Shooting 10 meter air rifle mixed team champions Song Buhan and Zhang Yu: The most important thing is to do your best. | Zhang Yu | Song Buhan
"No matter how well others play, being good at oneself is the most important thing." On the 2nd, it was the last day of the shooting event at the Chengdu Universiade. Song Buhan and Zhang Yuqiang of the Chinese team teamed up to defeat the Indian team with a score of 17:13 to win the gold medal in the 10m air rifle mixed team. Song Buhan said so after the game.
This game was quite close, with both sides tied multiple times. Whenever the Chinese team takes a spectacular shot, there will be enthusiastic cheers on the scene. "Because it's a home game and the opponent is also a high-level foreign athlete, there are still concerns about the number of rings," said Song Buhan from Xihua Normal University located in Nanchong, Sichuan. Although he has had multiple international competition experiences, he also experienced some rare nervousness today. "The audience's enthusiasm is both an encouragement and a form of pressure for us."
"In shooting competitions, a stable mindset is very important." Song Buhan said that he doesn't have many tricks, but mainly relies on deep breathing, competition experience, and coach encouragement to quickly calm himself down.
Zhang Yu recalled the details of the game after the game, "This is our first time working together. I was very nervous at the beginning of the final, but Song Buhan told me to 'stabilize' it, and then I 'stabilized' it. The cooperation afterwards was also very good."
At the competition venue, people can see a prominent pink small bag hanging from Zhang Yu's gun rack, which is actually the secret to her stable mentality. "I wrote some shooting professional terms as prompts inside, and when I'm nervous, I take a glance. These words can help me calm down."
"Putting oneself at the center" - This is a reminder written by Zhang Yu. In her opinion, although mixed team competition is based on the total score of two people, the performance of the partner does not affect oneself. The most important thing in shooting competition is to do oneself well first.
When it comes to their next plans, both of them expressed their intention to return to the Chinese national shooting team to continue training and prepare for the Shooting World Cup. "In the Dayun Village, I saw a lot of interesting Sichuan culture," said Zhang Yu. When he was on vacation, he must come to Chengdu for a trip.