"What's the first thing you should do after a crash? Tell me."
Lin Yan looked at the three people in front of him.
"Separate from the bike, get off the track."
Yan Xiaoqiang and the other two said in unison.
"That's right, separate from the bike, get off the track. Although results are everything, if you lose your life, you truly lose everything. If you crash, the first thing you should do is let go of the handlebars, and your body must not stay on the track. This place is for training your defensive arm movements after a crash. What you need to do here is to make your arm and body's defensive movements standardized."
When a person is airborne, their mind is blank. This means that at the moment of crashing, the body has no consciousness at all. All evasive actions rely on the body's muscle memory and subconscious reflexes. Today, what Lin Yan wants to do is cultivate these subconscious movements for them.
"Cover your eyes."
Lin Yan picked up an eye mask and handed it to Yan Xiaoqiang, then looked at the siblings Jiang Qiyan and Jiang Qimo.
"You two follow and watch."
The siblings looked at Yan Xiaoqiang, whose eyes were covered, with some confusion, not understanding what was going on. However, the person in front of them was Lin Shen, and they knew this must be useful. They stepped forward and followed.
Yan Xiaoqiang was wearing the new school uniform issued by the academy, and his feet were in clean sports shoes he had just changed into inside the academy building. His eyes were covered by a black eye mask. Lin Yan grabbed his arm and led him into the adjacent trampoline area.
Feeling the soft, elastic ground beneath his feet, Yan Xiaoqiang inexplicably felt a bit panicked. Having his eyes covered and feeling this sensation of falling made him feel very uneasy.
Lin Yan kept holding his arm and walking forward, without any other actions. After a while, Yan Xiaoqiang's unease completely disappeared. Instead, he began to wonder what Lin Shen was planning to do with him.
The trampoline area was vast, about a thousand square meters. The four of them had only just entered a corner of the trampoline. Zhou Xianyong, who was behind them, did not follow, as he knew what Lin Yan was going to do here, and his presence would be of little use.
Watching Lin Yan continue to lead Yan Xiaoqiang forward, Jiang Qiyan and Jiang Qimo behind them also started to murmur to themselves, wondering what was going on.
However, they dared not speak out, merely following silently behind.
After walking forward for a while longer, just as Yan Xiaoqiang had adapted to the feeling and was guessing what Lin Yan was preparing to do with him, in the next second, Lin Yan suddenly kicked out, aiming for Yan Xiaoqiang's upper body. Yan Xiaoqiang had not yet noticed and was still walking forward absentmindedly.
However, the siblings Jiang Qiyan and Jiang Qimo behind him saw it very clearly. If this kick had landed squarely, it would have likely sent Yan Xiaoqiang flying.
A sharp pain came from his back, and Yan Xiaoqiang immediately fell forward. Lin Yan, at his height of 1.8 meters, could easily knock Yan Xiaoqiang down even without exerting full force.
"Don't use your hands to support yourself."
Yan Xiaoqiang's body fell onto the trampoline in a freefall. He instinctively prepared to use his hands to support himself on the ground, but Lin Yan's sharp shout made him instantly retract his hands. Thus, Yan Xiaoqiang's body landed on the springy fabric and was then bounced high up.
"Clench your fists, keep your arms vertical against your chest, palms facing your face."
Before his second landing, Lin Yan's voice came again. However, this time Yan Xiaoqiang did not have the same level of execution as the first time. Instead, he paused for a moment in his mind to process what Lin Yan had said. Before he could figure it out, his body was already being bounced high up again.
It was only after being bounced up twice that Yan Xiaoqiang managed to perform the movements Lin Yan had described. Yan Xiaoqiang's current posture was not much different from a plank position. His arms were parallel to his face, his palms were clenched into fists facing his face, and under Lin Yan's guidance, his lower body was kept as close together as possible.
These were the standard defensive movements after a crash. Lin Yan chose Yan Xiaoqiang to demonstrate because Jiang Qiyan and Jiang Qimo had received professional training since childhood, whereas Yan Xiaoqiang came from a humble background and knew very little about these things, only learning some after joining the academy. Having him perform the initial demonstration would be more effective.
Without learning these movements, no matter how strong one's skill, they were destined to get injured on the track.
The palms facing inward was because when wearing a one-piece leather suit, the four prominent knuckles on the back of the rider's hands, as well as the wrists to elbows, were all protected by hard guards. This meant that as long as there was no object hitting them to cause secondary injury, a simple fall would not harm the outer side of the arms. In fact, by spreading both arms, one could even protect the torso when rolling to dissipate force in the buffer zone.
"If you crash, remember one thing: do not use your hands to touch the ground. Even if you don't have time to make evasive movements, you must clench your fists."
Lin Yan cautioned the other two. Crashing and supporting oneself with hands on the ground often leads to injury, even disability; there is no possibility of remaining unharmed.
The force a rider endures at the moment of crashing when a race car loses control is not something human hands can withstand. When Zhang Qin handed the track design blueprints to Lin Yan, Lin Yan carefully examined the arc of every corner and the buffer zones beside them.
Zhang Qin didn't understand what Lin Yan was looking at. Lin Yan was looking at the angles between the buffer zones and the corners, ensuring that after a crash, every corner would accurately throw the rider into the buffer zone. If a force that could throw you from the track into the buffer zone and even cause you to roll several times to dissipate, you would try to catch it with your hands? What's the difference between that and not wanting your hands anymore?
Soon, after Yan Xiaoqiang's movements became standard, Lin Yan also had Jiang Qiyan and Jiang Qimo join the training. The three of them were soon bouncing around on the trampoline, looking quite comical.
"You watch them. Tomorrow, I'll have a batch of machines delivered specifically to train these young ones." Lin Yan instructed Zhou Xianyong, who was watching from the side. These things could only be trained when people were unaware, otherwise, it would be difficult to achieve results, just like when he first started with Yan Xiaoqiang.
"Understood, Young Master. I've got it."
Zhou Xianyong nodded, indicating that he had remembered. According to traditional training methods, these things were learned through practice, but Lin Yan's method was indeed more effective, though also more expensive.
After giving these instructions, Lin Yan also left the academy. By the time he came out, it was already dark.
Time to go home for dinner and see what delicious food is being served tonight.