Taking Tai Chi as the core of "breaking opponent’s balance, leverage opponent’s strength to fight" to design Competitive confrontation mode

Abstract

Abstract: Purpose: To explore and establish a competitive confrontation mode that expresses the core technique of Tai Chi’s "breaking opponent’s balance, leverage opponent’s strength to fight"."People's Daily" pointed out that "the dissemination of martial arts cannot be majoring the minors", and "it is necessary to effectively improve the disadvantages of traditional martial arts competitions that emphasize performance and neglect actual combat" (Zhong Wen, 2017). In order for Tai Chi to better meet the sports, health, and cultural needs of the people in the new era, it is particularly important to design a competitive confrontation mode based on the fighting concept of Tai Chi's" winning with skill ". A solution proposed by the core technique of "breaking opponent’s balance and leveraging opponent’s strength to fight". "Wresting Weapon and Snatching Sword" focuses on scrambling for weapons, and pays equal attention to striking and snatching. The opponent's strike and intentions are judged through continuous perception of weapons. A new type of competitive confrontation mode that uses hands strike or “leverage opponent’s strength to fight” to take advantage of the situation to wrest weapons as the main means of attack.

Methods: literature review, expert interview, video analysis, practice experience, and teaching experiment.

Results: 1) "Wresting Weapon and Snatching Sword" through the design of competing for weapons, makes Tai Chi "hands-on and cross-hands" reasonable. The current Tai Chi Push Hands requires pre- rule restrictions of "hands-on and hand-to-hand ", which makes it difficult to accept its combat effectiveness. "Wresting Weapon and Snatching Sword" is inspired by the actual combat cases of weapons like stick and cudgel. In these real cases, the two sides of the confrontation are very aware of the lethal characteristics of a weapon. Form a fierce and stalemate confrontational relationship, and the opposing sides constantly perceive and judge the opponent's intention and force through the change of weapon control, forming a perfect " touch, link, sticky, follow" sticky environment. The use of the technique of "breaking opponent’s balance and leveraging opponent’s strength to fight" has laid the foundation, and the actual combat case of "Wresting Weapon and Snatching Sword" is the natural Tai Chi’s "hands-on and cross-hands". 2) The design that pays equal attention to striking and snatching weapon solves the problem of "wrangle" in pushing hands competition. Dahai Shang of Xi’an Institute of Physical Education pointed out in "Research on the Evolution of Tai Chi Push Hands Competition Rules and the Development Orientation of Tai Chi Push Hands": " In the push hands competition, there are stubborn diseases such as wrangle hugging, which makes it difficult for competitive push hands competitions." In order to solve stubborn problems such as wrangle, "Wresting Weapon and Snatching Sword" has designed three criteria for judging victory or defeat: "wresting weapon successful, falling, and effective striking" because only the two aspects of wresting weapons and falling are used to determine the outcome, and the strength dominant side will use rigid force to firmly control the weapon, intending to stand firm and hold the weapon firmly, so as to prevent the opponent from "breaking opponent’s balance and leveraging opponent’s strength to fight", forming a situation of stalemate, which seriously damages the enjoyment of the competitive game. "Wresting Weapon and Snatching Sword" allows strikes, utilizes the deterrent power of strikes, and diminish the Winning probability for rigid force to control weapons, effectively restricting the use of such passive and conservative techniques, and promoting the use of quick response, flexible techniques and tactics, Created a space for Tai Chi to "breaking opponent’s balance and leveraging opponent’s strength to fight". 3) "Wresting Weapon and Snatching Sword" is designed through a practical, open, free, and simple competitive mode, allowing Tai Chi to be tested in practice. There are no restrictions on moves in "Wresting Weapon and Snatching Sword", only a comprehensive, logical, offensive and defensive fighting relationship and necessary safety rules that are similar to actual combat, which is suitable for the play of various martial arts techniques and moves. The competitive process of "Wresting Weapon and Snatching Sword" requires not only Wresting weapons, but also taking into account assault, in the confrontational relationship, the test is whose perception is sharper, whose reaction is faster, and who can more accurately achieve "breaking opponent’s balance and leveraging opponent’s strength to fight". Only this kind of harsh environment and test is close to actual combat and can let the core techniques of Tai Chi’s "win with skill" be practiced to be smarter and more advanced. Conclusions: 1) Tai Chi's martial arts are inseparable from its health-preserving and fitness functions. As an intangible cultural heritage of mankind, Tai Chi has been widely disseminated and has far-reaching influence. Its health-preserving and fitness effects have been proven and accepted. The viewing effect of Tai Chi is not good, so that the public has questioned the authenticity, scientificity, and practicality of Tai Chi. The derogation of these reputations and the crisis of development have caused many negative effects on the healthy development of Tai Chi.  2) The more flexible and close to the actual combat tactics, the more conducive to Tai Chi 's technique of "breaking opponent’s balance and leveraging opponent’s strength to fight", the more open and free the competition environment is, the more it can show the competitive charm of Tai Chi’s " defeat the strong by the weak". "Wresting Weapon and Snatching Sword" is based on the technique of "breaking opponent’s balance and leveraging opponent’s strength to fight". Through the rule design that pays equal attention to snatching and striking, the structure is clear, the logic is rigorous, it is easy to judge the outcome, and it has high practicality. The classic scene of "combat power with skill, fight big with leverage, and win by cleverness" is highly ornamental and has a very good role in promoting the publicity, promotion and development of Tai Chi. 3) Tai Chi's martial arts can not only shape a person's brave and tenacious spiritual quality, but also this kind of competitive confrontation experience can make the body and mind directly feel the philosophical thought of traditional Chinese culture "Use softness to overcome rigidity, and things will develop in the opposite direction when they become extreme", making Tai Chi healthy concepts and Traditional Chinese culture can be carried forward and developed.