Chapter 8: Transformation of Martial Arts

Guan Chang doesn't remember much about his experience of practicing martial arts, and he doesn't know how martial arts should be taught in the sects of this era.

He wanted to emulate the plots in those TV dramas, and he walked on horses, made wooden stakes, and meditated. But those methods really have nothing to do with Master's Lu Family Fist Method.

Through several days of research, Guan Chang found that Lu Jiaquan is closer to boxing or free fighting as he knows. There are no flashy moves in Lu Jiaquan, no mysterious mental methods, no light skills that come and go, only the ever-changing switch between offense and defense, only the precise strikes of fists and fists, and the unpredictable agile footwork.

Guan Chang doesn't think that the cultivation methods in the TV series and novels are of any help to the Lu family's boxing method. Only by meditating and meditating in the fantasy world can one improve one's martial arts cultivation. This world is the same reality as the world you are in, and the only thing that is romantic is that you have crossed over.

As the head of a faction, Guan Chang had to think about what his kung fu should be like before teaching martial arts, just to pass on the invincible kung fu of fists, or to use his identity as a traverser to create "peerless martial arts"?

Guan Chang is a person who loves to think, and even in game planning, he is the one who likes to fall into conjecture the most. He felt that he should first ponder what kind of "ideology" "martial arts" was.

Under what circumstances did the origin of martial arts, or martial arts and kung fu, appear, what was the original purpose, and what was the final result?

The original purpose of martial arts was to fight, hand-to-hand combat between people.

How to use the body and cold weapons to win in battles between people is the core science of martial arts.

In the era before Guan Chang crossed over, the purpose of martial arts practice had changed from fighting to physical fitness, from fighting to entertaining competition...... In any case, he has to admit that martial arts, from the perspective of practical value, will eventually be eliminated by modern society. All that is left is the invisible and intangible spiritual heritage and a plaque of intangible cultural heritage.

Natural selection, survival of the fittest.

Sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat.

Guan Chang decided to let his own martial arts transform in advance. If you don't want to be eliminated by the times, the safest way is to lead the era!

He studied under Invincible Boxing, and the Lu family boxing method is too similar to some of the concepts of modern fighting. Guan Chang's former company happened to be a martial arts gym downstairs - specializing in teaching kickboxing, sanda, and Muay Thai. Guan Chang also practiced with a few good colleagues for some time, and he has always belonged to the class of being beaten, but he still remembers the course vividly.

This is his greatest capital: the combination of traditional martial arts and modern kung fu!

One of the purposes of martial arts practice is to strengthen the body, and a strong body is also a necessary condition for cultivating advanced martial arts.

This is a good cycle, and it is also the tone that Guan Chang first set for the sect.

In terms of confrontation with others, Guan Chang feels that close kung fu cannot surpass the cornerstone, but its defensive significance is greater than attack.

If it's a martial arts contest, it's okay to punch and kick a dozen punches, but if it's a fight in the rivers and lakes, then it's better to drum up muskets and explosives as soon as possible. Because in Guan Chang's view, it is safest to destroy the enemy's living force outside the enemy's attack range!

But now Guan Chang does not have the ability to engage in the military industry, and it is impossible to get hot weapons at the moment. The soft whip and the like are too much of a sissy cannon, and it's just a showcase, crossbow arrows are forbidden to be kept privately, and as for bows and arrows, I've only seen Green Arrow play with them, and I can't do it at all.

So he pinned the idea of an inch long and an inch strong on the fragment of the secret weapon technique "Exploring the Stars and the Moon", since he couldn't shoot something, then throw something.

Under such a strange sect concept, all disciples have two basic subjects: cutting trees and throwing axes.

Cutting down trees is a boring method of forging the body, and there is no room for tricks. Guan Chang really needs that wood to make money.

If the tree cutting homework improves the physical strength of the juniors and disciples, then the axe throwing homework is to exercise their body coordination and force control.

The reason why he threw an axe instead of other hidden weapons was because his sect was just established and he didn't want to be labeled as "insidious", "assassinated" or "evil demons".

In order to adjust everyone's training rhythm, Guan Chang inserted a small game of "circular axe throwing" in the interval between cutting trees.

It's also an occupational disease, and who made him design the game.

Guan Chang asked people to nail a few wooden stakes of different thicknesses on the ground, and everyone stood ten steps away and took turns throwing a small axe for chopping fine wood. A person throws it from left to right, and the axe blade is embedded in the stake before it hits. Only after hitting a stake can you project a thinner stake behind. The winner is not determined until the thinnest stake is cast by the first person.

The winner's reward is that he can choose the part of the prey first for lunch or dinner! Correspondingly, if he throws the worst, there is also a penalty - go to the river to scrub the pots and pans, boil water for everyone, and only eat the rabbit butt and pheasant butt such as the "end" commensurate with his performance.

In the past five days, a few men have cut down hundreds of trees with thick bowls.

On this day, the blacksmiths, carpenters, and stonemasons hired by Guan Chang all arrived.

Guan Chang called the blacksmith, carpenter, and Wang Qihe and began to discuss the matter of building a house.

The idea was already there, and the drawings were drawn during the retreat the other day. Now after entering the mountain, he has investigated the actual situation and made some adjustments to his concept.

He planned to build as many hunter cabins as possible in Silverbell Ridge before winter. The wooden house stretched deep into the Silver Ridge, and Guan Chang's small goal was to have a hunter's hut every other day.

When Li Feihu and his entourage, who had gone out to explore the way, came back, Guan Chang continued to rush to the next foothold according to the map they had drawn.

The cycle repeats, spring goes to the summer solstice.

When Guan Chang found out that he would sweat slightly when he cut down trees, he knew that Futian was coming. After all, with Guan Chang's physical strength, even if he cuts down the tree for half a day, he won't sweat.

