NO pain, no gain
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Martin Hughes was a very nice person, he kept introducing Arsenal to Le Kai and helped him get familiar with the club. In fact, communicating with Martin Hughes was very simple, as long as you don't bring that person up. The two chatted a lot, and he also got to learn a lot of things about the Arsenal squad.
After lunch, the two said goodbye to each other.
Le Kai returned to the training ground to start the afternoon training. It was still the same training he did in the morning. He wanted to improve his speed to less than 9 seconds today without touching the pole. The training was boring, but if you want to get better, you have to endure this much. Le Kai was circling the poles over and over again, and his speed was also increasing little by little.
The most obvious is that his ball control had become a little better.
In the past, due to his role as a full-back, he was less likely to control the ball that much, so he didn't need superb ball control skills. His task was to pass the ball to the play-makers in the midfield.
His game focuses more on defense.
But now, he needs to improve his ball control in order to hold the ball well and shrug off challenges.
He has never heard of it, a midfielder that can't hold the ball.
Hmm. Except for some special cases.
Lucky devoted himself to training and felt the increasing finesse between his feet and the ball.
The feeling was wonderful.
Lake didn't know that when he was training, the Arsenal assistant coach had been staring from the sidelines, and his expression still frosty.
After watching for a while, the old man walked away.
In the evening, Lucky stopped training. He looked at the poles behind him and then looked down at the time.
8 seconds 91!
A smile appeared on the corner of Lucky's mouth.
There was an improvement.
At this time, the sun went down, Le Kai moved the equipment back, took a shower in the bathroom, and was ready to walk home.
But as soon as he arrived at the gate of the training base, he saw Billy's car parked by the roadside, smiled, and shouted to Lucky: "Surprise!!"
Lucky laughed and said, "Nice to meet you, Mr. Billy."
Billy also laughed; "How was the training today?"
"Very good." Lucky shrugged.
After that, the two got into the car and prepared for the return journey.
On the way back, Billy said, "Would you like to take a stroll in London?"
After all, it was his first time here, and he felt that Lucky should want to take a walk in London.
But Le Kai shook his head and said, "No. My training task is very heavy, and I don't have much time to waste."
"Great." Billy applauded with a thumbs up.
He liked hard-working players.
Le Kai started to get introduced to some fun rumors and facts about Arsenal causing him to release a laugh every now and then. From the conversation, he could see the blind passion Mr. Billy had for Arsenal. It was pretty blinding and he hoped he could live up to the expectations of such fans.
Lucky grinned secretly.
Arriving at Billy's house, Elena warmly entertained Lucky again.
Elena praised Lucky's delicious breakfast and prepared a big meal for him.
Finally, she brought up the specially prepared low-fat meal. As a fan, she naturally knows that athletes need to maintain strict a diet, and she was teasing Le Kai before.
Lucky also showed a happy smile when he saw the low-fat meal.
After the four of them performed a special "prayer" again, they began to eat dinner.
After dinner, everyone sat down and chatted again. Billy and his wife introduced some history about England, and Le Kai reciprocated the same.
This got Billy started to talk about his excitement about kung fu. After Lucky solemnly told that there is no kung fu in China that can help achieve the legendary iron body, and those are found in the movies, Billy showed a hint of loss.
Le Kai couldn't bear his look, and said, "Maybe you can go to Shaolin Temple to try your luck".
The sound of 'wah, wah, wah' came out of his mouth, and he made some funny actions, which made everyone laugh.
During the chat, their relationship gradually drew closer.
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The next day was sunny.
Le Kai, like the previous day's training, was ready to continue his training around the pole. Yesterday, he completed his training in slightly less than 9 seconds. He did stretches to reduce the tension in his muscles for a couple of minutes.
Le Kai picked up the ball and started running forward, and the pole training began again. During the training around the poles, he felt more in tune with the ball. His actions became more precise.
This kind of pleasure made him feel happy.
After practicing for a long time, when he was resting again, Lucky suddenly felt a gaze watching him. He turned his head to look and found that outside the isolation fence, the assistant was standing there again.
He was shaking his head in displeasure.
Why?
Lucky was a little confused, so he scratched his head and was about to speak to him. He soon arrived in front of him picked up the ball from the pitch and said," Watch".
He kicked the ball with his left foot, and when the ball was parallel to the pole, he used his right foot to swipe the ball. At this time, there was an obvious shift in the center of gravity of the right hip.
After doing this set of actions, he turned his head and roared; "Use your core to shift your center of gravity, not your shoulders, are you a fool? Don't shake your shoulders left and right so that the opposing defender will judge based on your shoulders your next change of direction."
After he finished speaking, he walked over and patted Lucky's core again, saying, "Use your core to change your center of gravity!"
Hearing the instructions, although having his ears shouted off in exchange, he picked up the ball and stood in front of the poles, turning his head to look at the old man.
"Try it!"
The old man folded his arms and raised his brows as if he was still exhibiting some amount of displeasure.
Lucky scratched his head, and immediately imitated the instructions. His body was well coordinated, and his movements were not choppy.
"Faster!"
A roar came from behind.
Le Kai sped up a bit. But he found that when he increased the speed, the movement began to be uncoordinated, so he lowered his speed a bit.
He turned his head and looked at the old man in for his time.
The old man looked down at the timer and said admonishingly"10 seconds 12, you got to be faster kid, although you got the movement down. Because which speed snails are faster than you!"
Le Kai smiled and said, "This was my first time. Don't worry coach. "
The old man snorted coldly, walked to the middle of the club, looked at Lucky, and said, "I like that fire in your eyes but talk is cheap. From now on, you go around the poles according to the frequency of my clapping!"
" Aye, aye coach"
Le kai put the ball at the starting line.
Clap!
Clap!
Clap!
Clap!
The old man clapped his hands infrequently, but he was very particular.
Le Kai had to move the ball around the poles according to the frequency, his whole body was in a tense state, which makes him more tired than when he practiced alone.
After giving this ten times, Lucky felt his ankles stiff and his calf started to hurt.
Lucky paused his and sat on the ground panting.
The old man came over, squatted down, touched Lucky's legs, and muttered in his mouth; "The muscles are stiff, and the stretching was not enough. While building muscles, increase the flexibility training."
After he finished speaking, he lifted Lucky's jersey again, looked at his abdomen, nodded slightly, and said, "Your physique looks well-trained."
After finishing speaking, the old man got up and said to Le Kai; "Report to me in the equipment room at seven o'clock tomorrow morning, don't eat breakfast, the cafeteria will prepare a special breakfast for you."
After Patrice said his piece, he left a grinning Le Kai looking towards the sky.
" Martin was right, the man is good at training although he is a slave driver but who cares? No pain, no gain."