Originally Posted by
Miqi
Professional Chinese conetmporary wushu players are much better than those old traditional guys - at least at forms. Modern forms are infinitely superior, the athletes massively fitter, stronger, more flexible, more agile and more technically skilled. When I see old videos like this, I just see something that is waiting to evolve into proper wushu forms by becoming faster, stronger, more technically challenging and more well trained, thanks to the government investing massively in the development of this skill base. Yet, we have to listen all the time to the nonsense that the Chinese government killed wushu, and that the real wushu is infinitely inferior athletes. That makes me laugh all day.