[Transfer]: How to learn traditional martial arts by yourself?

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From the answer of @Yu Xiao in the Zhihu question.

Pang Da secretly thought that what he said was still reasonable, so he reprinted it here. Original answer link .

Of course, it is also a record, maybe Pang Da will follow the practice, what a pity if the answerer deletes it and can’t find it.

Original text below.

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Let me tell you my personal opinion. I practiced martial arts at the age of seven. It was passed down from my family. I won the provincial gold medal. Now I am 30 years old. If your goal is not to participate in routine competitions, you can learn martial arts by yourself. Difference.

If you search the boxing scriptures about traditional martial arts, you will find that they are all very short pamphlets, not too thick, with a lot of words in them, basically you have to understand them yourself, and the teacher may not be able to help you much, such as qi At most, the teacher can describe what you feel. As for whether you have a sense of qi, and whether your qi sense is an illusion caused by too much desire, the teacher can’t explain it.

There are many types of basic skills, such as splitting legs and lowering the waist, standing and punching.

There are various sayings about the basic skills. For example, when you practice boxing, you don’t practice your legs, waist, kidneys, and qi. There are a lot of sayings about boxing. Lowering the waist is not urgent, especially for older people, it is more pleasant to kill you directly if you suddenly pull the ligament away.

It is very difficult to stretch the ligament at the beginning, but if you don’t press the leg, the routine will naturally stretch after three or five years, so I don’t recommend using violence to press down at the beginning or how long it takes to press the leg every day. Rather than stand on horseback.

The first and most difficult period of practicing boxing is mainly to stand on horse stance. There are many types of horse stance, but they can be roughly summed up into two types, high and low. , Nowadays, it is rare for people who practice martial arts to stand for ten minutes. Under the premise of standard movements, it is enough to do it step by step. It is enough to stand several times a day.

The representative of the high horse is the round pile, also known as the Wuji pile, and some people call it the qi yang pile and the Dacheng pile. They are all practitioners of Tai Chi, and Dachengzhuang is a practitioner of Dachengquan.

There are many theories about the requirements of the round pile movements according to different types of boxing, and there are also subtle differences in the movements, but the generally accepted ones are loose shoulders and elbows, chest and waist, bent knees and loose, imaginary strength, and tongue on top of the jaw. These requirements It is also basically common in Neijia Quan. Because it is a high horse, you will not get tired if you stand for less than half an hour, so you have to stand for at least 40 minutes. The muscles of your legs have strong endurance, so try to stand every day, but you don’t need to stand. For more than an hour and forty minutes, if you are not tired, you can squat down a little bit, and the time is always controlled within forty minutes, so as not to delay work and life.

But the round pile time can’t be short, because loosening the shoulders and sinking the elbows… etc. A series of requirements are intended to allow you to develop this ability, even when you walk, you can’t develop this habit for ten minutes a day.

There are many types of horse stances, but different types of boxing have different emphasis. I recommend you to stand on both the Siping horse and the round pole, because no matter what kind of boxing you practice, you cannot avoid these two types of horse stances, especially the round stance. Zhuang, if you want to practice Neijiaquan, no matter what type of boxing is written, you will be recommended to stand on the round pole.

It needs to be emphasized here that even if you practice Neijiaquan, you have to stand on Siping horses. The inner, outer, north, south and south of martial arts are not as separated as in TV dramas. It has become difficult to distinguish them today. The basic skills determine the upper limit. Many people who have practiced boxing for more than ten years cannot When used in actual combat, the final reason is that the basic skills are too soft, making him do the splits, the punches have no strength, the routines are fast, and there is no speed in actual combat.

The simplest example is the squat, because the horse stance is a bit similar to the squat. How fast you can stand up when you squat down basically determines how much explosive power you can mobilize your lower body when you punch. Suppose you weigh 200 pounds, If you don’t practice your legs normally, you only have 200 strength on your legs. Being able to walk and jump is the limit. How can you maintain your speed in actual combat? How to shift focus?

I have one of the simplest measurement methods here, which is to squat with one leg. One leg can bear the weight, and the extra strength of the other leg can be converted into actual strength. If the single-leg squat is less than 50, you are in actual combat. Basically no legs. One-leg squats or less than ten times, you only have strength, but you can’t do it well. Fifty times means that you can fully control this force, which is considered a qualitative change and can be initially applied to actual combat.

