When Chen Qiang heard the word "light skills", he couldn't help but be stunned.

Light skills are actually real. Although practicing light skills cannot make you lose weight, they can greatly improve your running, jumping, and flashing ability. Light skills are not an embodiment of anti-gravity, but due to the novelist's rendering and exaggeration of film and television works, many people have misled their belief that light skills do not exist.

Real light skills are not like in film and television works, and they cannot fly in the sky like wings, but it is still possible to fly in the air.

In ancient times, there were no high-rise buildings. Without steel bars, it was not easy to see a two-story building with bricks and tiles. Most buildings were on one floor. The so-called light masters could climb up a roof with bare hands and then walk on the eaves and walls as if they were flying.

From the eyes of later generations, the abilities of light masters in ancient times were probably similar to those of modern parkour masters.

Many modern parkour masters can also jump around between buildings, and their abilities in running, bounce, balance, etc. are beyond ordinary people.

Although light skills and parkour have similarities, they are not exactly the same. Light skills emphasize the control of muscles and achieve the effect of light lifting; while modern parkours pay more attention to the flexibility and coordination of the body.

At this time, Chen Qiang had already understood that Zhao Jinhong on the opposite side was probably a master of light skills. Because he was not convinced by himself or looked down on track and field, he came up to challenge him, but he lost the game.

If he is worse than the flying eaves and walls, Chen Qiang will definitely be inferior to Zhao Jinhong, a master of light skills, but if he is better than the sprinter, the master of light skills is really not an opponent of professional sprinters like Chen Qiang.

The so-called professional expertise is like the horsepower of Jiefang Truck is much larger than that of Santana cars, but if it is faster than that of Santana cars, Jiefang Truck is definitely not as good as that of Santana cars.

So Chen Qiang had to explain patiently: "Mr. Zhao, the sprinting in track and field is different from the sprinting and Chinese arts. Sprinting is a sport that can maximize the speed limit of the human body. Your sprinting should not be a specialized practice of speed, right? So even if you compare it again, you will not run faster than me."

"What do you mean is that our Chinese martial arts skills are not as good as your Western sports?" Zhao Jinhong put on an angry expression.

"Mr. Zhao, you misunderstood. I just introduce you to the characteristics of sprinting..."

Before Chen Qiang finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhao Jinhong again: "It's enough, I don't believe it anymore. National martial arts will not be as good as Western sports. I will ask you one more thing, let's compare again, are you willing?"

Chen Qiang thoughtfully, he really met an unreasonable person today. He just performed a sprint, so why did he get involved in the competition between Chinese martial arts and Western sports?

Looking at Zhao Jinhong's attitude, Chen Qiang felt that if he didn't agree to compete again, Zhao Jinhong would not give up.

"Okay, as you said, let's compete again." Chen Qiang paused and continued, "But Mr. Zhao, we are ugly, and no matter how we win or lose in this competition, it will be the last time. If you agree, I will compete with you again. If you don't agree and lose, you will be the third time, then I will not be with you!"

"Who do you think of me Zhao Jinhong? I was just accidentally. If I lose to you again, I, Zhao Jinhong, will not have the face to stay in this Tianjin martial arts world in the future!" Zhao Jinhong said arrogantly.

...

In the crowd, several junior brothers looked at Zhao Jinhong with concern. In the game just now, the gap between the two was too big. The junior brothers didn't think that if Zhao Jinhong competed again, he would be able to turn defeat into victory.

"What are you watching here? Why are Jin Hong there?" A voice suddenly rang.

Several junior brothers turned around and a surprise color suddenly appeared on their faces.

"It's the senior brother!"

"Senior Brother, you are finally here!"

"Senior Brother, please take a look. Senior Brother Zhao is competing with someone!"

"Senior Brother, that person is Chen Qiang, who is the one who outperformed the Japanese at Minyuan Stadium a few days ago!"

The senior brother nodded, then asked, "Why did Jin Hong go up to compete with him? Are you competing again?"

"Brother, Senior Brother Zhao has lost once. But Senior Brother Zhao doesn't believe in evil. He feels that the light function has won Chen Qiang's Western Sports, so he drags Chen Qiang to compete in the second game." Someone told the senior brother about the rough process.

