"I just retired and I tried other things. For example, working in a trading company, but I found that my business mind is not enough and it is not smooth. " For Xiong Guoming, who has been engaged in sports since childhood, it is not easy to change careers suddenly. Sometimes people always walk a circle and return to the original point, in order to be more familiar with and understand their position. Back in the swimming pool, the bear returned to the familiar environment, and everything became more comfortable and calm. So he chose to be a coach.

"Many people have different choices. For example, there are not many players in our group who stay as coaches. I just want to work in a field that I am good at and familiar with. I don't want to challenge myself too much, but I still want to be safe. " After struggling for a long time on the field, the bear can't help being conservative.

When Xiong was a coach, the Shanghai swimming team had gone to the Oriental Land Sports Base outside the city for training. In this backcountry, the bear began to drive to the base every Sunday, and then went home on Saturday afternoon. Usually there are two days on duty in the team every week. The biggest difference between being a coach and being an athlete is that Guo Ming Xiong feels very tired.

"Today's children are all post-90 s, which is too different from us at the beginning and not very hard." Xiong Guo Ming said, "In the past, when I was an athlete, I just had to take care of myself. Now for my eight players, I should not only take care of their training, but also pay attention to the details of life and psychological counseling. Especially the differences between boys and girls, these are very subtle. I feel that my current job is to be an all-encompassing' nanny'. "

The gentle bear also admitted that he was a gentle coach and never beat or scold the players. "When I was an athlete, the coach was very kind to me, and I wouldn't beat and scold them."

Maybe I will deal with water all my life, but the bear says he doesn't like swimming anymore. He said that in the past six months, he basically didn't go into the water. He usually swims a few hundred meters, and he has a sense of disgust.

He never gave up change. "I want to try something else, too." After dealing with water for 30 years, the bear still has an expectation for the outside world. "See when you can do something else." As for the time, Xiong has no idea in his heart, at least until all his players have retired.

Xiong is about to marry a female coach of the Shanghai swimming team. "Sometimes people looking for a swimming team may understand each other, so there won't be so many contradictions." The bear explained his choice like this. When there are five and a half days left for the sports team every week, it is an inevitable result that Guo Ming, the bear with less and less social space, finally chooses the coach as another person in his life.