When I was 24 years old, I squatted 95 times with one leg. At that time, I weighed 90 kilograms. I felt like I had no legs. I walked like floating. You can exert force. Only in this case can the movements in the routine be used effectively. Otherwise, these movements will be seen by people.

The Xingyiquan that my family passed down started with the three-body pose and the round pole. When I practiced for about five years, I started to learn Chen Style Taiji, and later I went to Taiyi Wuxingquan, Gongzi Fuhuquan, slowly standing on Siping, various equipment routines Learn everything, and practice basically everything. Now it’s hard to tell the difference between each type of boxing.

Basic skills are not only the basics, the more you go to the back, the more you will feel that basic skills are everything.

For specific training methods, first of all, you have to choose a boxing type as the initial specialization, and you can’t pursue a complete set of punches at first, and familiarize yourself with a whole set of punches. One or two weeks is not enough, so you have to break a set of punches into countless small paragraphs.

I don’t know exactly what you plan to practice. I will take Chen Style Taijiquan as an example. If the old frame is divided into many sections, the easiest way is to use the diamond inverted cone inside. One node, one session a week, at first you might finish it in 20 seconds, and then finish it in three or five minutes.

So in the beginning, you can ask for thirty or fifty times a day, but when you can complete the whole routine once, ten or twenty times a day will be enough, and it will be meaningless.

At the same time, there is the horse stance. You have to stick to it every day. You can’t sleep until you finish standing. You can stand while watching TV, and you will stand after two episodes of the TV series. You are tired at first, so you can watch TV to distract yourself. After a month or so, you must have gotten used to it. At this time, you can’t do anything else, and you have to focus on your body, which is the so-called mind guarding your dantian.

In the beginning, you could use the TV to divert your attention because it was painful at that time, and you couldn’t do it if you wanted to keep your dantian. The slack shoulders and elbows, the chest and waist, the knees and the emptiness, were talked about. , is the main thing you need to consider at this time, because you don’t have a teacher, you have to control your own proportions.

You know you need to loosen your shoulders, but you don’t know how much to loosen it to be considered appropriate. You know how to sink your elbows, but you don’t know where it’s suitable to sink your shoulders. You know how to hold your chest, but you can’t hold yourself up like a hunchback, right? You have to feel and master the proportions here. Having a teacher will definitely help you avoid detours, but if you want me to say, having a teacher is not necessarily a good thing, because martial arts itself is an exhaustive method, and the teacher can only teach you the correct answer. , and if you don’t know where the wrong answer is, it’s hard to make a name for yourself.

I’m a boxer from my family, I know how to practice it right, but I have to get it all wrong in the end. Just like math, one plus one equals two, you have to figure it out yourself, you can’t let the teacher tell you that it equals two, you just put After the two are memorized, there will be one plus two, three plus two, and three plus four in the future. What you find out by yourself is always more important than what others teach.

So since you are self-taught, you should seize the advantages of self-taught, try to make mistakes in everything you can go wrong, and have experience and feelings. The details you find out will be more accurate than those who practice in the correct way from the beginning. Don’t go Watch those teaching videos, just look for two boxing classics and read them. There are too many masters now, and believing in them is really going astray. I don’t have to watch those teachings now. Ninety-nine out of 100 are liars. , don’t pin your hopes on luck.

In addition, there are some additional small movements that no one will tell you when you practice boxing now. It’s not that they keep their hands. It’s that few people know about this set of things. I also write them here. In general, these are all complementary things for practicing Neijiaquan.

There are also pharyngeal fluid and levator anus, but I don’t like these two. I said that these items can be found on the Internet. There is no technical fraud or action essentials. , It is a habit from childhood to adulthood. You can set your own time. It does not take much time. It is useful, but it is not obvious if you persist for a short time.

The second is Yijinjing, there are many versions, but the general meaning is the word “jin” in the middle, some emphasize the meridians of the meridians, some emphasize the sinews of the muscles and bones, I practiced the bear-style Yijinjing, you can find the video on the Internet, As long as you don’t touch those metaphysical theories, you can’t go wrong by practicing. This is not too tiring. It doesn’t take long. I suggest doing it once a day. You may not feel anything at first, but it will show results in about half a year, which is very good. set of actions.

Let’s talk about some of the more mysterious things in martial arts, such as internal power, bright energy, dark energy, and qi.

