Life Rearch
January 2019
vol.2
no.1
48
Is Taijiquan a martial art or a dance?
C.P . Ong
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fter Xiaodong Xu, a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter, summarily crushed Wei Lei, a lf-proclaimed Taij
iquan grandmaster, in 10 conds, he mocked Taijiquan, as well as other traditional kungfu arts as mostly fake and ineff ective in combat [1]. The humiliation of the defeat and the put-down of the traditional arts touched a raw nerve. The wushu community was thrown into a convulsion and the Chine social media went viral. The cultural comfort of the sacred belief of kungfu's superiority was shaken at the very core. The furor raged on for days and so consumed the cyberspace that the Chine authorities shut down the debate and deactivated Xu's Weibo (internet) account.
爱你说说There was nothing particularly noteworthy of the martial skills in the fi ght. The only thing remarkable about the fight was that it was unremarkable—the Taiji guy was shoved to the ground by the MMA fighter's flurry of quick punches and was then mercilessly groundpounded out without fanfare. It was obvious that Wei Lei had little or no experience in the combat ring and was woefully unprepared on the ground. Nevertheless, the lopsided match whipped up a tsunami of emotions, forcing a reexamination of traditional wushu as a combat art. "Can Taijiquan be eff ective in real combat?"
The Taiji-MMA fight is reminiscent of a similar match between a Japane Aikido-cum-Kiai (Qi) master and an MMA fi ghter, where the MMA person pummeled the hapless Aikido guy in what could best be described as a pathetic one-sided fi ght [2]. Tantei File, a Japane fringe magazine given to nsationalism, had featured a 64-year old Aikido master, Yanagi Ryuken, who claimed a fig香港紫荆花
hting record of 200-0 wins and to have the Kiai-Qi power to ward off attackers by the wave of his hands without contact. Eager to capitalize on the magazine promotion, Yanagi off ered a million yen ($10,000) to any fi ghter who could defeat him. As it turned out, the magazine columnist was training in a gym with Tsuyoshi Iwakura, a 36-year old aspiring to be an MMA fi ghter who was only too willing to be enlisted [3]. The match took place on Nov 26, 2006. Yanagi was slaughtered by Iwakura just as Taiji Lei would be some ten years later. Yanagi's Qi-power that had stopped his students charging at him in their tracks, failed to shield Iwakura's punches from striking and bloodying his face.
多彩的活动作文300字The match is viewed on youTube mainly as a testimony that debunks non-touch Qi-power, not as an Aikido-MMA matchup. The event did stir up some consternation, but nothing clo to the explosive nsation of the Xu-Lei fi ght.
温和拼音A match that is more exemplary of martial skills is the one pitting the colossal might of sumo against the nimbleness of ground-fi ghting Brazilian Jiujitsu (BJJ) [4]. The fi ght was the main feature of a 2004 New Year's Eve extravaganza celebration, debuting Akebono Taro in the MMA ring. Akebono, a Hawaiian, became a legend as the fi rst non-Japane to be inducted into most coveted and highest sumo rank of Yokozuna (Grand Champion).
盆栽韭菜>2011年电影His opponent, Royce Gracie, was a three-time UFC Champion. He is one of the stable of successful cond-generation Gracie fi ghters. The Gracie family (Carlos and Helio Gracie) had taken the "soft" Japane martial arts, jujutsu, and forged it through real combat challenges with other martial arts and street fi ghts to develop the new BJJ fi ghting art.
Royce Gracie, 6' 1" and 180 lbs, had strategized that his advantage was on the ground. But as much as he was mentally prepared, he could not be sure of the 6' 8" and 486 lb behemoth mounting fully on him on the ground. Seconds into the round, Gracie forced the fight onto the ground. With the massive sumo body plumped on top of his chest, the audience was left tantalizing as to whether he would be smothered underneath. But Gracie was able to wriggle and slide out without much diffi culty. He knew then and there that he had control of the fi ght. Seconds later, he forayed from below and forced the fight on the ground with him trapped underneath again. This time he knew he was in no danger and took his time to arm-lock Akebono's arm by maneuvering his leg around to leverage it, forcing a submission in just 2 minutes and 13 conds. On the ground, Akebono美国人名字的构成
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