In Wu Shu you have to be very flexible and pretty much know how to do gymnastics. Flips, twirls, spirals and so forth are all the flexibility of Wu Shu. But how long can you do this? I betcha Jet Li can't do all the Wu Shu movements like he used to when he was young. In Kung Fu, you can still practice till you're 70 and maybe learn Tai Chi. Wu Shu you can't.
@TheHailstorm77 I heard he broke an ankle while filming Shaolin Temple, broke it again while filming OUATIC and then injured his back while filming Born to Defend. He's lucky that he can even kick hard nowadays.
I honestly, never like Wu Shu whenever I go to tournaments because it fools the audience into thinking it's pure Kung Fu when it's not. The broadsword that Jet Li is carrying is called paper sword. Real Kung Fu practioners use real steel broadswords to practice. Wu Shu also use these thin staffs and spears because they can bend. Real Kung Fu use thick staff and spears so the practitioner can practice chi and focus on speed and power.
Regardless of what you say guys. Wu Shu was a combination of Martial arts that's true. However, the traditional Wu Shu had fighting techniques until the Communist govt. decided to sanction it and turn it into a sport kinda like how South Korea did with Taekwondo.Taekwondo is a modified Karate, that's why their blocking, strikes and stances are similar. Karate is a modified version of Karate as well. Taekwondo has two federation. One mainly for sport and kicking and the other for forms.
wushu is sport. traditional styles such as hung gar and fu jiao pai (not sure of my spelling) are meant for self defense and actual fights. do not get me wrong, i quite like wushu, and have high respect for it, but it will never have the same respect as the respect i have for traditional styles.
All you guys talking shit about Wushu? maybe its true, but it really depends on the practitioner. But for sure, u cant deny Jet Li can still chop u up!
@utra1337 I'm pretty sure he can't. Wushu practitioners use light, dull, and floppy swords for maximum showboating. Once again even the weapon forms of wushu are "flowery fists and embroidered kicks."
@HyperDrive2020 ur right, those wushu practitioners,most of them don't practice the applications. But not all of them! it all depends on how you view the art. Jet li is a traditional kungfu practitioner, but he did join wushu competions.
@kitchenknifeset well this is a performance sword not a real blade. Chinese weapons including the staff are more flexible which means u can strike at different angles. it may look abit flimsy but the real ones are heavier and were used in war so they're razor sharp.
these days shaolin kung fu is more like modern wushu ,jus like hyperdrive say, it is all forms no real application. it is only "flowery fists and embroided kicks". They train sanda 4 actual fighting
Yeah the chinese sword work is a different thing. Flexibility and snap. I used to under-appreciate Jet Li b/c I thought his limbs looked too "stringy". Now that I study, I see that this is actually beneficial. You don't want to get hit by someone who is loose, who knows how to "snap" punches and kicks. I can only imagine what a sword slash would do!
@HyperDrive2020 I do wushu myself and yes it does involve qi. My master is constantly telling us why we should have perfect form or taolu (I think that's what it is), to center our qi. So don't talk about what you don't know about.
@huoyuanjia1963 Wushu literally means "martial art" in Mandarin. So your master is using the term Wushu in that sense. Here we're talking about the sport which is a bunch of forms put together in a homogenized style. Practitioners of traditional kung fu styles don't like it because it is all forms and no application. As a joke, they call it "flowery fists and embroidered kicks."
@HyperDrive2020 you can see it as gymnastics , i believe its called twirling its practically the same thing but its an respected art form(wu shu) and no traditional martial has a big influence in the modern fighting world so there all on the same level in a real fight. personally i like traditional ways just for the sake of keeping the tradition alive sadly most of them have been modernized or turned in to sports.
@HyperDrive2020 those masters who call wushu "flowery fists and embroidered kicks" can't be considered real marital artist, as they do not show the humility, respect and tolerance needed for them to be even called martial arts. Also "kung fu" means effort in chinese, so the term kung fu is actually an inaccurated disccription of chinese martial arts as it only incorporates the physical aspect, not the spiritual aspect, because ALL martial arts are both physical and spiritual
@HyperDrive2020 also in case you didn't know, sanda is also a sub category of the modern wushu, which is a full contact fighting sport as brutal as muay thai, and proper sanda schools in china will not accept you unless you have the basic mastery of all the so claimed "flowery fists and embroidred kicks" because wushu practicioners have better body strength and balance than any other type of martial artist out there. So if it is applied to full contact sports, like sanda, it is huge a advantage.
