dominates snooker

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"One minute on stage, ten years offstage", 3-year-old billiards prodigy Wang Wuka's amazing skills are not innate, but only today under the careful care and training of his father every day.

At the Beijing Anglo-Chinese United Club, a 3-year-old boy is sharing the stage with "Billiards Emperor" Hendry. Standing on a 40-centimeter-high platform, holding a club that is taller than his own, Xiao Douding opened his bow left and right, each aiming and hitting the ball was accurate, accompanied by the sound of "poof", in just a dozen seconds, the 15 balls in the middle of the table were all impartially put into the bag.

This made Hendry extremely excited: "This is the most incredible scene I have seen at the pool table, this 3-year-old is really talented." 」

The boy who was praised by Hendry was the "billiard prodigy" Wanguka. Since August 2013, because of a video of accurate and fast hitting the ball on the pool table, this tiger-headed little boy began to frequently accept invitations to major domestic billiards tournaments, and played tricks with Higgins, Hendry, Ding Junhui, Pan Xiaoting and other masters. At the table, he was free to retract and experienced, and was known as the "snooker prodigy" and "the next O'Sullivan".

Behind Wang Wuka is his father Wang Yin, who has always accompanied him. It was the father who used his love and experience of billiards for more than 20 years to discover his son's talent and train him to become a "prodigy".

The dream of three generations of grandchildren

Wang Wu ka is the living sign of the Wang Family Billiards Hall. Because of him, many billiards enthusiasts in Xuancheng, Anhui Province, have come to experience the satisfaction of becoming a loser under the kaka club. Even my father did not escape the outcome of conceding defeat. Wang Yin was in his early thirties and had been married to the table for more than twenty years. In his childhood, the old man who also loved billiards customized a billiards table and opened a ball hall at home. Although he played the ball in general, his son became interested in this novel sport, often moving a small bench to sit on the side and watching the guests play. A little older, Wang Yin played two shots at home without any trouble, and won the championship in the competition in Guangde County, Xuancheng, Anhui.

Today, Wang Yin has pinned his love for billiards on his son. Before Kaka was born, Wang Yin spent 1,000 yuan to order a boxy, small bench-high pool table as a gift for his son.

Just with the physical mobility, Kaka crawled around the table all day and did not want to leave; At the age of 1, he was still unstable, and he received a second gift related to billiards: a small pole, which allowed him to hold the table with one hand and squeeze the small fist in the other. When the weather was hot and they couldn't go out, Wang Yin's father and son simply practiced their skills at home, and Kaka had a strong desire to score goals at that time.

"When you score a goal, you will clap your hands and grin with joy; If the ball didn't hit, he would lose his temper like a normal child, and he would have to ask me to put the ball back in place and do it again until I put the ball in the bag. Wang Yin recalled funny and proudly. Kaka loves billiards like his dad and his grandfather, and is quite talented, and the dream of billiards for three generations of grandchildren seems to have finally seen hope in his grandson.

Grassroots "coach" play training method

Wang Yin began to think about education related to talent. He didn't want to be an educator, but how to keep Kaka's interest and enthusiasm, how to help him become a talent, and how to help him grow without picking up seedlings? The young father, who had been struggling for a while, finally decided: "Playing the ball like a game is in line with the nature of a child."

He set a schedule for his son: in the summer, the little one wakes up early, gets up at 6 o'clock every morning, and then gets up and "plays" for 1 hour; "Play" from 8 am to 10 o'clock after breakfast; "Play" for more than two hours from 2:30 p.m.

What Wang Yin can teach is posture, competition rules and some empirical skills. After his son was able to walk steadily, he began to teach him to play Chinese black 8 balls by hand. How to see the angle, how to hit directly, how to hook the ball, Kaka learned to look good, grew up fast, and pestered his father and himself all day long. Wang Yin had to spend all his time outside of the flower and wood business playing ball with his son.

In order to make his son more interested, he also specially formulated interesting billiard rules, such as quick hitting, multi-angle hooks into the bag, etc., which quickly became Kaka's favorite.

After training for a year according to his experience and love of billiards, Kaka, who is more than 2 years old, can score any ball on the table of the Chinese Black 8. Whenever a guest comes to the house, Wang Yin will let his son come to the two shots and proudly show off his training results.

The game also has to follow the rules

Wang Yin tasted the sweetness of billiards education and was ready to increase the difficulty and decided to teach his son to play snooker.

Snooker's tables are larger, the pockets are small, and the precision required is higher than other forms of billiards, which is the most difficult to synthesize. Compared to the huge snooker table, the small Kaka's figure is even more inconspicuous: the club is taller than the height, and he must stand on a 40-centimeter high table to hit the ball. But that didn't dampen the father's and son's enthusiasm for snooker.

