A martial artist talks about his boxing experience

There are three hundred and six major martial arts sects in China, and the small sects are so competitive that it is difficult to find a clue to start. I can only talk about my own martial arts training experience for reference only.

I learned boxing when I was a child and mastered the simplest and most basic boxing skills. Although they are simple, they are very useful. I once fought with a crowd, and there were many people on the other side, but there were more people coming, and there were more stupid people. It was not like a master who could see his own boxing path, his own omens, etc. Once you have mastered a move and become extremely powerful, even if you are fighting with a group of people, you can repeat it more than a dozen times and no one will be able to see through it. Therefore, boxing techniques are very useful if you are used to fighting with others.

Although boxing is a foreign fighting art, it is also about loose work. I think in China, many boxing fans take pride in punching punches, which is a big mistake. It should be to use the waist and hips to send the arm out and hit the sandbag. It is not heavy, but the force is very deep. And like the White Wolf Fist, Antelope Fist, Kangaroo Fist, Butterfly Step, etc. in boxing, they are also relatively interesting moves in terms of fighting techniques.

Next is karate. It is said that the highest state of karate is about killing with one strike. However, in the history of Japanese martial arts, there are people who have come close to this state, but have never really reached it. However, this state has been achieved by Chinese martial arts. There are quite a few, I can count almost twenty. The doctor once said that I could grow to 1.8 meters, but I don’t know if I practiced the Vajra Breathing Technique in karate too early and strengthened my muscles and bones. As a result, I only grew to a little over 1.7 meters. However, I practiced karate. , transformed me from a child into a somewhat stable teenager. At that time, in addition to warming up, practicing Poomsae (routines), basic moves, Vajra Breathing Techniques and actual competitions, I also punched a thousand wooden stakes every day.

What is worth mentioning later is wrestling and the Wudang Kung Fu that I am currently practicing.

I once studied with a wrestling master named Wang in Tianjin. What I remember most is that in the winter, several people took turns wearing docks (special wrestling clothes made of more than ten layers of cotton). , the first one got out of the wrestling ring in a sweaty state, and as soon as he took it off, the next one put on a cold robe. As soon as I put it on, I would shiver all over my body. I couldn't do it without falling. It was so cold that I had to fall until it was hot. Winter is always very lonely. When we practice together, we can feel the blood boiling. When practicing alone, the most difficult thing is to endure loneliness.

I always remember what is said in "Farewell My Concubine": "People must fulfill their own needs."

Wrestling has become almost the most civilized fighting in modern times. During the competition, when we were practicing, Teacher Wang would keep repeating beside us, saying: "Raise it high and put it down gently!" In fact, this was the fighting technique used by the Mongolian and Qing dynasties to conquer the world, and its lethality is naturally quite high. When Emperor Xianfeng was in power, he once bestowed a very domineering title on a wrestler, "Never Stick to Dust." But a few decades ago, it was still the era of "put on a robe and fall to death no matter what".

There are many techniques for practicing wrestling. The most practiced ones now are squatting and walking to practice leg strength, and the other is twisting a thousand-jin stick.

Take a brick, then twist the stick, twist the brick up, and then slowly lower it. Bricks don't weigh much, but after twisting them for a few rounds, you'll know what "thousand pounds" means. That kind of tiredness doesn't require a strong will to persevere. How many turns you can twist is determined by your skill.

Kungfu is different from strength. Strength is the ultimate strength for lifting rocks and burdens, while kungfu is the special strength accumulated through long-term practice of kung fu. Therefore, the martial arts community always says: "I have seen small defeat the big, but I have never seen the weak defeat the strong." In martial arts, as long as it is a truly fair and honest fight, it depends on the level of practice of both parties, and there is no chance. Word.

You only have one foot to gain, and it is difficult to advance even one more inch.

People in the industry say that the moves of Chinese wrestling are "Thirty-six for big trippers and thirty-six for small trippers." The general meaning is that there are thirty-six classic wrestling moves, so There are countless moves derived from these classic wrestling methods based on each person's own personality and experience.

Therefore, there is no classic Kung Fu in the world. After each Kung Fu is produced, it is a matrix, which can only perfect people who produce classic Kung Fu. Kung Fu is fair to each of us.

