"In my traditional Chinese martial arts, I pay attention to 'acting qi with the heart, moving the body with qi, and following the root of the upper and lower phases in the feet.'" You try to win in swordsmanship, but the next game is unstable, this is your biggest flaw, if you meet an experienced master, the opponent can take advantage of your weakness and defeat you. When I teach you a set of basic Taoist footwork, if you can understand it, you will benefit immensely. ”

When Zhao Xinghua heard this, he was naturally overjoyed. He also knows his own shortcomings, and most of the tricks he uses now are based on the Western swift sword (stabbing sword), the swift sword is a kind of dueling swordsmanship, the key to application is to react quickly and use the virtual and real appropriately, how to protect the maximum range when defending, block the smallest movement as the ideal, and choose the shortest range when attacking; In terms of footwork, it's basically a simple straight forward, backward and sprint, with very little lateral movement or turning. Later, he learned some Japanese kendo from Fan Yao, because the Japanese sword has a unique design, the curvature is suitable for chopping, and holding the knife with both hands increases the power of chopping, but the flexibility is not as good as that of a one-handed Western sword. Japanese swords are also very efficient in attacking, so they focus on repeated training of technique, strength, speed and concentration, and defeat opponents with the speed and strength of the knife. Because of holding the knife with both hands, the rapid chopping is indeed unstoppable, but the virtual and real changes of the knife technique are difficult to reflect. Both of them are simple, direct, and effective offensive methods, but they have the problem of poor connection in footwork, especially when playing against masters in group battles, and cannot be well coherent in switching moves.

"I'll first talk about some of the methods that swordsmanship can be applied to the enemy in battle, and the flexible footwork can not only make the opponent's fierce offensive come to naught, but also surprisingly win and turn the danger into safety. In addition, in the movement of forward, backward, left and right dodge, always maintain a stable balance of the center of gravity, which requires correct footwork movements, so as to achieve "step to hand, move effective". The essence and application of Chinese kung fu footwork can be summed up in four words: "seeking determination in motion". In motion, there will be lightness and stability. The front foot lifts the foot and the back foot does not kick, but the foot is lifted by the back. The feet are silent, and the feet are flattened and landed by the breath of the dantian. Like a cat walking a tiger step, loose and loose. It's not done with force, but with the will, or under the command of the mind, it is done by the song. In fact, after having the so-called internal strength of the dantian, the dantian qi is used to control the movement of the body. The lifting of the virtual foot does not rely on the forward leaning of the body, the pulling force of the legs and the backward pushing force of the feet, but by the inward movement of the back to lift the virtual feet. The internal movement of the back is controlled by the dantian qi, which is to lift the feet without kicking and landing silently. ”

Guang Zhenzi said this, and after glancing at Zhao Xinghua, who was listening respectfully, in front of him, he continued:

"When you fought against Zhixiu just now, your feet were more than strong and not flexible, especially the transition from left to right, which can even be described as messy, if you meet a master with rich experience in battle, it is easy to be pinned down by the other party, causing you to be in a dilemma. The transformation of the virtual and real of the left and right feet is not force, but the conversion of dantian qi. When stepping up, if you go up to the right foot, the right foot is lifted from the abdominal dantian and transported to the front heel until it lands, in this process, the weight of the whole body must be slowly moved to the left foot, at this time the left foot is the solid foot, and the right foot is the virtual foot. The bone joints are detached, the tendons are lengthened, the hip joints are loose, the waist joints are relaxed, and the dantian qi is agitated, at this time the tail is close to the front heel, and the center of gravity completely falls on the left foot, and then the right foot is lifted and followed. The right foot now becomes a virtual foot. This is the key to footwork, which can be summed up in three points: lifting the foot, moving the foot, and landing the foot, just like calligraphy, starting the pen, writing the pen, and falling the pen, which is called "real in reality, virtual in virtuality". In other words, before lifting the right foot, the left foot is loosened again, the foot produces infinite elasticity, and the internal qi goes directly to the back, which is called the gas sticking to the back, using the spine to gently lift the right foot, starting from the tip of the right foot off the ground, the real crotch supports the virtual crotch to send the right foot forward to the position, until the foot falls to the ground loosely, in the conversion of virtual and real, the waist spine changes from the front fold to the back, the spine lifts the virtual foot, and the dantian qi will land the virtual foot flatly, completing a group of virtual and real conversion. Generally speaking, the virtual feet should be empty, do not hang the force, the real feet should be solid, and the weight of the whole body falls on the real feet. Do you understand what I'm talking about? ”

"What does Shitai mean that Qi drives the body to move, so that it drives the body to hit people?"

"Yes, your comprehension of martial arts is indeed much higher than that of Zhixiu. In the whole movement, there is one important point. It is not to use force, but to use dantian qi to complete. The lifting of the virtual foot does not rely on the forward leaning of the body, the pull of the legs and the backward pushing force of the feet, but by relying on the internal qi of the back to lift the virtual feet. This is a step that lifts the foot without kicking, and lands silently, and it is not a step completed by the transformation of the body's force. The change of body shape and the operation of the limbs must be dominated by the waist, that is, the belt limbs, and the limbs cannot be active and automatic. The waist is dominant, and it is not dominated by waist strength, but by the internal qi of the dantian. There is a saying that "up and down a line, the yin and yang under the feet change, the head is empty and the collar is top, and the hands are empty", the predecessors said: the root is in the feet, the hair is in the legs, the dominance is in the waist, and the shape is in the arms. Each movement of footwork first changes from the yin and yang under the feet, and then causes the virtual and real changes of the lumbar spine, and then the lumbar spine dominates and drives the movement of the limbs. To put it bluntly, it is the center of gravity of the body, in the process of virtual and real conversion on the two feet, the center of gravity of the human body is in the tail, the center of gravity is changed with the change of yin and yang under the feet, where the tail is located, where the center of gravity goes, when the left foot is a solid foot, the tail is sitting on the left heel, Baihui, the tail lug, and the heel up and down a line. The whole process of the upper and lower phases with its roots in the feet is like this: when a certain action reaches the pole, when the next action is to be converted, the arm should not move, even if the arm moves, it is driven by the foot and waist movement, the top strength of the head should not be lost, the center of gravity is loose to the ground, when it is loosened to the foot, the weight of the body is loosened to the ground, the ground not only produces a rebound force to reach the back to control the virtual foot, and the center of gravity of the body is bound to flow to the feet like water, drilling into the center of the earth, then the body has completed the change of the center of gravity. The change of the center of gravity is a gradual change, a continuous change, a rheological change like water, and it must not be abrupt or abrupt. ”

"The kid was taught!"

Such a detailed explanation of the application of footwork by Guang Sadako allowed Zhao Xinghua to find the key to his long-standing imperfect connection to the wartime movements. These elements may be the most basic concepts among other schools or martial arts families in China, but for Zhao Xinghua, he was completely a layman in traditional martial arts before, although he has been engaged in fencing for many years, but only for the training of facing the enemy head-on, only knows how to simply move forward, backward and sprint, and dwarfed him in the second battle with the corpse of the human punishment, and the two battles relied on the sharpness of the titanium alloy war knife to turn the tide of the battle. If you had changed to another weapon at that time, the outcome would have been unknown. From this moment on, Zhao Xinghua officially entered the ranks of masters.