Continuous attack refers to the use of a relatively compact combination of technical movements to suppress the enemy, leaving no opportunity for the opponent to counterattack. Normally, such an offensive must be carried out with a head start.
Yongchun White Crane Boxing is known as "wind and rain, thunder and lightning", and emphasizes the continuous attack in technical combat sports to follow the technical strike principle of "hitting when there is space, and discs are connected".
1. Insight in technical sports
Any form of technical attack is carried out by the opposing sides using their respective technical skills, physical strength, training level and technical attack strategy, and the outcome of the technical attack depends entirely on the effective play of these conditions. Combining various technical attacks in ancient and modern China and abroad, if the technical strength and ability of the opposing sides are almost the same, the level of strategy is usually used to determine the victory or defeat. The implementation of strategy in technical confrontation depends to a large extent on the instant insight of the technical attacker, calm and keen observation and correct and decisive judgment so that the technical attacker's technique can be better played.
"Fight in the air" emphasizes this insight, so how to correctly capture the opponent's "empty door" in technical combat to effectively strike at it? The "White Crane Immortal Master's Mantra" discusses this: "When facing the enemy, we should first observe its topography, then its color, observe its mind, calm its movement, and move with the priority of safety, keep the right meridian, and wait for the opportunity." "To calmly observe the opponent's actions and observe the surrounding environment in the tense technical confrontation, this largely depends on the psychological quality of the technical attacker, and the psychological role should also emphasize strategy and effective application. If you encounter a rapid opponent, you can adopt the strategy of "crossing the bridge if there is a bridge", decisively and abruptly carry out an active counterattack, while suppressing the opponent's momentum, prompting the other party to expose more "empty doors" and strike at it more favorably. If you encounter a calm and composed opponent, you should use the "bridgeless self-made bridge" strategy to lure the enemy, so as to observe the opponent's virtual situation, look for fighters, and when "he wants to cross my bridge", "I must break the bridge" to change the technical attack strategy and carry out continuous strikes on its "empty door".
The insight of technical combat sports is accumulated in long-term training and technical combat practice, but the training and improvement of this ability must follow the following conditions.
First of all, the technical attacker must have insight with the problem, that is, the insight must have a clear purpose, so that in the insight, he can actively and selectively turn external information into the material of his own tactical thinking, and combine it with his original technical attack strategy in order to obtain better technical attack results.
Secondly, it is necessary to have good tactical means, which can better disturb the opponent's psychological defense line and expose more "empty doors".
Third, the insight should be systematic and thorough, when the technical attacker has insight into the opponent's technical actions, he should find the main problems in the subtleties, and find its differences in similar or even the same actions, and summarize the insights in time, and integrate the characteristics and advantages of others into his own tactical system, so as to form his own technical advantages and technical characteristics.
Only under the training of such conditions can the actual combat experience of the technician be enhanced, and a fighter with rich combat experience will definitely have a deeper and clearer insight into the rapidly changing movements of the two sides in the technical confrontation than the beginner.
The technical requirements of Yongchun White Crane Boxing are that when the move is made, the teeth are closed like a chicken cry, the voice is like a tiger roar, and the Kuixing mouth, carp eye, and nose like a lion show their majesty. When the "empty door" is encountered, the discs are suddenly connected, and the momentum is like thunder and fury, and the momentum of thunderbolt ascending to the thunderbolt. This kind of attack with bright and powerful eyes and effective striking movements in coordination will make the opponent learn after being hit several times in a row, and your eye change will realize that an effective and severe movement signal is about to appear. Therefore, whenever your eyes change, the opponent's mental activity will also change accordingly, and your eyes and moves will become more intimidating. Through the penetration of this sense of deterrence, it is possible to better understand the changes of the opponent and grasp more favorable fighters.
Second, the combination of power in technical sports
The strength of martial arts is different from light and dark, and bright energy is found in the appearance, which refers to the external strength of the body, also known as external strength. Dark energy latent in the inside, refers to the power inside the body, also known as internal strength. The relationship between the two is complementary and indispensable. Smoothing the dark with light is regarded as strengthening, and soothing the light with darkness is regarded as vigor. The sending and receiving of strength is a major topic in martial arts cultivation. If you can only collect strength and not exert strength, it is powerless, and if you only exert strength and do not retract vigor, then the strength will inevitably be reckless, only both, only to understand.
In technical sports, internal strength is determined by itself. Think of itself as a mechanical system, then the force generated by the interaction of its own parts is called internal force, such as muscle force, ligament tension, bone stress, etc. are all self-internal strength, of which muscle force is the controllable force in the human body, the muscle tension applied to the bones, maintaining a certain posture of the human body, controlling the movement to change the interaction between the human body and the opponent and the surrounding objects. It is necessary to further understand that the above probability is applicable to both sides of the technical attack, but for the opposite two sides, our internal force is the enemy's external force, and the enemy's internal force is our external force, which is one of the sources of force to fight. External force is relative to internal force, we see the self as a mechanical system, then the force acting on itself outside the self is the external force, such as gravity, supporting reaction force, friction, the other party's force, etc., which are all sources of force that can be borrowed, only the existence of external force, there is a possibility of borrowing.
So how to organically combine your own internal forces and external forces outside the body in technical sports? Yongchun White Crane Fist put forward the idea of "butterfly connection" power combination. Through the "butterfly horse straight forward" of fast forward on the front foot and close heel on the back foot, our side quickly approaches the opponent in the technical attack, under the action of this rapid forward momentum, the moment of approaching the opponent, the whole body strength suddenly sinks, the force of the two feet kicks up the ground, the external force of this forward rush is converted into an upward reaction force and the force of the two feet on the ground are combined into one, the waist turns with the trend, and the skill hand rushes towards the enemy's empty door. This combination of power is a typical elastic potential energy effect, which is to rely on the body to rush forward, suddenly stop and urge the body to support the bone tension to do work, and form an elastomer to eject the reaction force generated when the body is deformed and the body's own strength.
"When in the air, it is connected" emphasizes a technical whole, and its insight and power combination must be organically combined. If it is not dialectically understood, it is difficult to apply it in the practice of striking. The combination of passive and blind practice cannot enter the hall and step into the level of "gods".
This article is excerpted from: Fujian Yongchun County Yongchun Boxing Association compiled and printed "Yongchun White Crane Boxing Compilation (I)" in "When there is a void, fight the butterfly and connect - an attempt to discuss the continuous attack in the Yongchun White Crane Boxing Movement", by Zheng Yijun, Lin Siyi, and Huang Jinbiao.