However, the purpose of practicing routines is not to make you become very good at fighting immediately, but to give you the possibility of being very good at fighting.
What is martial arts practiced?
Three hundred and six turns in the air, a whirlwind jump step?
Or is it a boy worshiping Guanyin and a carp beating up?
neither.
Real martial arts requires the coordination of hands, eyes, body, and steps, as well as the will and quality of self-improvement. However, some people equate routines with traditional martial arts. This is also a great tragedy of Chinese martial arts.
You must know that no matter which school or school the kung fu is, it is far more than the "routine" part. Any martial arts school has three basic components.
The first is the hard and soft skills to practice resistance and lethality, the second is the basic routines to practice body skills and coordination, and the third is the split-action sparring that must be experienced in Sanshou fighting and actual combat.
Simply looking at boxing skills, these three things complement each other and are indispensable.
Grandpa teaches Kung Fu, and he likes to focus on the basics. It would be terrible if you learn from him, because he can make you squat on horseback until you vomit.
It’s different when Third Grandpa teaches Kung Fu. When he teaches Kung Fu, he loves actual combat. He’ll give you a few kumites and you two can fight against each other. He won’t teach you the next move until you practice it a thousand or eight hundred times.
His principle is very simple, that is, teach one move and then learn the other, and don't learn any more until you have mastered the skill.
It is precisely for this reason that I am still able to use the moves he taught me with ease to this day. This experience made me fully aware of the importance of "applying what I have learned". Therefore, during the period of learning Kung Fu from the old Taoist
During that time, I studied the sixty-four kinds of Sanshou methods of Lao Tao very seriously. There was a lot to gain from it. Of course, it is difficult to understand its subtleties without personal experience.
In contrast, I am very repelled by the spinning palms that circle around the big tree.
I think it's quite rigid and a bit formalistic, so I didn't learn it well from beginning to end.
I have been scolded a lot because of this, but I am naturally stubborn and find it difficult to listen to things that I think are wrong.
Later, the old Taoist got angry and asked me to practice palm turning every day without teaching anything else. He put eight bricks up and asked me to walk on them, 32 times forward and 32 times backward.
Once you step on a brick, you have to start over.
This unscrupulous method made me suffer a lot, and I cried and shouted that I would not learn it anymore, but Third Grandpa and the others did not take my crying seriously at all, and later made me anxious, and I still had two yuan in my pocket
The big cake scholar ran away from home. After two and a half days, he was so hungry that he ran back.
He got beaten up a lot because of this matter, which made the old man a little embarrassed. He often saw him sighing and sighing in the past two days, but he didn't care at the time. Who would have thought that he left without saying goodbye a few days later.
It happened to be snowing heavily that day, and you could still see the footprints. I was very sorry to learn about this, so I chased him out despite the heavy snow. I walked nearly ten miles and finally saw him in front of a grave.
He was still wearing the patched monk's robe, and he was sitting slanted in front of a grave mound, leaning on the ground with one hand, and holding a wine bottle in the other hand, talking to himself.
I walked over and kowtowed to him, but he didn't say anything, sighed and got up and left.
I knelt on the ground and did not get up. After a while, he came back again, took out a torn book without a cover from his arms, and gave me two more pills.
He said that the relationship between master and disciple was over, and he could no longer teach me. This book and the elixir were his own, and he should keep them well, as they would be useful one day.
I took the book and flipped through two pages. There were all kinds of graphics on it. At first glance, it looked like the legendary martial arts secret book. After a few flips, I was attracted.
Since then, that wrinkled little yellow book has become my treasure. When I have nothing to do, I have to show off to my little brothers. However, no one of the children of the same age can understand it. Grandpa and the others are illiterate and can’t read.
I looked through it and didn't understand what was written in it.
As for the two pills, I was secretly given to them early on. I had no reaction after taking them. I just remembered that they were a bit bitter.
Thinking about it now, I was really bold at that time. Now, if I had a hundred more courage, I wouldn't be able to do such a thing.
Unfortunately, I never saw him again after that winter vacation, and I never had the chance to ask what those two pills were for.
In order to understand the contents of that book, I also spent a lot of effort. At that time, I could often be seen holding a dictionary and studying blindly all day long. Once I got through it, I didn't learn anything else but I became very thorough in ancient Chinese and other things.
, my Chinese language scores improved, and my academic performance also improved, but it wasn’t until I entered junior high school that I realized that what was written in the booklet was not some method of subduing monsters and catching ghosts, nor was it some great martial arts secret book.
It is a very obscure Qigong mental method.
When talking about Qigong, many people will frown slightly.
In China, no, it should be said that in today's China, many people are prejudiced against traditional things. Things like traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine that have been passed down for thousands of years are labeled as pseudoscience, let alone internal strength.
This kind of knowledge seems to be far-fetched.
Experts know that there are many classification methods for martial arts. Generally speaking, there are two main parts: "body and function".
"Physique" is the basis for self-cultivation, and "Yong" is the technique for attacking and injuring others.
Internal strength training is an internal training method corresponding to hard qigong. It belongs to the category of "body". Its theoretical origin is inseparable from traditional Chinese medicine.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that people have three treasures, which are essence, energy and spirit.
Among the three treasures, the most basic one is qi, and the most important one is qi.
Therefore, whether it is the Kung Fu of monks or the skills of Taoism, the cultivation of internal strength cannot be separated from the most basic components of "nourishing Qi, transforming Qi, luck, and refining Qi".
The early Qigong was mainly guided by breathing, and was closer to the most common health Qigong such as "Yi Jin Jing, Wu Qin Xi, Baduan Jin, and Liu Zi Jue". Of course, Qigong in the martial arts circle is mainly
It is richer and more practical than this. In addition to the guidance technique that is similar to radio gymnastics, there are also standing postures, sitting cross-legged, lying down, hand exercises, etc.
What is recorded in the book is a method of nourishing Qi similar to meditation. This method is completely different from what is passed down from my family. However, for me who has some foundation in this aspect, it is not difficult to learn. The main obstacle is
In those literate expressions.
The ancient people's way of speaking was very concise, and one or two words could form a sentence alone. For a primary school student without any basic knowledge of classical Chinese, it is difficult to understand.
Therefore, it took me a long, long time to fully learn what was written above.