I won’t mention the literature, film and television. If you have a group of people who practice boxing, they will definitely talk to you about such words as qi sense and dark energy.

Qi feeling is a very subjective feeling. Most people say that they have a feeling of Qi, but they are actually hallucinations. It is common to feel heat flow in a specific location through thoughts, and let the heat flow along a certain trajectory, and even some people Say that you feel your qi roaming outside your body.

Some of their statements are correct, but most of them are wrong, because they first know the definition of qi, and then imagine the feeling, which means where they are, in other words, the situation of psychosomatic disorders in psychology, accepting hints After I got sick, I am not insulting anyone. From a psychological point of view, hard qigong steps on the blade and the Buddha’s immobile body is a reflection of rigidity under hypnosis. Hard qigong can be realized through self-hypnosis.

If you want to measure whether you feel qi, but do not want to hypnotize yourself, the easiest way is to not believe it, because when you practice to a certain level, it will inevitably appear, and it can be reproduced through specific actions. Only then can you be sure that your breath is real.

Take me as an example, it was about the eighth year of practicing martial arts. When I was standing on a horse, I suddenly felt that something was broken at the Yuzhen point, like glass shattered. After that, I had a nosebleed for a while. When you reach a certain position, the spine, chest, and back of the neck will make noises. Later, more joints can make sounds through breathing, such as shoulders, elbows, hips, and knees. Some time ago, Tanzhong acupoint, not the position of the joints, can also come out. sound.

But there is no obvious value, because they are not like in martial arts novels, how much more power can be obtained by passing an acupuncture point, at most, it will make a little noise when you have nothing to do, or make your shoulders rattle a few times when you are working, said Being injured and being lazy doesn’t make any sense. It just means that you have more room to understand and control your own body. If you are aiming for actual combat, you don’t need to pursue a sense of qi.

Bright energy and dark energy are the most illusory things. The main fantasy is that some people say it, but no one has demonstrated it. I still can’t understand what dark energy is. I think people who have practiced for five or six years can basically do it. Don’t pursue this too seriously. Unless someone really performs for you, don’t believe it.

I have practiced for so many years, and I have seen too many masters who say that they can be dark, but most of them use ordinary skills, nothing more than a few. One is to hit your specific acupuncture points, so that you can feel what other positions can’t experience. The strange pain method is a means of capture, and has nothing to do with strength. The other thing is to do some wonderful movements, except for his serious expression, everything is red and white, and Lei Lei was beaten so badly because he believed in this thing.

The other is the shaking of the big gun, a traditional training method that has been demonized. Now it is said that it is very amazing. In fact, there is nothing to say. The material of the pole is different, the length is different, the radius is different, and the effect of shaking is different. It’s different. Generally, it takes at least five or six years of basic skills to practice the big gun. It’s a matter of course. It would be strange if he couldn’t shake anything.

If you want to practice, you have to change your perspective. Don’t pay too much attention to those performance videos. You can’t see kung fu by shaking a gun. The level of martial arts is based on basic skills, but no one will record a video to show you that he stands for two hours on horses, and they may not necessarily You can stand down, and your energy has to be used on the horse.

If one day you find yourself needing equipment training, I recommend two types of knives and guns. One is long and the other is short. In terms of actual combat value and training effect, guns are definitely the best. Long weapons also improve physical fitness more obviously, but knives also need to be practiced, because the best thing to look for is always short weapons. As for why swords are not recommended, because many techniques of swords are not applicable, they are too expensive, and they are not common. Grabbing a stick can get you over your head, but stabbing it with a stick is a bit… right?

You can practice routines by practicing equipment, but I don’t recommend it. There are too many superfluous performances in the equipment. If you don’t perform, you can choose a few practical ones to practice repeatedly, such as holding a gun and tying your head and wrapping your head with a knife. There are too many practical tricks for sticks. Different lengths have different play styles. Once you have practiced the equipment, you should also know which movements are suitable for exerting force and which movements are the best for performance.

Another weapon that I particularly recommend is the mace, mainly because it is heavy, and practicing the mace is equivalent to practicing dumbbells. It can make up for the disadvantage that short weapons are not enough to improve strength to a certain extent, but the mace is too expensive. If you are like me If you can’t bear the money, you can go to Taobao to buy a piece of construction steel. The white steel does not rust, and the weight is sufficient. Two hundred yuan is enough, and you can get a tire and smash it.