The eldest brother frowned.

"Jin Hong is still so reckless in doing things! But Jin Hong is right. Our national skills are naturally much better than Western sports!" The eldest brother curled his lips proudly, and then looked at the track.

...

Chen Qiang and Zhao Jinhong stood on the starting line again. This time, Zhao Jinhong did not stand upright with his hands behind his back. He gave up his previous "palatant" style, but instead bent his legs, one in front and one behind, and the center of gravity of the upper body also lowered, which was almost a standing starting position.

It can be seen that Zhao Jinhong, who lost once, does not seem to repeat the same mistakes. His attitude in this game has obviously become much more serious.

Chen Qiang knew that no matter how serious Zhao Jinhong was, the result of the competition was already destined. He could not win a world-class sprinter like Chen Qiang. Even if he changed his starting style, the standing start was still much slower than the squat starting. Otherwise, the 100-meter sprint champion of the 1896 Olympics would not have been Thomas Burke.

Zhao Jinhong didn't understand track and field at all, and he didn't understand this at all. Otherwise, he wouldn't have challenged Chen Qiang's sprint by learning light skills. Zhao Jinhong only felt that once he became serious, he would definitely be able to defeat Chen Qiang.

With a "sweeping" sound, the gong sounded, and the two of them started quickly again and broke out of the starting line. However, the result was the same as last time. Chen Qiang led the way from the start until the finish line.

After rushing through the finish line, Chen Qiang looked at Zhao Jinhong, who was in a daze and sighed helplessly.

"Mr. Zhao, I'll give in!" Chen Qiang clasped his fists at Zhao Jinhong.

Zhao Jinhong was still in a state of confusion. He didn't expect that he would lose to Chen Qiang with all his strength.

Zhao Jinhong practiced martial arts since he was a child, and he practiced in the winter and the three summers. Especially the light qi, he put in hard work. He fell a lot in order to practice light qi. Zhao Jinhong thought he was the best among young people, but today he lost to Chen Qiang, which was like a heavy hammer, which defeated Zhao Jinhong's confidence.

At this time, Zhao Jinhong began to wonder for the first time whether the national skills he had practiced over the years were useful. If it was really useful, why would the light skills he had practiced over the past ten years lose to a "Western sports".

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded: "Jin Hong, come back quickly!"

Zhao Jinhong suddenly woke up, looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a flat-headed man in his thirties.

"Senior Brother!" Zhao Jinhong shouted.

The senior brother nodded at Zhao Jinhong, then walked forward and came to Chen Qiang. He still clasped his fists and said, "Chen Jianjiang, I am Gu Tianzhi of Zhenwu Guojiu. My junior brother Zhao Jinhong was offended so much just now, and I hope Chen Jianjiang will be forgiven."

"Mr. Gu is polite. We are just having fun with each other. It is normal for sports competitions to lose and win or lose. Mr. Zhao should not take it to heart," Chen Qiang said.

"What Chen Jianjiang said," Gu Tianzhi smiled slightly, and then said: "I wonder if I have a chance to compete with Chen Jianjiang?"

Only then did Chen Qiang realize that this senior brother was here to avenge his junior brother.

"The junior brother lost, the senior brother took action. It's a routine of martial arts novels. I don't know if the senior brother lost, will the master take action, and then it's the master's turn..." Chen Qiang thought to himself.

I heard Gu Tianzhi continue: "Jin Chen has run several games in a row. If you feel tired, you might as well take a break first. I can wait for Chen Jian to rest before conducting a competition."

As Gu Tianzhi spoke, he unconsciously revealed the style of a martial arts master.

"No need, I'm not tired." Chen Qiang replied with a smile.

When competing with ordinary people, Chen Qiang doesn't have to do his best, just run around casually. The intensity of this competition is even worse than Chen Qiang's usual training, so there is no physical consumption.

Although Zhao Jinhong had practiced light skills, his sprinting level was not much better than that of ordinary people. Chen Qiang won the competition without much effort. Chen Qiang is still full of energy now.