@Hongers1 Sanda/Sanshou is not a subset of Wushu, it's kickboxing . Plus, all sanda/sanshou schools have kids classes. Then again, it would be logical for a wushu person to seek an art out that teaches real application.
Brutal as Muay Thai? I suppose it might exist but I never heard of Sanda training where people hit and kick trees for hours on end in deep jungle.
Best balance? That's a matter of opinion. IMO, capoeira requires the most.
@HyperDrive2020 that's where you're right, you have no idea how balanced a wushu practisioner is. Capoeira is built on the basis of core streng as it is derived from dancing. Sanda is definitely a subset of wushu, you go to wushu tournements in china and they have sanda categories. I've been trained in wushs since i was 9 (i'm 19) and sanda since i was 16, so i can definitely say that from personal experience, sanda is definitely a subset of wushu.
@Hongers1 They're both under the same cultural sports authority and that's about it. A form of kickboxing is not a subset of something that is only forms.
Again, it's a matter of opinion on who has better balance. Capoeira is not derived from dancing. It's a martial art turned into a dance. Besides a wushu person does not have better balance than say Hwang Jang Lee or the Long brothers.
@HyperDrive2020 also with modern muay thai, hardly anybody train properly in the jungles these days, those training methods are extremely hard to find in thailand these days. But yeah i just wanted share my knowledge and experience on chinese martial arts with you. I respect your opinion. peace.
@HyperDrive2020 perhapse you might like to learn more about the chinese history because i can see that the knowledge you possess aren't broad enough to fully understand the complex history and evolution of chinese martial arts. peace.
@Hongers1 Not even Jet Li is capable of tracing the history of every Chinese martial art. However, it's common knowledge that Shaolin Fut Ga Kuen originated in the 17th century from Choy Ga, Hung Ga, Lau Ga, Li Ga, and Mok Ga.
From WW2 to present has been of era of decline and deevolution for kung fu. A good example of the decline is the movie Needle Through Brick. I'm not even going to talk about what Mao's cultural revolution did. I do know that modern sport wushu is one result of it.
@HyperDrive2020 that's only one style of chinese kung fu, chinese martial arts has a long history, and it is fused over time with lots of different martial arts from different parts of china. you my friend are making a huge gerneralisation about Chinese martial arts based on your knowledge of just a few martial arts styles.
@HyperDrive2020 well at least that's something we can both agree on, and good to see someone else who also knows the real roots of chinese martial arts which is from the xia dynasty. Too many people mistakenly think that kung fu was born in the shaolin temple due to the arrival of bodidharma which completely incorrect, when infact i began more than 2000 years before that arrival of bodidharma.
@Hongers1 Good point. People nowaday only know Chinese martial arts from movies, especially, Jet Li first movie, "Sholin Temple" . It is sad that many people, even Chinese people, said that " All Chinese Martial arts are root from Sholin". Many top Chinese martial arts schools are Kunlun Clan, Hua Shan Clan, Wutai Clan, Emei Clan, etc. just to name a few which surpass Sholin school.
@Hongers1 However, today people only know Sholin and Wudong and Wudong is claimed to be reformed from Sholin. Then Indian claimed that sholin reformed from dhanurveda so all Chinese martial arts are from India.
@leonyoung there's a word for those people, ignorance. they base their facts around the limted knowledge they have about a certain subject. It's like the frog in the well, they only know one fraction of the total story and they think they know it all. Also the fighting part of shaolin was never taught by bodidharma, he only taught meditation and possibly yoga to the monks, because bodidharma himself didn't know any form of combat.
@leonyoung the combat part of shaolin kung fu is from taoism, it was taught to buddist monks around 400-500 AD by a taoist martial artist so the monks can defend themselves from the local tyrants and thieves. Indians claim that chinese martial arts originated from indian because shaolin is associated with buddism which originated from indian, but shaolin is only a minute aspect of chinese martial arts. just because there is association, doesn't mean that it is the causation
@HyperDrive2020 Yea you're right.The proper word would be contemporary Kungfu/wushu. Just for others to know, there are the traditional routines (real bad ass) and international routines(good for street fights too if one knows how to apply) My coach teacher the international version but he knows traditional as well as intl forms and constantly spars with his friends (till bleeding and bruised)
@HyperDrive2020 can you give me an advice pls? I am asking you because of your answer.. i am a dancer but always wanted to do a martial arts too, and always liked kung fu and swords.. but I realize a lot of things are just for show; it looks awesome and i would love to learn that however i want to learn something which is also useful.. If you or anybody can give me a good advice, it will be very appreciated. Thanks!
