Modern Yang Guo in MMA: Song Mingyan, the founder of Wujia

Song Mingyan, who appeared in a white shirt, suit pants and a narrow black tie, high-fived the audience along the aisle. If it weren't for his red and black boxing wristbands, you wouldn't have thought that this grand event held at the National Taiwan University Gymnasium was the largest comprehensive fighting competition in Asia. Song Mingyan, who played for Taiwan Province, was the first place in the domestic Mixed Martial Arts, MMA). Song Mingyan, the founder of Wujia, mistakenly hit an angry teenager and turned into a fighter

In 214, ONE FC moved to Taiwan Province for the first time to hold the "War of Dragons" competition. After the 34-year-old Song Mingyan appeared on the stage, he tore off his shirt and suit, which symbolized his bondage, to face Li Jiajun, a 2-year-old player from Singapore. Facing the challenge of young players, the more experienced Song Mingyan quickly brought down Li Jiajun and won the final victory on his own land. This World War I was not only his personal victory, but also the key battle to make the total fighting movement popular in Taiwan Province. The pioneer of MMA in Taiwan Province, in fact, has stumbled into this step by mistake. Speaking of his stories, people can't help thinking of the hero "Yang Guo" in the martial arts novel "The Condor Heroes". Yang Guo had no father since he was a child, and his mother died of illness. After being adopted by the Guo Jing couple who had retired to Peach Blossom Island, he continued to learn martial arts from various factions. Yang Guo, who is arrogant and unruly and has excellent martial arts, has become a generation of heroes after all kinds of setbacks in life. The green grass lake in Hsinchu is the "Peach Blossom Island" where Song and Ming proverbs grew up. Song and Ming proverbs, who were raised by their grandmothers since childhood, are as quaint as Yang Guo, a teenager in Jin Yong's novels, but lonely and angry. When he was a little boy, he was often bullied. Every time he saw every handsome martial arts duel of comic characters, he silently set his ambition to "learn martial arts", thinking that one day he would get back all the grievances he had suffered in the past. "I want to learn the best! Song Ming proverbs learned martial arts all over the world

The Taekwondo Club of Hsinchu Middle School was his official entry into martial arts. After entering Taekwondo in Bamboo, Song Mingyan secretly planned to learn all powerful Taekwondo moves, become the strongest person, and then go out to fight. After he thought he was invincible in the world, he found the first one-on-one hit, and the other one studied karate. Unexpectedly, as soon as the opponent punched, he beat the frivolous young Yang Guo black and blue. "How can you use your hands! The other party replied, "No one said you can't use your hands. This sentence made Song Mingyan understand that the world of martial arts is wide, and it is not possible to fight all over the world by a single move. From then on, he embarked on a broader road of martial arts: when he was thrown by judo, he went to learn judo; If you are beaten by Sanda, go and learn Sanda. "Fighting skills are like puzzles and stacked wood, especially in the big iron cage of MMA, there is no limit, and the focus is only on knocking down the opponent. So he also learned wrestling, Brazilian jujitsu and so on, just to find the strongest martial arts. "What influenced me the most was that when I was learning judo, the word" forbearance "was hung on the wall of the Dojo. Song Mingyan said that every time before practicing judo, the coach asked everyone to face the word "forbearance" and meditate on what happened in the past, and then put all these things aside before entering judo training. "Because of this ceremony, let me vent my anger bit by bit. Song Mingyan began to talk about all kinds of frustrations in his life. From self-reliance and martial arts practice to supporting martial arts practitioners

Song Mingyan was kicked out of his house at the age of 17 and cut off from his financial resources. In order to continue his studies and martial arts practice, he had to do two jobs every day: delivery boy, waiter, egg cake seller, hotel master, rough worker on the construction site, and even he helped the boss of the construction company to stop bullets. After going to the closing class of the fast food restaurant every day, he was homeless and had to live in the abandoned antiques of his classmates. "At that time, my classmates also gave me an orange water pipe, which made it easier for me to take a shower in the courtyard without hot water. Song Mingyan said that although he had to sleep in an antique hall that had been in disrepair for a long time, there were still photos of his classmates and elders hanging high on the beam, but he was exhausted when he returned there every day, and there was no way to think about how weird such a scene was. Song Mingyan, who worked part-time and worked hard to support himself, gave up further studies after graduating from high school in Hsinchu, returned to work as a soldier, and continued to practice martial arts with his former friends. "Later, a senior who practiced martial arts together said that if he couldn't live every day, he would work as a worker and build a scaffolding, which would make him more profitable. Song Mingyan, a 26-year-old, discovered at this time that even people with such high martial arts skills were forced to give up martial arts for three meals. This is not the way to go on, so I came up with the idea of opening a Dojo: "If I can open a Dojo, I can invite them to be coaches, which is also a salary!" You can let people who practice martial arts have a place to live! Practicing martial arts, cultivating tough character, it's difficult to pass through the customs

In 27, Song Mingyan, who had no money, found a friend and borrowed a tin house to serve as a Dojo, which opened a new page in his life of running the martial arts school. He has no business concept, no matter how he did it or how he paid for it a few years ago. Later, he participated in the entrepreneurship seminar of the Sports Department, and gradually transformed the original Dojo into a management mode based on "popular martial arts courses", and successively opened "Shenwu Dojo" in Hsinchu and Taipei with various martial arts fighting courses as the call. However, the good times don't last long. Just as Song Mingyan won the ONE FC competition, the Shinto Dojo became famous and everything was slowly on track, he found that the old comrades who started a business together privately registered the trademark of "SHEN WOO". After all the recovery failed to get a positive response, Song Mingyan decided to make a big breakthrough, not only renamed the Dojo as "Wujia" in one fell swoop, but also launched a sub-brand "Wujia PLUS Energy Training", and moved the Taipei branch with a small space to Guting, re-anchored and moved forward. "Learning to fight is a sport choice with high C/P value," Song Mingyan said. "It can not only vent anger in the heart, but also cultivate resilience and endurance, which is very suitable for modern people with high pressure. These frustrating tests did not knock down the modern Yang Guo, but aroused his fighting spirit to win the championship belt. "In the cage of fighting, players communicate with each other with fighting skills, and the goal is to try to knock each other down. Song Mingyan said that the current world champion is his idol. If there is a chance to fight, it will feel great.

The proverbs of Song Ming instruct the fighters to practice. Competing with opponents with fighting skills, tango and little dragon girl * * *

"Only when practicing martial arts, can we understand the truth of being a man and settling down. Looking back at his youth, Song Mingyan discovered that martial arts is not the strongest, and everything depends on personal cultivation. Now, he has not only made great achievements in his career and competition, but also plans to learn the "Argentine tango" which is irrelevant at first glance but similar in temperament for his "Little Dragon Girl" in the future. "This is an elegant and proud dance step. After learning it, I can dance with my girlfriend. It is rare to see a trace of tenderness in the resolute expression of Song and Ming proverbs. Yang Guo brokeback, Fang Cheng condor heroes; After so much suffering, Song Mingyan no longer wants to find someone to fight one-on-one and get back the grievances. Song Mingyan, who entered the age of 35, learned more peerless martial arts in dealing with others. In the next championship challenge, he will use his life-tempered fighting skills to attack and defend fiercely with the strongest idol in his mind in a 25-minute human chess game. Even without the glittering champion belt, Song Mingyan has long been a generation of heroes in MMA field in Taiwan Province.

Writing/Gaxi Photography/Deng Yingqian