Almighty Coach

“In front of us is our functional training room, with world-class training equipment, some of which is newly-bought,” Blake explained to Holly eloquently.

Nearby, Adam Holly was looking around, expressionless. He felt contemptuous of this.

Although this Coach Lee’s Fitness Training Center is famous, it is nearly the same as the others, not special at all. Besides, I’m a shooter and general fitness training is enough. How can this kind of professional physical training help me? It seems that today I came here in vain. But it’s for my wife. After all, she wanted me to come here.

Adam Holly thought considered when he could find an excuse to leave.

“That’s our Coach Li.” Blake pointed to the man in front of them.

Adam Holly looked in that direction and saw Dai Li.

That guy is marvelous. Holly started tensing up as he felt the unique quality of a top-level coach in Dai Li.

Blake led Holly to Dai Li, and Dai Li started to detect Holly.

Holly’s ability is 925 and talent S+ in the 50-meter air rifle event. As I expected, his level and talent are at the top. He is also an athlete capable of dominating an era.

Dai Li knew Holly mostly because of his historic missed shot that sent the gold medal to China years ago. In fact, before that, Holly had dominated the 50-meter air rifle event. Whether it was in the United States or on the world stage, it was difficult for others to win as long as Holly attended the competition.

Dai Li continued to detect Holly and finally he found what he wanted to know.

The defect is that his last shot is extremely unstable, infinitely close to negative state, which is caused by psychological reasons. This was expected. But it says his state is unstable. In other words, if he can be stable when he makes the last shot, the tragedy will not happen, right?

Dai Li thought of his state scale, which could adjust the playing state of an athlete.

The state scale could make athletes’ state either extremely stable or unstable. As for Adam Holly, who was now in an infinite negative state, Dai Li didn’t think he could play beyond expectation.

Holly’s ability exceeds 900. He doesn’t need training at all. He should achieve a great result as long as he performs as usual. Therefore, I only need to use the state scale when he attends games so as to stabilize his state. It seems that I am the person Holly needs.

However, I am a coach after all. Since he has come here, it is not appropriate to do nothing for him and ask him to go back and just wait for game. Thus, the training needed should be done one by one. Besides, a psychological problem like Holly’s requires some unique training, rather than those regular training projects. Maybe I should bluff this time!

Dai Li decided to accept this business.

…

After the visit, Holly was taken to the reception room.

When Blake started to ask Holly about it, Dai Li stopped him with a meaningful glance.

Dai Li said, “Mr. Holly, you just visited our training center, and I’m sure you saw many training projects. But I’d like to tell you up front that those training projects you just saw basically won’t be helpful for you at all.”

Hearing this, both Blake and Holly were astonished.

Blake looked at Dai Li with confusion. Blake didn’t know why Dai Li would tell clients that their training had no effect at all. All training centers want their clients to order as many training projects possible, while Dai Li tell them that those training projects are not effective. Is it that this guy doesn’t want to make the money?

Holly was confused too. Business was all about boasting, so why would a businessman take the initiative to say that his goods were not good? Holly even thought it possible that Dai Li expressed himself wrongly, so he asked awkwardly, “Coach Li, I didn’t follow you. You just said that your training project is not helpful for me? Is that right?”

“Yes, I mean it.” Dai Li nodded seriously. “Do you think hours of training on these pieces of gym equipment or on the treadmill would help your last shot accuracy?”

Hearing about the last shot, Adam Holly felt more unnatural, and his heart beat faster. But when Holly recalled Dai Li’s words, he felt that Dai Li was really honest. Training with equipment like a treadmill had nothing to do with shooting accuracy.

Blake was hinting at Dai Li with winks. He didn’t want to lose a famous client like Holly, but Dai Li pretended not to see his winks and continued, “Mr. Holly, regular fitness training can’t solve the issue with your last shot, so we really need some unconventional training to do it.”

