Chen Qiang has already determined in his heart that this so-called light power competition is the 110-meter hurdles in track and field.

"Is the 110m hurdles anything to do with light work? Using hurdles to test light skills should not be something that martial arts people in Tianjin came up with! Chen Qiang said secretly in his heart.

What Chen Qiang can be sure of is that many of these martial arts people in Tianjin have a mentality of being the first in the world in "national arts", and they don't know anything about modern sports.

Three years ago, when Chen Qiang performed sprinting at the temple fair, some martial arts people at that time called Chen Qiang's sprinting sport "Western light skills". Chen Qiang is still just running, compared to the 110-meter hurdles, not only running, but also jumping, perhaps in the eyes of those martial arts people, this 110 hurdles is more like light work.

"Could it be that this foreigner is like me, I originally wanted to perform hurdles, and then it was regarded as a light skill by Tianjin's martial arts, and then I came to challenge the foreigners in a bunch!"

The more Chen Qiang thought about it, the more he felt that this situation was very likely, and he continued to ask the middle-aged man next to him: "Uncle, what is the reason for this foreigner to compete with those martial arts masters?" ”

"It's not because this foreigner came to challenge!" The middle-aged man continued: "This foreigner came from a place called Australia in the south, and opened a martial arts gym in Tianjin, which is within the British Concession. You said that foreigners will open a martial arts hall, but it is full of advertisements in Tianjin, and the advertising paper has been sent to the territory of the martial arts, and this time it provoked the people of the martial arts, and the people of the martial arts said, didn't you deliberately come to rob the business, so you beat up the people who sent the advertising paper and drove them out of the territory of the martial arts. ”

This martial arts industry in Tianjin has always been xenophobic, and when the southern boxers came to Tianjin to open a martial arts hall, they were all squeezed out, not to mention foreigners.

I only heard the middle-aged man continue: "The foreigner saw that the person who distributed the advertising paper was beaten by the martial arts people, so he came to Tianjin Wuxing theory, saying that it was a theory, but in fact it was a martial arts competition, it was said that our martial arts people won, but the foreigners were not convinced, saying that the martial arts people were cheating, and they did not compete with us, but changed to light skills." So the foreigners set up today's ring. ”

"Uncle, what did this foreigner teach when he came to Tianjin to open a martial arts hall? Is it the southern fist or the northern leg? Chen Qiang asked with some curiosity, he didn't believe that foreigners could teach Chinese kung fu.

"He said he was teaching boxing. It is said that foreigners have to wear a large thick glove when boxing, and they are not allowed to kick with their feet. When our martial arts people competed with foreigners, it was because of the kung fu on their legs that the foreigners said that they were cheating in the martial arts. The middle-aged man spoke.

"It's boxing!" Chen Qiang suddenly understood.

Chen Qiang's mind also roughly outlined what happened.

The "southern Australia" in the middle-aged population should refer to Australia.

It was only in 1931 that Australia gained independence in domestic and foreign affairs and became an independent country in the British Commonwealth.

This foreigner was a boxer from Australia, who opened a boxing gym in the British Concession in Tianjin, and in order to recruit students, he printed some advertising paper and distributed it in Tianjin. The person who posted the advertisement sent the advertisement to the sphere of influence of those national martial arts halls in Tianjin, and the result is naturally conceivable, the beating is light, and if you don't beat someone to death, it will be considered merciless.

The foreigners who opened the boxing gym couldn't bear it, they sent people to advertise, but they were beaten, if they endured it, they couldn't be laughed at by the people of Tianjin as soft eggs, and it is estimated that the business of the boxing gym would not be able to do, and no one would find a "soft egg" to learn boxing.

Australia was originally a place where British criminals were exiled, the people were fierce, and the common people were born with a brave and ruthless character, so the foreigner went to the martial arts hall that beat people, wanting to avenge the arrow, but in the end he did not beat the master of the martial arts hall.

