The 1st World Traditional Kung Fu Championships

[joedoe]

Originally posted by GeneChing
You'll have to give us a full report here. I'll be interested about what happens there. It may even be worthy of a news item in the print mag. Let me know how it goes when you get back via PM. Hope you make it!

Will do. I will try and make sure I get some pics and post them here.

[firepalm]

Several interesting pix of the Traditional Wushu Kung Fu Championships in Zhengzhou, China. Go to http://www.beijingwushuteam.com/forum.html

Also has links with more info on event. Interesting to say the least, although some pix a tad bizarre!

[Ego_Extrodinaire]

is this opening for anyone else??

[Serpent]

Yep. Try reading the relevant post in the linked forum. Shouldn't be too hard for a genius.

[firepalm]

Sevearl photos and videos at this site
http://www.jiayo.com/gallery/wtwg2004

Overwhelming when watching the videos and seeing just how large an event it really was.

Check it out!

[firepalm]

Sevearl photos and videos at this site
http://www.jiayo.com/gallery/wtwg2004

Overwhelming when watching the videos and seeing just how large an event it really was.

Check it out!

[Shaolinlueb]

none of them are loading up for me right now. Ill check back later.

[GeneChing]

firepalm, are you Brandon?

[emre]

I thought this was a traditional tournament? Looking at their promotion video on that site, the people the US federation sent don't seem very... traditional.

[norther practitioner]

'cause if you do wushu, no matter how much classical you know, you're not traditional...

[Pk_StyLeZ]

where is the promotional video??
can u give me url please?

[norther practitioner]

It was promoting Brandon and some of those heads.. it's on Jiayo.

[emre]

Originally posted by norther practitioner

'cause if you do wushu, no matter how much classical you know, you're not traditional...

You have so many hours a day to train, if you spend half of it on dance forms, how can you be as good as someone else who spends all his time on the real stuff?

Aren't there any traditional stylists in the entire US of A that don't do Wushu that are better than these people?

Is it so easy to switch muscle memory on and off, doesn't modern Wushu practice effect one's traditional gongfu at all?

[Shaolinlueb]

Originally posted by emre
You have so many hours a day to train, if you spend half of it on dance forms, how can you be as good as someone else who spends all his time on the real stuff?

Aren't there any traditional stylists in the entire US of A that don't do Wushu that are better than these people?

Is it so easy to switch muscle memory on and off, doesn't modern Wushu practice effect one's traditional gongfu at all?

i dont know, i only see the sport of wushu as newer. to me the only thing "not traditional" in those forms is all those flips and such, but then again there are traditional styles with lots of jumping and such. and all those forms were based off of traditional ones. so technically its all traditional its all shaolin its all good, cheers.

[GeneChing]

There is no way to keep the modern out of the traditional since we live in modern times. It would be easier to ban cell phones in the arena. So there was some modern wushu on the floor and there was a special demo of wushu champions which is documented by the above website.

There seemed to be a the most modern wushu in the nanquan arena, as well as the four basic weapons, and of course the internal (but that's harder to separate). There wasn't too much in the Shaolin category, although some athletes competed with the new compulsory, and the jury is still out whether we are calling that modern wushu or not.

BTW, I'm going to address most of the questions about this event on this thread, just to make it simpler for me...