Basic Training in Martial Arts: Martial Arts Masters, Teach Yourself Kung Fu Series

Author: Cai Longyun
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: This book starts with basic training, mainly including exercises for the legs, waist, groin, and (). After the basics, it introduces basic movement training, basic boxing training, and basic techniques. At the end, it includes human muscle diagrams to help practitioners understand the structure of the human body, enabling more scientific and effective practice.
Martial arts, with kicking, striking, throwing, grappling, and other offensive and defensive techniques as its main content, are choreographed into bare-hand and weapon forms based on the laws 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 are a national form of sports and cultural heritage that has a long history and a broad grassroots foundation, continuously accumulated and enriched by the working people through social practice over time.
Beyond () forms, martial arts also include (bó dòu) forms. As far back as the primitive commune and clan society period, martial arts appeared in tribes in the form of (bó dòu) like "" (jué dǐ xì) and (tào lù) like "" (gān qī wǔ) as military and sports projects for clan members.