Although it is a game, children also have willful times when they are tired of playing and do not want to follow the rules of the game. Sometimes when he sees that he is about to lose, he will also take advantage of his father's moment of laziness, dancing the club, and mischievously muttering: "I don't want to fight!" Wang Yin never deliberately lost to his son, he already regarded his son as an opponent of the same age: "No, play another round, Daddy accompany you, see who of us is strong?" Game, win or lose, this is undoubtedly the weakness of the little guy, Dad's "seduction" made Kaka interested again, quickly stood up and obediently followed the pole, set up the finger shape, and began to fight back. In that viral video, in just a few minutes, the little guy put five billiard balls in a row on a small column by hitting the last one, causing it to knock down the previous one in turn, and finally hit the front ball into the middle bag; Finally, the little guy shot three times in a row and hit a red ball into the middle bag... Although this magical scene is due to Wang Wuka's talent, the daily perseverance of training is even more responsible.

Passing tricks with high people

Uploading his son's batting video to the Internet, Wang Yinben was "instigated" by his friends. In August 2013, a friend saw a video of children playing billiards on the Internet, "Kaka's level is much higher than theirs." With a playful mentality, he also followed the trend and uploaded a video called "Chinese 3-year-old boy Kaka", and did not expect to get 600,000 hits within ten days, and all netizens were stunned: "This is the snooker prodigy!"

The father and son became popular overnight, Wang Yin's mobile phone was frequently bombarded by the media, and various competitions were also invited. But he didn't want to hype up his son, "but he felt that he could take his son out for a walk and open his eyes." ”

In Guangde County, few people do not know the small Kaka, not only their own stadium, many billiard room sons in the county town have patronized, and some billiard rooms have also set up a special stool for the little Kaka to play. But his son's talent can not be limited to finding opponents in the county town, practicing skills, Wang Yin wrote down every phone call, and then selected a suitable game to take his son to run around the country. In one year, the two were invited to Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places, and successively competed with the "Emperor of Billiards" Hendry, the 4th World Snooker Championship Champion Higgins, the "Billiards Prodigy" Ding Junhui and the "Nine-Ball Diva" Pan Xiaoting.

"First of all, they all thought this child was funny, so small, standing meticulously on the edge of the stage, with a very serious expression. Later, I watched him play and felt that Kaka was really talented. Wang Yin said that Hendry's evaluation was later endorsed by Higgins, Ding Junhui and Pan Xiaoting, and he did not hesitate to guide him.

Hold your horses

But after more and more invitations, Wang Yin's selection criteria are also getting higher and higher, "If you want to go to a show or event, we can go to at least 15, but we only go to a few." "Almost every show will charge 10,000 to 20,000 yuan for Kaka, but Wang Yin only values the formality of the show, its popularity and whether it has the opportunity to let her son and the masters pass."

Kaka Jr. has set a number of world records: hitting 15 goals in 10 seconds at the age of less than 4 years old, opening the bow with 21 or so goals, hitting sanku to score... Due to his young age, Wang Wuka still uses "fun" to describe the feeling of passing tricks with the masters, and Wang Yin does not want to overemphasize the honor in the eyes of these adults to the children, "I don't want him to be famous, I only hope that he can have a career after repeated contact and experience, and live up to his billiards talent." ”

Still a child

In the face of playing, Little Kaka actually has his own ideas. As he got older, so did his ideas. He often pouted and told his father, "It's tired, it's not fun." He would even raise his arm and little hand to show people, "Look here, Dad said it was a muscle, and his fingers were peeled off!" However, when it comes to the future, the little guy will also learn from the way his father taught him, saying, "My name is Wang Wuka, I play well, and I want to win the first place for the glory of the country." ”

Since the second half of 2013, in order to make Kaka more involved in the field of learning ball, Wang Yin did not let him continue to kindergarten. This caused the couple to argue. In his mother's eyes, little Kaka is not only talented in billiards, but his cleverness is also reflected in other places: the pinyin wall chart pasted on the wall, taught two or three times to memorize. If you don't go to kindergarten, will you fall behind your peers after going to school?

Wang Yin did not worry at all, the child should not be confined to a road, and the academic performance can not determine the child's future. He was worried about himself now. His techniques were all learned on the street, and he lacked theoretical knowledge, and it may be difficult to continue teaching little kaka in the future. Although some professional coaches offered to teach their son, he refused: "It is better to let him go to a professional school in Beijing after the age of 10."

Fathers don't want to let the media and others pay too much attention to Kaka's talent, which will put pressure on the child, "should let him go with the flow and grow up naturally." ”

A few years before going to elementary school, after a psychological struggle, Wang Yin and his wife decided to let Wang Wuka "go to school" at home, "let him play, this is the theme of his life now." ”