This Spring Festival, Jia Ling's second directorial work "Hot and Hot" was released, and her appearance after losing 100 pounds was also exposed for the first time. With the movie being released during the Spring Festival, in addition to Jia Ling's slimmed down figure, which aroused heated discussions among the audience, it also pushed the sport of boxing to the front of the stage.
In the past, boxing was often considered a male sport due to its adversarial nature. It wasn't until 2012 that women's boxing made its way into the Olympic sport. With "Hot and Hot" leading the Spring Festival movie file, we found that many petite girls also had a heart to learn boxing after watching the movie.
"I really cried, and suddenly I wanted to practice boxing. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Xiaoyao, a girl from Hangzhou who had watched the movie, couldn't hold back her excitement after watching the movie, and posted a circle of friends as soon as the movie ended. There are also many actioners, who immediately contacted the gym coach on WeChat after watching the movie, and just waited for the Spring Festival holiday to punch in the ring.
In fact, before the release of Jia Ling's movie, with the emergence of Asia's first UFC world champion Zhang Weili, the public had already put aside some stereotypes and tried to link boxing with women. This Spring Festival, "Hot and Hot" continues to add a fierce fire to female boxing, and the picture of female boxers in the movie exerting their strength in the ring also encourages many girls to take the initiative to learn this sport.
"I haven't had time to watch "Hot and Hot" yet, but through watching the trailer and the description of friends who have seen it, I also roughly know that the plot of this movie mainly revolves around women learning boxing. ”
During the Spring Festival holiday, the female coach prawns who work at the Hangzhou Z+ Fitness Club, except for Chinese New Year's Eve, got together with her family to watch the Spring Festival Gala, with the release of "Hot and Hot" on the first day of the New Year, until today, prawns' mobile phone has not stopped, "WeChat is full of girls who come to me to consult boxing lessons, and I have chatted no less than twenty times in the past few days." ”
Prawn is a native of Guangxi, and because of family reasons, he embarked on the road of professional sanda athletes as early as the age of fourteen. In the eight years of sanda training, there are more than 20 members in the sanda team, and the number of girls has never exceeded 5. In this male-dominated sport, prawns sustain their careers as athletes by winning prize money from competitions. In 2019, Prawn who retired due to injury came to Hangzhou as a fitness coach, and with the fire of fighting sports that year, Prawn started his old profession and taught students sanda, boxing and other sports in the gym.
"At that time, there were still a lot of male students. "Until 2022, prawns keenly found that there are more boxing gyms that only teach boxing, Muay Thai and other martial arts events in Hangzhou, this kind of boxing gym is different from a comprehensive gym with various sports equipment, more than 90% of them are opened in Yuhang District and Binjiang District, where Internet factories are concentrated, and it is also from this year that the number of female students taught by Prawn has risen rapidly, "Taking our fitness gym as an example, among more than 1,000 students, more than 600 girls will learn boxing courses, and the ratio of men to women has almost reached 3:7." ”
Last year, because of pregnancy, Prawn slowly stopped teaching intense boxing lessons and turned to Bishop Pilates, "Many of the people who learn this sport are beautiful students who have physical requirements." However, what Da Prawn didn't expect was that more than 80% of the people who sent her WeChat to consult boxing lessons during the Spring Festival holiday were female students who were leading them to practice Pilates.
Why are these little girls who look soft and weak who consult with Prawn about courses are interested in boxing? Prawn also asked curiously on WeChat, "On the one hand, everyone watched Jia Ling's movie and was so shocked by the changes in her body before and after. On the other hand, I think that boxing, as a high-consumption, competitive sport, can make me sweat faster than Pilates. In addition, making the back thinner, the upper limbs stronger, and even practicing the vest line are the thoughts of these female students.
Although Prawn is currently unable to teach boxing lessons for a short time due to pregnancy, she has a high evaluation of this fierce sport, a former professional sanda athlete, "This is not only a sport that looks cool, but also makes a person's mental world stronger in addition to strengthening the body." ”
Prawn has brought a lot of female students from major Internet companies, and some female students who have a tendency to depression because of family disharmony, in the process of boxing, although each punch is not necessarily standard and beautiful, but Prawn will encourage them, as long as the punch represents a step forward.
"There was a female student who practiced boxing with me, and through boxing, she lost more than 40 pounds in eight months. It turned out that her initial weight was more than 160 pounds, and her height was less than 165 centimeters. "There are also female students who work in large Internet companies, who have released their work pressure and cured insomnia through boxing. A 55-year-old aunt regained her zest for life during a boxing session and got rid of her "retirement syndrome".
Factors such as releasing pressure, increasing confidence, and improving concentration have also driven more women to take the first step into the ring, just like Du Leying in "Hot and Hot", she practiced boxing not just to become thinner, but to find the answer to "who am I" in the ring.
In a few days, Prawn is about to end her short Spring Festival holiday, and she is looking forward to seeing more female students boxing in the gym, "A female student who learned Pilates with me said to me, Coach, when I come back from the holiday, I still want to take my boyfriend to learn boxing together." ”
Source: Orange Persimmon Interactive reporter Wan Yu