Western boxing can not beat China's national arts, Chen Qiang is not surprised, there was no shortage of national arts during the Republic of China, and the national arts at that time were still very practical, and those flower boxing embroidered legs in later generations are not the same at all.

The traditional national art is originally the stronger the more accumulated, the kind of national art that has been practiced for three or five years, may not be able to beat the three or five years of boxing, but the master who has practiced the national art for more than ten years is not difficult to defeat the boxing master who has also practiced for more than ten years.

Moreover, there are many techniques in China's national arts, not only fists, fingers, palms, arms, elbows, shoulders, legs, knees, kicks, and all parts of the body have corresponding techniques, which can be used as offensive weapons, which can not be compared with Western boxing.

The so-called gesture of two doors, all rely on kicking people, this martial arts master in Tianjin, it is estimated that he used his leg kung fu to defeat this foreigner. In boxing in the West, it is not allowed to use legs, so this foreigner will refuse to admit defeat under the pretext of "playing tricks".

Moreover, as soon as this foreigner fought with the martial arts master in Tianjin, he also knew that his boxing was not the opponent of Chinese national arts, so he came up with a plan, not to compare fists and feet, but to other sports.

At this time, the foreigners made a trick, they put out a high hurdle of 110 meters hurdles, and challenged Tianjin Wulin with the only reason to test light skills.

This martial arts person in Tianjin is also really upright, as soon as he listens to the rules, he runs from the north to the south, jumps over ten wooden shelves, whoever moves fast wins, and runs and jumps, isn't this just to try light skills!

Look at this wooden shelf again, that is, more than one meter high, not to mention a master of light skills, even ordinary people with sparse light skills, they can easily jump over, this competition is not difficult at all.

The martial arts people suddenly felt that Tianjin Wulin had won this game!

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Adams, an Australian, was a keen sportsman when he was a student and was a track and field athlete in school. He later switched to boxing and represented Australia in boxing at the British Empire Games.

After retiring, Adams planned to open a boxing gym, he originally planned to open a boxing gym in Australia, but the Australian population is too small, and there are few people learning boxing, so Adams set his sights on China.

Adams knew that there was a large Chinese population, and this was definitely a big market. And in Adams's impression, the Chinese are thin and weak, look like they don't fight, and definitely don't know boxing. If he goes to China, it is not equivalent to a tiger entering the flock, and if he shows one or two tricks casually, he can be worshiped by the Chinese, and he can easily receive a large number of students.

So Adams came to Tianjin, which is not only the largest city in northern China, but also has the British Concession and the British garrison, and it is easier for Adams to open a boxing gym in Tianjin.

Adams opened the gym, then printed some advertising paper and hired a few Chinese to distribute it in Tianjin.

The person who posted the advertisement only felt that it was the "foreign adult" behind him, and he didn't take Tianjin martial arts to heart, so the advertising paper was also sent to the territory of the Tianjin martial arts hall, which caused a conflict and was beaten.

Adams was a newcomer, he didn't understand anything, he didn't know that Tianjin was the essence of the northern martial arts, he just thought that he was bullied by the head snake. But anyone who has some fist and foot kung fu is basically very aggressive, and Adams relied on his ability to box, ran to the martial arts gym to kick the gym, and was also beaten.

If Adams is not a foreigner, it is estimated that he will be disabled, and the national martial arts master of the martial arts hall will be merciful for the sake of Adams being a foreigner.

Adams was beaten, and he was naturally unconvinced, and he wanted to get back on the field, but he could also feel that he really couldn't beat the other party. The fighting skills of this national martial arts master are not the same routine as boxing at all, and it is elbow swings and kicks, and Adams, who practices boxing, has seen this kind of posture there!

In order to deal with the masters of national arts, Adams found a few people who were familiar with national arts and had a discussion, hoping to find the shortcomings of national arts. But the more he asked for advice, the more he felt that the national art was so complicated, and Adams learned that there were so many schools of Chinese national arts, and the skills of each school were different, and even some schools would be divided into several small schools, and the skills of each small school were different.