However, Chen Qiang still asked: "Mr. Gu, are you also a master of light skills?"

"There is no expert!" Gu Tianzhi smiled and shook his head: "But when he was young, he had worshipped several masters and practiced light skills for a while!"

"Mr. Gu, the light skills of Chinese martial arts and the sprinting of track and field sports are actually different things, and this is incomparable..." Chen Qiang planned to explain again.

Like Zhao Jinhong, Gu Tianzhi didn't take this trick at all. He interrupted Chen Qiang: "Chen Jianjiang, you don't need to explain much. I don't understand Western sports. I think Chen Jianjiang has never learned Chinese arts, right? I'll compete with you, one for my face in Zhenwu National Museum, and the other for the world to prove to the world that our Chinese arts is not worse than Western sports."

"Modern sports are modern sports, traditional national skills are traditional national skills. Both have their own strengths. Why do you have to use Jiefang heavy trucks to compete with cars for speed? Why can't this person explain it?" Chen Qiang felt helpless.

But the next second, Chen Qiang suddenly remembered an incident, which was the "country between Chinese and foreign sports" in modern China.

In the early 20th century, modern sports were introduced to China, including track and field, gymnastics, basketball, football, tennis, etc. Since these sports were introduced to China from European and American countries, they were called "foreign sports".

"Tudi Sports" refers to traditional Chinese sports events represented by martial arts.

The dispute over domestic and foreign sports was actually a debate at that time about whether China was taking the development path of traditional national sports or Western sports.

The dispute over local and foreign sports began in the late stage of the May Fourth New Culture Movement. At that time, the debate on Chinese and Western culture was very fierce and also affected the sports field.

The "Renxu School System" promulgated in 1922 clearly stipulated that schools should have physical education classes, and physical education classes should be mainly track and field, ball and other sports. Subsequently, the first batch of Chinese physical education educators returned to China after completing their studies. In addition to the Far East Games, National Games, North China Games, Central China Games, etc., China's "foreign sports" have developed greatly.

However, "local sports" represented by national martial arts has always advocated the replacement of "local sports" with "local sports" and advocated local sports that Chinese sports blindly imitate the West, belittle themselves, and go into a miserable way. At present, the country is bullied by the powers outside and falls into poverty and turmoil inside. Western-style sports, even if you are free to learn, you don't have to learn, and you can't learn it. Therefore, you should break away from foreign sports and find China's unique sports way.

At the same time, people who advocate "local sports" also have a deviation in their understanding of the essence and value of sports. Their positioning of sports is to cure diseases and prolong life, strengthen muscles and bones, and that's all.

In fact, physical exercise is only part of sports. People who advocate "local sports" do not understand the role of sports in social development, nor the role of sports in serving politics, economy and diplomacy, nor do they understand that sports can enhance the people's sense of national honor and enhance the nation's self-confidence.

In order to let "local sports" replace "foreign sports", domestic martial artists also created "new martial arts" to promote the development of national qualities, and also cater to the political needs of some retro schools in China. In response, Mr. Lu Xun published an article in the magazine "New Youth", believing that this was to promote feudal culture and oppose the acceptance of new democratic and scientific ideas, and that there was the shadow of the Boxer Rebellion back then.

The dispute between Chinese and foreign sports entered a fierce peak in the 1930s, especially in 1932 when Liu Changchun represented the Chinese in the Olympics for the first time, but failed in the competition. This greatly hurt the national self-esteem of the Chinese people and also triggered the attack on "Chinese and foreign sports".

For example, someone published an article in a newspaper saying that "we should abandon the past imitating Western sports competitions. From then on, not only do we need to participate in the World Olympics, but we should also resolutely break away from the Far East Olympics." Instead, we should use martial arts and health as the main body to "stay away from foreign sports and promote local sports."

Some people have also designed a development outline for local sports, such as systematically organizing and teaching Chinese health techniques, and schools should teach martial arts techniques such as fist, foot, stick and stick. Imagine that in a physical education class, students go to the equipment room to pull out basketball and football, but eighteen kinds of weapons such as swords, guns, swords, and halberds. Then everyone poked them with a red tassel gun, and the picture was also quite shocking.

