An Tianrong's Personal Experience

Since the 1950s, Prof. An Tianrong is the new China's martial arts world reigning outstanding athletes:

1953 won the Northeast District National Forms of Sports Observation and Exchange Conference Wushu Competition Junior Outstanding Performer Award.

1954 to 1955 the national rectification of the martial arts sector, the suspension of two years, 1956 only 12 provinces and cities to try to assess the competition, the teenager An Tianrong no chance to participate in the competition, and then engaged in figure skating and competitive gymnastics sports, won a number of times in Jilin province junior all-around champion and the national competition in the juvenile group of the top three in the single good results.

After the resumption of wushu competitions in 1957, Prof. An Tianrong won the second prize in the Chinese Wushu Observation and Exchange Conference for two consecutive years (57 and 58).

In April 1959, in the first Chinese Youth Wushu Championships, Prof. An Tianrong won the second place in the individual all-around of the youth group and the gold medals in sword fighting and long fist sparring with his superb skills.

In 1959, in the first Chinese National Games Wushu Competition, he won the gold medal in traditional boxing, and tied for the silver medal in long fist (he was the first in the trial evaluation of sword fighting, but accidentally made a mistake in the final, and regretted for the rest of his life).

Promoted to coach of the Jilin Wushu Team in late 1960, he took a group of new athletes such as Zhao Qisheng, Zhang Zoshi, Qi Jindi, Zhang Xinhua, Zhang Wanxia, Fu Aiying, Liu Jianping, Zhao Linyan, Yin Jinling, Yang Yanhua and others to practise hard on their basic skills. A few years later this group of athletes entered the advanced ranks of Chinese wushu competitions and ranked among the top in Chinese wushu competitions.

In the early sixties, he helped Zhao Wanhua, the choreographer of the Central Song and Dance Troupe, to create the excellent dance "The March of the Great Sword", which was a sensation in China.

In 196 4, he took part in the music and dance epic "The East is Red" and the large-scale song and dance "The Fury of the Coconut Grove" and "Ode to Wind and Thunder" as the main actor and martial arts designer. In Ode to Wind and Thunder, Prof. An Tianrong portrayed the vivid and touching stage image of Martin Luther, a black leader against racial discrimination, which was praised by Premier Zhou Enlai, Director Xiao Hua and Political Commissar Liao Hansheng. It fully demonstrated Prof. An's versatile artistic talent and profound knowledge of martial arts.

In 1977, Prof. An was appointed as the head coach of the Hubei Provincial Wushu Team.

In the early 1980s the Hubei Provincial Wushu Team men's team group won the group championship in the Chinese National Wushu Competition by total points over Beijing, and 11 individuals were awarded the Chinese Gold Medal, and 13 athletes at the Wuying level. Among them, Luo Jing, Deng Bin, Yu Bin, Wang Qingli, Xiao Hanbin, Zhao Yong, Zhai Guiqi, Yang Jun, Xiong Suqin, Li Xi, Zhou Jing, Hu Lanfen, Zhang Junling, Long Jianman and so on are the first-class martial arts masters in Chinese martial arts, and are well known. Prof. An Tianrong created, designed and coached the "Collective Nine Section Whip" for the Hubei Wushu Team, which has won the laurels of the Chinese Wushu Competition for six consecutive times, and is well known both at home and abroad. When the Chinese Wushu Troupe performs abroad, "Collective Nine-Section Whip" is the grand finale of the conference, which is highly acclaimed. At the same time, during the national wushu competitions, he has taught and promoted wushu superstars: Jet Li, Zhao Changjun, the "King of Ground Trip Fist", Wang Erping, the "Prince of Taiji", and Liu Haibo, the "God of Knives", Cheng Aiping, "Queen of Taiji", Chen Xiaowang, "Emperor of Taiji", "Female Sword King", Li Shuhong, "Queen of Split Hanging", "Li Xi", "Queen of Split Hanging" and "Queen of Split Hanging". "Li Xi, "Female Nanquan King" Wu Qiuhua, "Queen of Double Whip" Xiong Suqin and other juniors, contributed to his (her) excellent results, and at the critical moment, played the role of the finishing touch. 1980 served as a member of the Department of Physical Education (including Physical Education) of higher education institutions. Physical Education Department of higher education institutions (including the Department of Physical Education) Wushu and public **** physical education teachers, training thousands of martial arts professional college students, in foreign countries as experts on the 17 people. He won the group championship and four individual gold medals in the wushu competitions of the Fourth China University Games, including the championships in men's and women's taijiquan.

