An analysis on the reason and development path of the difficulty in fighting for traditional marital arts CHENG Xin，BAI Zhen，CHENG Dali
(1.School of Physical Education，Ningbo University，Ningbo 315211，China； 2.School of Physical Education，South China Normal University，Guangzhou 510006，China)
Abstract: The practitioners of traditional martial arts are always passively beaten in today's martial arts competitive stage. The reasons are as follows: firstly, today’s traditional martial arts has been seriously fancied; secondly, the distance from the cold weapon era made the practitioners of traditional martial arts change from professional to amateur; thirdly, the practical skills of traditional martial arts are limited by the rules of competitive sports; fourthly, the traditional martial arts was seriously lack of the competitive skills required by competitive sports. There are four paths for the development of traditional martial arts. The first kind is to be used as a "self-defense technology" in school education. The second kind is the competitive transformation of traditional martial arts, which could be followed by classification competitions and supplementing the lack of competitive skills in traditional martial arts. The third kind is to integrate with military fighting techniques, and continued to be preserved in the fighting techniques of the People's Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force. The fourth kind is the elite preservation and inheritance of traditional Martial arts, that is, entering the list of intangible cultural heritage protection, traditional martial arts can be preserved among people who love them very much.
Keywords: traditional martial arts；martial arts routine；competitive sports；fighting technology；inheritance of intangible cultural heritage