@sharka0022 You might want to ask around about Wing Chun, Choy Li Fut, Southern Mantis Chow Gar and Jook lum, Bagua, and XingYi. Athough with your dancing background, a more martial form of the Brazilian art of Capoeira would be a good fit as well.
@sharka0022 It really depends on what sort of style you want to learn I personally train in Shaolin Hung Fut which is a hybrid of two southern styles. IMHO most of the southern forms of kung fu focus on the use of hands although there are some forms that involve kicks and jumps. Take Wing Chun for example about 80% of it is based on fast hand movements and attacks down the centre line, you might want to check out a movie called IP MAN, it's pretty good as it shows the applications
@ykho1 thanks for your reply! I am still watching videos and starting to see differences between styles, well there's Shaolin Mok-Gar kung fu in my city which seems to be that sort of thing i would like to learn as i wanna do also kicks and weapons, and i checked Hung Fut and that looks cool to me too :) Good stuff.. Thnx
@HyperDrive2020 ...yes, that's why its a performance martial art. I've never encountered a competition involving "Wushu" style matches between 2 opponents. Its always just a single person or two demonstrating and judges giving points.
@Hongers1 You can't generalize. A lot of northern styles derive from the Northern Shaolin school which have no connection with Taoism and are external meaning they do not use qi.
@HyperDrive2020 actually i'm not generalising, shaolin kung fu definitely use qi because as a chinese decendent myself and a trained wushu practicioner, i have trained in both the northern and southern chinese temples in china. the chinese religions are highly associated, with each other, the Chinese Buddists and Taoists have a long history of harmonious friendships, because all chinese religions are based on tolerance and respect, if one religion has good practise, the other would take it up.
@Hongers1 The closest Shaolin gets are breathing exercises. If it was using qi, it'd be put with Baguazhang and etc. in the internal category.
If what you say is true, then Shaolin and Wu Tang would never have been two separate and rival schools. Plus the cultural revolution changed everything. Taoism is pantheism and can be seen in it's proper form in Taiwan and etc. The northern shaolin temple is mostly just a theme park now. The real southern temple hasn't existed since the Qing dynasty.
The sound he makes dont really match the video and broadswords dont sound like that
horsepony3 2 weeks ago
Is there a separate class in learning sword fighting, or does it come with learning kung fu techniques?
mark9111111 2 weeks ago
0:19 u can see he can become a brake dancer too :)))) God Bless Jet Li !!! <3
AmberGirL87 1 month ago
In Wu Shu you have to be very flexible and pretty much know how to do gymnastics. Flips, twirls, spirals and so forth are all the flexibility of Wu Shu. But how long can you do this? I betcha Jet Li can't do all the Wu Shu movements like he used to when he was young. In Kung Fu, you can still practice till you're 70 and maybe learn Tai Chi. Wu Shu you can't.
TheHailstorm77 2 months ago
@TheHailstorm77 I heard he broke an ankle while filming Shaolin Temple, broke it again while filming OUATIC and then injured his back while filming Born to Defend. He's lucky that he can even kick hard nowadays.
HyperDrive2020 2 months ago
@TheHailstorm77 Wu Shu is part of Gung Fu, becuase Gung Fu is a generally term for all Chinese martial art.
monnster88 1 month ago
I honestly, never like Wu Shu whenever I go to tournaments because it fools the audience into thinking it's pure Kung Fu when it's not. The broadsword that Jet Li is carrying is called paper sword. Real Kung Fu practioners use real steel broadswords to practice. Wu Shu also use these thin staffs and spears because they can bend. Real Kung Fu use thick staff and spears so the practitioner can practice chi and focus on speed and power.
TheHailstorm77 2 months ago
Regardless of what you say guys. Wu Shu was a combination of Martial arts that's true. However, the traditional Wu Shu had fighting techniques until the Communist govt. decided to sanction it and turn it into a sport kinda like how South Korea did with Taekwondo.Taekwondo is a modified Karate, that's why their blocking, strikes and stances are similar. Karate is a modified version of Karate as well. Taekwondo has two federation. One mainly for sport and kicking and the other for forms.