In 1982, he and Prof. Men Huifeng were appointed as the martial arts directors of "Wulin Zhi", and the design of the martial arts fights created by them became a model of traditional martial arts kung fu films, and won the 1984 Chinese Film "Hundred Flowers Award" for "fighting out the ambition of the Chinese people, cleansing the shame of the Sick Man of East Asia, and invigorating the spirit of the nation". "Hundred Flowers Award". The leaders of the National Sports Commission, such as Li Menghua, Yuan Weimin, Xu Yinsheng, etc., praised "Wulin Zhi" after seeing it as a rare good martial arts movie with a true story, high martial arts skills, and moving people. From then on, Prof. An became a star of kung fu movie martial arts design in the 80's, and successively completed "The Bells of the Warring States", "The Oriental Jeweler", and "The World's First Spy", "Shaolin Girl", "Water Margin", "Snow Blade", "Tracking Santana", He also worked as a martial arts designer for fourteen films, including "Li Shizhen", "Water Margin", "Snow Blade", "Tracking Santana", and "Li Shizhen".

In 1985, he was promoted to associate professor, and in 1990, he was selected as an outstanding member of the Chinese Society of Sports Science and became a famous martial arts theorist.

In 1991, he became an international-level martial arts judge.

In 1992, he was promoted to full professor. During his more than 20 years of teaching at the university and lecturing abroad, he concentrated on the study of the theory and practice of wushu.

He has written eight monographs on martial arts, including "History of Chinese Boxing", "Wudang Taiyi Five Elements Tackling - Nine Palace Rotating Twelve Methods", "Huo's Eight Extremes Fist", "Secret Trace Fist", "Dragon Form Eight Trigrams Sword", "Stopping the Dust and Storming - Spring and Autumn of the Wulin Forests", "My View of Wushu", and "The Core of the Wushu Technique - Kicking, Striking, Dropping, and Holding", "On the Styles of Wushu (Route Drill) He has also written eight books on Wushu, including "The Core of Wushu Technique - Kicking, Striking, Dropping and Holding", "On the Style of Wushu (Routine Exercise)", "The Beauty of Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Wushu Routine Exercise", "Connotation and Modern Value of Taijiquan", "Wushu Needs to be Properly Named", "On Traditional Wushu", and "On Athletic Wushu". His writings are new in viewpoint, broad in knowledge and deep in research, and many of his ideas are of guiding significance and have created a precedent in the study of "Wushu Aesthetics". Prof. An's book, "The Book of Stopping the Wind and Dust", which reflects the technical styles of outstanding martial arts athletes in various historical periods over the past 50 years since the founding of China, has been favored by people from all over the world.

In 1995, he accepted the invitation of the University of Akron, Cleveland State University and the United Wushu Academy of North America to come to the U.S. as a visiting scholar to lecture and serve as a visiting professor, spreading the Chinese Wushu was warmly welcomed. He has also been hired many times as a special guest to serve as the Director of Arbitration and Chief Referee of international martial arts competitions sponsored by various American martial arts groups, and has become a famous martial arts master of the older generation with high prestige in the international martial arts community, and is now one of the top three professors spreading the Chinese Wushu in the United States (the other two being Prof. Chiang Haoquan and Prof. Wang Juyong).

In 1996, he was honored by the United Wushu Academy of North America with the title of "International Super Wushu Master".

In September 2001, he was hired by the Ohio State University (OSU) Dragon and Phoenix Wushu Team as the chief coach, and after three years of his scientific training, he has turned a low-level college Wushu team into a high-level team. Every time they participated in various sizes of international wushu competitions, they won a large number of gold medals and became famous in the American wushu community.

In the 2004 International Chinese Martial Arts Championships held in Baltimore, the team that Prof. Ahn worked so hard to train was the first to win a gold medal in the U.S. Wushu industry. Professor An painstakingly cultivate new talent in the martial arts in the masters of the fierce competition, stand out, even won the Bagua Palm, Bajiquan, Xingyiquan, forty-two types of taijiquan, chopping and hanging palms, long fists, knives, sticks, taijiquan, Nanquan gold medal, swordsmanship, gunnery silver medal, unstoppable, shocked the U.S. Wushu session, Matt Sache's "swim body bagua chain palm "Matt Sache received the highest score (9.5) in the U.S. International Wushu Championships for his mastery of the art. He led the students to participate in both traditional martial arts, or competitive martial arts have reached the highest level in the United States, their rehearsal style and standardize the difficulty of the action, by the master teachers and athletes from all over the world to admire and envy. 2002 began in the Ohio State University to start the "Wushu Lecture", planned, purposeful, systematic dissemination of traditional Chinese culture. He has been systematically spreading the traditional Chinese culture in a planned and purposeful way. In 2003, Prof. An was granted permanent residency in the United States as a "Distinguished Professor".

In June 2005, Prof. Ahn was honored with the title of "Father of American Taekwondo", Master Jhoon Rhee, at the Oriental Martial Arts College in the City of Reynoldsburg, USA. **Together with Grandmaster Jhoon Rhee, the "Father of American Taekwondo", they were awarded the city's "Distinguished Contribution Award" and presented with the "Key of the City of Reynoldsburg" by the city's Mayor, Mr. Bob McPherson.

Today, Prof. An Tianrong is over the age of old, but he is still in the stable, because he is energetic and has a good heart, which makes him stay young forever. He took the world's martial arts as his own responsibility, in the promotion of Chinese martial arts in the arduous journey, An Tianrong said that no matter what difficulties encountered, a breath of fresh air, never stop!