Luo Shan's main note: This article is a senior martial artist practicing boxing, every sentence is the truth, much higher quality than the boastful masterpieces.
The following humble thesis is based on the author's preliminary understanding of some boxing methods in traditional Chinese martial arts in the basic theory of exercises, plus a little experience accumulated in the process of practicing martial arts for many years.
There are many types of traditional Chinese martial arts boxing, and there are many schools in the same type of boxing that belongs to the same "inner family" or "outer family". Moreover, among the many types of Chinese martial arts, the boxing that can be established as a sect must have its own unique style, characteristics and unique theory of exercises. In addition, when some inheritors interpret the boxing theory and boxing techniques written by their predecessors, due to the differences in understanding of some hidden words used by their predecessors, it is inevitable that some martial arts obsessives who are not deep in boxing "Dao" and want to be learned are at a loss for many entangled analyses. As a martial arts obsession, the author has explored many types of boxing in the midst of obsession. Although nothing has been achieved, through the reading and understanding of many exercise theories of traditional martial arts, I have gradually sorted out some clues about the commonality of traditional martial arts in terms of practice methods.
One of the clues: "Dharma borrows strength, strength comes out of Dharma" is the basic principle of traditional martial arts sports methods.
Whether it is the practice of martial arts in the practice of routines or the use of techniques, the characteristics of martial arts determine that any type of fist in martial arts is an inseparable sport of strength and method. No matter what traditional martial arts boxing or any school of martial arts routines we learn, we should follow this basic principle of traditional martial arts sports. From understanding the style, characteristics and strength requirements of the boxing styles learned and practiced, the use of strength is closely combined with various techniques and movements in sports. Firmly grasp the relationship of "softness is the foundation of rigidity, and rigidity is the use of softness". In the process of learning and practicing routines, we are not in a hurry to carefully figure out the external style characteristics of the boxing styles we have learned, be familiar with the laws of virtual reality, rigidity and flexibility transformation in boxing movements, and carefully master the transmission process of "strength" in sports, which is one of the ways we learn and practice traditional martial arts.
For example, to learn and practice Shaolin boxing style boxing, you must understand that Shaolin boxing style is known for its strength. It is characterized by a fist curled without bending, straight but not straight, rolling out and rolling in. It is required to highlight a "hard" word, reflect a "fast" word, and the strength must reach the limbs. Therefore, when practicing Shaolin boxing, it is necessary to reflect its fast, agile, strong and powerful style and characteristics. To embody these characteristics, we need to work training muscles, strength, and agility. For example, when learning to practice the competitive routines of Changquan, it is necessary to take the posture stretching, high jumping, flexible movements, and positive moves of the routine as the goal of key exercises, and work the flexibility of the limbs, the clear rhythm, the high jump and long jump, and the weight and fitness.
When learning to practice splitting and hanging, through arms and other routines, because this type of boxing pays attention to the long strike and the shoulder to the back, therefore, in the exercise, we should pay attention to the flexibility of the shoulder joint and the flexibility and coordination of the arm and shoulder back muscles, so as to be able to probe the waist and back and release the long strike long when using the technique. For example, when we learn to practice the so-called "inner boxing", because the guiding ideology of "inner boxing" is obviously different from the so-called "outer boxing", there are also obvious differences in style. Among the most representative Taijiquan, Baguazhang, and Shape-Meaning Fist, among the most representative of Neijiaquan, although the style characteristics are obviously different, they all advocate overcoming rigidity with softness, first softness and then rigidity.
In the practice methods, they all pay attention to hanging the top and smooth, including the chest and back, sinking the shoulders and elbows, slumping the wrists and loosening the waist, solid abdomen and buttocks, directing the body with intention, and channeling qi with the body, all of which deliberately pursue a high degree of coordination and unity of intention, qi and force. Therefore, as long as you understand its style characteristics, in terms of the coordination of strength and method, and carefully understand the interdependence and mutual root relationship in the change of rigidity and softness, it is not difficult to grasp the laws of the use of various techniques in the boxing we have learned.
