Chapter 142 - 128 Lian Po is Old
"Is this a case of starting a fight at a word?"
"Who is this old man, just speaking his mind like that, and so stubborn in his thinking?"
"Traditional Martial Arts have withered to this extent, yet he still holds onto a set that only focuses on killing enemies without performance, which is impractical."
"If you can’t even sustain yourself, what inheritance are we talking about? Without an audience, what’s there to promote and expand?"
"I actually think such people are quite respectable. Without them, where would we have any real Kung Fu passed down?"
"I’m just curious whether Wu Li can win against his opponent within three moves."
"That shouldn’t be a problem, right? Even if his opponent was formidable in his younger days, how old is he now? Can he still fight?"
The discussion in the live stream room was lively. The director of the program wasn’t worried about Wu Li losing; instead, he was worried whether Gao Zheng might get hurt.
Internal Martial Arts emphasize the "body prepared as five bows," which refers to the four limbs and the trunk, with bones as the bow’s body and sinews as the bowstring, generating power as if drawing a bow to shoot an arrow.
As Internal Martial Arts Boxers age, although their muscles may atrophy and their strength wane, their whole body’s sinews are as tough as ox tendons, full of resilience, and can still possess great explosive power. However, their bones can’t withstand too intense exertion, and this human ’bow’ if stretched to full draw, might not take many times before falling apart.
Gao Zheng, 59 years old this year, could not draw his ’bow’ to full draw many more times. Even if his body could bear it, his stamina wouldn’t. Therefore, like such Boxers, going all out, he could only perform two or three moves with full power before becoming unable to continue fighting.