Bruce Lee was the first star to popularize Chinese kung fu to the American people through movies, and Kang Lee was the first fighting superstar to conquer the American boxing world with the martial arts Sanda.
Kang Lee is a Vietnamese-American who studied freestyle wrestling and classical wrestling as a young man, and later studied under Liu Xiangyang (born as a Shaolin warrior monk) under the "father of American loose hands". Kang Lee won the bronze medal at the 3rd World Sanda Championship in 1995; won two gold belts from ISKA and IKF; and won the Strikeforce MiddleWeight Championship at the MMA event in the United States on March 29, 2008. His success is due to the "wuhua" fusion of traditional Chinese martial arts, sanda and foreign modern martial arts.
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Kang Lee Sanda and Chinese martial arts
Southern Fist, Shaolin Waist Horse Unity, Hard Bridge Hard Horse. This is a basic requirement of many traditional martial arts. One is that the center of gravity of the human body should cooperate well with the limbs and stabilize the lower plate; the second is to mobilize the muscles of the body to participate in the blow or defense. For example: horse step punching fist, to achieve fast and powerful, it is necessary to play the joint role of feet, legs, hips, waist, shoulders, coordination and cooperation; the third is at the moment of force, with exhalation, hold breath and energy, with qi urge, to achieve the unity of the three forces, and finally achieve the purpose of increasing the impact or defense. The action is both offensive and defensive, and it is offensive and defensive.
Kang Lee has used it many times in the United States MMA competition, cleverly avoiding the outside of the weakest knee joint through lunges, using the strongest thigh muscles to carry a fierce low sweep of the legs, and then using punches to fight back against the opponent. The textbook reproduction is "as steady as an iron tower sitting like a mountain, hands are brass hammer feet are horses". A thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets, and a thousand martial artists have a thousand Chinese martial arts.
Long fist of long hit long. Shaolin Long Fist is a classic fist of traditional martial arts, good at long-distance attack and defense, the fist score is known as "anyone who is good at long fists, is a long drive, rampage and vertical block".
Kang Lee has been competing in the 80KG class for many years, in MMA events, in order to prevent heavy hits or avoid ground fights that he is not good at, he usually uses the mid-set side kick to control the distance, and then uses the long-distance strike technique - turning and swinging his legs, turning around and kicking his legs to attack his opponents, and successfully KO Scott Smith.
Long Fist Of Combo Attacks. Kang Lee's most proud trick is to kick the leg sideways and turn to whip the fist, a combination of actions that knocked down Vendrey Sival. He also kicked his opponent towards the edge of the iron cage with his legs after turning around, and punched KO hard as he bounced back. It perfectly verifies the theory of long fists, "legs falling to the punch, sticking and following, touching and hitting, potential and potential connection, one move to win, and continuous attack".
The short dozen dipped clothes eighteen falls. Qi Jiguang, a famous general of the Ming Dynasty, recorded in his "New Book of Ji Xiao" that "ancient and modern boxers ... The Eagle Claw King's Hand, the Fall of a Thousand Pieces". As early as around 1570 AD, wrestling was an important part of Chinese martial arts.
Unlike the domestic sanda bias towards tactical skit wrestling, Kang Li prefers heavy throws that are both lethal and ornamental, that is, the "bottom" in Chinese wrestling. For example, he rarely uses a light and dexterous leg to wrestle in front of him, but instead holds his legs high and carries it high, so that hundreds of millions of viewers can feel the thick hormones and the shocking power of the ring across the screen.
Short hits I follow the enemy's back. This is one of the quintessential theories of traditional Chinese martial arts, which means that one's own side takes the initiative through technical means, restricts the other party, and fights with ingenuity. For example, the Bagua palm, which emphasizes "walking first", uses footwork and body methods to wrap around the opponent's back, and uses the palm to cut the back of the head, neck or shoulder blade slit.
Kang Li advocates heavy falls, but is not brainless and brutal, often through the wind and turmoil, around the opponent's side or behind the chest fall. It not only dodged the frontal blow, but also easily fell down the opponent; it not only showed the profound skill of "one force to drop ten will, one force to suppress ten skills", but also verified the martial arts concept of "insufficient death force is expensive, the highest vitality". Realistically speaking, "grabbing the back and taking over the bridge" is a traditional technique of European and American wrestling, which has nothing to do with Chinese martial arts. This is just the "same destination" of Eastern and Western martial arts.
Summary: Kang Li did not dwell on the "acting method" in the form of traditional Chinese martial arts, there was no "imitation show", no "golden rooster independence", no "white crane bright wings", but the essence of "playing style" and theoretical boxing, flexibly docking with modern ring practice: one sentence, one hundred things to say; a set of fists, a hundred kinds of fighting.
Kang Lee Sanda and foreign modern martial arts
Kang Lee's chest wrestling is a standard and authentic foreign wrestling technique, which in 1999 severely damaged Sanda's "fast wrestling king" Nashun GeZhile, which promoted the recognition, absorption and digestion of foreign martial arts by the martial arts Sanda. In 2001, Sanda King Liu Hailong also used chest wrestling combined with Sanda Quick Wrestling to defeat Muay Thai.
Liu Hailong and Kang Li "over the air" clashed, the first World Sanda King Championship, Liu Hailong defeated Kang Li's disciple Tiehu
Chinese martial arts have been learning and progressing, from the Tang Dynasty's "Thirteen Stick Monks Saving the Tang King" to the Ming Dynasty's "New Book of Ji Xiao", and then to the development of neijiaquan in the Qing Dynasty, all of which embody the enterprising spirit of the predecessor martial artist Tu gu na new. The tong-arm fist song recipe records: "Merge the old and the new into one, and launch the fist outside the fist" in the fist.
Kang Lee Sanda and modern science
Kang Li adopts modern scientific training methods and nutritional rehabilitation. "Zama Bu" is one of the basic "training methods" of Chinese martial arts, but it is inefficient, the body recovery is slow, and the lumbar spine and knees are extremely harmful. This is a way that the martial artists of the previous generation could not do, and it also reflects the limitations of the era of traditional martial arts.
Kang Li's master, Liu Xiangyang, a Shaolin martial monk, is also an American sports medicine master. He treats traditional martial arts scientifically, retains the essence and practical "playing style", removes the "training method" and "acting method" of the dross, and replaces it with modern scientific and efficient training methods and means, so that the traditional martial arts can regain their glory.
Kang Lee was born in 1972, a little older than the original Sanda King in 2001, but did not officially withdraw from the competition until 2014, and is an uncompromising Sanda old cannon. This is due to the advanced and perfect training, nutrition and healing and rehabilitation system in the United States.
Summary: Yesterday's modernity is today's tradition; today's modernity is tomorrow's tradition. Blindly pursuing the original "authenticity" is a joke of carving a boat and asking for a sword, and it is also a stupidity that eats ancient times.
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