What is the practice of Song in traditional martial arts?

When many people practice boxing, the words they hear most from Master are "relax", "relax", "be careful not to use force" and "don't use clumsy strength". Whether standing on a pile or punching in, you will hear these similar words.

Have you really relaxed after listening to these teachings? How loose is it? And what kind of state should the real pine tree be? Is it really not difficult?

What I want to say next is that it is very important to have an exact standard and know what you are practicing and to what extent.

Since practicing boxing must be related to the body, the body is such a structure that only these joints can be used. All movements are accomplished by muscle contraction. Without contraction, there is no movement. Many old boxers say that they don't need muscle strength to fight, but use a frame to complete the boxing. This statement is ok, but it is not accurate enough. To be exact, the degree of muscle strength is different, and the formation of the framework is also completed by the cooperation of muscles.

Muscle strength, as many people should know, refers to the strength of muscle contraction when limbs do voluntary movement. It also refers to the intensity and amplitude of active muscle movement. However, few people know the third-grade muscle strength, and those who study medicine may know it, because medicine is used to judge the degree of paralysis. The third-grade muscle strength belongs to mild paralysis. Specific evaluation criteria are as follows.

Why are we talking about muscle strength here, and it is a three-level muscle strength? Because this concept is closely related to the "Song" that we want to achieve in traditional martial arts. The so-called finger looseness is precisely the third-level muscle strength.

Maybe you will wonder, isn't this three-level muscle strength a slight paralysis? Why is it "loose" Don't worry, please look down.

As mentioned above, tertiary muscle strength can move joints against gravity, but it cannot resist resistance. If a person really has only three-level muscle strength, then he may really be slightly paralyzed. However, there is another kind of person who also has three-level muscle strength. There are many such people, and that is the "pine" trained by traditional martial arts. But this is not paralysis, it is the effect of long-term training. Simply put, the three-level muscle strength of traditional Wushu training belongs to only resisting gravity, not resisting, that is, loosening. Especially some people who practice Tai Chi, they practice this for a long time, so do people who stand on piles and boxers. Therefore, the third-level muscle strength is the state pursued by traditional Wushu.

As long as you are on the earth, you can't live without gravity, so you can't avoid fighting it. From this point of view, it is the most economical way if you only need to fight gravity. Similarly, you can resist, in the face of each other's attacks, you can resolve without confrontation, that is, you don't stand up. This requires training tertiary muscle strength to do it.

Therefore, when the master talks about relaxation, he should not really relax completely (of course, many people really regard it as complete relaxation), and only need to spend the force against gravity without extra effort. This is the so-called clumsy force.

My humble opinion, let's talk about it. Welcome to correct me.