His plan was to practice martial arts on the artificial lake.
This was an idea Zhang Beixing had developed while training on a table. It was inspired by a martial art called "Boat Boxing," a traditional local style from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions. Primarily practiced by local fishermen, it was performed on the bow of a boat, an area only slightly wider than an eight-immortal table—hence the name.
In his opinion, if training on a table had already proven so challenging and accelerated his progress so much, then training on the undulating surface of water should be even more difficult and allow him to improve even faster.It was much like Boat Boxing, which heavily emphasized lower body strength.
