Chapter 54: Sleep is ingenious

When this brother came to the hospital, he didn't plan to do anything else. Of course, they can fight continuously without sleep for days and nights, but it is better to play better after recuperating their energy. Moreover, although the current situation is not extraordinary, it is not to the point of making the three of them uneasy.

Mai Ke said to the two: "We can relive the sleeping style of special forces." "No problem!" the two of them agreed unequivocally.

Then the three of them stand together in a triangle back to back, facing outward, with their backs facing inward, their upper bodies slightly tilted inward, leaning on each other, and standing on their feet. In addition to Mai Ke, who was facing the front door, Wei Changlu and Feng Yunshan both fell into a deep sleep in an instant.

Don't look at these are the basic skills of special forces, it is these ordinary people who think that there is nothing special that shows the difference of special forces. If they can sleep anywhere in the open air, it is very much thanks to the costume, but to say that they sleep immediately and in deep sleep is not the average level.

And they sleep standing up. Horses are known to sleep standing up, and it is rare to hear people sleeping like this. In fact, this kind of sleeping method is all made up by this kid Mai Ke.

As for Mai Ke himself, it was Master Li who established this habit for Mai Ke after two years of poisoning. Seeing that the two brothers had not forgotten the result of their abuse, Mai Ke felt relieved at the same time, and his heart flew to the scene when he first met his master.

That morning, I went to the designated place to meet the master as scheduled, and although I got up early in the morning and arrived at five o'clock in the morning, the master was already waiting there earlier than me. He didn't criticize me for arriving later than him, he just told me that today's training program was to learn standing skills.

At first glance, I was a little skeptical that I had heard it wrong. I'm in my teens and almost twenty years old this year, do I still have to learn how to stand?

Seeing my puzzled face, Master Li gave me a simple explanation: "Standing firm is the most basic kung fu of martial arts, and with the basic skills and basic kung fu of standing, you can go to the next level." ”

I didn't really understand why standing was so important. But there was no silence. However, Master Li did not let go of my suspicions, and continued, "Don't underestimate the difficulty of standing. On some specific occasions, it will be very difficult to stand.

"For example, if you are on the top edge of the Baizhang Cliff, when the wind is howling, the rain and snow are combined, can you stand for half an hour in the posture of the golden rooster independently?

"Or in another situation, can you stand steadily on the wet and slippery ground and remain neither falling nor moving?"

When I heard this, I was dumbfounded, and quickly admitted honestly, "I probably can't." ”

"So you need to learn how to stand. However, standing still is not the goal, it is only a preparatory stage for the subsequent operation. How to act will be the next thing we will learn. ”

"I believe I understand now. Let's start standing. "I'm going to be a kid again, and I still can't stand.

The basic standing posture is to stand upright, "stand upright and back like a great green pine", which is what my master requires. Standing upright became my first part of learning. The second content is the independence of the golden rooster. As the name suggests, this posture is to stand on one leg. The more you learn the standing posture, the more difficult it becomes.

The final standing pose is the Horse Flying Swallow Pose: one leg independent, upper body leaning forward, arms spread, flat sides, head raised, neck upright, two eyes looking forward, one leg kicking back.

After practicing the horse stepping on the Feiyan, I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this was the end of the learning of standing posture. How do you know that the standing posture behind is still renovated in an endless stream!

My Master went on to point out that standing is not just about the feet, but also about other parts of the body. If you think that you can only stand on your feet, it is just the idea of ordinary people who don't know martial arts. For those who practice martial arts, this kind of thinking is a big mistake. Not only is it a big mistake, but it is also a big harm. Why is it a great harm? It is because there are many occasions where people who practice martial arts are not allowed to stand on their feet at all.

"So what else can you stand on besides your feet?" I asked curiously.

"First of all, it's the head. Master Li said, "Then there are two hands, then one hand, then two fingers, then any two fingers on one hand, and finally one finger, commonly known as one-finger meditation." In addition to this, there are also lateral positions in different postures, which should also be mastered. ”

I had never heard of these various standing postures, let alone knew what they were capable of. As soon as my master said the previous posture, I could follow it all the way, but of course there was still a long way to go from the standard posture. After imitating Master Lee's demonstration once, I basically grasped the essentials. I can't do my current abnormal posture just by relying on my master's explanation. Master Li didn't force me to be difficult, but just asked me to carefully observe his demonstration movements.

Master Li demonstrated the handstand from the top of the head to one finger one by one. Not to mention the other handstands, I couldn't help but be shocked when I watched Master Li easily hold on to his whole body weight with one finger for five minutes.

As before, I imitate these movements one by one. However, all other attempts failed, except for the barely successful standing with his head and hands. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't hold up my whole body with two fingers—about one hundred and eighty pounds. Not to mention using a finger, I didn't even try it.

