Interview with Mr. Yang Si, President of the American Chinese Bodybuilding Association (2006)
Source: Dabin Bodybuilding Forum Author: Gu Yunbin
At the beijing international bodybuilding forum, I had the honor to interview Mr. Bolo Young, a famous Chinese kung fu movie star and co-chairman of Chinese Bodybuilding in the United States.
My earliest knowledge of Mr. Youngs was a few films he shot with another kung fu star, Shange Winton, more than a decade ago. I was already overwhelmed by his strong muscles, and in recent years most of what I have learned about him is some reports on bodybuilding events, as well as the introduction of another Chinese close friend, Mr. Gao Yan, a well-known figure in the bodybuilding industry.
On the afternoon of the 8th, Wang Lixin and I received a call from Mr. Gao Yan, saying that he had waited for us in the room with Mr. Yang Si, and we also rushed to Mr. Yang Si's room, and the feeling that Mr. Yang Si gave me at first sight was that he was very young and strong, especially his thick forearm made me cheat! In fact, Mr. Youngs is almost 60 years old this year, but I feel that I am only in my 40s at most, and I feel very energetic, and after a brief introduction, I started a topic with Mr. Youngs.
After a few words, Mr. Youngs gave me the feeling that he was neither like a bodybuilder, nor like a kung fu movie star, but more like a philosopher, Mr. Youngs first talked about his personal health concept, he said, "Whether a person can maintain youth, the most important factor is the hormones in the body, so how do we keep our body able to have a lot of hormones for a long time?" That is to maintain a high-intensity bodybuilding training and aerobic training on a regular basis. For example, after aerobic training, why does a person's face turn red? This is the result of microcirculation in the human body. At the same time, he told my wife to keep running for an hour and a half a day.
When I talked about his personal bodybuilding training, I was even more surprised by the answers I got. He said that he is now training one-handed bending dumbbells is 80 pounds, the weight of squats is up to 220 kilograms, he said another training point of view, it is even more difficult for me to understand, he said "the older the person, the greater the relative training intensity and weight, only in this way can I keep the body from aging, my own current training intensity and training weight, than my own training intensity more than ten years ago", I think this sentence should be able to have a certain inspiration for all bodybuilders.
He also talked about his personal views on bodybuilding and tai chi, he said that his boss at the time, Hong Kong film tycoon Run Shaw, practiced tai chi for 60 years, and the only problem in his 90s was that arthritis was not solved, and Mr. Yang Si admitted that bodybuilding training should be able to solve this problem, which is his unique view of "moving" and "static" fitness training.
Youngs and Shange Winton
In addition, when talking about the development of his own film, he also said something very interesting. About 89 years ago, he made a movie with Shange Yunton called "Blood Point", and when he made his debut in the United States, there was a scene in which he and Shange Yunton had a final duel, and when the fight was about to start, the audience actually shouted that the villain played by Youngs killed the decent role played by Shange Yunton, and when he went to the office of the boss of the film company the next day, the boss told him not to play the villain in the future and play the decent... After saying that, he himself laughed, and he said that in the American film industry a few years ago, he did a Selection of Chinese Kung Fu stars, and the first place was Bruce Lee with 50% of the votes, the second was Jackie Chan, with 32% of the votes, and the third was Jet Li and his votes accounted for 9% each. It can be seen that its influence in the American film and television industry.
"Dragon Fight Tiger Fight" Bruce Lee
The next topic is about kung fu superstar Bruce Lee. I believe that the following content is something that you have never heard of before!
Mr. Youngs told a few little stories, which were very interesting. Mr. Youngs said that Bruce Lee was a very fond of fighting, loved to fight since he was a child, and liked to fight with people who were bigger than himself, often beating some people older than himself.
Once, the negotiations with the underworld were more exciting, when Bruce Lee was in middle school, he took the initiative to ask for negotiations with the underworld leaders because the underworld often went to the school to harass, Bruce Lee saw the gang, hid in the distance with the slingshot in his hand and shot the gangsters, when the gangsters came after him with knives, he had run away without a trace. From this incident, Bruce Lee also realized some theories about boxing, that is, attacking the enemy at a distance that the enemy can't touch you, and then quickly dodging to put yourself in a safe position.
His theory of dodging is even more intriguing, as Bruce Lee once said that a man can never fight a cat and defeat it. Because the speed of the cat moving is several times the speed of the human movement, it is impossible for the person to hit the cat's body smoothly, which is also one of the theories of boxing! Mr. Youngs also benefited a lot.
About a decade ago, when meeting and chatting with The President of South Korea's Bao Biao, a top taekwondo master Kim Jong-ba, Mr. Youngs proposed that the two people casually play a trick, and as a result, when Kim Jong-ba first stepped on his feet together, Mr. Youngs moved in front of him very quickly and blocked his legs. With just one move, the battle is over. This move is bruce Lee's cut boxing theory, which means that in actual combat, whoever reaches the middle point and the commanding heights to intercept the opponent first will be able to win. So Mr. Youngs also admired Bruce Lee's unique theory about body flexibility.
Youngs and Bruce Lee in the filming of "Dragon Fight"
And an even better story! Bruce Lee once had a question, that is, when you are walking in an alley that can only be passed by one person, and a person with a machete in front of and behind you is pinching you, how should you deal with it? Mr. Yang Si said that about a decade ago, when Yan Xin, a very famous qigong master in China, was invited to the United States to see the elder Bush, and at that time, at the press conference, Mr. Yang Si sat with him. At that time, Mr. Yang Si told him this question in order to test Yan Xin's level, but he thought for a while and replied that he didn't know how to do it! In fact, the answer to this question, only Bruce Lee himself can do, is to use the opponent to attack a person in front of him at four times the speed, and then turn around and attack the person behind. Only in this way can the two enemies in front and behind be defeated!
