1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 9 Martial Arts Performance
The final exam results are in. Dachun's grades have improved significantly and he is already an average student!

It's really cause for celebration!
Chun's mother was so happy that she even bought a pound of pork to reward Dachun and asked Xia Tian, ​​the great hero, to go.

Can I go there in summer? No!
With his appetite, Dachun would cry if he really went there.

That pound of pork may not be enough to stew a pot of beans!
The final exams are over and it’s time for winter vacation, so I can finally relax and unwind.

Winter came very early, and summer found that the winter now is much colder than the winter in the next thirty or forty years.

Maybe it’s because there will be more tall buildings, more people and more cars in the future, creating a heat island effect?

Many times in the summer, my thoughts would wander because of these things, and I would often seem to be in deep thought.

……

Although winter is coming, we cannot stop practicing.

Train hard in the coldest days of winter and the hottest days of summer.

In the summer, with snowflakes falling from the sky, I went to Jingshan Children's Palace, which was not far from my home.

The Shouhuang Hall of the Children's Palace is located in the north of Jingshan Mountain. It was originally a place where statues of Qing Dynasty emperors were enshrined.

Before the Boxer Rebellion (1900), there were a large number of paintings, calligraphy and cultural relics stored here.

After the Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing, the French army occupied the palace and used it as its headquarters. At that time, the portraits and seals of the deceased emperor and empress were enshrined here, but they were all looted by the French army.

In 56, the Yanjing Municipal Government designated this place as the Yanjing Children's Palace. At this time, it paid special attention to the education of young people.

Not to mention that this city is the best place to live, and the children here are different from those in other places.

College entrance examination candidates in the four provinces are particularly touched by this.

It is not easy to enter the Children's Palace. It mainly requires recommendation from the school or the Young Pioneers. The recommended person must take the examination organized by the Children's Palace before entering. So generally speaking, most of the students who can enter the Children's Palace are top students or students with professional expertise.

Even if you pass the exam, it doesn't mean you can sit back and relax.

The Children's Palace does not recruit students every year, but it does conduct annual assessments. If your academic performance in school is not good enough, it will be difficult to continue studying in the Children's Palace.

Similarly, the Children's Palace also has its own professional examinations. Only top students who have a good grasp of the distribution within and outside the school and have advanced their skills can be regular visitors to the Children's Palace.

In this good educational atmosphere, a large number of talents emerged in children's palaces across the country, especially in the fields of culture and sports. The famous painter Chen Yifei showed his ability in blackboard newspaper making in elementary school and was recommended to study painting at the China Welfare Institute Children's Palace, thus laying the foundation for his dream of becoming a painter.

Composer Xu Peidong graduated from Dalian Children's Palace; Cai Guoqing was admitted to Yanjing Children's Palace at the age of 7; football coach Jin Zhiyang was admitted to the Children's Palace football team and was one of the first football players to receive training at the Children's Palace.

Harbin Children's Palace, known as "China's Three Great Children's Palaces" in the early days, has produced famous figures such as Kong Linghui, Shi Shengjie, and Feng Xiaoquan...

However, since the mid-to-late 90s, the market size of youth training has gradually expanded, and the Children's Palace with a "public welfare" temperament has gradually faded out of people's sight, and even been confused with the endless stream of commercial training institutions.

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"Summer is coming! Summer is coming!"

Xia Tian had just climbed the stairs and had not yet entered the main building when members of the Children's Palace's martial arts class began to sound the alarm.

The children who were originally lax suddenly became energetic, and started gesticulating and laughing, looking very spirited.

There is no way. Anyone who is seen being lazy in the summer will be "examined for progress". It is not worth it to be beaten in the middle of winter!

Now Xia Tian’s prestige in the martial arts class is extremely high, and his words are even more effective than the coach’s.

Coach, if you don't go too far in your hypocrisy, it won't matter. But Xia Tian is different. Xia Tian will communicate and learn from you.
"Are you all practicing?" Xia Tian walked through the painting class and calligraphy class one by one, and then came to the martial arts class to greet his classmates.

"I'm still practicing, I'm still practicing!"

Xia Tian ignored them. In the past year or so since he woke up, his itchy hands have eased somewhat. He didn't know if it was because he played too much. Anyway, he didn't need to pick fights anymore.

He went straight to the coach's office. Coach Liu wanted to see him about something, but he didn't know what it was.

When I arrived at Coach Liu's office, I saw another man sitting on a chair, talking to Coach Liu.

This man looked to be in his thirties or forties, full of energy and vigor, with broad, thick palms covered with calluses...

He sat upright and had an imposing manner. In Xia Tian's eyes, this man had few flaws and had a constant reaction and defensive posture. It was obvious that he was a martial artist.

This is not surprising, as Coach Liu is a martial artist and has his own circle.

Moreover, Xia Tian had seen many similar people in the past six months, all of whom were recruited by Coach Liu.

Mainly because Coach Liu was showing off to them - I'm telling you, I've received a martial arts prodigy that's rare to come across in a century!
Those who can make a living in this era are all gifted.
I heard the word "genius" a lot when I was a kid, and now you're trying to fool us with the saying "once in a century"? !

The result is that one by one they come to "gain knowledge" and one by one they leave inexplicably.

"Impossible! My Xinyuan Xingyi is a boxing style passed down in my family. I think I'm the only one who knows it now! How come he can do it so well after just watching it once? He even uses those few power-generating techniques properly! Impossible? Where did he learn it from?!"