TheHailstorm77 2 months ago
at 19 secs... if he could do that he could be the best bboy
Tiddiebang 6 months ago
Jet Li originated Breakdancing.
champion5545 7 months ago
LOL @ the sound effects
DavorNL 7 months ago
wushu is sport. traditional styles such as hung gar and fu jiao pai (not sure of my spelling) are meant for self defense and actual fights. do not get me wrong, i quite like wushu, and have high respect for it, but it will never have the same respect as the respect i have for traditional styles.
shiroazumari 7 months ago
its break dance lol haha
Meganinja1100 8 months ago
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I bet he could chop up most of his critics with his flowery showboating anyway... and I don't have a very high opinion of modern Wushu.
Niccomawf 10 months ago
I bet he could chop up most of his critics with his flowery showboating anyway... and I don't have a very high opinion of modern Wushu.
Niccomawf 10 months ago
0:39 Slow mo-Damn! 0_o
ByeByeBirdie89 11 months ago
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ByeByeBirdie89 11 months ago
All you guys talking shit about Wushu? maybe its true, but it really depends on the practitioner. But for sure, u cant deny Jet Li can still chop u up!
utra1337 11 months ago
@utra1337 I'm pretty sure he can't. Wushu practitioners use light, dull, and floppy swords for maximum showboating. Once again even the weapon forms of wushu are "flowery fists and embroidered kicks."
iMisogynist 11 months ago
This is too Frigging AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
GokusenRulez 1 year ago
this is too Freaking AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GokusenRulez 1 year ago
this is what sets him apart from the rest of this time period. he's first and foremost a martial artist, then comes the actor part
beyourselfth 1 year ago
@HyperDrive2020 ur right, those wushu practitioners,most of them don't practice the applications. But not all of them! it all depends on how you view the art. Jet li is a traditional kungfu practitioner, but he did join wushu competions.
timpuget 1 year ago
nice one:)
djenava02 1 year ago
Was that some capoeira he mixed in there? Great scene.
BandakaKush 1 year ago
Jet li is excelent!
great workout!
UnknownFromHeaven 1 year ago
0:18 bboy Jet Li
spiderman5402 1 year ago
can u guys upload this entire video fo us to watch
2whoeraempire 1 year ago
why do the chinese swords look all flimsy? that question has been bothering me for a while now
kitchenknifeset 1 year ago
@kitchenknifeset well this is a performance sword not a real blade. Chinese weapons including the staff are more flexible which means u can strike at different angles. it may look abit flimsy but the real ones are heavier and were used in war so they're razor sharp.
HAPPYDRAGON6 1 year ago
@HAPPYDRAGON6 ooohhhh that makes a lot more sense thanks :3
kitchenknifeset 1 year ago
I wanna see this movie...
misszsp 1 year ago
Your comments are really deep. Mine will be quite shallow xD Jet Li is totally HOT!!
olcia0123 1 year ago
From :17 to :22 he looked like he was breakdancing.
Djcrazykidd 1 year ago
damn i like his hair :D
maestrularmelor 1 year ago
nice
okebasoccerplayer 1 year ago
The greatest martial artist.
hereinsertname 1 year ago
these days shaolin kung fu is more like modern wushu ,jus like hyperdrive say, it is all forms no real application. it is only "flowery fists and embroided kicks". They train sanda 4 actual fighting
MechPhantom 1 year ago
nice sound effects fag
Xytos 1 year ago
Yeah the chinese sword work is a different thing. Flexibility and snap. I used to under-appreciate Jet Li b/c I thought his limbs looked too "stringy". Now that I study, I see that this is actually beneficial. You don't want to get hit by someone who is loose, who knows how to "snap" punches and kicks. I can only imagine what a sword slash would do!
holygroove2 2 years ago
dude thats how the sword is suposed to be. Its wushu, so you can shot chi from it...
PapiaInMyPocket 2 years ago
Wushu has nothing to do with Taoist theories such as chi.
HyperDrive2020 2 years ago
@HyperDrive2020 I do wushu myself and yes it does involve qi. My master is constantly telling us why we should have perfect form or taolu (I think that's what it is), to center our qi. So don't talk about what you don't know about.
huoyuanjia1963 1 year ago
@huoyuanjia1963 Wushu literally means "martial art" in Mandarin. So your master is using the term Wushu in that sense. Here we're talking about the sport which is a bunch of forms put together in a homogenized style. Practitioners of traditional kung fu styles don't like it because it is all forms and no application. As a joke, they call it "flowery fists and embroidered kicks."