Clue 2: It is necessary to understand the interrelationship between "qi and force" and the basic truth of "full strength and vigor".
After mastering the boxing technique, we should pay attention to the law of breathing in the offensive and defensive movements of the boxing. In the process of kata practice, attention should be paid to making the breathing under the control of consciousness, and gradually increasing the amplitude of the diaphragm in the abdominal cavity through the coordination and cooperation with the movement, so as to enrich the qi sense in the dantian part and enhance the function of the kidneys to absorb qi. Classical medicine says: "When the blood is full, the human body is full of vitality." "The amplitude of the diaphragm in the body increases and falls, and the loose energy in the body can be continuously accumulated in the "dantian" part through the aggregation form of qi.
This kind of aggregation and accumulation of qi can be significantly improved in quality when the amplitude of the muscles and fascia in the body acts on the techniques of martial arts under the control of consciousness through the exercise of the inner qi and the outer shape. The reason why some traditional martial arts pay great attention to pile gong is that the predecessors realized that the internal qi of the human body is a subtle substance with strong activity, which is in the form of "lifting and exiting" movement, and the blood is popular throughout the body, providing a material basis for the operation of the functions of the internal organs.
Through the strengthening practice of pile gong, it can not only enhance the drumming of "internal qi" in the body, promote blood circulation, but also greatly enhance the ability of the nervous system to innervate muscle fiber conditioning. Therefore, enhancing the up and down movement range of the diaphragm and improving the drumming of internal qi in the body is not only an effective accumulation of human energy, but also a must for martial practitioners to freely exert the potential of the human body when they are skilled in martial arts. This necessary accumulation of human energy is not only necessary to improve the quality of martial arts, but also can promote blood circulation, enhance the body's ability to resist diseases, and achieve the effect of vigorous internal organ function.
Clue 3: It is necessary to realize that the form of traditional Chinese martial arts routines originates from the need for technical strikes and physical strengthening, and the practice of routines is also a necessary form for mastering traditional Chinese martial arts techniques.
The various techniques of martial arts are used in actual combat, and are the highest expressions of techniques, body techniques, footwork and strength in the routines of various schools of martial arts. Taolu and technique are two aspects of the same thing, and the complementarity of the two can constitute the unique content of Chinese martial arts. Only then can it become a treasure in the Chinese national culture. On the contrary, without the form of routines, the various types and schools of Chinese martial arts will become water without source and wood without roots, and Chinese martial arts will lose their broad and profound cultural connotation. Therefore, to learn and practice traditional martial arts, you cannot ignore the practice of routines. The practice of routines is very necessary for training intention, strength, improving the contraction state of muscle stretching and lengthening, and enhancing the elastic potential energy of muscles.
We choose to learn traditional martial arts routines, that is, through the phased practice of different types of boxing routines to form the style of the boxing, and then from the strength and limbs although the strength and limbs are not yet strong, although they can be soft and too soft, follow the gradual requirements of first going to the body to be rigid, then seeking limb softness, and then from flexibility to toughness, from toughness to extreme rigidity, so that in the process of sequential exercise, strive to achieve rounded arms, smooth limbs, smooth strength, not stiff and not sluggish. This is also the practice method and requirement of "if you want to be extremely strong, you must be extremely soft" that traditional martial arts theory has repeatedly mentioned. Therefore, according to the basic principles of the above traditional martial arts sports, in the process of practicing the selected boxing routines, we should not only be familiar with the structure, characteristics and requirements of the movements in the routines, but also carry out the necessary conscious intention, qi, force and attack movements in the combination of movements.