“Unconventional training… Wait! You mean you can solve my problem?” Holly wore an incredulous look on his face.

“Sixty percent assurance,” Dai Li said, purposefully being conservative.

Instead, it gave Holly a feeling of hope. At that moment, Holly felt like he just met the very doctor who could cure him when he was ill with incurable disease.

“Coach Li, arrange my training plan, please!” Holly said eagerly.

“No problem. I’ll offer you a specialized training plan, but before that, we should look at the contract first,” said Dai Li, beckoning Blake to prepare the contract.

Blake looked at Dai Li and Holly with astonishment.

What? They haven’t said anything yet. Adam Holly, you are a world champion. Don’t you have a few more questions? As a coach, Dai Li, shouldn’t you explain more? So quick to ask him to sign the contract?

…

Holly left the training center with the copy of the contract in his hand. His signature was scratched clearly across the bottom line.

Why did I sign it? Looking at the contract, Holly was suddenly unable to laugh or cry.

What’s wrong with me? That Coach Li just said that and I signed this contract. I didn’t even ask more. At least I should have asked him the exact content of the unconventional training.

Holly shook his head with guilt. Recalling what happened just now, he only felt that he seemed to lost have his mind and taken Dai Li’s words as absolute truth.

That’s so weird. So many psychologists couldn’t solve my problem, but I unexpectedly believed him when he said sixty percent assurance.

…

Inside the training center, Blake held the other copy of the contract.

He looked at Adam Holly’s signature on the contract, and asked, “The guy just now is the real Adam Holly, right?”

“Nonsense. You led him here, and you found this client. Now you ask me whether it is true. Are you playing with me?” Dai Li gave Blake a stare.

“No, it just went so smoothly. I thought it would take a lot of…” continued Blake.

“Isn’t it good?” Dai Li ignored Blake, sitting in front of the computer, continuing to type and handle his tasks.

“I don’t understand why your simple words could earn his trust that easily?” Blake continued to ask

Maybe because I am the protagonist! Dai Li smiled, but even he didn’t expect the wand of authority to be so effective that Adam Holly would believe him without any hesitation.

Blake asked once again, “But can you really solve his problem with his last shot?”

“Sure. I am working out a training plan for him,” Dai Li said as he continued to type quickly.

“Is this the unconventional training you just mentioned? Let me have a look.” Blake looked at the screen.

“Square dancing, half an hour? Yoga, one hour? Trudging, forty minutes? Arm massage, twenty minutes? What the hell are these?” shouted Blake.

“This is the training plan for Adam Holly!” Dai Li wore a confident smile.

At this moment, Blake was shocked. It was as if he saw his teacher, the legendary coach “White Devil” Ayres, because that kind of confidence and quality was only possessed by a legendary coach.

…

Adam Holly entered his living room.

“How went your training today, Adam? What did you train?” Mrs. Holly asked from the kitchen, before emerging with a fruit tray.

“You don’t look tired at all. I thought you must be tired after hours of physical training, so I prepared these banana and apple slices for you.” She put the tray on the table as she spoke.

Holly took up a banana and said, “My training today was pretty easy. I just danced for a while and did some warm up’s.”

“Dance? That’s a fitness training center, not a dance club!” Mrs. Holly asked, full of astonishment.

“I said that was a warm up. Dance is just for warming up,” said Adam Holly. “After dancing, I mean after the warm up, I did yoga for a while.”

“Yoga? That’s a fitness training center, not a yoga club!” she continued to say.

“Coach Li said doing yoga can not only make your body more coordinated, but can also adjust your mood…” said Adam.

“Then? What else did you do?” Her expression looked odd.

“After that, I trudged along the training center for circles following music. Then Coach Li massaged my arms…” answered Holly.

His wife interrupted him and stared at him. “Adam, I now think it was a mistake to let you go to Coach Li’s training center. Dancing, yoga, and trudging? What kind of training are those? What training center would conduct these training projects? Did we meet a swindler?”