HyperDrive2020 1 year ago 11
@HyperDrive2020 you can see it as gymnastics , i believe its called twirling its practically the same thing but its an respected art form(wu shu) and no traditional martial has a big influence in the modern fighting world so there all on the same level in a real fight. personally i like traditional ways just for the sake of keeping the tradition alive sadly most of them have been modernized or turned in to sports.
flyingvish 1 year ago
@flyingvish True. Muay Thai might be an exception.
HyperDrive2020 1 year ago
@HyperDrive2020 those masters who call wushu "flowery fists and embroidered kicks" can't be considered real marital artist, as they do not show the humility, respect and tolerance needed for them to be even called martial arts. Also "kung fu" means effort in chinese, so the term kung fu is actually an inaccurated disccription of chinese martial arts as it only incorporates the physical aspect, not the spiritual aspect, because ALL martial arts are both physical and spiritual
Hongers1 1 year ago
@Hongers1 By that logic, all of the kung fu schools who fought each other because of pride in their style aren't real kung fu schools.
All martial arts are spiritual? Seriously, I never heard of BJJ, Sambo or Savate having spiritual exercises.
HyperDrive2020 1 year ago
@HyperDrive2020 also in case you didn't know, sanda is also a sub category of the modern wushu, which is a full contact fighting sport as brutal as muay thai, and proper sanda schools in china will not accept you unless you have the basic mastery of all the so claimed "flowery fists and embroidred kicks" because wushu practicioners have better body strength and balance than any other type of martial artist out there. So if it is applied to full contact sports, like sanda, it is huge a advantage.
Hongers1 1 year ago
@Hongers1 Sanda/Sanshou is not a subset of Wushu, it's kickboxing . Plus, all sanda/sanshou schools have kids classes. Then again, it would be logical for a wushu person to seek an art out that teaches real application.
Brutal as Muay Thai? I suppose it might exist but I never heard of Sanda training where people hit and kick trees for hours on end in deep jungle.
Best balance? That's a matter of opinion. IMO, capoeira requires the most.
HyperDrive2020 1 year ago
@HyperDrive2020 that's where you're right, you have no idea how balanced a wushu practisioner is. Capoeira is built on the basis of core streng as it is derived from dancing. Sanda is definitely a subset of wushu, you go to wushu tournements in china and they have sanda categories. I've been trained in wushs since i was 9 (i'm 19) and sanda since i was 16, so i can definitely say that from personal experience, sanda is definitely a subset of wushu.
Hongers1 1 year ago
@Hongers1 They're both under the same cultural sports authority and that's about it. A form of kickboxing is not a subset of something that is only forms.
Again, it's a matter of opinion on who has better balance. Capoeira is not derived from dancing. It's a martial art turned into a dance. Besides a wushu person does not have better balance than say Hwang Jang Lee or the Long brothers.
HyperDrive2020 1 year ago
@HyperDrive2020 also with modern muay thai, hardly anybody train properly in the jungles these days, those training methods are extremely hard to find in thailand these days. But yeah i just wanted share my knowledge and experience on chinese martial arts with you. I respect your opinion. peace.
Hongers1 1 year ago
@HyperDrive2020 perhapse you might like to learn more about the chinese history because i can see that the knowledge you possess aren't broad enough to fully understand the complex history and evolution of chinese martial arts. peace.
Hongers1 1 year ago
@Hongers1 Not even Jet Li is capable of tracing the history of every Chinese martial art. However, it's common knowledge that Shaolin Fut Ga Kuen originated in the 17th century from Choy Ga, Hung Ga, Lau Ga, Li Ga, and Mok Ga.
From WW2 to present has been of era of decline and deevolution for kung fu. A good example of the decline is the movie Needle Through Brick. I'm not even going to talk about what Mao's cultural revolution did. I do know that modern sport wushu is one result of it.
HyperDrive2020 1 year ago
@HyperDrive2020 that's only one style of chinese kung fu, chinese martial arts has a long history, and it is fused over time with lots of different martial arts from different parts of china. you my friend are making a huge gerneralisation about Chinese martial arts based on your knowledge of just a few martial arts styles.
Hongers1 1 year ago
@Hongers1 I'm not about to do an essay on kung fu from its start in the Xia Dynasty and so on.
HyperDrive2020 1 year ago
@HyperDrive2020 well at least that's something we can both agree on, and good to see someone else who also knows the real roots of chinese martial arts which is from the xia dynasty. Too many people mistakenly think that kung fu was born in the shaolin temple due to the arrival of bodidharma which completely incorrect, when infact i began more than 2000 years before that arrival of bodidharma.
