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Recently, the news that "Ma Baoguo, the head of the Hunyuan Xingyi Tai Chi Sect, participated in a private martial arts competition and was knocked down three times in 30 seconds" has appeared on various websites. The headlines and hot searches on major websites, to this day, after regaining consciousness, Teacher Ma still insists that "if the time was enough, I could have hit the opponent's nose and broken it."

I thought of a detail in the martial arts competition video: Teacher Ma stood up after falling to the ground for the first time, pointed at the opponent and said something. Maybe because of the recording, I didn’t hear what he said clearly, but from the beginning Judging from Mr. Ma's remarks after the game, he probably said something like "Why are you so cruel?" or "You don't follow the routine."

This reminds me of Mr. Lu Xun’s description of Kong Yiji when he heard others say that he stole books:

Although Teacher Ma is a master of Tai Chi martial arts, he has never People say he is a master of fighting. Martial arts is different from fighting. You must know that the martial arts events in the Asian Games are only exhibition matches, not battles. So martial arts and fighting have two completely different meanings literally. Martial arts can be said to be all about point and finish, and can have various routines and rules, but there is only one rule in fighting, which is to knock down the opponent.

Therefore, no matter whether you are "stealing" or "stealing", no matter whether you are a black cat or a white cat, no matter what moves you use, you must really fight. If the masters still pay attention to routines and rules, then I'm sorry, but for the sake of your health and reputation, please stay away from fighting.

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In fact, not only martial arts masters, but also the general audience should give martial arts a correct positioning, which needs to be distinguished from actual fighting.

Many people are using this incident to once again badmouth martial arts. This is because many people, including audiences and people in the martial arts circle, have not given martial arts a correct positioning.

Just like there is a difference between UFC fighting and MMA, wouldn't the "big talker" who is arrogant in the Octagonal cage give Mayweather a fat beating when he gets to the boxing ring?

It seems that they are both boxing and kicking, but the majors are different, which is very different. Just like doctors are not omnipotent. If you ask a doctor who treats heart diseases to treat skin diseases, can he do it?

Teacher Ma once said that he defeated an MMA champion. I don’t know how much content there is in this, but if an MMA champion is imprisoned in the cage of traditional martial arts routines and rules, Teacher Ma really may not be able to defeat him. Defeat him.

As the old saying goes: every other line is like a mountain.

The industries are different, so it would be inappropriate to compare them together.

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Of course, I am not saying that martial arts is only for viewing.

The moves of martial arts are actually a kind of "combination boxing" in disguise. It is said that Chinese martial arts is extensive and profound, and there are various sects. In fact, many different "combination boxing" are invented based on their respective understandings of martial arts. ".

Are these "combination punches" useful?

I think it is useful, but it must be based on a certain foundation.

Jin Yong once had a famous saying: "In martial arts in the world, nothing is strong but fast. If you win with strength, your strength will fall. If you win with strength, you will die."

The meaning is: any martial arts in the world has its own shortcomings. No matter how good the defense is, there are ways to crack it. As long as the speed of consciousness, attack, defense, response, etc. is much faster than the opponent's, you will be able to do it with ease!

This sentence points out one of the core elements of martial arts, which is speed.

Of course, I think one more thing needs to be added here, which is strength.

In fact, speed and strength are not independent of each other. They can basically be said to complement each other. Except for a few extreme examples, most people are fast and their strength is not weak. Because, regardless of speed or strength, they must actually be based on excellent physical fitness - this is also the basis for whether the "combination boxing" of martial arts works.

If there is no guarantee of good physical fitness, there will be no explosive power, let alone speed and strength. Without physical fitness, no matter how good your moves are, if your shots are slow, you will not be able to hit anyone. If you have no strength, you will not be able to knock someone down.

In other words, a strong, fast and powerful fighting novice can defeat a weak martial arts master using Wang Baquan in actual combat.

What's more, Teacher Ma is now nearly seventy years old. You can only imagine how much speed and strength he can have.

Therefore, not only Chinese martial arts, but also the combination boxing in fighting become a showpiece if it is too slow.

In addition, showy exhibition matches are not unique to martial arts. You can watch the WWE (World? Wrestling? Entertainment) wrestling matches in the United States, which must also be pleasing to the eye.

