Bui Duy Chi Thanh - the man of steel punches
(Baonghean.vn) - Passionate about fine arts, especially drawing black and white portraits, spending about 1-2 hours every day practicing drawing, that is an image that few people know about Bui Duy Chi Thanh - a Kickboxing athlete, a martial art that requires strength and courage. Thanh is an athlete who just won a gold medal at the 2020 National Youth Kickboxing Championship.
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| Athlete Bui Duy Chi Thanh. Photo: Duc Anh |
Present at the Kickboxing gymnasium of the Provincial Sports Training Center when Bui Duy Chi Thanh was passionately practicing Kickboxing. The first impression when meeting Thanh was that the athlete had a tall, muscular body but a very gentle, shy and quiet face.
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| Bui Duy Chi Thanh has a muscular body but a gentle and quiet face. Photo: Duc Anh |
Thanh has just had a very successful tournament when he excellently won the gold medal in the Youth Kickboxing Championship. He participated in this tournament in the 75 kg weight class for the age group of 14-16. Thanh's path to the final match was quite easy because he completely dominated his opponents. Thanh showed the spirit of a champion when he won most of his matches by knockout.
Recalling the final match, Thanh said: “When the match was about to start, I was a bit worried that I would repeat the mistakes of previous years, but when the match started, I put aside all my worries, carefully observed my opponent's moves, and gradually figured out my opponent's way of fighting, from there I proactively attacked and occupied the space, not giving my opponent time to react. By attacking first and delivering consecutive blows, I knocked out my opponent in the first round.”
To achieve that result is the result of Bui Duy Chi Thanh's relentless efforts. Each move does not come naturally, but is the result of a process of hard training.
Sincerely confided: “Every martial artist who wants to be successful, in addition to practicing hard, needs to have their own special moves. As for me, after a period of training and being instructed by the coaches, I have also acquired the move “Xing tay truong”. When performing this move, my left hand will swing around to the opponent’s face with great force. If I perform it correctly and with the right technique, it will surprise the opponent and make them unable to react in time.”
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| Bui Duy Chi Thanh (blue shirt) in the final match at the 2020 National Youth Kickboxing Tournament. Photo: Duc Anh |
Bui Duy Chi Thanh was born into a family with a tradition of martial arts. His father is martial arts master Bui Duy Vinh - Head of Kickboxing and Boxing Department of the Provincial Sports Training Center. From a young age, Thanh was taken by his father to watch his brothers practice and compete, and gradually his love for martial arts seeped into him without him realizing it.
When I was in 6th grade, I asked my father to let me practice with my older brothers and sisters. At that time, Thanh was the youngest and had the smallest body in the class. When I first started practicing, I only thought that I would practice to improve my health and practice courage and strength, but I didn't think about practicing to become a professional athlete.
Thanh recalls his first time in the ring: “In the first match, when I saw my opponent, my training partner, with a large body, I was very scared, but then in the second and third rounds, I got used to it and was more resilient. That match, I lost and it was also a match that I will never forget."
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| Photo: Duc Anh |
After many years of practicing Kickboxing, Thanh has gradually matured and become more outstanding than his fellow trainees. The biggest turning point was when he entered 10th grade. He faced two forks in the road of life: continuing to focus on studying culture to be able to take the university entrance exam, or following the path of a professional athlete to inherit the family tradition.
After consulting his father and wanting to live by his passion, Thanh decided to follow the path of a professional athlete. Before becoming a professional boxer, Thanh still clearly remembers the words of his father, martial artist Bui Duy Vinh: "If you follow the path of professional martial arts, you must really try to practice, only by sweating on the training floor can you hope to defeat all opponents in the ring."
After a period of training and competing, Bui Duy Chi Thanh has also won medals. In 2018 and 2019, Thanh participated in the National Youth Kickboxing Tournament and won a Silver Medal. Also in 2019, Thanh won a Gold Medal at the Lang Sen Martial Arts Tournament.
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| Awarding the Gold Medal to Bui Duy Chi Thanh at the 2020 National Youth Kickboxing Tournament. Photo: Duc Anh |
Although Thanh has achieved initial success as an athlete, he is also a good student at Huynh Thuc Khang High School. Among the subjects, Thanh is best at Foreign Languages.
In addition to martial arts training, Thanh always builds a reasonable daily schedule to be able to study cultural subjects well. Thanh's overall English score in recent years has been quite good, not inferior to his classmates.
In particular, Thanh also has a passion and talent for painting. Thanh said: “I am very passionate about fine arts, especially black and white portraiture. I have studied painting at several centers. Every day, I set aside a limited amount of my time to live with my passion on white canvases. Painting makes my personality calmer and makes me feel more refreshed, especially when I draw a satisfactory picture."
“Thanh is a promising athlete. If he trains seriously, he will be a typical Kickboxing athlete of the country in the future.
Winning the national youth kickboxing gold medal will be a "springboard" for Bui Duy Chi Thanh to aim to become an excellent athlete contributing to Vietnamese sports in the future./.
