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Chapter 176: The Tai Chi Fever in the Capital

The Sino-American Fighting Invitational Tournament ended, and Jingcheng TV broadcast news about the match on the same day, followed by video recordings of the match. The repercussions of this competition among the people of Beijing far exceeded Tagawa's expectations, and the TV audience rejoiced at the result of this competition, after all, the overall result was superior. This is a victory of traditional Chinese martial arts over a variety of foreign fighting techniques, proving that the actual combat ability of traditional martial arts is considerable and powerful. The last time such a game was in the Huo Yuanjia era, and nearly a hundred years have passed since then.

For a time, a trend of learning traditional martial arts, especially Taijiquan, was formed among the people. In the many Tai Chi training courses held before, the number of people who signed up increased so much that the number of places in the Tai Chi training courses was in short supply, and then more training courses sprung up.

Among these new training courses, the proportion of instructors who actually have the instructor qualification issued by the Tai Chi Sports Committee is not too high, but it is more recognized, and the fee level is much higher than that of those who do not have official qualifications, and it has become a relatively popular profession in a short period of time. And some coaches have taken a fancy to the benefits of this official qualification and have begun to apply for fighter ratings, as well as coach ratings. There are also a few people who have crooked thoughts, directly put on a belt, and turn into a person, directly pretending to be a qualified coach and starting to recruit students.

Tagawa Chang noticed this phenomenon in advance, and he called on the committee to supervise and spot check many training courses distributed in the streets and alleys of the capital through official channels, and arrested a group of fake coaches who pretended to be coaches. The committee did not relent, demanding that they confess and refund their trainees, as well as make statements and apologies through newspapers or television. For those who refuse to enforce, they will directly file a lawsuit to demand that the other party compensate for the loss of reputation and eliminate the negative impact. At the same time, through various connections, the prosecution was asked to prosecute these people for fraud.

This series of combination punches was too hard, knocking out the jobs of a group of people, and even sending several people with a worse impact to prison. In another interview with Beijing TV, Tian Chuan said: "We have never restricted people who have not been rated to practice or teach Tai Chi, but we must not allow anyone to swindle and deceive under our banner and damage our reputation." ”

"We never thought that our Tai Chi Athletic Committee could represent the entire Tai Chi community, nor did we think that there were no stronger Tai Chi masters besides us. We have always respected these folk Tai Chi masters and hope to learn from them to achieve the goal of common progress. But since these pros don't bother to participate in our fighter ratings and coach ratings, I'm sure they don't bother to use our rank badge to recruit students. Since those scammers want to pretend to be our certified instructors and fighters to recruit students, they must not have confidence in their own Taijiquan Kung Fu to do so, and their existence will only damage the image of Taijiquan, which we resolutely do not allow. Not only now, but in the future, we will continue to fight these lawbreakers at all costs. ”

As a result, in addition to the training course held by Tagawa, the masters recognized by the committee have opened several advanced coach training courses one after another, and they are all overcrowded.

If you want to say that the greatest contribution to this Tai Chi craze, it is the students of major colleges and universities. Tai Chi's appropriation of famous foreign martial arts, which can enhance national pride, is the most talked about by students, and it has also stirred up a wave of fierceness among students far more than other classes in society. Folk taijiquan masters hidden among students or teachers in major colleges and universities have also stepped forward and begun to set up taijiquan organizations that are closer to the requirements of the committee. Many organizers also took the initiative to apply to the Tai Chi Sports Committee for grading.

In response to these applications, the Taijiquan Sports Committee gave a positive response, took the initiative to organize a group of high-level boxers and coaches, evaluated them, and issued a large number of new qualification certificates. Among those people who applied for the ratings, there was even one red fighter and two green fighters, a result that far exceeded the committee's initial expectations.

The red-level boxer, Shi Weiguo, was a middle school physical education teacher, less than 40 years old, who had been teaching students to practice tai chi at school, and had hardly officially fought anyone. He initially applied for a green rating, but the two green-level fighters who rated him found out that they were not Shi Weiguo's opponents at all, so he reported the situation to the committee. At that time, the staff on duty of the committee told Tian Chuan about the situation, and Tian Chuan made an appointment with Liu Meiting, who was discussing the affairs of the Guoyun Club, and called Wu Lao, who was resting at home, and rushed to the school where they were assessing.

