East Asia Games

[SPJ]

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have fun.

there was a tornado kick or Xuan Feng Jiao.

there was also a jump kick or Er Qi Jiao.

cool.

[GLW]

Where ya been...

This has been going on for a number of years. It is pretty sad. they have added the jumping kicks, lower on one leg, etc... in the Taijiquan events to raise the level of difficulty so they can pick a winner more easily.

It pretty much makes a split from Taijiquan in the way they are doing it. What they have pretty much done is said that Taijiquan is ONLY about how you PHYSICALLY do the moves and not at all in the spirit or flavor. They are basically saying either that the competitors have so much skill in the internal and flavor aspects of Taijiquan that they are equal without a level of difficulty added (not at all true) or that the judges cannot see or detect a flavor of an internal art and an understanding in the various competitors ...so they can only see the external approaches.

So...to my way of thinking, they are admitting that they don't understand Taijiquan and can't judge it.

Given that they have consistently moved Taijiquan events to lower priorities, I would believe the latter is true.

[GeneChing]

China powered ahead in the medals table at the East Asian Games Wednesday, dominating the martial arts events as they reached their climax.


China's Zhao Longlong and He Xin perform choreographed martial arts actions in wushu taolu women's combat competition at the East Asian Games in Tianjin, China on October 9, 2013. (AP/Alexander F Yuan)

BEIJING - China powered ahead in the medals table at the East Asian Games Wednesday, dominating the martial arts events as they reached their climax.

With 12 martial arts golds up for grabs Wednesday, by late afternoon China had taken six of them, compared with three for Hong Kong and one for South Korea.

The host nation had already won six of the eight martial arts golds awarded in the first two days of competition at the 10-day regional contest.

Wednesday's haul included four of the six gold medals to be contested in the "sanshou" events -- in which gloved fighters confront each other in physical combat.

Among the victorious Chinese fighters were Xiao Chun, who won the 52-kilogramme event, and Li Kang, who claimed gold in the 56-kilogramme category.

South Korea's Ham Gwansik took gold in the 65-kilogramme event, while Hong Kong's Li Sone-wai won the 60-kilogramme contest.

Chinese women fighters Feng Yufang (48-kilogramme) and Qiu Tiao (52-kilogramme) also took gold in their categories.

China also took two of the four gold medals in the "taolu" events, in which athletes do not engage in fights but are assessed on their techniques.

Liang Yongda took the gold for men's "nanquan" and "nangun", where fighters are assessed on their techniques in a type of boxing which translates into English as "Southern Fist", and also their combat techniques using a stick-like weapon.

Chinese women's pair Zhao Longlong and Xin He also claimed gold in their non-combative event.

Hong Kong took a pair of "taolu" golds, one in a men's event and the other in a women's event assessing techniques in stick and sword weapon use.

By late afternoon Wednesday, China had a total of 55 gold medals overall, ahead of South Korea on 16 and Japan on 12.

This year's competition features more than 2,400 athletes from China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Guam, competing in 24 different sports in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin.

It is the last time the East Asian Games will be held in their current form, the state news agency Xinhua reported, with the event due to be transformed into a youth games for athletes aged 14 to 18.

- AFP/ir

slow news day today...