For several years, every morning in Tai Chi Park, you can see an elderly man practicing martial arts and practicing boxing, that light body, footwork, techniques, with electric eyes, in the morning light, it is almost like the martial arts shots in the movie, people are amazed and envious!
Last year, I had the privilege of learning to practice tai chi pusher with him for 4 months, because I practiced tai chi more miscellaneous, with the online video to learn, to see what boxing is good want to learn to practice, due to age reasons, gradually gave up the basic routine of eight pole quan, Shaolin boxing simple routine, Muay Thai elbow method, etc., slowly only left tai chi, bagua palm and shape intention fist 3 kinds of internal boxing. Although each type of Tai Chi is not practiced well, it involves five kinds of Chen style, Yang style, Sun style, Zhao Bao, and Wudang, and the methods of each kind of tai chi pusher are different. Therefore, in the process of taking over with the teacher, it is always impossible to get rid of the influence of other fists, so the push is always uncoordinated. Despite this, I saw from it that the teacher's 40 years of kung fu, a variety of starting moves, always make you invincible, helpless, unstoppable!
In my spare time, I often show him the routines and moves I have learned, and let him guide and comment. He also often discussed with him the fist theories of Tai Chi, Shape Intention Quan, and Bagua Palm, and from time to time asked him about the meaning of the different moves in the routines of the Sect he practiced. He always unreservedly expressed his years of experience and understanding in a very simple way.
For a long time, I've been thinking about a very childish-sounding question, which is "What exactly is practicing boxing?" When I asked this question to the teacher, he never seemed to think about such a problem, that is, he liked to practice boxing, so he followed the master, followed the master, and then taught it to the apprentice, so the inheritance continued. So it didn't give me a satisfactory answer.
In fact, different people will have different views on this issue in different eras and different times. In the past, learning martial arts was a professional skill and a means of making a living, so martial arts was the ultimate goal of practicing boxing! Different sects for their own glory, while constantly improving their own sect martial arts, but also everywhere to challenge other sects, so the formation of moves, routines have a strong technical nature, some superfluous, formal actions will be simplified and eliminated, faster, more powerful, more unexpected is the trick!
Now people live at peace, the conditions are good, if it is not the armed police, field army, boxers, etc., other boxers basically ignore the technical impact, while the fitness effect attached to the practice of boxing is unconsciously taken as the goal, so that different schools, routines are constantly being adapted, evolved, balanced, beautiful, generous, beautiful, expressive, etc., and so on are increasingly considered to be the standard for judging the quality of boxing! Therefore, many people think that as long as they stretch their muscles and bones, move their waist and legs, and play a role in fitness!
As a general public, there is nothing wrong with having such a view, but Chinese martial arts is the essence of the country, an intangible cultural heritage, and a treasure of martial arts skills that human beings have continuously accumulated, and must be passed on and carried forward! Therefore, the essence of inheritance and development, or the "soul" of martial arts, is the fundamental! And this soul is the meaning of the martial arts in the martial arts. Practicing boxing to a certain extent, as long as you understand the meaning of the technique in each move and each situation, combined with your own hand-eye-body method, how flexible, how fast, how to fit the strength of the accumulation and hair, it is inevitable.