People who are familiar with the national arts casually counted dozens of boxing techniques for Adams, and Adams was directly stunned!

With so many punches and legs, it is impossible to find the shortcomings one by one and study the ways to deal with them.

After thinking about it for a long time, Adams finally came up with a solution. Adams knew that there was a category called "light gong" in the national arts, and he understood the characteristics of light gong a little, so he claimed that he wanted to use "Western light gong" to challenge "oriental light gong", and the competition event was the 110-meter hurdles!

After all, Adams was a track and field athlete when he was young, and the 110m hurdles is one of the track and field events he is best at, so Adams is very confident in his 110m hurdles level.

Adams also analyzed the characteristics of light power, and believed that the skill of light power is not of great help to run the 110-meter hurdles, and if China's light power masters have not received special training in the 110-meter hurdles, they will definitely not be their opponents.

Even if China's light master has been trained in the 110-meter hurdles, Adams is not intimidated. In this era, China's 110-meter hurdles level is too weak, far below the world level, and Chinese athletes can run under 18 seconds, even if it is fast, it is more than enough to participate in the National Games. Think about the 12.88 seconds that Liu Xiang ran in the future, and you can know how slow the Chinese athletes ran 18 seconds at that time.

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Adams and Gu Tianzhi stood in front of the starting line.

"Two, ready!" The person in charge of issuing the order gave the order, and both of them were ready.

Gu Tianzhi didn't know how to start, so he could only spread his legs one after the other and stand in place. And Adams didn't use a squatting starting position, he also had his legs forward and backward, but his body pressed forward slightly, leaning his weight forward.

The squat start was only fully popularized at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and before the Berlin Olympics, many athletes in the 110m hurdles did not use the squat start at all. This was mainly due to the fact that the 110-meter hurdles were still relatively backward at that time, and the athletes felt that a squat start would not bring much improvement in performance, and it was better to spend their energy on practicing hurdle movements.

I saw that the starter shouted and started, and Adams and Gu Tianzhi rushed out at the same time.

Future 110m hurdles athletes will generally use the eight-step hurdle method, that is, before crossing the first hurdle, they will take eight steps, which is a proprietary technology of the 110m hurdles, whether it is one more step or one less step, it will affect the rhythm of the hurdle and its own acceleration.

However, the athletes of the thirties were not so meticulous, taking a few steps before the first hurdle at their own will, and the most common situation at that time was that they would pause a little before the first hurdle to make a pace adjustment.

Adams was the same, he took a full nine steps, and perhaps because of the bad rhythm of the first hurdle, he adjusted one small step before the first hurdle, which is equivalent to ten steps on the hurdle.

Adams still completed the hurdle action in a serious way, and Gu Tianzhi's performance was much more exaggerated

I saw Gu Tianzhi running wildly in a few steps, and came to the first hurdle, he did not raise his legs to cross the hurdle, but stopped his body violently, his legs were on the same level, and then his feet jumped at the same time, and he jumped over the first hurdle straight up and down.

And when his body was in the air, Gu Tianzhi did not forget to put on a beautiful posture in the air to show the demeanor of a light master.

"Okay, big brother danced well!"

"Master Gu's trick of pulling onions on dry land is really elegant!"

"Just this jump, without twenty years of hard work, I'm afraid I won't be able to practice!"

All the martial arts people praised one after another.

Purely in terms of the beauty of the jumping posture, Gu Tianzhi's jump is not to say, especially the POSE that volleys in the air, and it really has the demeanor of everyone.

It's a pity that now it's not about who jumps beautifully, but who crosses the finish line first.

The martial arts people were praising Gu Tianzhi's light skills, and Chen Qiang couldn't wait to rush forward and give Gu Tianzhi two slaps!

How can there be such hurdles?

I also ran to the high hurdle and stopped, jumping with my legs together, do you think this is a jump rope?

There is also a good-looking posture in the air, this is not a gymnastics competition, who cares if your posture in the air is beautiful!