When I relentlessly tried to do it again, Master Li asked me to pause. He pointed me out that it is impossible to do these latter movements at once without special training and long-term practice, because under normal circumstances, people cannot hold up the weight of the whole body with only two fingers. In his own case, he started training at a very young age and has been practicing every day consistently to get to where he is today.

"Since you haven't studied since you were a child, and you haven't exercised consistently, it's natural that you won't be able to do a handstand. I will first teach you to strengthen your internal strength, and then you will step by step until you finally achieve the requirements. Now, skip these last few items and focus on the other standing postures. Now you practice it alone for the second time!" Master Li ordered.

After observing my second exercise, Master Li asked me to do more exercises on my own, and then turned away from me.

I continued to practice in place for an hour before returning for breakfast. At noon and in the afternoon, I found time to do each of them. In the evening, I did it six times in a row until I thought I was proficient.

In the early morning of the next day, I got up half an hour earlier than the first morning and rushed to the practice venue. But he still arrived later than my master. He was already there preparing for the event.

My master remained silent about my late arrival. He immediately asked me to prepare for the event. Then he ordered me to practice all the exercises I had learned yesterday, except for the two-finger meditation and the one-finger meditation. When I had completed all the movements with ease, my master bowed his head in satisfaction, "Yes, not lazy. ”。

Then he asked me to do the horse stepping on the swallow again. I rearranged the posture of the horse stepping on the swallow, and my master helped me make some adjustments, and then withdrew from the distance: "Okay, that's it, hold on for ten minutes!"

Maintaining the posture of the horse stepping on the swallow, I didn't find it too difficult at first. But after about four minutes, my support leg first trembled, then the leg that stretched back, then the arms that stretched out on both sides, and finally the whole body. As I was trembling, I peeked at the Master next to me, who was also in the same pose, and his old man was standing still.

I stood for another four minutes in trembling, and finally I collapsed to the ground, not meeting my Master's requirement of standing for 10 minutes.

"Stand up to me!" Master Li ordered.

With great difficulty, I stood up and walked towards Master with trembling legs. When I got to him, he ordered, "Push me, with all your might!"

I was a little hesitant, worried about pushing my master down and hurting him. I only used half the force to push. My master still didn't move.

"Come again!"

I'm launching again. This time it's all out. But the result is still the same, and my master is as stable as Mount Tai.

"How? That's your goal. "My master said to me after taking his horse and stepping on the swallow pose. "As for how long you will use it, and how high your skill is, it depends on your effort. Have you ever heard of 'Master leads in the door, learning in person'?"

Glancing at the sleeping brother beside him, Mai Ke withdrew his thoughts from his master. He should still be able to ride Feiyan, right? I haven't seen him in ten years.

After his success, he entered the special forces and applied all the sets he learned from his master to these comrades. At first, none of the thorns in the gang committed it. We are all twenty years old, do we still want to learn to stand with you, we really treat us like monkeys!

Mai Ke didn't talk nonsense, only announced one condition: if any of you can defeat me, you can be exempted from study; When those stunned young people heard this, they were about to get on it.

At this time, the chief instructor Zhang Yuan showed them a video. After watching the video, everyone was like a deflated ball, and they didn't want to do anything with Mai Ke. It turned out that the content of this video was the scene where Zhang Yuan was abused by Mai Ke.

As a result, everyone became students of Mai Ke's standing kung fu. Of course, Mai Ke has never been a master of conformism, he thought of pushing through the old and bringing forth the new when he was trained by his master. Therefore, according to the special situation and needs of the special forces, he combined those basic skills with the actual actions of resisting the enemy. One of these apps is sleeping, standing up to sleep.

The biggest benefit of this standing sleep is that you are always on the alert. Each of them wakes up from sleep and can move on to the next step. Standing and sleeping while a person is awake in order to observe possible hostile situations around them.

Another application of this standing power, which is related to sleeping while standing, is sleeping on the march. As long as one person leads the way, the people behind can march in their sleep. Based on the special physical elements of the special forces, they can march like this for four or five days without stopping.

Another characteristic of these special forces sleeping is that no matter what position they use, they are absolutely quiet. There is no such noise as gnashing your teeth and smacking your lips in your sleep, and there is absolutely no such high-level noise as snoring. Not only that, but even the sound of breathing is inaudible.

About an hour and a half later, the three of them were simultaneously alarmed by the sound of gongs and shouts outside. They immediately straightened up, as if they had never slept. The gongs and shouts continued to be heard, and all three of them could hear them clearly.

"Dangdangdang! Go to the Dharma field! Dangdangdang! Look at the beheading! Dangdangdang! Everyone go!"