In the mixed doubles final of table tennis at the Tokyo Olympics, Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen won the silver medal.
While cheering and congratulating the team members, netizens across the country caused heated discussions about Ito's strange smile throughout the game.
"Do Japanese people laugh like this?" I got goosebumps from laughing. ”
In fact, behind Ito's weird smile is the weird tactic that Japanese table tennis players have always had, which has been throughout the decades of our fight with Japanese table tennis.
Some of these strange tactics of the Japanese table tennis team originate from Japan's own cultural characteristics, some belong to the special design of the team, and some are specifically aimed at our national table tennis. Including but not limited to the following aspects:
1. Beep and yell loudly
2. Show a strange and mysterious smile throughout the whole process;
3. Roll your eyes in a defiant look;
4. Magical hand dancing, exaggerated body language;
The first time japanese people felt this strange tactic of Japanese players was to go back to the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, exactly 27 years ago.
In the table tennis women's singles final, Deng Yaping met former national table tennis player Chiri Koyama (he Zhili), who had already joined Japan.
Needless to say, the results of the game are a thing of the past.
But the most profound thing left for the Chinese people at that time was not that she lost this game, but that Tomori Koyama was constantly shouting in Japanese and shouting "Yosai".
This action of Tomori Koyama has aroused the disgust of many Chinese people: after only a few days of joining Japan, he has completely learned the habits of the Japanese people vividly?
Later, professionals pointed out that this was actually not just a catharsis of emotions, but a tactic deliberately designed by the Japanese side:
Form a momentum from the sound to disturb Deng Yaping's mood and thus profit from the game.
Later, the national table tennis repeatedly encountered another Japanese Chinese player Zhang Benzhihe, who was also the "master" of the strange expression tactics of Japanese table tennis.
This person was once regarded as the "genius teenager" of Japanese table tennis:
His parents are from Sichuan, and his mother was once a teammate of Deng Yaping and Qiao Hong.
Later, his parents immigrated to Japan, and Zhang Benzhihe also naturalized to Japan at the age of 11.
Zhang Benzhi often yells loudly when playing, and his body movements are very exaggerated.
Especially after Zhang Benzhihe defeated the world number one Zhang Jike 4-3 in 2018, he played this roaring tactic to the extreme.
Even his mother admitted that this was a tactic to suppress the other side and boost his own morale.
In the mixed doubles final of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Ito No doubt played these strange tactics of Japanese table tennis to the extreme!
Throughout the game, Ito showed such an image to the domestic audience in front of the TV:
First he kept yelling, then he showed an eerie smile and a rolling look.
Some netizens left a message saying: Watching the expressions and actions of Ito Mimako's strange brains is really unbearable.
Like Zhang Benzhihe, Ito's strange tactics also come from the mother who raised her when she was a child.
Mother Ito was very proud to reveal:
When she was a child, in order to enhance Ito's self-confidence in playing table tennis, her mother often sneaked into her bedroom quietly during her light sleep, whispering in her ear:
"Remember, only you can defeat that mighty country!"
The whole process is like hypnotic brainwashing.
Under such long-term hypnosis, Ito Formed the tactical habit of the final:
As soon as you face our team, these strange tactics mentioned above will appear.
What do you think of these weird tactics of Japanese table tennis?