Special sports experience

You will have a lowest-cost, fully controllable self-calibration system, with long-term life buffs such as frustration resistance, sense of rules, and stable social anchors. It is much more cost-effective than spending tens of thousands of yuan to sign up for emotion management classes and workplace improvement classes.

I have practiced epee for 7 years, and it is not considered semi-professional. My best result is third place in the city's amateur competition group A. Most of the time I go to the fencing gym to be a human target and accompany newcomers to practice moves. Last week in the club exchange competition, I was leading by 3 swords until the last 10 seconds. I was stabbed in the instep by a little girl who had just practiced for a year. When I was practicing swordsmanship, I was designated to drop my mask and squat on the sidelines for half an hour. Now I took off my mask and bowed to someone with my sword. I turned around and laughed at the coach: "My legs were so weak in the last step that I stepped on a steamed bun. I didn't lose unfairly." ”

Nowadays, there is always a lot of quarrels when talking about special sports on the Internet. The technical people say that "if the movements are not standard, it is better not to practice. If you get injured during practice, you will do it yourself." A while ago, I was chatting with Brother Zhang, who often rides road bikes. He has been riding for 5 years. He spent nearly 100,000 on a carbon frame and a power meter, but he has never participated in any competition. He rides 30 kilometers along the Qiantang River every Saturday. When he rides to Wenyan, he stops to buy a sesame seed cake to eat, and the river breeze blows for half an hour before riding back. The cadence is always stable at 70, and he does not compete with others for speed. Regardless of his cornering posture, his special experience was used to escape from work - when he got on the bike, no one asked him to change his plan, no one urged him to submit a report. The moment the wind blew into his cycling jersey, he was himself. There was no distinction between those riders who saved up half a year's leave to compete in the Tour of Thousand Islands Lake and rushed forward until their arms bled.

When I was just practicing swordsmanship, I was doing press lunges. The coach poked my knees with a bamboo stick and said, "If you go beyond the toes, you will have meniscus effusion tomorrow." After 10 minutes of pressing, my thighs were shaking like electricity, and sweat dripped down my chin to the floor. At that time, all I could think about was "Why am I paying for this pain?" But I really persisted for half a year. First, I climbed to the 12th floor of the company without waiting for the elevator. Later, I moved to a new house and carried a 40-pound cat climbing frame to the 5th floor without gasping. Even the knee arthritis that I had suffered during the change of seasons has not come to my door for a long time. These are real physical changes that no amount of supplements you drink or how many massages you have can change.

Oh, by the way, I have also followed the trend and tried rock climbing for half a year. How bad is my arm strength? Even the simplest V1 on the bouldering line had to be stopped three times. I couldn't hold my feet and fell once. My arms were all bruised. I gave up after I lost interest and didn't feel any regret. Special sports are not KPIs. There is no need to stick to something you don’t like. The most important thing is to find one that you are willing to make time for every week even if you are exhausted.

In fact, what I gain most is the emotional benefits. Last year, I had a project that lasted for three months and was finally canceled before it was released. I hid in the stairwell and smoked, all I could think about was quitting my job. After get off work, I took my sword bag to the gym and stabbed the target for an hour. The sword made a "dong-dong" sound when it hit the target, and the sweat soaked through the inner layer of quick-drying clothes. When I changed clothes, I suddenly felt that it was not a big deal - I have been practicing swordsmanship for 7 years, and I have been abused hundreds of times by children ten years younger than me. What does it matter if a project is not successful?

Do you think it's strange? The plan you worked on for three days and nights at work may be rejected by the leader with just one word. The friends you care about most may break up, but special sports will never lie to you. If you practice lunges 100 times more, your pace will be more stable when you go on the field. If you practice defense 100 times more, the probability of being poked by the opponent will be lower. This kind of thing that is completely proportional to the effort and feedback is too rare in the adult world.

After losing the competition last week, I went to eat skewers with my friends in the gym. My hands that had just finished practicing were still shaking and I couldn't hold the skewers steady. We talked about the competition just now, and said that a kid playing foil was cheating by using his sword hand to block attacks against the rules, and that the coach scolded someone for having deformed movements today. When I clinked the cold beer, the foam overflowed and dripped on my hands. It was cool. I suddenly felt that these seven years of practicing swordsmanship were not in vain. Even if I never win a national competition award in my life, it is still worth it.