Chapter 147: Tai Chi Power? One Force Defeats Ten Skills
Long Zhirou was not timid either. Practicing martial arts was her job, and practicing martial arts only made her more confident. This was her area of expertise.
Coming to the center of the field, Long Zhirou started practicing Tai Chi, which she was best at.
Long Zhirou performed 42-style Tai Chi, which is a competition routine based on Yang-style Tai Chi.
At the same time, it also absorbs the movements of Chen, Wu and Sun style Tai Chi, and inherits the continuous, relaxed, soft, smooth and natural movements of traditional Tai Chi.
It demonstrates the Tai Chi spirit of the mind leading the body, and the combination of hardness and softness.
Long Zhirou is already heroic, and she has long arms and legs, so her graceful Tai Chi is naturally very entertaining to watch.
At least that's what Xiang Yuanyuan thought. After watching Long Zhirou practicing Tai Chi, she felt a little envious of her heroic spirit.
"Boss Du, how do you think of my boxing skills?"
After Long Zhirou finished performing a set of 42 Tai Chi moves, she stood there and began to ask Du Ruo questions. The time was exactly five minutes, which was the competition standard. Generally speaking, a set of 42 Tai Chi moves should be performed in four to five minutes, and in a competition it should not exceed six minutes.
Xiang Yuanyuan turned to look at Du Ruo. She didn't understand, she just thought it looked beautiful, but she knew Du Ruo definitely understood, even though she had never seen Du Ruo practice Tai Chi.
"Well, the combination of movement and stillness, hardness and softness, your Tai Chi is very standard."
Du Ruo smiled and nodded, but his words were obviously too formulaic. After all, these eight words are suitable for describing anyone who practices Tai Chi. Even if it is an old lady practicing Tai Chi in the park, there is nothing wrong with your description.
"Boss Du, you're being perfunctory. How about you perform a set so I can learn? If you don't do Tai Chi, you can practice Xingyi Quan. We're just discussing it anyway."
Long Zhirou was obviously dissatisfied with Du Ruo's perfunctory response. At least this was not what she wanted to hear.
"There's no need for boxing. I haven't done Tai Chi stances many times. How about we follow tradition and shake hands?"
Du Ruo thought about it and decided not to demonstrate Tai Chi. He seldom practiced Tai Chi, and even after he got it, he seldom used it. But that didn't mean he didn't know how to do it. On the contrary, he could definitely perform Tai Chi more standardly than Long Zhirou.
Because the skills are directly imparted through knowledge, they are literally at the textbook level.
The reason why he doesn't practice is because Tai Chi routines are neither important nor important.
It is important because the power of Tai Chi is basically understood by practicing routines, but once the power is understood, these routines are actually not that important and can be integrated into life.
Just like Tai Chi master Yang Luchan, it is rumored that he stopped practicing Tai Chi after he was forty years old, but his skills were getting better and better. Du Ruo now realizes that the saying may be true, but this person who stopped practicing Tai Chi only did not practice the routines. In fact, he used Tai Chi power all the time.
"Okay."
Long Zhirou's eyes lit up. She was indeed disappointed that Du Ruo didn't show her a set of boxing skills, but she didn't expect that Du Ruo would actually give her a surprise.
If Du Ruo were to box, it would just be a performance and it would be hard to tell who was better. Of course, she is a beauty, so she would have an advantage. But now Du Ruo is not boxing, but directly fighting. This is different. At least it will be a topic of discussion.
Besides, she has never tried what it feels like to join hands with someone, so this is a good opportunity to give it a try.
The term "da shou" is a modern term and can be considered a form of sparring, but it is more covert.
In the past, sparring meant physical combat. It couldn't be a life-or-death fight, but there was definitely a winner. Later, they discovered that sometimes fighting this way would not please either side. The winner would naturally gain fame, but the loser would be miserable, losing everything and perhaps even being injured.
So the practice of "shaking hands" came into being. The usual exchanges were competitions between disciples, and those with great reputations, when interacting with each other, usually used the method of "shaking hands" to test each other.
What is tested in hand-holding is strength. Both parties put their hands together and slowly exert strength on each other. The winner will be immediately apparent after a comparison, but there will be no external display. The victory or defeat is determined only between the two people.
This form of exchange neither hurts face nor harms harmony, and everyone is happy. Some people even shake hands for fear that others will see clues from the expressions of both parties, so they shake hands with the door closed.
"bring it on."
Du Ruo stood up and stood opposite Long Zhirou. He stretched out his right hand with his palm facing inward and the back of his hand facing Long Zhirou. There was no posture or anything like that. It was just a very casual movement.
However, Du Ruo had a smile on his face. To be honest, he did seem to be bullying her, but Du Ruo knew that if he didn't show off his skills, it would be difficult to fool the girl. So he decided to let her know his true strengths and weaknesses.
"Then please."