"This Gu Tianzhi doesn't know hurdles at all, and he has lost this game!" Chen Qiang said secretly in his heart.

Although this is only the first column, Chen Qiang already knows the result of this competition in his heart.

Sure enough, Gu Tianzhi landed in the praise of martial arts people, and he took a step forward, intending to jump over the second high hurdle in the same way, only to find that Adams had already begun to cross the fourth hurdle.

Gu Tianzhi was suddenly a little stunned, this was completely different from the situation he imagined!

Gu Tianzhi thought that Adams would also be like himself, running to the hurdle and stopping, and then using light skills, jumping high, making a graceful and elegant posture as much as possible, and then walking to the next hurdle after landing, repeating the same action.

But he didn't expect Adams to step over directly. There are no pauses, no light skills, no flowing and graceful postures.

At this moment, Louis Koo has also realized that this is a competition of who crosses the ten hurdles to reach the finish line first, rather than who jumps up more elegantly, and in this regard, the hurdle skills used by Adams can indeed reach the finish line faster.

The Tianjin martial arts people who were watching the battle around also woke up like a dream at this time.

"That's how it worked! I didn't think of that before! ”

"That foreigner didn't make it clear beforehand! How could this have been imagined! ”

"This foreigner is too utilitarian!"

"Oops, Master Gu has fallen for the conspiracy of foreigners!"

The martial arts people were filled with righteous indignation.

And Gu Tianzhi stood in place in a daze, and didn't jump off a high hurdle at all, because Gu Tianzhi knew very well that it was impossible for him to catch up with Adams. What's more, Gu Tianzhi didn't prepare Adams's jumping method at all, even if he learned and sold now, he was definitely not as good as Adams.

Adams crossed the finish line, and he looked back at Gu Tianzhi, who was still standing in the second column, his face full of triumph.

"Haha, sure enough, I guessed it, these Chinese don't know the sport of 110m hurdles at all!" Adams said in his heart.

Sighs of disappointment sounded from all around, and the people around them who were watching the excitement obviously didn't want to see Gu Tianzhi defeated, but Gu Tianzhi shook his head and left the track with a depressed face.

Adams walked back to the starting point, looked at the martial arts people, and asked, "Is there anyone else among you who wants to challenge me?" ”

"I'm coming!" A voice suddenly sounded, and I saw a bald strong man walking out of the martial arts people.

"That's Zhou Congyi, a Shaolin lay disciple, a very good kung fu practice, I heard that he also learned the stunt of Shaolin eaves and wall walking!" Someone in the crowd said.

"Since he is a disciple of the Shaolin layman, he must have some ability, and he will definitely be able to defeat that foreigner!" The other spoke.

"There is a saying that without diamonds, don't do porcelain work, since Zhou Congyi dares to take the initiative to stand up, there must be two brushes!" A third man spoke.

Chen Qiang looked at this Zhou Congyi and found that he really knew this person, when Chen Qiang performed at the temple fair, this Shaolin lay disciple Zhou Congyi was also one of the gourd babies who came to save his grandfather.

"Gotcha, gotta lose again!" Chen Qiang shook his head helplessly.

At the beginning, Zhou Congyi was just sprinting with Chen Qiang, but he lost to Chen Qiang, and now he has added ten hurdles, and it is even more difficult for Zhou Congyi to win.

Zhou Congyi looks like a powerful man on the outside, and his face is also a little fierce, which looks very bluffing, but Adams is very satisfied with Zhou Congyi's opponent, because Zhou Congyi looks like a very powerful person.

Adams took a break, and the two were back on the starting line.

The starter gave the order, and the two rushed out at the same time.

Adams, still the same as before, adjusted his pace in front of the first hurdle and came up with a ten-step bar. And Zhou Congyi is much smarter than Gu Tianzhi, he learned from Adams, and also used the hurdle to cross the first high hurdle.

In the first column, the two sides did not open up the gap, which made the martial arts people hopeful.

