In the Beijing shooting range far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, everything is so quiet, and occasionally you can hear the ringing gunshots from the training ground. The China Shooting Team is conducting intense training here. On a sunny afternoon, we met Xu Haifeng, the captain of China shooting team. 1984 At the 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games, Xu Haifeng won the first Olympic gold medal for China. Xu Haifeng has been in poor health since the Los Angeles Olympic Games. 199 1 year later, his wandering retinitis reduced his vision to about 0.2, which was fatal to the shooters. It is in this situation that Xu Haifeng insists on participating in several major international competitions, including the Olympic Games. 1995 as the coach of the women's pistol group of the national shooting team with a gun.
One year after taking over the women's pistol team, his disciple Li Duihong won the women's sport pistol in the 26th Atlanta Olympic Games with 1996. This gold medal was hard won by the China shooting team five days ago. Because of his excellent work, he was appointed as the head coach and deputy head coach of the women's pistol group of the national shooting team from 65438 to 0998.
In 2000, at the 27th Sydney Olympic Games, another of his disciples, Tao Luna, won a "good start" for the China delegation, winning the first gold medal in the women's air pistol event and the silver medal in the sport pistol event. From then on, Xu Haifeng was called the "gold medal coach".
After the Sydney Olympic Games, the personnel system of the national shooting team was reformed, and all the head coaches, team leaders and coaches in the team competed for posts. At first, Xu Haifeng only competed for the head coach of the women's pistol group, and the competition was successful. But the center requires each coach to compete for two positions, and he also competes for the position of head coach. After campaign speeches, voting and other procedures, he was elected by a majority of votes.
At the beginning of 200 1, he served as the head coach of the national shooting team and the head coach of the women's pistol group, becoming the only coach of the China shooting team with two positions.
In May 2003, Xu Haifeng was appointed as the Deputy Director of the Shooting and Archery Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport.
2004122 October, 165438+ Xu Haifeng left shooting after 22 years of struggle and was transferred from the deputy director of shooting center to the deputy director of fencing center.
From gold medal athletes to gold medal coaches to leading cadres, Xu Haifeng's life "triple jump" seems to be very easy. When asked about his successful experience, he said calmly, "I try my best to do everything." Don't do it, as long as you do it, you must do it well. This is my philosophy of life. " Behind these simple words, there is Xu Haifeng's persistent pursuit and 100% dedication to his career ... Before Xu Haifeng became the head coach, the national shooting team had just won two gold medals in the Sydney Olympic Games and was at its peak. As the saying goes, "it's easy to fight a mountain, but difficult to defend it." How to lead this team to achieve better results is the main problem he faces.
At the beginning of his tenure, Xu Haifeng didn't sleep well for three days and nights. After careful consideration, he made clear his coaching ideas. "After taking office as head coach, I mainly caught three things. The most important thing is to give full play to the role of coaches. " "The second thing is to do a good job of key athletes, never tolerate the mistakes made by excellent athletes, and even criticize them more severely than ordinary athletes." The third thing is to do a good job in team management.
Xu Haifeng attaches great importance to ideological and political work, and the team conducts party group activities once a week. "Ideological and political work and patriotism education can't be lost at any time, not only for an excellent sports team, but also for a sports team with backward performance!"
Shooting is exciting in the competition, but it is boring in the usual training. As the saying goes, "One minute on stage, ten years off stage". For the 10 gun in the competition, the athletes' daily training is to raise the gun, aim and shoot, and then raise the gun, aim and shoot ..... to cultivate the athletes' good stability and psychological quality.
On the training ground, Xu Haifeng is very serious, and you rarely see him smiling during training and competition. On the training ground, the athletes are afraid of him. No matter which athlete is not well trained, he will be corrected or criticized. Even his proud disciple Tao Luna is often "angry and crying" by him. Once she participated in the Shooting World Cup held in South Korea, Taoluna made a slight mistake in the sport pistol preliminaries and returned to her post, which was severely criticized by Xu Haifeng. "You are the Olympic champion. You should pay attention to every game. Only by treating every game as an Olympic Games and shooting one ball at a time can you become an Olympic champion again. " In the following days, Tao Luna played better and better and won two gold medals in the World Cup.
Xu Haifeng is a very careful person. He knows every athlete's personal situation, technical characteristics and way of thinking like the back of his hand. His eyes are poisonous. After a few strokes on the court, an athlete can know whether the athlete is in the state and where the problem lies.
Before every big game, he should carefully and repeatedly consider the difficulties and problems that will arise, and never fight unprepared. Before the Asian Games in Busan, Xu Haifeng considered the factors that might affect the competition, such as venue, climate, wind direction, equipment and so on, including some unnoticed details, such as bullets. At the Asian Games, the South Korean team stinked, while China carefully checked the bullets before going out, but this problem did not appear.
