Chapter 642: Martial Arts Conference
Yang Xing had previously negotiated with the International Olympic Committee to join the Top Global Partner Program, and had a detailed understanding of the organizational rules of the Olympic Committee and the regulations of various project committees. However, he remembered that in his previous life, the influence of the Olympics continued to expand and its scale became larger and larger. Many sports events found that once they squeezed into the Olympics, their value would double, so there were more and more competition events to apply to join the Olympics.
Too many sports have greatly exacerbated the difficulty of schedule of the Olympic Organizing Committee. The Olympics have been divided into the Winter Olympics, but the summer Olympic competitions are still increasing. Too many sports have also dispersed the enthusiasm of spectators in the city hosting of the Olympics. The number of spectators on the scene of many events with low popularity is much lower than the demand. The Olympic Committee has long been rumored that it is going to compress competition events and make Olympic sports lose weight.
In fact, later, events such as women's softball and rugby were expelled from the Olympics. The two major Asian Olympic fighting events were originally able to enter the Olympics because they borrowed the Olympics to give preferential treatment to the Olympic hosting countries' special events at that time, allowing these events to be displayed as performance events at the Olympics.
If these events perform brilliantly and promote well, they can naturally become official competition events. The Olympic Committee stipulates that a sports event must be added to the Olympics, especially the Summer Olympics event, which needs to be widely carried out among men in 75 countries and regions on four continents and women in 40 countries and regions on three continents.
So now it is not as easy as the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 and Seoul Olympics in 1988. At that time, there were not as many Olympic events as it is now, and a lot of work had to be done. The first thing is to expand the influence of martial arts sports in the world and introduce highly competitive and well-organized competition rules as soon as possible. Yang Xing chose to break through in Sanda.
Yang Xing explained to Wang Yunqi that he was a closed disciple of Tai Chi master Hong Danyang. Although he was not good at fighting directly, his understanding of martial arts is not inferior to that of many martial arts experts. After years of research on Olympic events under his command, it is necessary to enter the Olympics for a sport, viewing and confrontationality are essential. If it is a martial arts routine competition, it is difficult to impress Western audiences in terms of viewing. After all, synchronized swimming and gymnastics look more beautiful, and also strengthen elements such as music and dance. We think that the smooth martial arts movements are okay to act in movies, but they are obviously inferior to the competition events.
The slogan of the Olympics is "higher, faster and stronger", and the core is physical confrontation. Why can the 100 men's competitions attract the most attendance rate every time? It is that the name of the world's number one flying man can be determined in just ten seconds. The audience with a tense and extremely suspenseful atmosphere cannot be stimulated by themselves.
Why do men's World Cup dare to compete with the Olympics? Only second-rate and young players are sent to participate in the Olympics every time? It is because its fans are spread all over the world, and the number of spectators in each World Cup is no less than that in the Olympics, so it is full of confidence.
As a direct fighting event for the Olympics, boxing, kickboxing, kickboxing, judo and classical wrestling are a combination of throwing and throwing, almost occupying the world of fighting events and are also the most attractive event for each competition.
In particular, Taekwondo was officially named in 1955. Its predecessor was derived from Chinese martial arts and Japanese karate. It was only modernized and adopted the internationally accepted fighting system and a referee system that is easy to score. It vigorously learned the grading system of Japanese judo. With the help of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, it quickly promoted it in the world. Now it is even more famous than its teachers, Japanese karate and Chinese Kung Fu.
Therefore, Yang Xing believes that if you want to enter the Olympics, you can only focus on Sanda, and learn from the experience of judo and taekwondo to formulate simple and easy-to-use and internationally universal competition rules, and make great efforts to promote it all over the world, so that Chinese Kung Fu is not only famous, but also attracts a large number of students to learn, and through fierce confrontations, the audience can enjoy watching it.
Moreover, in the promotion of Sanda, given the fact that the referees made many subjective judgments in the fighting event, Yang Xing also intends to introduce high-tech and work hard on the referee's fairness and fairness, so that the results of Sanda are well documented and have rules to follow. Compared with fighting events such as Taekwondo and Judo, they have higher competitive advantages, so that they can stand out among many sports and enter the Olympics.
In fact, as the main means of fighting in the era of cold weapons, the whole world has its own unique empty-hand fighting skills. For example, India's Kararipayat, Thai Muay Thai, French kicking and fighting skills, Brazil's Sambo, and of course, there are also the popular world-storm, combining real and fake throwing, full of dramatic conflicts, and acting more than actual combat. However, they have not been able to become Olympic fighting events, and there are many reasons. In addition to the fact that these fighting skills are very famous in their country, they have few fans in the world, and the country does not pay enough attention to it, etc. The most important thing is that they have not come up with a complete set of fighting competition systems that can teach students safely and accurately judge the outcome of fighting.
