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Not tillhe responds to my last post. :)

Yay for wushu in the olympics!

I've expressed my views on wushuHere.

What asssumption am I making about traditional training and why is it flawed?




Sorry. I should have said sport fighters beat TMA’ers.



That’s all I’m saying. TMA’ers putting down...

Wushu is still martial arts. The skills that it cultivates (Stances, punches, kicks, thrusts, chops) are the same. The skills are totally transferrable. If you saw basic wushu longfist next to...

Sorry, I was unclear. When I said “Street” fighters I was being sarcastic. I didn’t mean real streetfighters, I meant the guys who practice eyepokes and compliant drills on each other and won’t...

Absolutely. I agree.

Dude, nobody said that wushu can fight. Wushu isn’t FOR fighting. My point is the opposite.Attacking wushu for not fighting is like attacking Iaido for being impractical.

Heres the thing
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Wushu players are elite athletes that can jump rings around you. They've specialized in forms performance and they do it extremely well. Most TCMAers can't do forms OR fight.

"Forms are only a small part of Kung Fu training."

"But many schools ONLY train forms"

"Well at MY school we....."

"OK. But many schools ONLY train forms, so you can't generalize"

"Well...

Good post. Except that your summary bears no resembelance to how a LOT of Kung Fu is trained.

Judge,

Where are your videos?

I want to see.

I think the answer's pretty simple. They use Japanese terms and uniforms because they were already in common usage at the time. "Dojo" "Kata" and "bo" are pretty much English words by now. ...

It originally was called "China hand" they changed the first character (same pronounciation) to mean "empty hand" for nationalist reasons. They wanted it to be an indigenous art rather than a...

Like I said, Karate is a CMA derivative.

"Karate" MEANS "China Hand."

Goju ryu is Yongchun White Crane gung fu with the names translated into Japanese.

Forms training is unique to CMA, if we consider that Karate, TKD, etc, are all dirivatives of CMA. Traditional JMA (JuJutsu, kenjutsu) use two man katas. Only CMA and its dirivatives use the solo,...

What is TMA?

Wow. Is this a hoax?

How are they going to find the athletes? I'd imagine the available pool would be very small.

LMAO! OK, that is ironic!

Your feiyues will wear out quickly if you run in them.

Explain. I don't understand why this is ironic.

Again, I'd like to see some evidence.

For those who think that performance kung fu was invented by the communists:

There's an interesting article on kung fu history at :
http://cclib.nsu.ru/projects/satbi/s...tyi/dross.html

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I'd like to see evidence of that. Do you think the Shaolin monks wer hitting focus mitts?

I see forms as being like the blue angels...a way for an army to demonstrate their might and...

Its a breakfast cereal made from oats nuts and flakes, favored by hippies.

Working on forms has benefits as well...you will improve your flexibility, rootedness and general kinestetic awareness much faster than you will with bag drills.

I'm glad to hear about your...