(Translation: Dong Xudi: From One Punch and One Leg to Circular Endless Turns and Insights on Legs)
Author, I. From One Fist to Circular Endless Turns
Practice martial arts, initially, is about starting with one punch and one leg, without this step of cultivation, one can never enter the track of martial arts.
The cultivation of one punch and one leg is the foundation of martial arts. Xingyiquan is the cultivation of one punch and one leg.Xingyiquan is to practice the nature and properties of things through one punch and one leg. Therefore, Xingyiquan can be the basis of various martial arts techniques. Nowadays, many people ignore the cultivation of one punch and one leg, so there is no significant progress. Practicing one punch and one leg is not simple,First, thoroughly cultivate each punch and each leg, and then practice how to naturally and continuously repeat the punch and leg, and later, one can focus on speed and rhythm.Now some people think they are cultivating one punch and one leg, but because they have not passed the test of thoroughly cultivating each punch and each leg, even though they practice one hundred thousand times of a punch and a hundred times of a leg every day, the effect is not good.
Thoroughly cultivating each punch and each leg is not an easy task, it requires repeatedly following the rules and techniques passed down by the teacher to experience and savor. This requires putting in effort and thinking about it, which is the most tedious. But this is the most basic and most important step. Only when each punch and each leg is thoroughly cultivated, one can naturally and continuously repeat the cultivation with endless turns.When natural continuous and endless turns are very mature, one can then start cultivating from nothingness, forget the rules, and move freely. This is the third step of Mingjing, Darkjing, and Huijing, and the shortcut is to follow the order.When practicing a two or three leg technique, most people cannot get close to you. For example, when practicing Zhaotui, Cziaotui and a whip leg, you need to practice the speed and power of these three techniques to make them move according to your own will. Generally, it is difficult to encounter enemies. This is the foundation of traditional martial arts. Nowadays, people who practice traditional martial arts rarely practice this way, they come up with easy methods, take shortcuts, and use clever techniques to defeat enemies.The realm is high but the foundation is lacking, so they cannot stand on the arena.
They also start practicing martial arts from the basics of one punch and one leg, and only then can they further study clever techniques.Mr. Sun Zunjou emphasized the importance of running during his discipleship.Secondly, II. Legs – Saying with LegsLegs, one is kicking, two is running.
In a broad sense, kicking refers to leg techniques, including leg techniques and knee techniques. And running includes footwork, stepping, flashing, retreating, and evading, as well as physical fitness training.
There are many ways to use legs in martial arts, but they are all variable.
There are about ten commonly used leg techniques, namely, pressing, pointing,, smashing, shoveling, whipping, waving, staking, cutting, and wrapping.
If you further divide them, there are more: such as pulling, scraping, etc. These two leg techniques are technically difficult, and under this kind of cultivation, it is difficult to master the techniques. Nowadays, very few people can master these techniques. The twelve leg techniques mentioned above all need to be practiced separately and mastered completely, and few people can achieve this. Especially now.
Mr. Sun Lu, Mr. Sun Zunjou, Mr. Sun Zhenchuan, Mr., and Mr. mastered these twelve leg techniques to a high degree – with the power of electricity flowing through the limbs and changeable with great skill, and they could use them freely.These twelve leg techniques, if you start learning them early, it will be difficult to learn them after adulthood.As you can see, it is very difficult to learn leg techniques. The famous Li Yulin was introduced to Mr. Sun Zunjou when he was 40 years old, and he could not learn leg techniques anymore. So, it is important to start learning leg techniques from a young age.Nowadays, people who study Xingyi, Baogua, and Tai Chi rarely cultivate leg techniques, and some even think that using legs is a vulgar technique and don't want to study or understand it, which is a great misunderstanding.
Mr. Sun Zunjou's martial arts training system is to enable all human functions to be developed and used healthily and fully, and to use them reasonably for martial arts.Therefore, we cannot give up studying and practicing leg techniques. Some famous martial artists give up leg techniques because they must have serious defects in their martial arts techniques. Currently, people who study Xingyi, Baogua, and Tai Chi usually cannot adapt to the needs of practical combat, one of the reasons is the lack of study and practice of leg techniques.The martial arts master Hao Muhu practiced Xingyi with Li Qinglan, and Li Qinglan was not an opponent of Hao Muhu, so he controlled Hao Muhu and made him a child’s play. Later, when they practiced hand-to-hand combat, Li Qinglan knew Hao Muhu’s skills were good, so he kept a distance and did not fight him, adopting a frontal, backward, and side-shifting tactic, and suddenly kicking Hao’s forward-stepping small leg and attacking the bone in front with a kick. So he won the match.Although Hao Muhu’s Xingyi was good and his strength was excellent, he was defeated by 20-year-old Li Qinglan in the first round. Li Qinglan knew that Hao Muhu’s strength was good, so he used his body to create a distance, so he could not face Hao Muhu. So he kept a distance and did not fight with Hao Muhu, adopting a tactic of running, not fighting, and using clever techniques to defeat enemies.This is the second example.Before the battle, Mr. Sun Zunjou, Mr. Hu Fengshan, and others trained in the mountains and forests, and Mr. Hu had to withstand it.
After the battle, Mr. Hu Fengshan realized the importance of physical fitness. Kicking legs and running are not contradictory to cultivating internal energy. We cannot set our own barriers and isolate our skills from practical combat.Mr. Liu Shulin, the disciple of Mr. Sun Zunjou, emphasized the importance of running training. Kicking legs and running are one of the most basic and useful techniques in practical combat.It is not contradictory to cultivate internal energy and external strength. We cannot set our own barriers and isolate our skills from practical combat.
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