Always remember, don’t retreat, martial arts is like most sports, if you want to apply it to the actual scene, you have to pursue a real improvement, not some kind of bright and dark energy, internal qi and internal power, although there is no absolute power in the world, But the strength advantage is definitely there. If you stand a lot, you will have an advantage if you have less horse stance. You can squat 50 times with one leg. If you can do less than 20 times, it is as easy as hitting a kindergarten child. There is no trick. way.

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I suddenly thought of some things that could be written but not written, and I guess there will be some in the future. I will make up for it when I think of it. Most of them are common sense, and I will avoid the complicated ones.

Since the subject wants to practice Neijiaquan, he will definitely come into contact with the corresponding Zhuanggong, such as the three-body posture of Xingyiquan, and the round pole I recommended. This type of pole is mainly to cultivate habits by maintaining specific movements for a long time.

After a period of time, half an hour or an hour, your posture has not been destroyed by smoking, drinking water, playing with mobile phones, or typing on the screen, and your body is in the most suitable state for boxing. Therefore, standing and boxing should be put together on the schedule. After standing for a while, you can start practicing boxing immediately. You can practice the whole set, or you can pick out a few moves from the routine and practice repeatedly.

For beginners, the instinct has not yet formed, and it is necessary to rely on the period of time just after standing to verify the mistakes in their own routines. I will not say “verify whether there are errors” here. There are no mistakes for beginners. , but many do not realize that they are wrong.

For those who have already formed their instincts, half an hour after standing is still more suitable for boxing than other times, because after standing, the blood will be smoother, and the feedback from the movements in the routine will be more obvious.

The error correction mentioned here is different from that in TV dramas and novels. In TV dramas, the apprentice usually poses a pose. The master takes a small branch and taps his waist and buttocks. . I don’t know if you have ever thought about it. In fact, you don’t need the master’s guidance. The apprentice only needs to watch the master punch once, and then he can teach himself in front of the mirror.

Martial arts are not like this. A set of punches starts from the beginning to the end, and there will be no pause in the middle, because it is not suitable to stop in any position. If you stop, you will become a horse. The most basic requirement of boxing is not to stop, from the foot to the head, every piece Muscles are in motion at any time, either tense or relaxed. Every movement of each muscle should serve the whole, and the exercise is coordination.

When punching, kick the legs and turn the waist to send the power out. If there is a twist on the body, the power will not be sent out. If it is fast or slow, the power will be broken in the middle. This is not something a small branch can understand, even It can’t be explained clearly, you can only adjust it again and again by yourself.

In the process of exploring, you can always find a more correct style of play. Sometimes it is indeed more correct, and sometimes you have reached the basic skills. In fact, the movement does not change, but it shows a completely different effect, so I say martial arts is poor. It takes trial and error over and over again.

For starters, if for a long time you feel like you are doing the right thing, you must be doing it wrong.

Before the epidemic, I often went to the park to watch strangers practice boxing, and I pretended to ask them for advice, and asked about some strange anecdotes in today’s martial arts, such as who became a mouse… Some of them practiced for five or six years as if they had just learned a few days, the reason is that they did not I will correct my own mistakes. I generally feel that it takes only half an hour of practice every day, and I can turn one year of kung fu into ten years of kung fu, and finally become a generation of masters.

I don’t know which martial arts novel gave them the combat power conversion formula. Addition and subtraction within three digits, my year minus your year, if the number is regular, it means I win, otherwise I lose.

Young man, can you catch my punch for ten years, three and a half months, six hours, thirteen minutes, and twenty seconds?

Oh, I’m one second longer than you, you lose.

This is the second difficulty. The first difficulty is that the horse stance is too tiring. The second difficulty is that there will be a feeling of confusion at the beginning stage. I don’t know if I’m practicing right or not, and I don’t know if it’s effective. , I was short of breath today while standing, and my punching force was not smooth yesterday. The most important thing is I don’t know why.

The easiest solution to this point is to stand on horse stance every day, because horse stance is definitely effective. After standing horse stance, you can practice boxing and feel the feedback from your body. There is no need to practice. The reasoning is very simple, and the movements are all simple-looking movements. They are nothing but coordination. , call you stupid, give you some motivation, and finally you have to study it yourself.

Don’t go looking for famous teachers at this time. This is the easiest time to be fooled. Spending money is a trivial matter. He fools you with your time. It is so hard to practice boxing. If you believe him, you will endure the hardship in vain.

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