Originally Posted by
Redfish
Lueb, you are only treading on dangerous ground in that your entire post there was nonsense.
Where did it come from, what was it's background? ... gymnastics. Modern Wushu was created from the floor/rhythm gymnastics model.
Why was it created - for competition? It was created by a government bent on remoulding society in it's ideological image. There was no intention to improve or modify 'kung fu' for reasons such as standardisation - only to replace it.
Traditional should be slow? I've no idea what you're talking about as I have to practice all my forms with as much speed, power and definition as possible.
Jealous? I do often admire that physical prowess of some modern wushu players, I spent a lot of time here around the ex-Shanghai team captain Alvin Guo Liang. But that's the same admiration I feel looking at an olympic gymnast or an NBA basketball player - appreciating athletecism. The skill of modern wushu players is not applicable to kung fu skills of fighting. As a whole army of MMA guys will repeat in other forums: just repeating punch-movements in a performance does not confer fighting skills.
If that exact same form was really performed at a 'traditional' comp and was congratulated then the people watching had no idea about Mantis or were just being nice.