yes that is true, wushu has many aspects, duilian is is for show only, but most wushu practicioners practise both the forms and the sanda aspect of wushu.
why is everyone argueing over the arts when most likely less the half of those arguing have any actual disciplen in it? a simple equation is all thats needed for and style or disciplen. there are 2 parts to the martial arts, the martial, and the art. power and grace. simple as that.
@batarista I have been training in shaolin kung fu and wushu for 12 years continuously, my comment was very true. I didn't mean wushu would not help in self defense, but you also must agree that wushu is mostly for flashy and flary attention seeking skills. Thats is why it is most popular in competitions. And i can very well practice wushu, i do everyday, i have trained at the shaolin temple with Shi Yan Ming and Hu Jianqiang on numerous accounts as well as testing for 3 of my black belts with
@jdub7771 true, i was in the traditional wushu.. I was just trying to tell people that wushu can be used in fights, not just for competitions. And i gotta agree that the modern wushu forms are not useful in fights due to the flips. So conclusion, modern wushu MIGHT be able to be used for a real fight if the space is big enough, since they've learnt some of the basic moves of wushu afterall. and traditional wushu is the one you should learn if you wanna learn how to fight. Thank you for that :D
Lol, anyone with half a brain and a mind for self-preservation can just as easily turn the "pansy shit stuff" into a lethal combo worthy of even YOUR praise.
@mel956 thats very true, in wushu, we don't only learn bout the fighting movements. The most important thing is that we learned how to discipline ourselves through wushu. It's the art that we are learning.. And there's the flexibility in wushu that we learnt, which are not the same with other rough martial arts which relies mostly on brute force :D (im not saying bad bout other martial arts though, don't be offended :D)
That's entirely up to how and what you practice within wushu. A person that trains taolu will not have a big chance of beating a martial artist that practices actual fighting, i.e kickboxing, muay thai etc. But a person training sanshou has an equal chance at "winning".
@Kniitte I have been training in shaolin kung fu and wushu for 12 years continuously, my comment was very true as was yours. I didn't mean wushu would not help in self defense but you also must agree that wushu is mostly for entertainment of others thats is why it is most popular in competitions. i have trained with Shi Yan Ming and Hu Jianqiang on numerous accounts as well as testing for 3 of my black belts with Grand Master Hu and he is one of the greatest in the wushu field. I'm not stupid
@EASkateKrew Yes, you may be right,wushu its for performance. But you cannot say that Wushu is NOT for self defense. As you can see,the moves in wushu can also be used in self defense, that is if you done it correctly. It can be quite useful in fights. I myself is in wushu and i've learnt self defense in the lessons, and it sure is useful.
Not necessarily, street fighting is an art to tell the truth, just as much so as Jeet-Kune Do or the Drunken fist. Most people look down at street fighting as just brawling, because they think the way 'gangsters' fight is street fighting. My grandfather is 60 years old, weighs a hundred pounds, and can take down a 30 year old man, that weighs 200+ pounds. And he has been a street fighter since he was a kid.
@Carlos9994 completely agree with you. wushu perfects the coordination and speed of a person making them the quickest and most physically adept fighter. also, anyone with enough muscle in their leg to launch themselves 7-8 feet up in the air or take a fall from that height definitely has enough strength and knowledge of impact to fight
@sonnyboi83 I don't think so. Each technique in Wushu forms has its own application. Many people look down on forms a lot, but it's the way traditional Chinese martial artists have been practising for thousands of years. In the late Qing dynasty, China was very poor and many foreigners came to challenge Chinese Wushu masters. They were virtually all defeated.
@smackdown1233 That is Chinese Gongfu, samurais are Japanese and their swords aren't useful for Wushu Practitioners, however Chinese Dao is quite similar weapon to Japanaese Katana, still it's better for them to use Chinese weapons.
@sonnyboi83 Yeah, Mao Zedong didn't allow anything traditional to be practised in those old days. If you did ANYTHING traditional, they killed you. :/ But with the reforms, martial arts were re-introduced. In this video, you see forms. There is also sparring in Wushu. Forms and Sparring are the two main disciplines of Wushu and they're taught alongside each other.
@GYAAAAHH True, but then if that street fighter went and took a martial art he/she could become even better, martial arts augment a person's fighting skill
@kangriyx we might have a different view of the term wushu, from wat I've read tradional martial arts were suppressed by the Mao Zedong government in fear of being assassinated because he have seen how powerful it is. Instead a new Wushu was introduce by the government in the form of the video above. Google it if u want proof
As a man from China, i can say most of you guys totally wrong about wushu(martial art). wushu is a art of kill, is name of any kill skills, including boxing, karate, etc. kungfu is the level of your wushu skills. Tai Chi Quan is a kind of wushu, just like bagua, xingyi, monkey quan, snake quan, blabla. wushu is useless? yes, u can't kill anybody with swords in nowadays, so wushu only can be show like this. you wanna a real fight with an martial artist with a sword? he'll kill u in a minute.
as to the bare hands fight. even the mma or ufc in america is not real fight in ancient China. real fight of martial art always coz death or disable, because it is art of kill, there r too many dangerous moves such as get out of your eyeballs, break your bones... today in order to get into Olympics, artist put on gloves, obey rules, those who has bigger strength and faster speed always win, small guys has no chance in such sports.
@EASkateKrew Unless you take in the fact that "wushu" is chinese for "martial art" and "kung fu" translates to something like "hard work" or a skill attained through hard work. You're assuming that the sport wushu is the only thing that the name "wushu" is applied to.
how can other countries compete? how about by training. Besides, there are plenty of wushu schools outside of China. PLUS, there are plenty of olympic events that have a very limited number of countries in them because not every country can afford to have that large of a team. So why don't we just mandate team size? Basically, if it becomes an olympic sport, countries will compete, even if it does take a few olympics to make teams worthy of teams that practiced wush prior to the olympics.
yeah well you be this hardcore you have to go to china and attend their wushu academy, the training offered normal wushu clubs are nothing compared the training these wushu academy offer, it's like a martial arts boot camp
I disagree, no one fighting style is better than the other, it's all about the person's skill in that certain form of fighting. A streetfighter could defeat a martial artist if he/ she is good enough, and vice versa.
@EASkatekrew you really dont know nothing about this.. wushu is te martial art for excellence. thats qhy not many people can practice.. and if you want to try to fight with a wushu guy.. becarefull because thats why sanda exist in wushu..
I'm 14 year old, doing Wushu for a year now, no offence but a Wushu champion is may be better than a person without any kind of martial arts, but a Wushu champion is almost useless against any other martial art.
