What is Bodybuilding Boxing?

In addition to strengthening the body, boxing can also protect oneself at critical moments. Chinese martial arts are extensive and profound, and boxing is a very important system among them. There are many types of boxing in the world now, but no matter which boxing you choose to strengthen your body, you must start from the basics. So, what are the boxing methods for strengthening the body? Let's take a detailed look at it below.

What are the categories of boxing

(I) Internal Martial Arts

Internal martial arts, Tai Chi, Xingyiquan, Baguazhang, etc.

(2) Changquan

Chaquan, Huaquan, Paoquan, Hungquan, Huaquan, Shaolinquan, Chuojiao, Fanzi, etc.

(3) Short punch

Mian Zhang short fighting, Mian Zhang boxing, etc.

(IV) Southern Fist

Hung Ka Kui, Choy Li Fot, Tiger-Crane Double Form, Xia Jia, Wing Chun, Five Ancestors, Tai Ancestor, Crane, Arhat, Wulin Cuff-Taking Boxing, etc.

(V) Pictographic boxing

Drunken boxing, eagle claw boxing, monkey boxing, snake boxing, mantis boxing, duck boxing, lying on the ground boxing, etc.

Huo Family Boxing

Huo Family Boxing is a type of Chinese martial arts. This style of boxing was first created in the Western Han Dynasty by General Huo Qubing. His boxing techniques can be found in books such as "The Huo Family's Secret Techniques - Eight Essentials of Inner Cultivation" and "The Huo Family's Martial Arts Training".

This boxing style is divided into four parts: on horseback, on foot, with weapons, and with bare hands. It focuses on both internal and external training and sophisticated techniques. Later generations derived the Mizong Fist from this style of boxing. Modern people have shot many film and television works based on this boxing style.

Eighteen Hands of Bodhidharma

The Eighteen Hands of Bodhidharma is one of the traditional boxing techniques of the Han nationality and belongs to Shaolin. The Eighteen Hands of the Xiantian Arhat Fist passed down by Bodhidharma, the first patriarch of Zen Buddhism, has been almost unheard of for hundreds of years. It is the orthodox tradition of all Shaolin schools. It is different from the so-called Arhat Fist of today, as it integrates boxing and Zen, cultivates both inside and outside, and combines Qi and martial arts. It is unique.

Elephant Fist

Chinese Xiangquan, Xiangquan is a traditional boxing of the Han nationality that uses form to practice striking, incorporates methods into form, and combines form and method. It belongs to the Emei Xiangxing Boxing and is the essence of Emei martial arts.

Due to various reasons, it is still scattered among the Han people and is a precious heritage that urgently needs to be excavated, sorted, studied and inherited. Emei Faxiang Quan is different from the Monkey Boxing which is popular in various parts of China.

Thai elephant boxing is a boxing style created by Tony Jaa, the protagonist of the Thai movie "Ong Bak 2". Tony Jia said that when he was a child, he liked to sneak into the theater to watch Jackie Chan's movies, and he thought it was cool to be a martial arts star.

So he started practicing martial arts at the age of ten, determined to become a superstar. Now all his attention is focused on his work, hoping to promote Thai culture through movies. Tony Jaa's self-created elephant fist uses the human body to simulate the movements of an elephant's trunk and tusks, and is extremely lethal.

The names of the Shaolin Five Fists mostly succinctly reflect the main characteristics of a certain boxing style, and the Five Fists are no exception. The name Five Fists accurately reflects the external characteristics of this boxing style, namely its external structural characteristics.

If this characteristic is not grasped and other names are used, the five fists will no longer be the five fists but become another kind of boxing. This characteristic is the important basis for distinguishing it from other boxings and making it a boxing of its own.

The diversity of the names of the Five Fists reflects the diversity of their inherent characteristics and historical roles. Throughout their long history, they have appeared in different forms, possessed different social functions and played different social roles. Naturally, different understandings of them lead to different interpretations.

The names of the five fists have dual natures of nature and society. The five fists are both pictographic fists and qigong fists, so they are called five-form fists or internal power fists, which are named based on their nature; and there are also five fists that are both external fists and gang fists, so they are called Shaolin fists or Hong fists, which are named based on their social nature.

During its development, the Five Fists were deeply influenced by traditional Chinese thoughts such as Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, which is specifically reflected in many areas such as the name of the boxing, boxing theory, boxing techniques, etc. For example, under the influence of Confucian thoughts on benevolence and righteousness, the concept of upholding justice runs through its theory.

Therefore, it is called Five Elements Soft Arts; under the influence of Taoist guiding thought, the concept of expelling the old and absorbing the new runs through its theory, so it is called Internal Power Five Forms Boxing;

Another example is that under the influence of Buddhist Zen thought, its theory is always permeated with the idea of ​​enlightenment, so it is called Luohan Fist. However, traditional ideas do not always have a positive impact on it. For example, sectarianism made it lose its harmony, feudal superstition made it lose its scientific nature, and conservative thinking almost caused it to die in the wilderness and be lost.

After reading the above detailed introduction to several common boxing methods for strengthening the body, I believe that now you should have a deeper understanding and knowledge about what boxing methods are for strengthening the body. I hope the above introduction can provide more help to everyone, and when learning boxing, everyone should start from the basics and don't rush for success.