Basic Training in Martial Arts - Martial Arts Master: Basic Training in Martial Arts

Author: Cai Longyun
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: This book starts with basic training, mainly including leg, waist, groin, and exercises. After the basics, it introduces basic movement training, basic boxing training, and basic techniques. At the end, it includes human muscle diagrams, allowing practitioners to understand the structure of the human body, thereby making their practice more scientific and effective.
Martial arts primarily focus on attack and defense techniques such as kicking, striking, throwing, grappling, and thrusting. They are compiled into bare-hand and weapon forms based on the principles of the unity of opposites, such as offense and defense, advance and retreat, movement and stillness, speed and slowness, and hardness and softness. These forms are used to build physical fitness, cultivate willpower, and train combat skills. Martial arts have a long history and a broad popular foundation, as they are a cultural heritage accumulated and enriched over time by the working people through continuous social practice.
Beyond (forms) in martial arts, there are also (combat) forms. As far back as the primitive commune and clan society period, martial arts appeared in tribes in the form of "" (combat games) and "" (ritual dances) as military and physical training for clan members.