Chinese Bullfighters Bring Martial Arts (武术) to Their Sport

Several times a week. Ren Ruzhi battles an opponent (对手)that is five times     1     (he)weight and strong enough to kill him. He is skilled in fighting bulls (公牛), an animal known     2     its aggressive behavior.

Ren teaches the Chinese martial art of kung fu. The 24-year-old’s mixing of martial arts and bullfighting     3     (worry) his mother. However, Ren has never been hurt. He says that     4     (battle) the bull makes him feel energized. “It symbolizes the     5     (brave) of a man,” Ren told the Reuters news agency in the city of Jiaxing, China.

Bullfighting may be more famous in Spain,     6     it is usually very bloody, while the Chinese form of bullfighting is not so     7     (violence). Instead it combines moves from the sport of wrestling with the skill and speed of kung fu     8     (bring) down animals weighing up to 400 kilograms.

Han Haihua, a former wrestler, teaches bullfighters at his Haihua Kung Fu School in Jiaxing. Han said the     9     (physical) demanding sport requires fighters to train intensively and they usually have short careers. Han described     10     form of bullfighting he teaches as the explosive power of hard “qigong”, saying it combines the skill and speed of martial arts with traditional wrestling moves.

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