Speaking of jiu-jitsu, the first thing that comes to everyone's mind should be Brazil, but everyone knows that the mainland also has its own jiu-jitsu, but compared to Brazil, the mainland's jiu-jitsu is more inclined to the display of physical flexibility.
However, there are not many famous jiu-jitsu actors in the mainland, and Liu Teng is the most famous of them, she can easily perform all kinds of difficult moves, and has won a number of world records, carrying forward the Chinese jiu-jitsu.
So why did Liu Teng choose to learn Jiu-Jitsu, and what kind of hardships did she go through behind her success?
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Break multiple Guinness World Records
Liu Teng, who has been learning jiu-jitsu since she was nine years old, although she has participated in a lot of shows after completing her studies, has never reached the point of being well-known, until 2013, she was invited to participate in CCTV-3's many variety shows, which can be regarded as officially entering the public's field of vision.
In programs such as "I want to go to the Spring Festival Gala" and "Very 6+1", Liu Teng showed amazing flexibility, and all kinds of difficult movements were caught, which won the heartfelt admiration of the audience, and people also remembered this "soft" girl and had a preliminary understanding of Chinese Jiu-Jitsu.
In the same year, Liu Teng received an invitation to the Spring Festival Gala and appeared on the stage that everyone dreams of, which is undoubtedly a recognition of her ability, and after having a certain fame, Liu Teng not only regarded Jiu-Jitsu as a simple performance, she began to challenge various world records.
In 14 years, she was invited to participate in "Guinness China Night", with a wonderful performance, breaking her previous record, and then she participated in Jiangsu Satellite TV's program "Super Team", competing in jiu-jitsu with a beautiful woman from Ukraine, and finally won the championship by a huge margin.
The next year, she participated in the "Guinness Chinese Night" again, challenging to pour flowers in one minute, and won with the most flowers in her mouth, although she left a brilliant performance in previous shows, but this time she became the one who was not favored.
Her opponent was a well-known Russian beauty who had been the record holder for the "handstand and flower" challenge, and at that time, Chinese jiu-jitsu was not well-known, so many people thought that Liu Teng would definitely fail the challenge, but Liu Teng proved himself with practical actions.
In the face of a strong opponent, Liu Teng was not afraid at all, and finally took 11 flowers in one minute, successfully won the world record, and her tenacity in the face of difficulties also left a deep impression on the audience, although she won the game, Liu Teng did not seem to be satisfied with such a result.
After many more private exercises, she challenged the project again in 2016, successfully breaking her own record with 15 flowers in one minute, and not only that, but she also broke the Guinness World Record in the presence of Guinness officials.
Since then, Liu Teng has challenged the Guinness World Records several times, and in the challenge of rolling forward 20 meters with her chest, she once again broke her previous record, breaking her own four-year record, setting a new Guinness World Record with a time of 15.54 seconds.
Then in the 2018 World Cup, she took a group of photos of football babies, she posed a number of difficult poses that broke through the limits of ordinary people, and various parts of her body can be bent into different shapes at will, and even twisted into an S shape, as if there are no bones.
In one fell swoop, she became the holder of three Guinness World Records and won the title of "the softest person in the world", but as she got older, her physical flexibility slowly declined, and the sequelae of her previous training began to appear, so she faded out of the public eye.
But it is precisely because of her that people have a deeper understanding of Chinese Jiu-Jitsu, and I didn't expect that our Chinese Jiu-Jitsu has such a deep history.
The origin of Chinese Jiu-Jitsu
Chinese Jiu-Jitsu was first formed in the Western Zhou Dynasty, it is a kind of acrobatic project, like the rolling lamp we see in the acrobatic project, it belongs to a form of Jiu-Jitsu performance, although Jiu-Jitsu belongs to the acrobatic project, but it is still different from the traditional acrobatic project.
Our traditional acrobatics is generally the training of the limbs, more needs to be skillful, as long as the core skills are mastered, you can bring a wonderful performance, but Jiu-Jitsu is different, she is the internal ligaments of the person and other stretching training, so that the actor's body is more flexible.
Some people may think that people who learn dance also have to go through these trainings, which is nothing to boast about, but Jiu-Jitsu requires more physical flexibility from the actors, which can be seen from their performances, so lowering and splitting are commonplace for them.
It is precisely because Jiu-Jitsu has extremely high requirements for the flexibility of actors, many Jiu-Jitsu actors have been training since they were 7 years old, and they have to endure the pain of ligament stretching that is unbearable for ordinary people for more than ten years, which is why Jiu-Jitsu actors are very rare.
And even if some people have endured the hardships of more than ten years, they are still uncared for, take Liu Teng as an example, if it weren't for participating in CCTV-3's program, she would still be mixed in major programs, a tepid little jiu-jitsu actor.
So since learning jiu-jitsu is so hard, why has Liu Teng persevered on this road for so many years?
An unexpected choice
It is really surprising to say that Liu Teng chose the Jiu-Jitsu industry, her parents are both theater actors, and when she was very young, she was taken on the stage by her parents, so it seems that her parents still want her to engage in the art industry, but she herself is not interested.
In fact, if she chose the art industry, relatively speaking, she would not have to suffer so much, and her parents could also help her career, but she did not develop according to her parents' expectations.
Fortunately, her parents were more open-minded and did not stop her from making the choice, and at the age of 8 she embarked on the path of learning Jiu-Jitsu, but because she studied a year later than others, she needed to put in more effort, but fortunately, her talent was better, and she quickly caught up with others.
Although she knew that learning jiu-jitsu was very hard, and she had gone through a series of tests when she entered the school, it was only when she really started to learn that she had a deep understanding of hardship.
If you want to really do those difficult movements, your body must be soft as if you have no bones, Liu Teng also suffered a lot because of this, many people left halfway because they couldn't hold on, but Liu Teng gritted his teeth and persevered, and finally graduated successfully at the age of 12.
After work, Liu Teng faced another big problem, almost no one knew about Chinese Jiu-Jitsu, so there were very few people watching the performance every time, almost no audience, which meant that her income would be small, but with her love Liu Teng persevered, and finally achieved a lot of achievements.
In fact, there are many Jiu-Jitsu actors like Liu Teng in the past, who have gone through decades of study, paid countless sweat and tears, and still no one cares, Chinese Jiu-Jitsu still has a long way to go if it wants to carry forward, and I hope that more people will know about Chinese Jiu-Jitsu in the future.
Information sources:
The Paper: 2019-02-02 "Jiu-Jitsu Liu Teng: Won three world records after 20 years of hard training, and I also admit to being paralyzed"
Baidu Encyclopedia: Liu Teng