Bruce Lee and Youngs are rehearsing
At the forum the next day, Mr. Youngs told all the audience a secret, that is, Wheeler has two trainings a day, the morning training is at GYM, that training is all fake training, only in the evening Wheeler and David find a small gym, and close the door, only when the two of them train, is the real training. From this, I can conclude that many of the training videos of masters that we have seen before must have been quite a part of the content of fake training.
At that time, at the forum, I also mentioned a "what kind of conditions Chinese bodybuilders must have to achieve good results in a high-level bodybuilding competition like David in the United States", and the answer Mr. Yang Si gave me was that it is possible to achieve good results only if the hips and the back of the thighs are very good. The reason is that in the current large-scale international competitions, when the referee judges judge the athletes' achievements, the most important observation part is the back, that is, the buttocks and the back of the thighs, of course, this is also the most difficult part to practice. Because most athletes only care about their positive state and ignore the portrayal of the muscles behind them, they are eliminated in the competition, so if Chinese players want to achieve good results in world competitions, they must work very the hips and the back of the thighs, otherwise the frontal practice will not help. Wheeler trains every day for 90 minutes of hip and thigh exercises.
At that time, Mr. Youngs let his son David do a straight-leg hard pulling action with Wheeler training, this action I am sure that no one has seen how to do it, and the straight-leg hard pulling action we trained before is completely different, the biggest difference is in three places, the first is that from this action, it can be seen that only the hips are exerting force, the second is that the body is not completely straight, and the third feature is that I tried to imitate it at the time but did not imitate the action of pulling up the body and bowing the back. Just from this one action, I can feel very, very obviously how far there is between the training level of our Chinese athletes and the world's bodybuilders in training. In the past, including myself, I always felt that the training technique was not inferior to them. But this time I felt completely wrong! Those who emphasize practicing all day long are not good. It's because nutrition can't keep up with people, I think now I can shut up first.
Attached to Bruce Lee's power, Bruce Lee's backyard personal trainer, American heavyweight kickboxing king Joe Lewis said so
Appendix 2 Regarding the wrist wrench, Chen Huimin could not pull Bruce Lee, and Yang Si also told him that he could not pull Bruce Lee
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Long Shi faxed | champion boss Chen Huimin: Dare to fight Bruce Lee is a fool
Appendix 3 Youngs revisits Bruce Lee: Not afraid of the powerful, extraordinary integrity (Note: The source of the following text is unknown, for reference only)
This bodybuilding champion debut kung fu movie star Yang Si, his big image was first favored by director Zhang Che, he joined Shaw after filming some martial arts films under the Shaw banner, but has always been tepid, because Youngs is not from the film and television class after all, he does not have any martial arts skills, until later Yang Si met Bruce Lee, he has undergone a completely new change.
In fact, kung fu superstar Bruce Lee made a big difference in this bodybuilding Youngs not only Bruce Lee's martial arts kung fu. Bruce Lee's initial fancy to Youngs was his muscular body, and Bruce Lee invited Youngs to participate in "Dragon Fight Tiger Fight". At that time, Youngs spent three years under the Shaw banner, and in addition to insisting on bodybuilding, he also went around asking famous teachers to teach him to learn martial arts. When he learned that the famous Bruce Lee invited him to participate in the movie "Dragon Fights tiger fight", the movie was again playing with Bruce Lee, so Youngs was particularly excited and nervous.
As can be seen from the photo of Bruce Lee and Youngs, although Youngs is much larger than Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee's physical training is so amazing that the high-load training makes Bruce Lee's fat content low. Purely from the perspective of anatomy, the human body can not lack of fat, even if the bodybuilder is almost perfect, huge bulk muscles, it is inseparable from high fat. Therefore, whether it is in terms of strength or martial arts and kung fu, Yang Si personally admits that Bruce Lee is beyond his reach.
Beginning to know Bruce Lee and working with him on filming, Youngs was very excited and nervous, but fortunately Bruce Lee was very kind to people in private, and Bruce Lee patiently taught Youngs many practical martial arts skills. It was Bruce Lee's careful teaching that Yang Si's martial arts skills improved sharply, and the martial arts movements gradually became sharp and fast. It was Bruce Lee who made Yangs's muscular muscles perfectly combined with martial arts, exerting his muscles for just the right purpose, and even not looking clumsy because of his large size in martial arts moves.
Bruce Lee's kind and profound martial arts have changed a lot in martial arts and personalities in his relationship with Bruce Lee, and Youngs said: Bruce Lee is not only his friend, but also his mentor!
What impressed Youngs most about Bruce Lee: Bruce Lee used to drive a Mercedes and squat in a dusty place to play playing cards with him. Youngs has also seen images of "the big boss standing while Bruce Lee is sitting."
Jans said: "He can squat in the dusty place and play poker with the little worker in the Mercedes, but to the big boss, he sits, and the boss is standing." Youngs was very emotional about this, he thought Bruce Lee was very kind to his friends, but he was not afraid of the powerful and had extraordinary integrity.
Yang Si, who is now 70 years old, still maintains fitness training, and of course, the kung fu taught by Bruce Lee! Bruce Lee, who was also a teacher and friend at that time, made a new change in Yang Si not only in terms of kung fu attainment, but also in the popularity festival and spiritual realm. Youngs's respect and gratitude to Bruce Lee all along lies in Bruce Lee's martial arts and character.
Bruce Lee and his red Mercedes
Appendix IV Youngs recalls what he heard about Bruce Lee's match with the Hong Kong boxers
(Although there are many people recalling the "Bruce Lee Second Strike Challenge Hong Kong Boxer King", there is no on-site witness, which is doubtful to be examined)