After trying it again, Shi Weiguo's promoter strength is similar to that of Wu Lao and Liu Meiting, but it is still a lot worse than Tian Chuan. Shi Weiguo is a wild man, and the boxing techniques he learned are close to the Yang style and Chen style, and he basically relies on self-study. Wu Lao's opinion was to make him a green rank, but Tagawa strongly advocated that his situation be brought to the committee for discussion and that he be designated as a red rank. There are two reasons for him, one is that Shi Weiguo has practiced Taijiquan to such a high level through self-study, and his perception of Taijiquan has reached a very high level. Second, the emergence of such a self-taught folk master is of great significance to the promotion of Taijiquan and has strong publicity significance. In the end, in the discussion of the committee, the majority of the committee members agreed with Tian Chuan's statement and awarded Shi Weiguo a red-level belt and a three-color tassel for the second-level coach.

Of the 40 students in the training course run by Tagawa, 33 were students from various colleges and universities. Most of these people have a relatively good foundation in Taijiquan, and Tagawa suggested that they should not wait for the training course to be completed, but devote themselves to the organization of their school's Taijiquan Association while studying, and study while working, so that if they encounter problems in their work, they can also take the training class for discussion, or get help from their four coaches.

Driven by such an environment, most colleges and universities in Beijing have established their own Tai Chi associations and began to organize students to learn Tai Chi Tuishou.

Just as the Tai Chi practice was in full swing, Tagawa ushered in his second competition, the Asian Indoor Athletics Games in Yokohama, Japan.

At this Games, Tagawa signed up for the long jump, shot put, and 3,000-meter competitions. The 3,000m is the longest distance in indoor athletics. The competition was held over a three-day period, so there was plenty of time, and there was no time conflict between the projects that Tagawa had signed up for.

Tagawa had never been to Japan in his previous life, and this was the first time he had come to this island nation in his current life. In his mind, he has always had prejudices about this country that has invaded China, and he has no interest in visiting between games. The purpose of his visit to Japan this time is very simple, which is to get a good ranking and further secure a ticket to next year's Olympic Games.

The day before the start of the competition, Tagawa flew to Tokyo with the Chinese delegation and then took a chartered bus from the organizing committee to Yokohama. He was accompanied by a horse coach he hired from the Beijing Sports University.

After arriving at the hotel designated by the organizing committee of the competition, checking in and registering for the competition, Tagawa took Coach Ma for a casual walk around Yokohama City, not seeing any special scenery, just to see if there were any souvenirs to buy, but he was disappointed. It's not that he doesn't have a shopping plan when he comes to Japan this time, but the best way to buy electronic products is to go to Tokyo, and now that the competition is about to begin, he has to wait until the game is over to go to Tokyo.

The preliminaries for both the shot put and long jump were held on the first day after the start of the competition, and Tagawa easily took the top eight and made it to the final list for the second day. Maybe he didn't adapt to the atmosphere of the game here, and his results were not outstanding. The long jump is fifth, and the shot put is sixth.

The next day, the final of the long jump was held first. According to the results of the preliminary round, Tagawa came in third place. Because in the competition in Beijing, he jumped 8.46 meters, which is the best result in Asia this year, so it has been widely noticed. In yesterday's preliminaries, Tagawa played abnormally, jumping only 8.06 meters, and the four rounds of jumps in today's final became very crucial.

He didn't disappoint his watchers, jumping 8.42m on his first attempt in the final, putting him at the top of all competitors. After three consecutive rounds of jumping, Tagawa was still in first place, and the Japanese runner in second place was only 8.25m.

In the last round of the jump, Tagawa committed a foul and the result was invalid. In the ensuing competition, another competitor from Japan overperformed and jumped 8.43 meters, surpassing Tagawa's performance and winning the championship, while Tagawa only finished second.

Next up was the shot put final, which was the one Tagawa was most sure of. Although he did not perform well in the preliminaries yesterday, he was still full of confidence in today's final. In yesterday's preliminaries, the best time among all competitors was 19.37m, more than 1m short of the Asian record. Tagawa's score was less than 19 meters, but he was confident that he would be able to throw around 20 meters.

After the start of the competition, Tagawa threw 19.65 meters in the second round, surpassing all the competitors and ranking first. Then in the last attempt, he threw 19.94 meters and won the championship. And once again broke the national record.

On the third day, Tagawa had one last event, which was the 3,000 meters. He had never trained specifically for this event before, and this time he came to compete just to get a glimpse of it. It's just that he tried to run a few times before he came, and in the test run, his time was not consistent, from 8 minutes 10 seconds to 8 minutes 30 seconds, and he didn't have much hope for himself in this event after referring to the results of other runners.

Because it is a small track with a 200-meter lap, there are many curves, and the technique is different from the big track, so he has too little practice on such a small field, and can only rely on the field to play during the competition.