Mongolian wrestling emphasizes strength, while Chinese wrestling emphasizes feeling and skill. Kung Fu is honed and the feeling of wrestling depends on each person's spirituality. When wrestling, you use your hands to grab the opponent's collar (called a big collar in wrestling), cuffs (called a small sleeve in wrestling) and belt, etc., which is called grabbing. Once caught, they have to use their wrestling sense, skills and skills to knock the opponent down.

This thing not only trains the body, but also trains the mind. This scheming can be used to explore the opponent's next move in order to use as much strength as possible. Therefore, if two people wrestle and have equal skills, the one who is more scheming will often be calmer and calmer, and the one who has not yet mastered scheming will Often out of breath.

When it comes to using strength to fight, everyone will think of a boxing method. This boxing method is really famous, and that is Tai Chi.

There are many types of Tai Chi. Many people ask me which Tai Chi I practice, and I always reprimand: "Tai Chi is Tai Chi, it’s this or that."

The real Tai Chi is not the yin and yang fish that people see, but an empty circle, boundless, without beginning or end. The yin and yang fish is called the yin and yang diagram.

The impeccable boxing principles of Tai Chi come from the Tao. "The Tao Te Ching" says: "A name can be named, but it is not named." As long as a thing is forcibly given a name, then this thing is no longer eternal.

The so-called Chen Style Tai Chi, Sun Style Tai Chi, etc., the surnames in front of them can only represent the surname of the founder of Chuangquan, but definitely not the surnames of future generations!

Tai Chi does not belong to anyone and does not have any fixed theory. However, some people like to ask about the differences between various Tai Chi schools, which is ridiculous. If this surname came from the mouths of the founders of various schools of boxing, then I think that after they created their own styles, many people must have asked them day and night: "Which school do you have?" Boxing?" After being annoyed, they had no choice but to laugh and say: "This is Sun (or Chen or Wu or Ma...) Tai Chi!" This joke will dazzle future generations who are eager for quick success. If you are successful, if you write a random paragraph, maybe future generations will label it as such-and-such.

If you haven’t traveled thousands of miles, you won’t be able to read the scripture once you get it. To learn Tai Chi, in addition to putting aside the three poisons and ignorance that pollute Tai Chi, you must also open your arms and accept all kinds of good martial arts. You must know that all things cannot fit within the Tai Chi circle. All our knowledge can form a Tai Chi, but it is not that we can see everything in the world just by staring at the Tai Chi diagram.

If the last piece of cake is not enough, the masters of all dynasties and generations are more than just in their own fist. My master, the last cake he ate was Tai Chi, and he achieved the legendary Kung Fu he is now. I once asked Master, when can I learn Tai Chi from you? Master said there was no need to learn, and he asked me to practice Xingyi well, then practice Baguazhuan Zhang, and Tai Chi would almost come out on its own. During this period, Master asked me to practice Wuji Zhuang Kung Fu, Jian Men Teng Kou, Pi Gua Zhang, Yi Jin Jing, and Marrow Cleansing Sutra together, which changed the strength of my whole body and transformed my body into a shape suitable for practicing The body of Neijiaquan allowed me to start practicing Xingyi. Later, when Xingyi became a bit better, he would occasionally let me talk about Bagua. Until one day, the master waved his hand and said: "I see you can't hold back these days." Come on, let me play with you." So, I was thrown around by the master and beaten. The master told me that he was using Tai Chi, which was very strange. After that, I kept recalling the time when the master hit me. scene, once you think about it, it can really be used.

Kungfu is money. Making money is difficult, but it is easy to learn how to spend it.

The above statement is crude but not detailed. When it comes to Tai Chi, I haven’t even finished learning the 13 Wudang Tai Chi poses because I can’t remember the routines. Later, my Taishifu asked me to remove them. For Zhanzhuang, I just practiced the Yun Shou posture alone for several months. Later, although my hands had no muscles, I could push or move my hands with my peers. When I put my hands up, hit, melt, or move, they were just like a stone pillar. Make it impossible for the opponent to control it and make it difficult to shake it.

Looking back now, I owe my wonderful skills in martial arts and my relative indifference to many things to those few months.

