Research On Embody-perception During Martial Arts Practice

"Embody-perception" phenomenon is a very special phenomenon in the inheritance process of many martial arts. Though this phenomenon is widespread in various subjects and projects, it is unique to the meaning of the martial arts. It links Chinese traditional culture and the techniques of martial arts, combining the dynamic and the static, the outside and the inside, force and beauty. In the development of contemporary Chinese martial arts, the present situation is not quite desirable. There exist the loss of martial arts schools, declining number of learners, and the impact of western culture. In order to adapt the new era, the martial arts world has been trying all sorts of measures to change the declining trend, promote the renewal of development. However, with the significant gap between the traditional martial arts and the general western sports, people cannot blindly follow the western ways in the process of promoting martial arts. Rooted in Chinese traditional culture, martial arts has a vast variety of forms and thus its function value is relatively rich. But in the promotion of modern martial arts, restricted by various subjective and objective conditions of restriction, martial arts is gradually developing into a kind of sports. With the absence of Chinese traditional culture, martial arts is a no-root tree, which is definitely not we have expected. As a major method to sharpen personal feeling and know better about martial arts, embody-perception plays an important part in the enlightenment of martial arts.Martial arts training in the process of "embody-perception" are composed of "focus of knowledge" and "supporting knowledge", forming the process of practicing the martial arts knowledge. It not only includes the forming of athletic skills, but the way of thinking during people’s practicing. It is this process that makes people think of martial arts more deeply. Analyzing mentally help people know what they really want, which benefits him/her lifetime.Although the advantages of embody-perception are conspicuous, it is difficult to put it into practice. The characteristics of martial arts are the uniformity of tradition and modernization, of internality and externalization and of progressive and jumping, which leads to that it is influenced by so many factors that it is difficult to control it, which also indicates embody-perception applies to many situations. Although there are too many influential factors, it still can help resolve problems by integrating the key factors. The phenomenon of embody-perception during Martial arts’ function mainly reflects in the match between the motion of martial arts and romantic charm, the unification of manifestation and technical nature and the appeal for the martial arts’value. These aspects are actually the major problem the current martial arts development is facing today.Under the impact of western sports, martial arts try to simplify the name of the traditional martial arts action to make it easier to popularize. In this way, it must be easy to understand, but the original contains internal imagery was completely in a gymnastics action. Meanwhile, because of the process of spreading martial arts in school classes taught by other sports teaching method, the meaning of attack and defense that originally contains in action cannot be fully explained. To some extent all these issues hampered the further development of martial arts. On the other hand, the art of attack and defense in martial arts existed as the essence of the martial arts in the past for a long time. Although the martial arts also have other attributes, such as fitness value, ornamental value, the nature is clear, and with the exit of cold weapon and the entry of western sports, in such an environment, the core value attribute of martial arts is blurry:in the long run, it will be unfavorable for the development of martial arts. Practitioners understand martial arts more comprehensively and thoroughly through the way of’comprehension’. In the process of cognition, practitioners make the choice of value appeals on the base of the self-demand, thus practitioners study and understand martial arts more thoroughly.Research on the "embody-perception"of martial arts reveals that martial arts teaching should focus on mobilizing the motility of the practitioners. Practitioners should recognize martial arts by the content and study martial arts proactive instead of merely imitating the technical movement. Theory and technique should be of equal importance in the martial arts promotion. Compared to other sports event, martial arts demands higher theoretical attainment which is tied up with the development history of martial arts. Therefore, ’comprehension’ provides a new thought of the future development of martial arts.