Daily Evolution from Mastering Tai Chi-Chapter 117: 1 Minute 42 Seconds, Champion!

Wang Ye’s rushing speed became faster and faster, and the inertia from his body grew stronger and stronger.

In the running field, there is a term called the "braking effect," which means that in running, if your landing position is relatively forward, deviating from directly under the body, it will cause the originally vertical pressure exerted on the knee to partially turn into horizontal shear force. This shear force accumulates on the knee joint and simultaneously reduces the body’s forward inertia, thereby decreasing running speed and increasing energy consumption. Similar to how brake pads squeeze the wheels, slowing the speed in vehicle driving, it is also referred to as the "braking effect."

Many beginners in running instinctively use the heel strike method, which severely exacerbates this "braking effect," causing them to run slower and more tired. Over time, it may even affect the health of the knee joint.

However, Wang Ye’s running posture had a center of gravity extremely forward, and each rolling action to dissipate force perfectly avoided the influence of the "braking effect." Therefore, as time goes on, the inertia of his body becomes stronger and leads to increasingly fast ultimate running speed.

That’s why the situation of running faster and faster emerged.

Furthermore, this track was an extremely steep downhill path.

Theoretically speaking, with this strong inertia driving, most people have the physical quality to finish this speed track within three minutes.

But the fundamental difference is that Wang Ye has the ability to stop his body at any time, even if he accidentally falls, he wouldn’t suffer significant injuries from the rough stone steps. While ordinary people, if they fall off the track, rolling down the mountain would either end in death or injury.

No one is completely unafraid of death; the degree of fear varies. But even this subtle difference in fear can lead to vastly different impacts.

Just like the most common comment below extreme sports-themed videos—"You can defeat the Grim Reaper countless times, but the Grim Reaper only needs to defeat you once."

Suddenly,

Countless tourists screamed sharply.

They covered their mouths in amazement as they watched Wang Ye sprinting on the track.

At this moment, Wang Ye was as fast as a fleeting shadow, his robust body tearing through the twisted fierce wind in the air, pouncing towards the tourists on the stairs on both sides.

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Not far away, Zhang Yijie, his originally small eyes widened round.

"It’s been just over a minute, and he has finished seventy percent, is he aiming to complete it within two minutes?? Does anyone know him, is he a local parkour expert?"

Although Zhang Yijie can’t be counted as an extremely powerful parkour athlete, he is at least a million-level blogger in the field of extreme sports and a leading figure in parkour projects.

If he were to be overtaken by an unknown contestant in over a minute, where should he put his face?

The guy holding a camera hesitated and said, "Brother Jie, you haven’t been keeping up with Weibo hot searches lately, have you? That contestant seems to be the athlete who recently broke the marathon world record..."

"Marathon? What’s he doing in parkour?" Zhang Yijie’s mouth twitched.

But before they could finish speaking,

The host’s voice and bursts of exclamations came from the track’s finish line.

"Amazing!"

"So fast!"

"This cheetah-like sense of speed! It’s too impressive! Wang Ye has rushed through the finish so swiftly! The final result is 1 minute 42 seconds, which is so far the best score in this speed race!"

After Wang Ye crossed the finish line, many athletes flocked over to congratulate him in person.

Most of them were his Douyin fans, coming to take pictures.

Wang Ye had no choice but to deal with them one by one.

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It was around one or two o’clock in the afternoon.

The speed race was finally over.

Wang Ye took the medal, trophy, and large foam board check handed over by the staff, and in the presence of many onlookers, a prize was awarded. After finishing the award presentation, he wanted to go down the mountain to rest.

Suddenly, the event organizer came over.

"Mr. Wang Ye, Qi Refining Brother, it’s an honor. First, congratulations on winning the championship in this speed race; it was truly unexpected that you managed to train so many skills to such a peak level!"

"Who are you?" Wang Ye was stopped by him, asking in confusion.

"I’m the person in charge of this event, my name is Zhang Chi." Zhang Chi introduced himself, "I want to discuss some commercial cooperation with you..."

Then Zhang Chi took Wang Ye to the office, and they chatted face-to-face for twenty minutes. The conversation was roughly about Zhang Chi representing the event wanting Wang Ye to promote the Wutong Mountain Parkour Competition online. However, the specific pricing and plan need to be discussed later, so the two only had a brief conversation about the content, exchanged contacts, but didn’t finalize a contract on the spot. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

After finishing these, Wang Ye left Wutong Mountain on foot with the awards from the race.

He did not take a rest after getting down the mountain but instead had lunch at a roadside restaurant.

He added about ten pounds of rice in the restaurant, barely filling his stomach.

Then Wang Ye went outside the restaurant and picked up a shared bike, preparing to ride to a wild mountain in Yantian District for [Light Body Technique] and [Throwing] training.

He set out at two in the afternoon and didn’t arrive at the "training ground" until half past three.

Wang Ye routinely trained several rounds of climbing and wall-climbing-and-roof-jumping training on the rock face.

While training, he discovered that as long as he maintained the "Qi Lifting and Light Body" state, the skill level of the light body technique would slowly increase.

Although the speed was very slow, water accumulates to form streams, and after enough idle time, there can be significant improvements.

After discovering this trait, Wang Ye couldn’t help but be overjoyed.

This meant he just needed to develop "Qi Lifting and Light Body" into a habit or even instinct, achieving an effect similar to "getting stronger with breathing."

After Wang Ye understood this point, he didn’t hesitate and immediately began the routine training of "Qi Lifting and Light Body."

The training content was simple.

It was just extending the duration of a single Qi Lifting and Light Body session as much as possible during climbing or rushing training.

Wang Ye enabled the stopwatch function on his phone for a slight test of his Qi Lifting and Light Body limit duration,

About 30 minutes or so.

Nearly equal to his breath-holding time underwater.

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