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Can foreigners practice Chinese martial arts well?

Foreigners can do well in the "form" of martial arts, but there is some distance in the "charisma" of martial arts.

Man's sense of defense and the principle of human kinesiology determines that martial arts are nearly the same at the beginning of the origin, only in the later development, different geographic environments, different economies and cultures, and different nationalities have created a colorful variety of martial arts, such as boxing, jousting, fencing, judo, taekwondo, hapkido, Muay Thai, free sparring, kendo, sumo wrestling, sambo and so on, which are unique manifestations of the Chinese martial arts. Chinese Wushu sets of unique forms of expression, but the world is unique, sets of exercises very much emphasize the form of both God, inside and outside of the unity, "form", refers to the outer shell (form of expression); "God", talking about the inner core (the essence of the spirit). "Form" is the body, "God" is the soul; "form" is the carrier, "God" is the idea. External form such as the bow step punch, usually these foreigners can easily understand, can also be quickly mastered, but in the charm, foreign friends will be very difficult to understand through the martial arts borrowed from the Chinese medicine qi, meridian theory, traditional Chinese medicine, qi is the composition of the human body's most basic material basis, but also the human body's life activities of the most basic substances. All kinds of life activities of the human body can be explained by the changes in the movement of qi. Martial arts pay attention to the internal training breath outside the training of sinews and bones, the inner breath operation is more important than the external, such as taijiquan, "the intention of the gas gentleman bone and flesh minister" to put the gas in the first place, the Western sports to the human anatomy as the basis for focusing on the effectiveness of focusing on the use of anatomical and physiological knowledge of anatomical composition of the human body, the development of sports with a rational approach.