A few days ago, a topic on the Internet caused many fans to discuss: "Martial arts sanda masters and army fighting masters, who is more powerful?" ”
To understand this problem, we must first understand the connection and difference between the two. Let's take a look at Mr. Wang Lei's professional research article "A Comparative Study of Sanda and Army Hand-to-Hand Combat" (originally published in Chinese Wushu Magazine, No. 11, 2021).
Martial arts instruction and training for Allied soldiers in World War II
Common Origins: Chinese Martial Arts
Both Sanda and Army Hand-to-Hand Fighting are derived from Chinese martial arts, and the two have the same roots.
First, let's talk about the martial art Sanda. The earliest martial arts sanda can be traced back to primitive society, when people gradually learned to punch, kick, grapple and other actions in order to obtain survival materials, and fought with beasts of prey, and people would also fight for food, and gradually sprouted the roots of martial arts hand-to-hand combat.
Relevant literature records that during the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, countries began to select soldiers in the form of the "Spring and Autumn Corner Test", and it is recorded in the Seven Laws of the Pipe that "the Spring and Autumn Corner Test ... Harvest the world's heroes, there are the world's handsome heroes."
Martial arts scattered hands on Shaolin Temple murals
In the early days of the Republic of China, China's martial arts were influenced by Western culture and began to turn to the modern sports development model, establishing martial arts schools, holding national examinations for national arts, and establishing clear competition rules, grading and protective gear wearing requirements.
After 1978, China successively set up relevant pilot units to hold martial arts observation and exchange conferences and public performances. In 1990, the rules of the Wushu Sanda Competition were introduced and implemented, and the Wushu Sanda, as a national official competition project, began to blossom and flourish in the whole country, and the types of events became more and more abundant, such as the Sanda King Championship, the National Wushu Sanda Championship, and the Sino-foreign Confrontation Competition.
2003 Chinese Wushu Sanda King Competition Rookie Champion Zhang Tingbin (Red Fang)
The army's unarmed martial arts is a set of Chinese martial arts kicking, punching, wrestling, holding, drilling, jumping, jumping, jumping and other basic skills in one, with actual combat effect of offensive and defensive boxing, retaining the most practical and essential parts of martial arts and the most primitive fighting attributes, mainly used to enhance soldiers' awareness of attack and defense, improve the physical fitness of soldiers in all aspects, with the functions of strengthening the body, self-defense and anti-riot. In the 1970s, the unarmed martial arts of the troops began to enter the historical stage, and the reason for this was the summary of the fighting techniques. The outstanding characteristics of the army's hand-to-hand martial arts are practical, simple, lethal, one-move to defeat the enemy, and unrestricted.
The difference between the two: one is a sports competition, and the other emphasizes the practicality of the battlefield and training
Wushu Sanda belongs to the sports competition, but it also has the characteristics of martial arts, compared with the world's popular fighting sports Muay Thai, taekwondo, karate, judo, etc., with Chinese national style and characteristics, the basic techniques, tactical forms, competition rules and methods are different.
From the perspective of basic techniques, the martial art sanda inherits the technical principles of Chinese martial arts, that is, "far kick, close hit, close body wrestling", and the specific use of skills is also complex and diverse.
From the perspective of competition rules, the martial arts sanda continues the ancient form of "hitting the ring", and combines the rules of modern sports competitions, in the game, it is forbidden to attack the back of the head, neck, crotch and other parts; it is forbidden to use the head, elbows, knees (the Sanda King game rules open the knee attack method), anti-joint action to attack the opponent; it is forbidden to use the wrestling method of putting the opponent's head on the ground first, and it is forbidden to deliberately smash the opponent; it is forbidden to attack the head of the active and passive falling places by any method.
Soldier combat assassination training in World War II
Wushu Sanda is a sports competition that emphasizes the use of martial arts to meet friends and strengthen the body. Sanda has a deep mass base in our country, and on this basis, the martial arts sanda competition has the technology of not disabling people but can defeat the enemy.
The army's unarmed fighting has the characteristics of simple practice and strong practicality, absorbing the essence of martial arts, sanda and routines in traditional martial arts, as well as some prohibited moves in modern sanda, which is a set of growing, scientific and systematic army fighting techniques.
Troop martial arts are not a sporting discipline and are less restrictive. In actual combat, troop fighting has very distinct characteristics:
Defeating the enemy with one move makes the other party lose the ability to resist in an instant; the enemy is subdued to death, so that the opponent's ability to resist disappears in an instant; concise and easy to learn, the technical difficulty is not high, easy to use, easy to learn, easy to master.
The use of Israeli melee martial arts can be divided into military, police, civilian and so on according to the identity of the user
Editor said
Let's return to the question at the beginning of the article: "Who is more powerful, the martial arts sanda master and the army fighting master?" ”
The two are difficult to compare, because the two are used in different environments and the purpose of fighting is also different. What is in common is the professionalism of the training and the practicality of the movements. After a period of training, both cultivate talents with the ability to end opponents or enemies.
In addition, many outstanding graduates of martial arts schools have also become an important source of recruits for the army. Many of the famous Sanda generals also joined the military camp or the police force.
"Military Camp Sanda King" Du Zhengao refereeed the Sanda King Championship
For example, Du Zhengao, the famous referee of "Barracks Sanda King", national sanda champion and sanda king, Xue Fengqiang, 80 kg champion of Sanda king and "god leg king" of Sanda king in 2002, Sanda king "dare to fight king" She shangfu, nicknamed "bull", national games champion, world sanda champion and world sanda champion Qing Gele, world sanda champion, 2003 season sanda king rookie champion Tai Puqing, world sanda champion, 2003 season sanda king 70 kg champion Xu Yanfei, etc., they are all from the martial arts Sanda, After retiring from the army, he became an important force in defending his family and defending the country.
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Author: Wang Lei
Editor-in-Charge: Burning Xiaoying