When the power of boxing begins to exist in every inch of skin and every bloodline on the body, people's hearts will also change accordingly. As I said before, what kind of boxing skills are there? If you grow in your mentality, your boxing skills will become what you want, and what your boxing skills will become will definitely change your heart, and your appearance may even change accordingly. You know, when you change your heart, you change your destiny.

The things practiced in Neijiaquan are: first, the brain, second, the muscles and collaterals, and third, Qi training (to be precise, it should be "qi", pronounced qi). The muscles will also be trained, but the front After practicing these three things, the muscles will become very suitable for martial arts and fighting, very soft and loose.

Practicing your brain is the most effective test of your master’s skills. When your master says, “Come on, let’s have some fun,” he means it in real terms. If you are experienced in push hands and have learned how to play, it won’t work. That’s just your brain. It is easy to become weak, but when facing the enemy in battle, it is difficult to inflict serious damage on the opponent even if you have the skill. The trouble is that the master can dispatch the disciple's all-out attack like the wind without hurting the disciple at all. This skill must be at least 50% higher than that of the disciple.

These are still the beginning stages of brain training. Practicing martial arts does not require a murderous intention, nor does it require exhaustion. What is required when facing battle is a moderate concentration. There is a saying of "heart poison" in Xinyi Liuhe Quan, which refers to this. This kind of concentration is necessary to do anything, and it is easiest to have it when practicing martial arts. If you don't focus on other things, you won't do well, that is, you just can't do it well. If you don't focus on martial arts, the pain will be reflected in your body immediately.

As for the discussion of tendons, there has always been endless disputes. Some medical experts claim that there are no tendons at all. That is Western medicine. The knowledge of Western medicine comes from anatomy and chemical experiments. They are all dead objects. Once a person or animal dies, the blood flow stops and the tendons are scattered. I once witnessed my master using acupuncture and acupuncture to treat people's illnesses. When I was learning this skill, I was so painful that I couldn't move. I was too painful to move.

As for the practice of tendons, the first thing is to stretch and loosen the muscles of the whole body, and then use the flow of blood to open up the muscles. In our martial arts, we first stand on a pile for a few days. , nourish the qi and blood enough, and then use our secret method of unblocking the tendons (make fists with both hands, the place where the middle finger points is the Laogong point, block the Laogong point with the middle finger, then put the feet parallel and slightly narrower than the shoulders, squat Under the circumstances, if you have plenty of energy and blood and have accumulated a certain amount of skill, you can practice opening the Du channel in forty minutes, and open the Ren channel in an hour and a quarter), and open up the muscles and collaterals all over the body. This practice is very painful.

The above brief introduction is only a small part of the methods of exercising muscles and collaterals, and there are many others.

As for Ren Du, who has mastered the two meridians, he can only be considered as a person with less than average skill at best. It is not like what is said on TV that Ren Du is invincible in the world.

My master helped me to complete this level of stretching and pulling out bones. For others, it would take at least a year and a half to stretch out the muscles and bones. For a period of time, I fought with the master every day. The master would either capture, hold, or beat me, and he unknowingly loosened the tense parts of my body. It hurts to stretch my stubborn muscles and bones, but this is also the benefit of being a disciple.

Once your body is relaxed, your skills are strong enough, and your mind can be focused, fighting becomes a very simple matter.

My master never taught me how to play step by step, but he always said: "Well, there is something that you can't use with your current skills, but I can show it to you." Then he uses it. I was defeated by a move that I had never seen before. After that, when I continued to practice, I would often recall the essence and power of this move. When the time came, these moves that I had been unable to use would become natural. Run on me.

We never talk about this move or that move. Tai Chi itself is unintentional. In other words, I usually don’t have any moves to deal with the enemy, but as soon as the opponent makes a move, we will immediately have a solution.

Then there is the "big kung fu is unreasonable". Once you have practiced kung fu deeply, fighting with others will be like an adult playing with a child. No matter how fierce the child is, he will always be easily beaten by the adult. For me, this method of defeating requires several years of practice.

In the article, some introduction to boxing techniques is fine. If martial arts is not taught face to face, no matter how detailed the article is, it will not be possible to write. Inheritance also has yin and yang, yang is written introduction, and yin is oral transmission and heart teaching!