Coach Liu said calmly, "I told you that this is a once-in-a-century opportunity, but you didn't believe it. How about you teach me and see how long it will take Xia Tian to learn your boxing technique?"

During those months, seven or eight martial artists came who did not believe in superstition. Xia Tian could learn a new set of boxing techniques every half a month on average. In just one year, Xia Tian had already mastered a set of boxing techniques.

According to Coach Liu, "It takes others three to five years to reach the threshold, but you have reached more than ten thresholds in one year... It will be difficult for you to break through in a short period of time if you practice boxing now. You should practice weapons!"

In fact, according to the teaching of the martial arts class at the Children's Palace, weapons are not taught. But this is a special case.

Coach Liu didn't teach Xia Tian by performing martial arts routines at the beginning.

That kind of fighting is just good-looking and cool. But Xia Tian is trained according to the traditional martial arts teacher's education method. But the progress is a bit fast.

Now in summer, I have started learning guns and sticks.

Stick techniques are easy to practice, as there are fewer variations in stick techniques, and the generation of force and other aspects are relatively simple.

But it is different when it comes to guns. Many boxing techniques handed down today are evolved from gun techniques.

In the past, spears, swords and shields were the most practical weapons on the battlefield, so they were practiced the most.

In ancient times, people were allowed to own spears and weapons, but it was not until the middle and late Qing Dynasty that people were banned from using weapons. Not to mention bows and crossbows, even metal weapons were not allowed.

Therefore, folk martial artists began to shift from weapons to fists and feet.

However, some long-standing and complete boxing styles often also have weapon-related moves and routines.

When Coach Liu saw Xia Tian coming into the room, he couldn't help but smile: "Xia Tian, ​​how is your Liuhe spear training going recently?"

"Almost." Xia Tian replied.

"Let's go and practice."

The so-called month stick, year knife, lifetime gun, Spring and Autumn broadsword, night.

It is indeed easy to practice with a stick, especially if you focus on practicing fighting techniques. You can master the basic techniques of Yin Hand and Yang Hand in a week. Add in the sliding handle, reverse hand (short stick has reverse hand), and footwork, and you can basically master it in a month.

But mastering it is one thing, and being able to use it is another. This thing mainly depends on experience.

Fists are afraid of young people, and sticks are afraid of old people.

Speaking of knives, both one-handed and two-handed knives generally have one thing in common: it is difficult to get started, but it becomes easier as you get more familiar with it.

Especially when you have mastered the different ways of using force with a knife, it becomes easier and easier to practice, so it is called a year-old knife.

Finally, there is the lifelong gun. The big gun is the easiest weapon to use. It is simple to use, but it becomes more difficult as time goes by. With a little talent, you can learn to use the medium-level gun in one day, but it will become more difficult to improve as time goes by.

Xia Tian looks to be about fourteen or fifteen years old. He is not short, but only half the height of a rifle. How dare he say that he has almost mastered the skills?
Coach Liu didn't say anything, but another person in the room began to frown.

The difficulty of using a gun is on the one hand finding the strength - when practicing sword fighting, one does not rely on the sword to generate power, but the sword follows the person.

Leading the force relies on the wrists, elbows, shoulders and hips, and exerting force relies on three core force points: the waist and the two knees. The extending arm sword, the plum blossom double sword and the Tai Chi double sword mainly rely on the shoulders and back.

But it is different with the spear. There is no need to lead the force with the spear. The person has to follow the spear. Practicing with a sword gives people the feeling that it is based on the person, but practicing with a spear is based on the spear. The person is just a switch or an initial force applicator.

When the gun starts shaking, people don't need to use much force, and the more relaxed you are to a certain extent, the better. This is the most difficult part.

Those who practice Sanda know that you need to be relaxed when standing.

Why? Lao Tzu said: If you want to contract it, you must first stretch it. If you want to exert force, you must open your joints and muscles. When you punch out, your muscles must be tense.

But the spear is different, the gun is dead when you exert force, and it is alive when you relax. In other words, one of you and the gun must be "alive". When the gun moves, you have to relax to guard against the opponent's attack, and when you move, the gun has to relax, also to guard against the opponent's attack.

The difficulty with the gun lies in this. It is difficult to have a life and death relationship, a yin and a yang. If you move when you shouldn't, or if the gun moves when it shouldn't, both are wrong.

But you and the gun are a whole. When you move it, it moves. This involves the relationship and difference between strength and power in traditional martial arts. In short, it is very difficult.

Let’s put it this way, even for someone who has a solid foundation and has great potential and talent, it will take three to five years for this big gun to take shape.

If you want to master it, it really takes years of hard work!

This is real kung fu, and there is no room for cheating or taking shortcuts.

As for the Spring and Autumn sword in one night - there is no scientific basis for this, but it is quite tiring.

After practicing for a whole night, the next day my back, waist and shoulders felt like they were broken, so I couldn't practice anymore - I couldn't even get out of bed.

You can really only practice it for one night, and then you have to rest for a week.

……

This man was invited by Coach Liu because Xia Tian said he wanted to learn swordsmanship, but Coach Liu himself didn't know how to do it, so he invited Master Wang.

He knows more than a dozen sword techniques and is very famous in the circles in the capital.

But Master Wang had a very bad first impression of Xia Tian - he thought this guy was a boaster.

(End of this chapter)