On Shaanxi Street next to Tianfu Square, there is a "Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy". Shaanxi Street is a famous "costume street", follow the navigation, pass by a costume shop, and see the door of "Chengdu Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy". The street is very old, and the buildings are relatively old, so that there is no elevator entrance. Walking in the gray corridor, the picture of Ip Man teaching boxing on the roof suddenly flashed in his mind.
In the morning, there were no students in the Jiu-Jitsu hall, and the sun shone on the medals and ** on the wall, which was exceptionally bright and quiet. The curator, Shi Xueliang, was alone in the museum. Counting from the original "Jiu-Jitsu Club,This Jiu-Jitsu gym has been open for 12 years and is known as the birthplace of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in the SouthwestThe site of more than 300 square meters is "also considered large in the country." ”
Shi Xueliang
Founder and assistant coach of Chengdu Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy, black belt of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
The strongest grappling technique on the surface
Many people know Jiu-Jitsu because of star Huang Jingyu, who shocked the audience by showing off Jiu-Jitsu on the show. Further fueling the flatter was Musk's fight with Zuckerberg, a Jiu-Jitsu master who won gold medals in Jiu-Jitsu competitions in California. This has brought Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu back into the public eye.
Shi Xueliang and students.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is not "soft" at all, it is a powerful martial arts. In today's world, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is known as the strongest ground grappling and is very popular abroad, and it is even listed as compulsory education in the UAE.
In those action movies, ** jumped on a person's neck and killed someone with one move, is it really so powerful?I asked.
It's not that exaggerated. Jiu-Jitsu is one of the lowest-risk disciplines in martial arts. However, it is still very easy to deal with a person, that is, through the principle of leverage, knock the person down and launch an attack. In one-on-one situations, Bhar can overcome opponents who are taller than him.
What if that person doesn't fall?”
There is a way not to fall, usually it is impossible not to fall, it will definitely fall. Because jiu-jitsu contains wrestling. I can't stand up and smash you, I can lie down and wrap around you, control your hands and feet, spine, neck, you may be broken ...... if you don't accept itThis is called strangulation. ”
Miao Jie, the runner-up in the Hangzhou Asian Games women's Jiu-Jitsu, shared with students at the Chengdu Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy.
Shi Xueliang has met people who claim to come to experience, but they are actually kicking the gym. There was a strong man of more than 200 pounds before, and his physical fitness was very good. He was thrown away in 2 seconds, he had no resistance at all, his entire arm turned purple, and after his arm was healed, he came to apply for a card. They have also held challenges outdoors, and no one has succeeded.
Because it has little to do with the figure. Jiu-Jitsu is different from other techniques, and the starting point of training is to imagine that your opponent is stronger than you. If you want to fall an elephant, you must have a certain basic strength, and then rely on skills to fight big. ”
The medals on the wall are both group and individual. The more important event is the second match of the 2022-2023 season of the Abu Dhabi Professional Jiu-Jitsu Tour in Chongqing today, AugustThey took second place in the group.
Chengdu Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy won the second place in the team in the second competition of the 2022-2023 season in China at the Abu Dhabi Professional Jiu-Jitsu Tour.
Little cadets
This weekend, Shi Xueliang will take more than a dozen young students to Wuhan to compete. They have already participated in a lot of the finals of the National Children's Series. This time I went to Wuhan, and I also had the confidence to take cards. But Shi Xueliang thinks,Playing cards is secondary, the main thing is to take them through this process, stimulate their inner fighting spirit, and make them braver.
Shi Xueliang teaches classes to children at school.
Among Shi Xueliang's students, children account for a part. Every Monday and Wednesday, he goes to school to teach the children. On Monday afternoon, Shi Xueliang drove more than 20 miles to attend classes at a school in Pidu District.
The lesson of the day is to review the "armbar". This is one of Jiu-Jitsu's nirvana, and refers to the classic Jiu-Jitsu movement in which the opponent's body is crossed in a cross shape to bring it to its knees.
Shi Xueliang demonstrated the movements to the children.
Knees clamped!turn your head to that side，and keep your knees tight……stop！Shi Xueliang's teaching was mixed with Chinese and English, and the children practiced against each other and had a great time. Shi Xueliang found that at this age, girls are usually bolder than boys. WhileBoys and girls alike should learn confrontational sports to increase their resilience and heroism.
Nowadays, schools are paying more and more attention to physical education, and Shi Xueliang hopes to have more opportunities to cooperate with the school. This school in Pidu District is a twelve-year private school, from primary school to high school, and the motto on the school wall reads:Body first, character first. When he first came to give a lecture, he didn't attract high school students, who wanted to learn some ** shaping courses.
Actually, Jiu-Jitsu has this function, maybe I don't have a good speech. He asked a dozen students, and about four or five had heard of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, "It's okay." Fortunately, there are seven or eight elementary school students who are very face-saving and choose his class, they range from 7 to 9 years old, just for fun, and there is no "body anxiety".
Shi Xueliang sighedToday's children are so happy, they have a wealth of knowledge and opportunities to choose from an early age. I think back then, when I was young, I grew up in the countryside, and the school physical education class only had radio gymnastics, the table tennis table was a cement table, and the basketball hoop was also rotten.
His father worked in the city all the year round, so he didn't have time to spend with him. So, whenhimBeing a father and jiu-jitsu coach will try to keep your child well cared for and trained.