Long Zhirou, who was standing opposite, winked at the assistant, then rolled up her sleeves, stretched out her slender arms, and put them together with Du Ruo's arms. The assistant was also very observant, and took the filming equipment and began to get close to film. With their arms together, Du Ruo didn't notice that the other party was using any strength. Thinking that the other party was practicing Tai Chi, he might be thinking of using the other party's strength to attack him, so Du Ruo didn't have anything to test, so he stretched out his arms and did a simple push. Du Ruo didn't even use any strength this time, just pure arm strength.
By watching how Long Zhirou walked and how she exerted her strength, he could tell that she had not worked hard on the basics. In that case, there was no need for Du Ruo to take her too seriously. Even if she had comprehended the power and used it well, she would not be able to resist the pure force.
Strength only brings out the potential of the body and makes your fists more powerful, but the foundation is still the body itself. This is why foreign competitions are divided into weight classes, while traditional martial arts mostly focus on body training, that is, the training of basic skills.
"Ok?"
Du Ruo pushed with his arm, and Long Zhirou on the opposite side immediately felt it. Sensing strength is the most important part of Tai Chi. It was because of sensing it that Long Zhirou was shocked and her color changed.
In an ordinary handshake, the most normal thing is that your force pushes over along my arm, then I will naturally block and resist, and then after resisting to a certain extent, I will increase my strength and push my arm in front of you, and then you increase your strength and push it back.
This process is generally gradual. After all, as mentioned before, the purpose of this kind of competition is to exchange ideas while preserving the face of both parties, so naturally there needs to be a back and forth, and you won't use all your strength to knock someone away from the beginning, that's called a sneak attack.
However, Tai Chi hand-to-hand combat is a little different, because the most important force in Tai Chi is Tai Chi Hua Jin, which means to dissolve the force, and it contains the meaning of using little force to move a large object.
When you use force, I catch it, spin it in a circle to dissipate a part of it, and then add my own force to return it, and this cycle repeats until one party can no longer bear it and lets go.
What shocked Long Zhirou was that Du Ruo's arm seemed unreasonable. When it pushed towards her chest, Long Zhirou wanted to resist, to push away, to dissipate this force, but the result was that she was doing useless work. She couldn't even stop or slow down the speed of Du Ruo's arm. Du Ruo's arm was like a bulldozer, sweeping away all resistance.
"drink!"
Long Zhirou was somewhat unwilling to admit defeat, mainly because no one would use full strength when joining hands, which meant that this was just a casual attack from Du Ruo, but she couldn't take it. How could she bear this? So with a low shout, Long Zhirou also joined her other arm, turning one hand into two.
It is not known whether the strength of Long Zhirou's hands increased greatly or Du Ruo was holding back.
After Long Zhirou placed her hands on him, Du Ruo slowly stopped moving his arms in circles.
Seeing this, Long Zhirou's breath sank, and her feet dug deeper into the horse stance. At the same time, she slightly raised her heels, and then used the momentum to mobilize all her strength and pressed downwards hard, trying to push the arm in front of her chest back.
But in an instant, Long Zhirou's face turned red, not because of anger, nor shyness, but because she was too full of luck. Long Zhirou pressed all her strength on Du Ruo's arm, but Du Ruo's arm did not move at all. Long Zhirou's strength was like mud sinking into the sea, without causing the slightest ripple.
Strength is about explosion, and explosion cannot be sustained. Just when Long Zhirou was about to give up, Du Ruo slowly retracted his arm, drew a half circle, and returned to Du Ruo's chest again.
"how do you feel?"
Du Ruo still made the same gesture, with the same smiling expression. After pushing and retracting his arms, he stopped moving and started asking.
It seemed like a long time just now, but in fact it was over in just the time it took Du Ruo to slowly draw a circle with his arm.
As Du Ruo spoke, Long Zhirou's arms drooped weakly. She did not speak, but just gasped, looking at Du Ruo weakly and in shock. She opened her mouth several times, but said nothing.
"Sister Rou, are you okay? Sit down and take a rest."
The assistant was very observant. He quickly turned off the camera and went over to help Long Zhirou sit back in her seat.
Long Zhirou did not refuse. The handshake just now had exhausted all her strength. However, as she sat down, she still looked at Du Ruo, and the shock in her eyes had not faded.
Xiang Yuanyuan didn't say anything, but picked up the teacup and continued to pour tea for Du Ruo and Long Zhirou who sat down again.
She really didn't know martial arts, but there was no need to ask about the outcome of the fight between the two just now. From their performance and expressions, it can be seen that she is not the kind of person who would kick someone when he is down, so she sat aside and looked at the two of them with curiosity, looking forward to whether Du Ruo would explain what had just happened.
"I am ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth. Boss Du is an expert. Boss Du, please don't mind."
After a while, Long Zhirou calmed down, stood up, picked up the tea on the table, almost replacing wine with tea, picked up the teacup and drank it in one gulp.
In the past, she always thought that some people would be very powerful, but it was probably limited, especially since Du Ruo chose the method of joining hands, which did not test experience.
In her opinion, this should be a contest of skills, to see who has a better grasp of Tai Chi power.
But Du Ruo showed her what it meant to defeat ten with one move.
(End of this chapter)
