Zhang Yanqi trained seriously. Beijing News reporter Guo Yanbing photographed
When I met zhang Yanqi, a young music singer-songwriter at the Beijing Fighting Brothers Club, he had just returned from a few weeks of field work and had other itineraries after an exclusive interview with a reporter from the Beijing News. As an ascendant artist, such a compact arrangement is his daily routine.
This interview is related to Zhang Yanqi's favorite sports fighting. He put on his equipment, skillfully wrapped his hands, and then took out a new fist and pressed it with his legs, stood in the ring and moved his limbs, swinging his fists eagerly. Team members sighed that recently busy touring, new EP (mini album) production and participation in variety shows, Zhang Yanqi rarely has such a "happy" moment, and can also enjoy hitting the sandbag twice.
As the young musician said, most boys have dreams of becoming martial arts heroes, so it is natural for him to be keen on fighting. When really from "Xiaobai" to hanging on his own "golden belt", Zhang Yanqi not only gains a healthier body, but also a stronger heart, which can help his music go further.
Produced by the Sports News Department of the Beijing News
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Artists are extremely strict about body management. Zhang Yanqi admitted that compared with people of the same age or similar body shape, his strength is not dominant, because his health is not good since childhood, "high school practice in athletics has some improvements." ”
Like sports and body, career, etc. have nothing to do, many stars are sports experts, Zhang Yanqi is one of them: from childhood love to watch fighting games, worship Liu Hailong such senior predecessors; In the past two years, he has paid attention to the emerging mixed martial arts IP-ONE championship, and his eyes have lit up when he mentions Tang Kai, Zhang Peimian and other players. Whenever there is a major event, he will make an appointment to watch the live broadcast, if there is a job, he will pay attention to the results at the first time after the end, and then go back to watch the game.
Last March, Zhang Yanqi finally had the opportunity to put on his own boxing gloves and find time to train in Beijing. When traveling on business, he also often searched the local boxing gym, and many people wondered why this young man did not report for class and only came to practice for one day.
This persistence made Zhang Yanqi obviously feel stronger and less like he was sick when he was a child. Once, when he went to class with a headache, he asked the coach if he could rest for a while, but the coach did not spare his subordinates. After practicing hard and sweating, Zhang Yanqi only felt that "everything has been solved."
If there are friends around to maintain their figure through dieting, Zhang Yanqi will persuade them to try to exercise, and will popularize the simple control of diet may reduce the basal metabolism, easy to rebound and overeating, and eventually counterproductive. In his view, sports shaping is a more scientific and healthy way, "especially boxing is a very efficient exercise for fat loss." Zhang Yanqi laughed and said that he was a "mobile boxing promotion ambassador", and everywhere he went, he would call on everyone to "do you want to try boxing". Recently, he has been learning jiu-jitsu and will play football as long as he can get enough people.
What Zhang Yanqi wants to advocate is to develop exercise habits, no matter what the project, first to strengthen the body, and then to seek to control weight and figure.
Zhang Yanqi's punches are similar. Beijing News reporter Guo Yanbing photographed
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Last year, Zhang Yanqi participated in the boxing-themed reality show "We Who Go with Our Fists", won the men's lightweight championship, and took over the "golden belt" from idol Zhang Weili. In the ring, his moves, strains and control of rhythm are excellent, and he is praised by professionals as "high boxing quotient"; Off the field, he incarnated as a commentator to introduce the knowledge of boxing to the guest artists.
This is a meaningful experience in Zhang Yanqi's boxing career. He is very grateful for the early association with the fight, the daily learning accumulation into an advantage in the program, because "really love", so the training will be more focused. In addition to the championship title, Zhang Yanqi's more memorable harvest was the shock of watching the match on the spot, witnessing the two boxing kings wang Lequan and Ye Erlan fighting, "it is a kind of enthusiasm that cannot be felt at all in front of the screen, and can feel the two people on the stage struggling and burning." "The intuitive experience of the charm of the sport of fighting has made him firm in his belief in making training a part of life.
On top of a healthier physique, Zhang Yanqi has gradually cultivated a strong heart through fighting, "so that when I face difficulties and challenges, I have a kind of 'I just don't give up' spirit." As he sings in his new song "Willow": "We want to be confident, we have to be tenacious, we want to vent, we want to be loud, and we declare that the impossible is about to happen." ”
Zhang Yanqi and boxers will also discuss their practice experience and their perceptions of the sport of fighting. This seems to be a personal project, requiring players to play alone, but behind it is inseparable from the support of the team - coaches, boxers, target engineers, physical fitness teachers, nutritionists... From this point of view, there are similarities with the ball group project. The difference is that the collective project can find the ball is not passed well, the cooperation is not played out of such a reason, but when the boxer stands in the ring, the team's help is a blessing, if you want to win, you can only rely on yourself, and carry the responsibility alone. "So the biggest charm of fighting is to give all the results to your own efforts." Zhang Yanqi concluded.
Zhang Yanqi said that practicing martial arts can inspire his creative inspiration. Beijing News reporter Guo Yanbing photographed
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Zhang Yanqi's recent itinerary is very full: the new EP production is in full swing and ready to be announced; The tour is also ongoing, and rehearsals often run until the early hours of the next morning. Young people in their early twenties can also be tired and stressed, "and they want to lie at home and do nothing." "But people who insist on sports have a consensus - the busier and more tired, the more they have to squeeze out time to exercise, and Zhang Yanqi is like this." When he encountered a situation at work where "it seemed that everything could not be solved", he picked up the boxing sleeve and went straight to the boxing gym, using training to release negative emotions, "After practicing, I felt smooth and could solve any difficulties." ”
On the other hand, through practicing martial arts, he has a good physical reserve, completing a lot of stage and live performances more than when he first debuted, "it seems that he is tired when he has not yet trained." "Participating in competitive reality shows, there are also excellent performances. Therefore, whether it is physical or psychological, work or rest, practicing martial arts is already Zhang Yanqi's "just need".
As a singer-songwriter, Zhang Yanqi also drew a lot of inspiration from training and expressed it with his works, such as the promotional song "Fist Force To Go" produced for "Fist To Go To Us", and the martial arts style song "Sword Qi" in the new EP, which is closely related to the indomitable emphasis of the fighting movement.
Practicing martial arts also cured Zhang Yanqi's "tangle disease". In the past, he often encountered the dilemma of "this can be, that is not bad", resulting in a work that "cannot be done over and over again". The fight sport precisely needs to make a choice in an instant, through thousands of experiences to find the "optimal solution" and cultivate a "subconscious" response process, for Zhang Yanqi, this is a valuable opportunity to accumulate experience, give him the courage to face difficulties, make the creation more smooth, and go further on the road of music.
Beijing News reporter Liu Chen
Edited by Han Shuangming
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