"Good!"

"Good jump!"

The applause rang out again.

In the second and third columns, Zhou Congyi also learned well, and he completed it well, but in the fourth column, Zhou Congyi's rhythm was chaotic.

After all, Zhou Congyi has not received formal training in the 110-meter hurdles, he has no hurdling skills, and he does not know the rhythm of hurdles, so it is naturally impossible to continuously cross all 10 hurdles.

Zhou Congyi, a hurdle rookie, can cross the first three hurdles very coherently by relying on his skills in practicing national arts since he was a child, which is already very good.

At the beginning of the fourth column, Zhou Congyi obviously lost his rhythm, his hurdle movements became more and more sluggish, and he was gradually thrown away by Adams.

The applause around them also disappeared, and people could only watch with a disappointed face as Adams crossed the finish line, and at this time, Zhou Congyi had not completed ten hurdles!

Adams' expression became more and more proud, winning two games in a row, and Adams could already see that these martial arts people did not understand hurdles 100%. Playing against these untrained people, Adams is guaranteed to win 100 percent!

"Do any of you want to challenge me?" Adams looked at the martial arts people in Tianjin again.

This time, no one took the initiative to stand up, and several slightly older Guoshu masters began to bow their heads and discuss.

It didn't take long for a person to come out of the crowd, he hugged his fist at Adams, and said, "In Xia Wu Guang, I have come to ask for advice!" ”

"Master Wu is here!"

"He is Master Wu Guangwu, and he is nicknamed 'Scud'!"

"Master Wu is a master of light skills, Gu Tianzhi and Zhou Congyi in front of him can't be compared with Master Wu, this time he will definitely win!"

The crowd began to turn their heads to each other.

Chen Qiang looked at this Master Wu Guangwu, but shook his head silently, he already had a hunch that he would lose this third game again!

This Master Wu's figure is a little thin, and he even looks a little weak, and then looks at his face, Master Wu should be not young, a wisp of goatee already has a few white threads, and his temples are also white, Chen Qiang feels that this Master Wu must be at least fifty years old.

From people's discussions, Chen Qiang learned that the seniority of this Master Wu is higher than that of Gu Tianzhi and Zhou Congyi, who have just appeared on the stage, Gu Tianzhi and Zhou Congyi can only be regarded as young and strong people in Tianjin martial arts, and Master Wu can be regarded as the predecessors of Tianjin martial arts, and he is the kind that can open a martial arts hall to accept apprentices.

Obviously, Tianjin Wulin sent two juniors in a row, but they both lost to Adams, so they sent a senior, intending to defeat Adams in one fell swoop.

When Chen Qiang performed in Niangniang Temple, the gourd babies who came to save his grandfather were also juniors in the martial arts, mainly because Chen Qiang was only seventeen years old at the time, and it was already a bit of a bully to let those young and strong people in their thirties challenge Chen Qiang, and the martial arts seniors couldn't pull off that old face to find Chen Qiang's competition, and it was spread that it was too embarrassing for you to bully a seventeen-year-old doll with a martial arts senior.

But today is different, this time it is a foreigner who comes to the door to challenge, which is equivalent to a national war, and the martial arts people in Tianjin can't climb with a foreigner, win first, and then talk about it, so they directly sent the martial arts predecessor "Scud" Wu Guang!

In terms of national arts, this kind of martial arts predecessors, the strength is definitely stronger than that of the young Zhuang faction, the grandmaster of the national arts in his fifties is probably the golden age, at this time the body can still fight, the skills have been skilled, and the experience is also rich, it is the time when the combat effectiveness is the strongest.

But now it's not the national arts, it's track and field, and it's also a sprint athletics! This kind of short-distance track and field event has the highest requirements for physical fitness, and many athletes cannot run when they reach the age of 30.

These martial arts people probably felt that Wu Guang's light skills were much stronger than the previous two young people, so they let him compete with Adams, but they didn't know about track and field, and they didn't know about the 110-meter hurdles.