Objective analysis shows that these people who advocate "local sports" seem to be for the survival and development of the nation, but they do not know that modern China has long been involved in the torrent of world development. Continuing to play with oneself is undoubtedly another kind of closed-door country.

Because a certain sport has lost to others or is not good at a certain sport, the whole country will not play this sport and only engage in the events that they are good at. So what is the difference between an ostrich putting his head into the soil?

Moreover, global sports competition is originally part of international exchanges. Whether it is a powerful nation or a weak nation, they strive to express their supremacy and self-improvement through sports competitions, making it an important means to awaken, inspire and revitalize national consciousness.

Even in 2019, many people still don’t understand this, and many people don’t realize it. A flop online writer wrote a novel about sports in the Republic of China, and then a large group of people in the book review said, what’s the use of sports in the Republic of China? He was so backward in the Republic of China, who would know if he won the gold medal? He couldn’t even eat enough, so why do he do sports? The country is in danger, so he should go to the battlefield to fight against the invaders! Sports cannot save the nation and survive, so he should not do it!

According to this theory, Mr. Mei Lanfang should not sing Peking Opera, Mr. Guo Moruo should not sing in literature, Mr. Xu Beihong should not engaging in painting, Mr. Xian Xinghai should not learn music, and Mr. Hou Baolin should not sing crosstalk. Because the people cannot eat enough, because they cannot go to the battlefield to fight against the invaders, because they cannot save the nation and survive!

Those big men from all walks of life in the Republic of China should also go to the battlefield with guns and fight against the invaders. One of them will be the other. As for other industries in the country, there is no need to develop them at all!

A country is originally composed of all walks of life. Perhaps some people do great things, and some people do humble things, but everyone is using their own methods to contribute to the prosperity and strength of the country. Shouldn’t it exist because athletes cannot make the country prosperous and strong and cannot attack the invaders?

Even in 2019, Chinese people could not understand the role of sports. They all had the idea that sports were useless, and people in 1931 even less understood.

What Chen Qiang is facing now is the era when "local sports" attacks the most powerful "foreign sports". Although many Chinese martial artists like sports introduced to the West, there are also many traditional martial artists who are against each other whenever they are foreign. No matter what sports it is, as long as it is "foreign sports", they must oppose it!

It is precisely for this reason that today's Chen Qiang's performance competition that interacts with the audience inexplicably became a duel between Chinese martial arts and track and field sprints!

Therefore, Zhao Jinhong can lose, but the national martial arts light skills cannot lose, and the Zhenwu Guojiu Museum cannot lose face.

So the eldest senior brother Gu Tianzhi took action personally! Although Zhao Jinhong took the lead, the eldest senior brother must personally defend the face of Zhenwu National Wushu Museum and even more defend the national martial arts!

Chen Qiang felt that he had suffered an unrestrained disaster.

"I'm just here to do a marketing campaign, interact with passers-by, and help the boss sell medicine. Why do you get into such a thing? Running to a temple fair to perform a sprint can even go up to the competition between Chinese martial arts and Western sports. Why am I so bad at this!"

Chen Qiang looked helplessly at his senior brother Gu Tianzhi. With Gu Tianzhi's current attitude, this competition is inevitable.

Moreover, even if Chen Qiang defeated Gu Tianzhi, there might be other light skills masters who will come to challenge Chen Qiang one after another.

Although Chen Qiang is a supporter of "foreign sports", he does not want to see the situation evolve into a contest between national arts and light skills and track and field sprints. Chen Qiang does not want to be a snake spirit. If this challenger comes to give away his head like a gourd baby saving his grandfather, he will not be able to stand it.

The best way is naturally to let Chen Qiang let go and deliberately lose to Gu Tianzhi, so that he can win the sprint, and then nothing will happen.

But Chen Qiang can't do that because he is an athlete and he has the dignity of an athlete!

Athletes should pursue victory. This is the responsibility of an athlete, respect for the profession of athletes, and even more respect for challengers.

"Forget it, just compete! Maybe if this senior brother loses, he will be able to get his brain out!" Chen Qiang walked onto the starting line.

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Chapter completed!