People who practice martial arts have a saying that they practice three times in winter and three times in summer, but Guan Chang still feels that the work and rest time should be adjusted. In this era of backward medicine, heat stroke may really kill people, and his family's thin background can't withstand the toss of the heat. Besides, the entire sect has gained a lot in this mountain, and the results are remarkable! Reducing the amount of training is considered a summer vacation......

Over the course of a few months, the crowd cut down countless trees and cleared nearly twenty pieces of open land. There are already nine hunter cabins nestled in the Silver Ridge.

And the most proficient skill now is not to chop trees, but to throw axes.

The game of looping axe throwing has also been updated and iterated several times.

On the first day of throwing the axe, there was no winner at all, which of course excluded Guan Chang himself, after all, he had tended to be successful in "exploring the stars and the moon".

But the next day, the big knife struck the thinnest stake by mistake.

After seven days, there will be two or even three people who will complete the final goal in the first round.

A game can't just be a game where the player is improving, the game itself must also improve!

Guan Chang first adjusted the numerical difficulty. The impact of this adjustment on the game environment is simple and crude, and it is not ashamed of players.

Fortunately, here is Guan Chang's Yiyantang, saying one thing is true: everyone takes five steps back, and if five steps don't work, ten steps.

But a month later, Wang Qihe was able to abuse the poor tree-like at will, twenty paces away. Ma Dadao is also quite talented in this game, and can occasionally tie with Wang Qihe.

Next, Guan Chang increased the complexity of the gameplay and added restrictions. Of course, he didn't forget to continue to increase the numerical difficulty along the way.

The throwing target has been increased from five to eight. The last one is no longer a stake, but a line drawn on the board. This is equivalent to an overtake, where if more than one person makes the final throw, the one with the most blades and lines wins. This makes it easier to quantify results, distinguish between winners and losers, and also reduce the length of the game.

During a meal, Guan Chang unexpectedly discovered that Li Feihu and Li Biao were both left-handed. He had an idea, and he made new requirements for the throwing technique.

At least two of the first six throws were non-dominant hand throws. Left-handers are to be thrown with their right hand, and right-handers are to be thrown with their left hand. This abuse made everyone very happy, and they called the cheating father. Even Guan Chang himself needs to practice.

However, the planner never knows how powerful, how hard, and how perverted the player is. At dinner that night, Guan Chang found that these goods had changed their hands holding chopsticks......

With the continuous mutual support and joint efforts of the players and planners, the junior brother and the senior brother in charge, when the eleventh foothold was finally cleaned up, even Jiang Tang, who had the worst accuracy, could cut the thin line on the wooden board from time to time, and Wang Qihe and Ma Dadao became the opponents of fate, taking turns to dominate!

Guan Chang had to revise the gameplay again, this time adding the concepts of spatial transformation and racing.

On the basis of the original rules of the game, one person is required to carry six axes at the same time, throw them in one go, and the one who hits the fastest will win! Several wooden stakes are no longer arranged in order of thickness, but fan-shaped, randomly diverging in thickness, and rotating every day. The thrower must also hit the target in order from coarse to fine to be effective.

Such a setting requires the player, uh, the disciple to form a judgment on the situation in the shortest amount of time in his mind.

In case of trouble, we should first consider the whole situation: memorize the position of several thick and thin target posts, and judge the target position of the next blow. Then break the game from the details: the best action to reload the axe, the best angle to shoot, and the influence of many details that even Guan Chang cannot consider.

By the time they returned, Guan Chang had already designed the last two wooden stakes to be mobile targets to hang from the trees.

With the accumulation of time, the precipitation of hard work, and the talent finally gradually revealed under the urging of diligence, and the quantitative change finally caused the qualitative change! Jiang Tang, who was not very good at the beginning, broke the dominance of Wang Qihe and Ma Dadao. A few axes were played by him, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a stunt.

One of them: the left and right hands throw the axe one after another, the first axe cuts the rope of the bolted plank, and the second axe slashes the plank that falls in the air!

Second: throw the axe in both directions with the right and left hands at the same time, and hit the target at the same time. Guan Chang clearly saw that the two planks were nearly 180 degrees apart in front of him, and he really didn't know how this thing's eyes were slanted......

No pain, no gain. Guan Chang has been crazy with his junior disciples for a few months, and everyone has gained a lot.

There is no doubt that everyone's physical fitness has taken a step up.

On this basis, Lu Jiaquan's moves have gained some momentum when they tried them out. At present, it is just a showmanship, but it can also scare the layman, and it should not be a big problem to go to the buster......

And what people are really good at is throwing things. Throwing an axe has left them with a sequelae, and as long as they hand something more than an arm's length, they will definitely fly around.

Guan Chang thought while eating rabbit legs: If this encounters a sect rush - as soon as the two waves of people meet each other, they don't even put on a posture on the opposite side, and dozens of green bricks will be smashed on their side, and they will be slapped in the face...... Tsk, the picture is too beautiful and violent.

After practicing martial arts with the senior brother in charge for several months, the most touching thing for several disciples was that they did not feel the hard work of practicing martial arts. Everything is really as the boss usually jokes: "Games make people progress".

As everyone knows, Guan Chang has racked his brains when designing these training methods, combining various learnings from later generations.

Energy allocation, muscle training, five senses memory, right brain development, ergonomics, user psychology...... Guan Chang has dabbled in these knowledge before, but he has never studied it in depth. However, compared to the people of this era, his understanding of these things can be called invincible.

Guan Zhangmen couldn't help but sigh when he thought of this, the disciples never knew how hard they worked to be the head of the sect.

He scratched his head stupidly, looked at the two strands of hair that slipped from his fingertips, and muttered with a frown, "Alas." The game makes the player progress, making the plot bald ah......"