A person in his fifties goes up to run the 110-meter hurdles, not to mention that he is a master of light gong, even if he is a master of light gong, it is for nothing!

Adams looked around and found that Tianjin Wulin had sent a thin old man, and he was suddenly disdainful in his heart.

"Send such a thin old man to compete with me, hehe, the Chinese are really ignorant!" Adams looked at Master Wu contemptuously and said, "I can let you run to the first hurdle first!" ”

Master Wu felt Adams's contempt, and his heart was naturally angry, but Master Wu was in his fifties, and he had been in the martial arts for many years, and the city still had it, although he was angry in his heart, he said expressionlessly: "I don't need you to give in!" ”

The two didn't talk nonsense either, and stood directly on the starting line.

The order to set off sounded, and Master Wu rushed out with a "whoosh".

But Adams didn't move, and it wasn't until Master Wu ran to the first hurdle that Adams started to start.

Adams really let Master Wu run to the first hurdle first.

Master Wu also noticed this, and his heart became even more angry, and then he poured all his anger into his feet, jumped violently, and stepped over the first hurdle.

In the first column, Master Wu crossed very smoothly, but Master Wu, like Zhou Congyi, soon lost his rhythm.

Adams quickly caught up, and by the time Master Wu began to cross the fifth hurdle, Adams had already chased behind Master Wu.

Master Wu saw Adams chasing up, he only felt extremely shocked in his heart, Master Wu never expected that he ran to the first hurdle first, and the foreigner had just started, but in just five hurdles, the foreigner had already caught up.

In the sixth column, Adams is neck and neck with Master Wu, and in the seventh column, Adams surpasses Master Wu.

Master Wu was completely panicked, his hurdle movements became messy, and he crossed the last three hurdles much slower. Adams, on the other hand, is getting better and faster at a faster pace.

As a result, it was Adams who crossed the finish line first, and Master Wu had just crossed the last hurdle.

Master Wu also lost, if you take into account the distance that Adams let him, Master Wu lost worse than Zhou Congyi, a disciple of the Shaolin layman.

Those martial arts people didn't understand at all, why was this the result, Master Wu's light skills were obviously much more powerful than Zhou Congyi's, but why did he lose even more?

Chen Qiang knows that the 110-meter hurdles are originally an advantage for young people, and in this sport, a man in his thirties must perform better than a man in his fifties.

Adams, who won three games in a row, laughed very arrogantly, but he didn't stop there, after all, he was beaten by Tianjin's martial arts masters before, and now he didn't seize the opportunity to stomp on this Tianjin martial arts person.

Adams looked at the martial arts people and asked with an arrogant expression, "Is there anyone among you who wants to challenge me?" ”

However, this time, there was no reaction from the martial arts people.

Even the light gong master "Scud" Wu Guang lost, and among the masters present, no one was sure that he could beat Wu Guang in light skills, let alone Adams.

"Master Liu, go up and try it!"

"No, no, no, it's better for Master Zhao to try."

"I think Master Yuan's light skills must be better than mine, and Master Yuan is more suitable!"

Several masters even began to shirk each other.

Wu Guang's fiasco gave these masters a lot of psychological pressure, and they were all worried that if they went up and lost worse than Wu Guang, wouldn't it be embarrassing in front of the whole Tianjin people!

The audience also looked at the group of martial arts people with an expectant gaze, hoping that someone could stand up and defeat Adams and extinguish Adams's arrogance, but after staring for a long time, no one dared to come out to challenge Adams.

Adams waited for a long time, found that no one challenged, his expression became more and more arrogant, he said: "China's national art is just like this, so many of you are not my opponent alone, no wonder you Chinese are called 'the sick man of East Asia'!"

The word "sick man of East Asia" stung the self-esteem of everyone at the scene, and also stung Chen Qiang.

"I'm here to challenge you!" A voice suddenly rang out from the crowd.

It was Chen Qiang who spoke!

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