Japanese people how to evaluate the Chinese martial arts

My Opinion on the Sets" (Japanese) translated by YAN Hai (Japanese) Nogami Kodak The Chinese martial arts call the sets, which have no tactics and only talk about the form, purely a kind of "performance dance" (flowery fist and footwork). It is purely a "dance" (flowery fist and fist), and since both sides cannot move or attack freely when fighting, it is not too much to say that it is a kind of fantasy, a product that can only satisfy oneself. If you keep practicing in this way, the more you practice the routine, the more it becomes a problem for the tactics, and as a result, you will invite your own harm and bring about your own destruction. This is my opinion as a Japanese, and I would like to offer it for your consideration.

The reason I say that practicing kata is harmful is because kata does not have the actual effect of "killing the enemy in the battlefield" that the military needs, and it is not aimed at the actual combat effect, but at the "dance" that the audience likes to see.

Since the routine is not a military killing technique, but a sports "performance dance" for the purpose of the future, if you really fight with your opponents, you will be helpless, can not move a step. The routine is not a necessary condition for fighting with the opponent, so the more the routine is practiced, the more accustomed to the "performance dance", the victimization is certain.

I believe that Chinese martial arts instructors should have a correct understanding of the Chinese martial arts, and the coaching method should be scientific, with a clear study of human anatomy, physiology, and tactics, as well as the correct content of the coaching, so that the Chinese martial arts will benefit.

I would like to venture the following suggestions for Chinese Wushu tutorials for reference.

The various styles of martial arts and the various famous sects have their own historical methods of practicing kung fu in which they were formed. These methods are summarized by their disciples to form a stage. This is the reason why martial arts training emphasizes the relationship between the master and the method of bearing.

For example, the tactics of the Open Door Bajiquan were defined by the two teachers, Ma Xianta and Ma Mingda, as the eight small frames and disk strokes (strokes and transformations carried out by one leg), the six big openings and the Chao Yang Hands (strokes and transformations carried out by two legs), as well as the eight big strokes of the extreme.

The Open Door Bajiquan moves listed here are by no means the sets that are referred to and practiced by the Chinese martial arts community, but only the tactics.

Also, it is usually emphasized that most of the Bajiquan masters in the world were passed down by Li Shuwen. However, in reality, they do not even know the interrelationship between boxing and gunnery, and they only center on the sets and exaggerate their orthodoxy with blind formalism, which is the present situation today. I think this is regrettable.

Chinese martial arts are systematic and can be implemented scientifically and theoretically. For example, in the Open Door Bajiquan, there are Bajiquan Xiaojia (disk move) and Liuhe Daigun (blocking gun), and Bajiquan (sunrise hand) and Liuhe Daigun (holding gun), so that boxing and gun techniques are interrelated. These techniques have their own scientific systematic, never sets of rules to speak of. In other words, it is very important to find out who one learns boxing from and whether the teacher's techniques are orthodox or not, because this is the key to whether or not the person who learns boxing becomes successful.

There is a Chinese proverb that says, "A good teacher makes a good student". In addition, Sanda, a traditional Chinese martial art, is the highest form of martial arts. From learning hand and foot work to learning to attack each other freely in Sanshou, one has to go through the following stages:

(1) Learning stances; (2) Practicing stances; (3) Creating new stances from stances. This step by step to improve the technique, and finally to achieve the state of "free combination". The beginning of learning boxing to hit or kick randomly is not good, is not practiced good results.

The so-called stance is a way of dealing with space. To understand stances, one must understand the inside and outside of the circle. To understand the inside and outside of the circle, one must learn the circle realm. In actual combat, the opponent is always going to be free to move, attack and counterattack, never moving as if he were stereotyped.

Therefore, it is necessary to learn and assimilate the realm of the circle, to measure the distance to the opponent, and to arrange the body to be able to respond to the enemy. In addition, the inside and outside of the circle are ever-changing, so you should understand the inside and outside of the circle as soon as you start learning kung fu. In fact, there are many martial artists who do not understand the inside and outside of the circle in their whole life, and are confused for the rest of their lives.

Additionally, the opponent's inner thoughts (counterparts) are: (1) attacking the opponent's outward movement; (2) stifling the opponent's outward movement; (3) altering the opponent's outward movement; (4) cutting the circle, and so on. They can be more commonly described as follows: (1) to strike before the opponent has set up his stance; (2) to choke and catch the opponent before he has set up his stance; (3) to anticipate the opponent's imminent approach and to neutralize and change him; and (4) to anticipate the opponent's imminent approach and to withdraw to a position where he is less vulnerable to attack.

If one cannot see the opponent's inner corresponding thoughts, one's martial art is not deep enough, and it would be meaningless to be a martial artist.

The so-called stances are, in modern sports terms, tactics. Tactics vary, and so does the power of the martial art. Tactics can be said to be the soul of a martial art, and a soulless stance is blind. However, it is impossible to use tactics in a real battle at once, and you must spend more than ten years practicing to learn them.

Therefore, not giving the basic skills related to tactics (preparatory exercises) to the pie when first practicing kung fu is a detour. This is the reason why traditional Chinese martial arts emphasize the importance of "worship" and do not allow frequent changes of teachers.

So it is "important" to learn the correct fundamentals of a school, and those who neglect this will experience the predicted bad results. For example, when one enters a southern style and wants to move to a northern style, one's body will be in conflict. This is because the principle of Nanquan is that all techniques are performed with the body tightened, whereas the techniques of Beijin are performed with the body relaxed. The outward momentum of these two is exactly the opposite, so the body is bound to be in contradiction, and as a result, the strength and power cannot be brought into full play, which may cause one to give up on oneself. In addition, in recent years, there are many fighters in China and abroad who mix the fighting techniques of Sanshou, karate, judo, wrestling, etc. with the boxing techniques of the Chinese martial arts, which I think is dangerous.

In the Chinese martial arts world, historically speaking, the first gentleman who emphasized the etymology of martial arts and organized it is General Qi Jiguang. It is not an exaggeration to say that General Qi Jiguang is the father of the organized establishment of martial arts formation in China and Japan, among others.

The essence of the Chinese martial arts, as Mr. Qi Jiguang wrote in his book "Jixingxinshu": (1) to learn the stance in boxing; (2) to practice lethal weapons; and (3) to be able to achieve powerful effects. This is a whole set of purposes, so the Chinese martial arts are very scientific and have not lost their usefulness even in the modern society.

I am not here to comment on the merits of the techniques of either Chinese boxing or fighting techniques, because the purposes of Chinese martial arts and fighting techniques are different.

In conclusion, I would say that Chinese martial arts are the best of China for 5,000 years, and I am sure they will be useful for fitness and self-defense in the future as well.