Years of shooting career have made Xu Haifeng form a habit. No matter in competition or training, he always carries a notebook with him. Open the notebook, which is full of dense data, which is the shooting score of every game and every athlete in the team. He said: "These data are very precious. Although it takes a lot of time to do your own statistics, you can get a good understanding of the team's competition and be very targeted for training and competition. "
During Xu Haifeng's two years as head coach, the performance of China Shooting Team rose steadily, and in 2002, China Shooting Team became an unbeaten division. At the World Shooting Championship held in Finland in 2002, China's shooting team made brilliant achievements, including 17 gold medals, and broke five world records and four youth world records. At the Busan Asian Games, they performed even better, winning 27 gold medals, breaking three world records and tying the 1 world record, becoming the first gold medal winner of the China delegation. Go through the house without entering.
After the Asian Games in Busan, some media said that "Manager Xu has more and more gold medals and less hair". Asked how he felt, he smiled and said, "After becoming the head coach, my hair is really getting less and less, and my white hair is getting more and more. There are too many facts to worry about. "
Since he became the head coach of the national team, he has put all his energy and thoughts on shooting. As a head coach, it is related to the development of the whole sports team and the rise and fall of the whole shooting career. I must do my best. After the training class during the day, he often has meetings at night and talks with athletes. He seldom goes to bed before 12 in the afternoon, and feels that time is not enough every day. He has become a habit, and his biological clock only goes to sleep after 12 at night.
Xu Haifeng's home, his training ground and dormitory are all in the shooting compound. The distance between home and dormitory is less than 500 meters, but he lives in the team from Monday to Saturday. Even on Sunday, when the team is allowed to rest, sometimes there are too many things in the team to go home. At the busiest time, he lived in the dormitory for three weeks and didn't go home. Coupled with training and competition abroad, he spends less than one month at home a year. He spends little time with his wife and daughter, and sometimes he meets in a hurry at the shooting range to say hello.
Xu Haifeng's hometown is in Anhui, and she has an old mother at home. He is old and in poor health. He often passes by Anhui for training and meetings, but "he passes by his home several times and doesn't enter". He said, "There is really no time!" Referring to his family, Xu Haifeng said emotionally: "I really owe them too much these years!" Yes, he only thinks about the shooting team, not his family.
"If you want to shoot well, you must be a good person first."
If you want to shoot well, you must be a good person first. This is what Xu Haifeng asked of himself. People who meet Xu Haifeng for the first time think that he is a unsmiling person. But people who know Xu Haifeng all say that he is a "cold outside and hot inside" person. Xu Haifeng also admitted that he was not a very gregarious person, especially one who didn't fit in with himself. He seldom talks. But people who can talk to themselves still have a lot to say. At first, the new athletes in the team thought that Xu Haifeng was strict, but as they got to know him, they thought that Coach Xu was actually an easy-going person. No matter the coach or the athlete in the team, they are willing to ask him for help when they encounter difficulties in life or work. He also tries his best to help others.
As the winner of the first Olympic gold medal in China's history and his contribution to China's shooting career, he has a high prestige and popularity in the shooting field of China. But he never used it to show off, but worked quietly in his shooting career. He often tells himself: "Be satisfied with salary and honor, but never be satisfied with career and work."
As we all know, the China Shooting Team is not a team that has attracted much attention from the society and the media. Team sponsorship is not much, and coaches and athletes are not well paid. In recent years, from time to time, countries have paid a lot of money to hire Xu Haifeng to teach abroad, but he declined politely. The reason he said is simple: "I am very patriotic and don't want to take athletes from other countries to fight our own athletes."
Anyone who has been to Xu Haifeng dormitory will be surprised, "Is this your dormitory?" Yes, it's hard to imagine that this is the room of the head coach of the national team. Too humble. This room of about 10 square meter is both a dormitory and his office. A simple single bed, the most common wooden desk, a wardrobe in the 1970s and a computer are all his possessions. The room was crowded with people and the tables were full of data reports. The only ornament is an oil painting given to him by a China painter hanging on the wall-when he won his first Olympic gold medal that year, IOC President Samaranch talked with him. Xu Haifeng likes this painting very much. 2003 is the 20th year that Xu Haifeng entered the national shooting team. "Work is happiness." This is what Xu Haifeng often said. He gave up all his hobbies for his beloved shooting career, and shooting has become a part of Xu Haifeng's life.
In 2003, Xu Haifeng won the "Best Coach Award" in the "China Sports TV Award" and was elected as a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He is not satisfied with these successive honors. "There will always be peaks in front of me. After climbing a peak, there will be new peaks to climb. "
Facing the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Xu Haifeng is even more complacent. "I believe there will be a satisfactory result."
Xu Haifeng, who likes to meet challenges, has a never-say-die pride in everything. I hope he can make a leap in life again and bring us more surprises.