Still niche
In recent years, because of mixed martial arts, as well as the celebrity effects of Zhang Weili, Zuckerberg and others, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has gained popularity. But Shi Xueliang thinksJiu-Jitsu is still a very niche sport at the moment. "If you look at the competition in a region of taekwondo, there are hundreds or even thousands of people at every turn, while there are only a few hundred people in the national competition in Bajou. ”
First of all,It's very difficult to qualify. Usually the entry is white belt, from white belt to blue belt it takes two or three years, to purple belt it takes five or six years, then to brown belt takes about eight years, and finally to black belt takes about 10 years. Shi Xueliang is now a black belt, he has used it for 12 years, and there are no more than 4 black belts in the entire Chengdu. And the black belt is also divided into nine, and it takes forty or fifty years to get nine black belts, which is a lifetime thing.
The long learning process weeds out most of them. Many people get stuck with the Le Cordon Bleu, the so-called "Cordon Bleu Curse", and many more give up at the Le Cordon Bleu stage. At present, there are about 10 Jiu-Jitsu gyms in Chengdu, and Chengdu Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Gym has the largest number of students, with more than 400 students, "It is estimated that there are several thousand people in Chengdu." ”
Of course, there is no shortage of long-term trainees. Zhu Li is one. He was an early student at the Chengdu Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy, only a year later than Shi Xueliang, and is now a purple belt. He thinks that there may be dozens of people who really train for a long time.
He also observed a phenomenon that many female students watched Huang Jingyu's program to practice"There were very few female students before, but after Huang Jingyu appeared on a show, there were suddenly girls. ”
Founder of Chengdu Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy.
1. Head coach Jerry (right) and students.
Zhu Li's wife, Xu Danjie, is also a Jiu-Jitsu enthusiast, and they met at a Jiu-Jitsu gym. That night, he accompanied his wife to wrestling lessons. The wife's grades are even more "dazzling". In August this year, the Weightlifting and Wrestling Center of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China issued a notice to organize outstanding athletes to train in order to prepare for the Hangzhou Asian Games.
There are also some accidents that are favored by the national team. At that time, they were playing in Shaoguan, Guangdong, Xu Danjie played well and was noticed by the national team, and later went to Thailand to play, and achieved good results, and entered the "magic eye" of the national team.
Zhu Li went to Beijing for two months to accompany the training. Although there were only three places in the Asian Games in the end, Xu Danjie failed to appear in the Asian GamesBut as an amateur player, it is also an affirmation to be selected for the national team training.
Shi Xueliang (left), director of Chengdu Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy, and students.
Zhu Li thinks, in addition to the official promotion,Sports that look cool are more popular. For example, skiing used to be particularly niche, but now it is popular, and the Winter Olympics are a reason. "In addition, this kind of exercise itself is more beautiful, it can burn equipment, it is cool, I went to take a photo, and it can be regarded as participating. ”
Zhu Li and his wife have been "in the pit" for many years, and often compete in competitions at their own expense. Not so long ago, they just returned from Dubai. When they went out to compete, they were very calm and went with the mentality of experience, "It's just a tour." "They practice Jiu-Jitsu to strengthen their bodies. But when I first started practicing, I still thought, "Whoever wants to mess with me try it." ”
There was once a student who met two people who drank ** near the Wuhou Temple one night, and finally seized the opportunity to show his fists and feet, and put down one of them, and then he was frightened for several months. "Haha, that's all stupid things that young people do. Zhu Li said.
Shi Xueliang in the game.
Shi Xueliang's life is a bit like the "cultivation system" male protagonist in martial arts. He grew up in the countryside of Ziyang, his family was poor when he was young, his grades were not good, and he came out to break into society after graduating from junior high school.
He first worked as a decorator in Zigong, and then worked as a security guard and black bear breeder in Xindu. At the Black Bear Conservation Base, I have been working for 18 years. Because it is often necessary to work with foreign animal expertsHe is fluent in spoken English(Reading and writing are not possible, though).
My mother asked before, will you complain if you didn't let you study?I said no. ”
Really don't complain?I asked.
Really don't complain. At that time, in the countryside, there was no way. I say it's fatal. Although I didn't study, God didn't mean anything to me.
He felt that if nothing else, he should be able to work in the Black Bear Conservation Base for the rest of his life, which was like a paradise, simple and pure. "I was not yet 18 years old when I went to raise bears, and I didn't really experience the tempering of society until I came out in my 30s, so I was more introverted. ”
Outsiders think that the work of the black bear protection base sounds very interesting. Shi Xueliang always said meaningfully, "That's another story......”
By chance, he accompanied the leader to play jiu-jitsu, but he didn't expect to open another window, and since then the gears of fate have begun to turn. Over the years, he ran on both sides, working at the Black Bear Conservation Base during the day and at night at the Jiu-Jitsu Club as a handyman, receptionist, training, and also working as a translator (with some expatriate members).
Every day, I go out early and return late, nearly 100 kilometers back and forth. It wasn't until 2020 that I was too tired to run and decided to devote myself to Jiu-Jitsu full-time. At that time, the epidemic broke out, and the leader said, you have to think clearly. He figured it outInstead of going out early and returning late and not being able to accompany the children, it is better to make trade-offs and focus on love.
Shi Xueliang's black belt.
Since he was a child, Shi Xueliang was not a top sports student, and he didn't even discover any athletic talent. But I had a martial arts dream when I was studying. At that time, there was a classmate's brother who practiced martial arts and occasionally taught them two moves. When he gets home, he also practices sandbags on his own. Perhaps, it was this fate that allowed him to continue today's career.
Now, he is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and runs three Jiu-Jitsu gyms in Chengdu.
Have you ever thought you'd pursue a career as a Jiu-Jitsu coach?”
Never thought about it. ”
Do you think you'll do it for the rest of your life?”
At present, it seems that there is no other craft but to do this. It's actually quite fun, because you can really live and learn.
Do you still want to read now?”
No, not at all. I've been self-taught for a while and found that really, a bit of a lack of energy, hahaha. ”
Shi Xueliang is with two children.
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