Yang Xing believes that the nature of the Sanda competition is actually similar to the most popular mixed martial arts competition in the world. It means that in addition to using punches and feet to attack the opponent, various techniques such as hitting, holding, falling, joint skills are also allowed. Various martial arts such as kicking, hitting, falling, and holding can be perfectly displayed during the competition. Often, the contestant still has to continue the competition when the contestant falls to the ground, or locks the opponent's neck and joint parts to force the opponent to surrender.
The earliest proposer of this sport was Bruce Lee. After years of development, the MMA sports have incorporated many national martial arts fighting skills. Not only is the hot scene fighting, but as long as the organization is effective, the sports safety rate is also guaranteed. Yang Xing is determined to learn from MMA's successful experience in the competition, so that Sanda can break the traditional domestic martial arts tradition, give up the idea of cherishing oneself, integrate the essence of martial arts fighting in various schools of China, and even join other world-renowned advanced methods of fighting techniques. It is not difficult to form Sanda's own fighting style in a short period of time.
He has already started this job. Yang Xing reached an agreement with the National Sports Administration a few years ago to set up kung fu halls around the world. Not only did the country send kung fu masters abroad to teach masters and apprentices, but overseas martial arts experts are also invited to join. Now he is adding Sanda textbooks, and Sanda ranks and competitive rules such as judo black belts have also been formed.
Since the previous year, Yang Xing sponsored the annual "World Sanda Invitational" held in Hong Kong. It has gradually jumped from the warm-up event of the Zhongxing Group World Conference to an internationally renowned mixed martial arts competition. At the end of this year, it is even more ready to upgrade to the "World Martial Arts Conference", fully adopting the new Sanda rules, and using high bonuses to reward winners to formally challenge famous competitions such as Japan K1 and the American UFC that represent mixed martial arts.
However, it is not enough to have the rules and organizational forms of competition. If Sanda wants to participate in the Olympics, it must also have excellent safety guarantee measures and a relatively fair scoring system. After all, the Olympics pursue humans to challenge their own limits, rather than to beat their opponents to the point of blood. Therefore, professional boxing and professional wrestling contestants have always looked down on Olympians because they believe that they have never seen blood and are not very confrontational. Sanda wants to attract audiences, but also pass the Olympic Committee's safety review. In mixed martial arts, knees, elbows, palms, shoulders and other parts will be used, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of protection. This aspect can only be solved by high-tech methods.
Yang Xing brought a protective suit worn by both sides on the test site for Wang Yunqi to watch. Wang Yunqi saw that the protective suit looked a bit like Taekwondo style, but the protection area was very wide, and his hands and feet were wrapped. The protective suit felt bulging inside, as if it was filled with some kind of liquid. Both the helmet and the clothing had very fine patterns, and it seemed that there was some electronic circuit inside. The protection of several key parts of the human body was significantly thickened and marked in bright colors.
Yang Xing took out a cup of liquid that looked like water to demonstrate to Wang Yunqi. He saw him stirring it quickly in the liquid with a mixing rod. The liquid quickly became thicker and soon solidified into a hard solid. The glue rod was locked firmly and could not be pulled out. Yang Xing then explained that this was a bulletproof material that had just been invented in the UK, called "liquid bulletproof vest". The main ingredient is a special "shear-resistant dense liquid" (stf). Stf is usually like other liquids, very soft and can be deformed. Once the shrapnel or bullet touches it, this liquid can instantly transform into a hard material to prevent the bullet from passing through.
Yang Xing's idea was to dilute this stf and install it into this Sanda protective suit, and there was an electronic sensor and a recording chip inside. No matter what kind of fighting skills, it was necessary to attack the fatal parts of the human body. Now, this protective suit can not only reduce danger, but also record the degree of force when the stf is hit and hardened. The referee can immediately give the corresponding score, so that even if he doesn't hit the head and blood, he can know a person's attack strength. This is different from the sword stab in fencing. It is the same as the same as the different points given by the sword stab in fencing.
Wang Yunqi was very interested when he heard this. This solved the problem of being unable to correctly judge the combat power of both sides due to complete protection. He could also quickly give results through electronic instruments, reducing the referee's mistakes in subjective judgment. It was just that he was worried that this kind of liquid protective clothing was high, which was not conducive to the popularization of daily training.
Yang Xing smiled and said, "I have taken care of this matter. At this year's martial arts conference, Zhongxing Group will donate 100,000 sets of Sanda competition clothes to fighters all over the world. In addition, in order to promote Chinese martial arts, Kung Fu Pavilions will be established on various continents. The protective suits you practice can only be filled with water. The effect is the same, which is to focus on the key points, which is better for training players."
Chapter completed!