Chinese Pug Wants to Turn Professional
By Alex P. Vidal
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 22 Sep 2007
TAIPEI -- Feng Wa Song of Min Chuan E. Road, here, said he wants to fight as a professional boxer and is looking for a trainer who will bring him to either Japan or the United States because of lack of training facilities here that will accommodate prospects like him.
"I have friends who are fighting as amateur boxers but I heard that a lot of opportunities await a professional boxer intending to fight in Japan and in the United States," said the 25-year-old Song through an interpreter, sports journalist Li Kwe Chi.
Song admitted that he regularly monitors boxing stories in the internet but his obsession is to fight as a pro as he was inspired by Chinese boxers who are late bloomers in the sport. He had logged some fights in amateur but was unsuccessful in his efforts to be recognized by his country, Chi said.
Chi said Song, a former student of martial arts, became fascinated in boxing starting when he saw some of his fellow Chinese amateur boxers win medals in international competitions such as the Asian Games. When the Olympics will be held in Beijing next year, Chinese boxers are expected to win some medals in the sport previously dominated by Koreans and Americans.
Meanwhile, Chi said the actual name of boxing in Chinese is "Chung-Kuo chuan", which literally translates as "Chinese fist". However, "fist" is typically translated as "boxing," meaning hand-to-hand combat.
In some ways, Chin added that this translation is misleading and unfortunate, since in the United States today, "boxing" is a specific sport. Chinese boxing is not a sport, but a means of survival in no-holds-barred, life-or-death situations. Western boxing uses only the hands, which the boxer is required to sheathe in gloves. Chinese boxing has no constraints. It uses the entire body as a weapon. It was never designed as a game, and so knows no rules.
A martial artist who has trained in Chinese boxing might participate in a sport karate or kickboxing tournament, but he would not employ true, unadulterated Chinese boxing in the ring. To do so would be unethical, Chin said, for his life would not be on the line?the stakes in a tournament are merely pride and money.
"Chung-Kuo chuan," then, might be more accurately translated as "Chinese lethal combat method." However, Chung-Kuo chuan is not just any Chinese lethal combat method?it is a very specific method. There are countless styles of Chinese martial art intended for use in lethal combat, he explained.
Chi said only a few of these subscribe to the particular school of thought that typifies Chinese boxing.
Thus, he added that Chinese boxing refers to a Chinese method of lethal combat governed by a particular philosophy and set of principles. To know what Chinese boxing is, one must know the underlying theory.
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