Boxing joke

The phrase "Boxing is a weapon, but you don't specialize in learning swords and guns" was put forward by Mr. Wang Xiangzhai (monk Wang Yu), the founder of Dacheng Boxing (Italian Boxing). In recent twenty years, with the overwhelming media publicity of Dacheng Boxing (Italian Boxing). Wang Xiangzhai's many views and articles on boxing are well known and catchy to Dacheng Boxing (Italian Boxing) lovers. One of them is "build a weapon and don't specialize in knives and guns."

Over the years, I have been thinking about the correctness of Mr. Wang Xiangzhai's sentence in my tireless martial arts practice. With the continuous improvement of my martial arts practice, my martial arts vision has been broadened. I feel more and more that Mr. Wang's statement is wrong and misleading. So I wrote this article with a realistic attitude, aiming to explore the true meaning of Wushu, communicate with predecessors, masters and colleagues, and improve together. I don't mean to deny Dacheng Boxing (Italian Boxing). I hope that many disciples and fans of Dacheng Boxing (Italian Boxing) will treat this problem correctly. About Mr. Wang Xiangzhai's real art learning process (his art learning was under the guidance of Guo's disciple and his brother-in-law, not the direct result of media hype), his personal level and influence in the martial arts community at that time. There are many historical materials and word-of-mouth facts, which are beyond the scope of this article. The main idea of this article. It is a special analysis and research on the true meaning of Mr. Wang's sentence "not specializing in swords and spears" and the right or wrong of this sentence itself.

As we all know, any martial arts school must practice basic skills before practicing boxing and then practicing various weapons. This is the unchangeable teaching rule of traditional Wushu in China. There is a simple reason. Even if you can't practice unarmed boxing, you can't practice with weapons in your hand. If you can practice boxing well, you can practice vitality. Then it's much easier to practice all kinds of weapons. However, this "easy" has its limitations. At best, it can only be better posture, more dexterous footwork and better overall coordination when practicing with weapons. If you want to use weapons to exert their strength and do well in various technologies of weapons themselves, you must study hard and practice hard from the beginning under the correct guidance of the master. If you can easily use all kinds of weapons once you get started, it is impossible. It's just a cover-up, self-deception!

There is a simple reason. Because of its own structural characteristics, each weapon has its own special techniques, such as splitting, lifting, splitting, cutting, pushing, hanging, loading, stabbing, stopping, taking, winding, stabbing, splitting, collapsing, sweeping, picking a gun, swinging, winding, moving, smashing, twisting, fastening a stick and tying a sword. There are special and very strict skills training, which is of far-reaching significance. Without special and persistent hard training, no matter how good the boxing method is, no matter how smart the person is, it is difficult to practice all kinds of weapons well. This is an ironclad fact. Even if Wang Xiangzhai is alive, he will never deny it!

If it is true as Mr. Wang Xiangzhai said, China will not produce a series of world-famous weapons skills. Such as Wudang Sword, Qingping Sword, Kunwu Sword, Miao Knife, Bracelet, liuhe gun, Pear Flower Gun, Mad Devil Stick, Whip Stick, etc. These weapons are not only self-contained but also complete in content. And the technology is great and very practical. However, in order to practice the above weapons well, we must practice them step by step according to the training system of each weapon from easy to difficult and from shallow to deep, and we must not practice beyond the training steps at will, otherwise we will accomplish nothing in actual combat against the enemy and collapse with one blow. I think Mr. Wang Xiangzhai, as a "founder" who was born in Xingyiquan, overthrew Xingyiquan and created his own school, could not use all kinds of weapons in his hand freely without prior practice, could he? As we all know, Mr. Wang Xiangzhai fought countless times in his life without losing, and he unscrupulously fabricated the "legendary stories" of Wang Xiangzhai's defeat of Li Ruidong and Shang Yunxiang in boxing, regardless of historical facts. Not to mention Li Ruidong, Shang Yunxiang and Wang Xiangzhai's kung fu attainments and personal accomplishment. In terms of age and seniority, Wang Xiangzhai can never be compared with Li Ruidong and Shang Yunxiang. This is the queen's "input" to Wang Xiangzhai. It is because of their ignorance that they deliberately put Wang Xiangzhai in an inhuman and unjust embarrassing position. Imagine, if Mr. Wang Xiangzhai is really "invincible in the world" as the propagandist said, and if he is really "a weapon with a fist" as he himself said, then why is he at the "Wushu Entertainment Conference" in Hangzhou at 1929? Wang Xiangzhai (then known as monk Wang Yu), one of the 26 judges of the conference, and Li, Sun Lutang, Du, Liu Baichuan, Li and Li (the most important figures in the Wulin at that time) had more than a dozen jokes that made a fool of themselves (in order to take care of the emotions of Dachengmen students, these jokes were not made public for the time being). At that time, the swords of Li and Sun Lutang, as well as the big poles (big guns) of Li, Shang Yunxiang and Tian among the above-mentioned famous artists, were unique at that time. Mr. Wang Xiangzhai, who is as casual as "dressing for dinner", regards Wushu as a weapon. Why didn't he make some sensational achievements on this occasion? Obviously, the queen's over-touting and exaggeration of Wang Xiangzhai has put Gong Xiangzhai in a very embarrassing situation.

In addition, Mr. Li Zijian, a native of Henan Province, believes that in the eventful autumn when the Japanese invaders trampled on China and the people of China were ravaged, Mr. Wang Xiangzhai put forward the idea of "boxing as a weapon". The slogan "Don't learn swords and spears" is to let my compatriots in China do nothing. I think this view of Mr. Li Zijian is very reasonable. Let's not explore the real political background of Mr. Wang Xiangzhai at that time. In fact, among the martial arts figures who participated in the war during the Anti-Japanese War. Who is the man from Dachengmen (Yiquanmen)? The people who fought bloody battles with the Japanese aggressors in Wulin are just other martial arts figures who were denounced by Wang Xiangzhai as "boxing bandits". These "boxing villains" did not advocate the theory that boxing is a weapon. On the contrary, I tried my best to teach and actively promote the chopping technology of broadsword and pike in the anti-Japanese troops. In order to increase our army's ability to kill the enemy, we wrote magnificent poems with blood and life. At this moment, Mr. Wang Xiangzhai is cursing China's traditional martial arts, challenging Wulintong Twelve in the newspaper, vigorously advocating the technique of standing piles and actively advocating "boxing into weapons". Don't specialize in learning knives and guns. This practice, in the historical environment at that time, really made people question the character of Mr. Wang Xiangzhai, a "great master".

Everyone in the industry knows that unarmed boxing, an auxiliary means of "habitual limbs", has long been called by ancient military strategists. Fighting against the enemy mainly depends on cold weapons such as pike, broadsword, bow and arrow. In War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, although cold weapons had basically withdrawn from the historical stage, the practical value of cold weapons was obvious when the conditions were difficult and even the army was seriously short of guns and bullets. So many martial artists were invited to serve as martial arts instructors in the army at that time. What they teach in the army is to cut and stab with a big knife (by hand). I've never heard of a martial artist who only stands in the army and punches. Therefore, I think, as Mr. Wang said, "use your fist as a weapon." Don't learn swords and spears "is really deceptive. This statement not only has its own political motivation of the times, but also is very wrong from the professional point of view of Wushu. We should face up to this point, and we can't deliberately avoid this problem just because Wang Xiangzhai is a celebrity.