CNY Demo on CCTV in China!

[firepalm]

A friend sent me this link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=th20fh1xgYk

Only China can pull this stuff off! :eek:

[SPJ]

thanx for posting.

gun shu (staff), jian shu (straight sword).

long fist (chang quan) and tai chi.

single whip, golden pheasant standing on one leg, ban lan chui etc.

luv Tai Chi especially.

it is not unusual to use wushu demo for entertainment

it is so since antiquity.

soldier wore antler pretending to charge in yellow emperor period.

troops practice wushu to entertain the general, the king and the emperor.

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cool.

dun like the costume for staff people.

these are individual wushu routines, there are also group staff formation for combat or gun zhen. but not shown, sort of disappointed.

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;)

[firepalm]

This one is more of a Tai Chi demo but still very well done & entertaining
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1o3Oto5z24
Enjoy :cool:

[firepalm]

In a similar style and also very entertaining
http://youtube.com/watch?v=T1FldiRdC3w

China is really getting good at these mass performances. Guess it's all in the resources!

[diego]

A friend sent me this link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=th20fh1xgYk

Only China can pull this stuff off! :eek:

Holy Kung Fu Disneyland, Batman:) wushu cats are great athletes...Real Gung Fu is not a dance, it is a skill of turning your body into a tool.

These guys bounce around awesome they have great foundation skills they dance well.

Instead of gymnastics to make your form look great, imagine if they mastered construction work...using your hands as hooks hugging 500 pounds to your dan tien as you walk up thirty flights of stairs all day. Jackhammering in a kneel horse all day trying to trim the concrete from the steps...putting in balcony hangers hammering from odd outsretched positions all day, these are the types of activities that created real street style chinese martial art. Imagine if they put that type of vigor into their performances. scholarly kung fu is wack...all the famous CMA's had some sort of wrestling skills type training.

Is there any good performances coming up in Vancity chinatown Firepalm?.

[firepalm]

Hey Diego, there will be the usual parade in Chinatown on the coming Sunday, let's hope our weather turns out the way it did last year. Van has too much of the snow then rain then snow then rain thing the past couple of weeks.

There will also be the usual delugee of Lion Dance & Choi Cheng (grabbing greens) at the Shopping Malls & such.

Other then that no specific Martial Arts public performances that I know of.

Footnote on your comment about 'street style CMA'. Majority of the performers in the group stuff with the staffs & the tumbling (not the performers in the solo spots) all come from China's largest private school 'Tagou Shaolin Wushu Institute'. Tagou trains Sanshou fighters just as ablely as it does the 'acrobatic wushu' performers. In fact many of the private schools train their people in Sanshou, TKD, Wrestling and some are moving towards MMA. So don't take what you see from the performing aspect of such shows as the only thing China has to offer. China still has traditional, fighting and all the other aspects. :cool:

[diego]

Hey Diego, there will be the usual parade in Chinatown on the coming Sunday, let's hope our weather turns out the way it did last year. Van has too much of the snow then rain then snow then rain thing the past couple of weeks.

There will also be the usual delugee of Lion Dance & Choi Cheng (grabbing greens) at the Shopping Malls & such.

Other then that no specific Martial Arts public performances that I know of.

Footnote on your comment about 'street style CMA'. Majority of the performers in the group stuff with the staffs & the tumbling (not the performers in the solo spots) all come from China's largest private school 'Tagou Shaolin Wushu Institute'. Tagou trains Sanshou fighters just as ablely as it does the 'acrobatic wushu' performers. In fact many of the private schools train their people in Sanshou, TKD, Wrestling and some are moving towards MMA. So don't take what you see from the performing aspect of such shows as the only thing China has to offer. China still has traditional, fighting and all the other aspects. :cool:

:cool: Thanks for the update on Vancouver's celebrations. I didn't get to look at the full clips yet, I'm just imagining the alternate dimension where the cultural revolution didn't happen and they have Olympic Hop Gar!!!:D I like wushu, it's just hard to get info on hop gar and I blame a lot of that on things like Comunists. peace

James

[firepalm]

Hop Gar why didn't you just say so; Wilson Wu of Kung Fu Ocean http://www.kungfu-ocean.com/ , a very instructor & very proficient in Hop Gar.

Then there's Vincent Chow of White Crane from Kwong Boon Fu lineage; http://www.angelfire.com/bc/whitecrane/

Lama Kung Fu people under Tony Jay here http://www.freakyman.ca/Tibet%20Lama also includes a bit of info on Peter Fong Sek Hon also a Lama person.

Just in case I hadn't posted before. :cool:

[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEwUwMB2mrQ&feature=related

some do's and don'ts.

:D;):)

[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKjVxUxJJ08&feature=related

mickey, minnie and singing group twins, fahrenheit --

they are having a special show at HK disneyland for the new year.

:)

[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnw8Uo7nncw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_mew6xBZB4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APVeiBM4Jbk&feature=related

TWINS music video or MV for the new year celeration at HK disneyland.

:)

[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1QWXjPx_b4

this is just a hilarious kung fu episode at mickey mouse club.

:)

[firepalm]

Some links to stuff a little more closely related
http://vsearch.cctv.com/play.jsp?ref=CCTVCOM_20070201_1490658&kw=&db=&projectId=

A Kung Fu Stage Show choreographer in China discusses some of her work (wait for the Chinese KFC commercial to complete ;) ) .

[SPJ]

if you go to the bookstore in china town, you would find dvd for spring festival celebration CCTV show for each year.

it used to be one show that had everything.

now they are categorized into different shows.

I usually buy the show with classical music and drama/play or xi chu play and song.

modern one I dun like them too much.

however, for the autumn moon festival, cctv has the best show for modern chinese music and pop songs. you may find them on youtube, too.

:)