Wen Qi Navy
Jia Ling's "Hot and Hot" became a hit during the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon in 2024.
I heard from a friend that during the holidays, dozens of girls in his gym came to consult and practice boxing, and it seems that "Hot and Hot" will also drive a wave of boxing fever.
Here, the author does not want to discuss the content of the film itself, but wants to talk about the other side of the film "Hot and Hot", that is, what traditional martial arts are losing.
Anyone who has watched the film knows that the heroine played by Jia Ling realized her dream by practicing boxing and finally won her life once; The film presents a real-life scene of boxing training and also reveals the darker side of boxing in the ring.
Boxing training is standardized and systematic; It is easy for him to let everyone who is trained enter the threshold and keep advancing; It's not like Tai Chi, which is difficult to go out for ten years.
In fact, not only boxing, but also taekwondo, Muay Thai, modern fighting, and even yoga; Whichever gym you go to, their training methods are basically the same as the course content.
This is the basic condition that traditional martial arts must be integrated into fashion life.
But on the other hand, our traditional martial arts, although there are many fists and different characteristics, because they are all singing their own ancestors, so the traditional martial arts that seem to be broad and profound are basically their own formations. The long-term concept of the gateway has led to both disunity and lack of communication between sects, which makes the huge traditional martial arts actually a plate of scattered sand, in the face of the impact of Western boxing and modern fighting, there is no unity, and the standardized teaching system and martial arts content that can compete with them can be truly formed.
We often see children practicing taekwondo, women practicing yoga, and young people practicing boxing or modern martial arts, compared to the market share of traditional martial arts.
The heroine played by Jia Ling can be successful because of the super-intense physical training in boxing, in fact, in terms of training system, teaching content, physical training, and nutritional regulation, boxing training has been standardized as early as the beginning of the 19th century. This is the main reason why the sport of boxing has taken the world by storm.
Compared with boxing, traditional martial arts are not only lacking in standardized teaching and physical training; The key is that the application of technical strikes is also greatly discounted.
Boxing has the ring as an application environment, and those who practice boxing and modern fighting can basically come into contact with the opportunity to try their hands and fight every day; Therefore, the heroine played by Jia Ling can challenge herself and let herself win once.
But more traditional martial arts are practiced routines and routines.
Basically, it just stays in the form of routines and **, and there are very few people who can really conduct confrontation training based on technical attacks, and many so-called traditional martial arts masters can be said to have never fought in their lives.
The national hero Qi Jiguang once said: "If you have the art, you must try the enemy." Trying the enemy does not mean that you must fight the enemy, but you must fight with the opponent, and only through actual combat will you know whether you are practicing right or wrong.
Why is the atmosphere in the Taijiquan world not good now, they all think that they are practicing right, they all look down on others, they are all keen to play tricks, and there are Taijiquan masters everywhere, it is because of the lack of practical application environment of traditional martial arts, there is no confrontation training like boxing, no one has a good hand with you, of course, there is only a verbal fight.
Martial arts can only know through fighting that you are practicing correctly and practicing wrong. As the saying goes, it's right to stand up, and it's not right to fall.
Boxing's mature confrontation training and ring competition is the best application environment for boxing enthusiasts, although the ring competition does not represent a real street fight, but at least it is much better than you have never fought against someone in your life.
There is a saying in society, "Punch the master to death". Why can't a skilled master beat the gangsters on the street! The reason is that many masters who practice traditional martial arts have very little practice in actual combat.
Traditional martial arts in the past actually had very few routines, mostly single-handed, similar to boxing simple straight boxing, swing boxing, the purpose is to repeat the practice every day through simple movements, so as to achieve the instinctive response of the muscle memory body.
But today, even the practice of single hands is rare in some traditional martial arts schools.
There is no standardized teaching system, lack of physical intensity training, and there is no confrontation training and actual combat application environment; Traditional martial arts were gradually marginalized by Western martial arts such as boxing.
Traditional martial arts have a long history, both internal and external, and are originally of the highest quality, but because they have not kept up with the pace of the times, their development has seriously lagged behind.
There are also a very small number of inheritors who are sticking to it, after all, they are weak.
In order to develop traditional martial arts, it is necessary to objectively face the modern market, optimize the training system guided by the results of technical fighting, formulate standardized training content suitable for promotion, and absorb the effective experience of boxing and modern fighting in physical strength training, confrontation training, and actual combat application training.
I believe that traditional martial arts will also have a hot day, but more inheritors of traditional martial arts need to change their concepts, unite and work together.
It's for the aftermath!