What I mean is that if you want to compare martial arts with other fighting styles, you have to find two people with similar physical fitness to compare. Just like boxing, wrestling and other formal fighting competitions, there are weight classifications. It is inappropriate to say that boxing is better than wrestling when a heavyweight boxing champion beats a featherweight wrestler all over the place. In the same way, it is inappropriate to find an old, weak, sick or disabled person to compete with a muscular man. Expecting a 70-year-old man to fight as violently as a UFC player is a conjecture and a challenge in itself.

Chinese martial arts practitioners, as well as people from other fighting schools, want to become famous in the fighting arena, so they should first improve their physical fitness. The physical fitness mentioned here requires asceticism, not health preservation.

Of course, it is good for uncles and aunts to practice martial arts to maintain their health, but it is not good to brag about being able to fight.

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Teachers Ma think they can fight, which is a bit bragging, but this is actually very common. Who doesn’t brag a bit?

But after bragging for a long time, and people around them agree with it, Teacher Ma may really feel that they can fight. So, not only did he brag in words, but he also really wanted to fight with others in action, and the secret was revealed in this fight.

There is another detail in the video of Teacher Ma being KO: When Teacher Ma fell to the ground unconscious, there were many people around. At the first moment - really the first moment, it should be I must have been preparing and waiting for the moment when Teacher Ma fell to the ground.

This detail reflects a problem. In fact, there are many people around, or most people know that Mr. Ma will definitely be KO, but presumably few people gave him good words before the game. Bar.

A large group of people were waiting to see Mr. Ma make a fool of himself, and ridiculed him as a clown after the game, but wasn't the initiator of this drama yourself?

This scene is so similar to "The Emperor's New Clothes".

My father knew a university president who was not a Chinese major, but he loved writing poetry. Although its level is not as laugh-out-loud as Han Fuqu's "Ode to Minghu" and "Ode to Mount Tai", it is not much better. But he himself is intoxicated with it. Whenever he has a new work, he posts it to his circle of friends. Because of its high authority, many people liked it, and some even left messages saying "good poems". After doing this for a long time, his self-confidence was so high that he printed a collection of poems at his own expense and gave it away to everyone, and he still received a lot of praise. But I think there must be people who are laughing behind the scenes.

"The Emperor's New Clothes" may seem absurd, but it is actually happening around us.

Everyone knows that emperors do not have new clothes. Only he believes that he is wearing new clothes. And when faced with criticism, he will point at the other person and retort: ??"My clothes are beautiful!"< /p>

A movie was released in 2017 called "The Fake Captain". It tells the story of Willy Herold, a German deserter under the age of 20 who put on the captain's officer uniform he picked up on the eve of Germany's defeat and transformed into a captain. Captain Herod. From the very beginning, he felt respected and needed while wearing the captain's uniform. He readily accepted this new identity, and it became more and more intense and he couldn't extricate himself. The frightened bird who escaped from death became a demon who was controlled by power and could not extricate himself. He even massacred hundreds of prisoners and used the excuse of "resisting the growing defeatism and continuing to fight for Germany" to exonerate himself.

This story is as absurd as "The Emperor's New Clothes". It makes people wonder how a liar can act so recklessly.

But in fact, this movie is adapted from a true story, and "Fake Captain" Willie Herold is real.

Perhaps just like "A lot of words add up to a thousand pieces of gold", if you tell others' slander too much, it becomes "true", and if you tell your own lies too much, you will believe them to be true. Therefore, the emperors would wear "new clothes" and walk to the streets in a grand manner.

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Regarding Teacher Ma’s confrontation, I learned from subsequent reports: Teacher Ma’s initial opponent was a martial arts master of a similar age, but due to Therefore, he temporarily withdrew from the competition and changed his opponent, which pushed Teacher Ma into the embarrassing situation of neither up nor down - this master is too ungrateful!

Thinking of the previous fight that Teacher Ma asked for, Teacher Ma decisively called the police at the last moment to avoid danger. Maybe Teacher Ma still has some self-awareness.

However, thinking of his heroic words, I am still curious whether he knows that he is not wearing any clothes?

Perhaps only he himself knows the answer to this question.