Through this conscious practice, you must gradually form a cross strength inside and outside the body with the top of the head, stepping on the feet, rushing forward, and earning back. On the basis of this cross strength, through further deepening practice, according to the requirements of the use of various techniques in the martial arts routine structure, various super long techniques such as spring power, shock power, wood splitting power, and collision force can be released. The production of these energies is under the control of consciousness after orderly and in line with the principles of mechanics and physiological functions, and the energy quickly accumulated in the body after long-term exercise, in an instant through the rapid pedaling of the soles of the feet, the twisting transmission of the lumbar spine, the suspension of the head, in various forms outside the muscles need to erupt in a certain part of the body, and can be converted to the maximum extent into the strength of another object. This kind of strength is integrated up and down, inside and outside, and can be issued at will, changing the size of the force. It is characterized by a "dragonfly point of water", which bursts out suddenly, and can reflect its rapid attack power and defensive cabin ability in actual combat.
This kind of offensive power and defensive ability is the essence of Chinese martial arts - the connotation of kung fu, which is deliberately explained and repeatedly discussed by various schools of Chinese martial arts in boxing. Although the practice methods of Chinese martial arts are diverse and have their own merits, all of the accomplished martial arts are enlightened people of the mutual relationship between energy and law. The long-term practice of martial arts predecessors has proved that the depth of kung fu depends on the degree of coordination and necessary time accumulation of martial arts practitioners.
"Softness is the foundation of rigidity, rigidity is the use of softness", "Rigidity and softness help each other, yin and yang are mutually important" as the fundamental laws of Chinese martial arts sports, have long been recognized by successive generations of martial arts ancestors. Therefore, the loose exercise, flexible exercise, round exercise required in martial arts, and the highly integrated exercise of mind, qi, strength and form should be the key links we should master in the process of practicing traditional martial arts. In the process of learning and practicing martial arts, we should learn from the valuable experience of our predecessors, and after the boxing frame is regular and the movements are smooth, we should take looseness and softness as the basis, take the circle as the basis, remove the stiffness, so that the strength of the whole body is smooth, the movements are free, and the toughness is contained in the loose softness, and the softness is in the rigidity. This practice method also meets the requirements of martial arts predecessors that the practice should be gradual and orderly.
Clue 4: In the midst of the different types of boxing and practice methods of Chinese martial arts, we must deeply understand the profound meaning of "waist domination".
As a person who learns and practices traditional martial arts, we must realize that no matter which type of boxing we choose, the basic method we should follow in the practice of the kata is that after the kata movements are proficient, the body moves up and down are coordinated, and the strength is basically smooth, we must consciously practice the mind, qi, force and various techniques in the routine as a whole in the process of their own plate. In the process of practice, it is necessary not to be impatient, concentrate, and carefully experience the rigid and flexible changes in the routine and the laws of breathing and foot stepping, waist transmission, and arm reach; Strive to seek the principle of "internal and external unity, brotherhood and brotherhood" in the action; Proficiency in and use of martial arts sports methods that are interdependent and mutually used between rigidity and softness; It is possible to fully realize that the basic principles followed by various martial arts techniques are manifested through the waist, the master of human movement.
Only by giving full play to the function of the waist can the dantian part feel full and the lower plate stable; The upper limbs are flexible and calm. In the routine drill, you can be full of momentum, smooth strength, tangible and divine, and both form and god. In the use of techniques, through the up and down of the waist, you can quickly and rationally apply the techniques you have learned in actual combat. Make their offensive and defensive actions, in the process of using "movement and static, fast and slow, rigid and soft, virtual and real", show that "take the feet as the root, and the lower limbs seek stability; With the waist as the axis, the upper limbs seek to live" martial arts sports techniques, and can make any movement in the move, can present a reasonable feeling of movement through the random drive of the waist, and then give full play to the Chinese martial arts itself has the "tricky and fierce, live without stiffness; The overall function of "sleek and fickle, dodging freely" and "swaying silk willows in the spring breeze on the upper plate, wrapping the reed roots in the mud on the lower plate, and living the waist at the bottom steadily, and rationalizing the merit to achieve its own success" lies in the combined practice goals. Therefore, practicing boxing in a good way and practicing martial arts is the way that every one of us who learns and practices traditional martial arts should follow.