Hongers1 1 year ago
@Hongers1 Yeah, I think, since the monks practice kung fu, people assume that it was always a part of Buddhism.
HyperDrive2020 1 year ago
@HyperDrive2020
Yeah I'm glad to see we all agree. Now lets stop suckin' each others dicks and start going to punk town and do as they do there.
YourLordVicious 1 year ago
@Hongers1 Good point. People nowaday only know Chinese martial arts from movies, especially, Jet Li first movie, "Sholin Temple" . It is sad that many people, even Chinese people, said that " All Chinese Martial arts are root from Sholin". Many top Chinese martial arts schools are Kunlun Clan, Hua Shan Clan, Wutai Clan, Emei Clan, etc. just to name a few which surpass Sholin school.
leonyoung 1 year ago
@Hongers1 However, today people only know Sholin and Wudong and Wudong is claimed to be reformed from Sholin. Then Indian claimed that sholin reformed from dhanurveda so all Chinese martial arts are from India.
leonyoung 1 year ago
@leonyoung there's a word for those people, ignorance. they base their facts around the limted knowledge they have about a certain subject. It's like the frog in the well, they only know one fraction of the total story and they think they know it all. Also the fighting part of shaolin was never taught by bodidharma, he only taught meditation and possibly yoga to the monks, because bodidharma himself didn't know any form of combat.
Hongers1 1 year ago
@leonyoung the combat part of shaolin kung fu is from taoism, it was taught to buddist monks around 400-500 AD by a taoist martial artist so the monks can defend themselves from the local tyrants and thieves. Indians claim that chinese martial arts originated from indian because shaolin is associated with buddism which originated from indian, but shaolin is only a minute aspect of chinese martial arts. just because there is association, doesn't mean that it is the causation
Hongers1 1 year ago
@Hongers1 who taught the xia dynasty martial arts?
NebunLaCap 1 year ago
@HyperDrive2020 Yea you're right.The proper word would be contemporary Kungfu/wushu. Just for others to know, there are the traditional routines (real bad ass) and international routines(good for street fights too if one knows how to apply) My coach teacher the international version but he knows traditional as well as intl forms and constantly spars with his friends (till bleeding and bruised)
plovakia 1 year ago
@HyperDrive2020 can you give me an advice pls? I am asking you because of your answer.. i am a dancer but always wanted to do a martial arts too, and always liked kung fu and swords.. but I realize a lot of things are just for show; it looks awesome and i would love to learn that however i want to learn something which is also useful.. If you or anybody can give me a good advice, it will be very appreciated. Thanks!
sharka0022 1 year ago
@sharka0022 You might want to ask around about Wing Chun, Choy Li Fut, Southern Mantis Chow Gar and Jook lum, Bagua, and XingYi. Athough with your dancing background, a more martial form of the Brazilian art of Capoeira would be a good fit as well.
HyperDrive2020 1 year ago
@sharka0022 It really depends on what sort of style you want to learn I personally train in Shaolin Hung Fut which is a hybrid of two southern styles. IMHO most of the southern forms of kung fu focus on the use of hands although there are some forms that involve kicks and jumps. Take Wing Chun for example about 80% of it is based on fast hand movements and attacks down the centre line, you might want to check out a movie called IP MAN, it's pretty good as it shows the applications
ykho1 1 year ago
@ykho1 thanks for your reply! I am still watching videos and starting to see differences between styles, well there's Shaolin Mok-Gar kung fu in my city which seems to be that sort of thing i would like to learn as i wanna do also kicks and weapons, and i checked Hung Fut and that looks cool to me too :) Good stuff.. Thnx
sharka0022 1 year ago
@HyperDrive2020 ...yes, that's why its a performance martial art. I've never encountered a competition involving "Wushu" style matches between 2 opponents. Its always just a single person or two demonstrating and judges giving points.
Cessnagirl1 5 months ago
@HyperDrive2020 that's where you're wrong, the northern chinese martial arts hacve a huge connection with taoist beliefs :)
Hongers1 1 year ago
@Hongers1 You can't generalize. A lot of northern styles derive from the Northern Shaolin school which have no connection with Taoism and are external meaning they do not use qi.
HyperDrive2020 1 year ago
@HyperDrive2020 actually i'm not generalising, shaolin kung fu definitely use qi because as a chinese decendent myself and a trained wushu practicioner, i have trained in both the northern and southern chinese temples in china. the chinese religions are highly associated, with each other, the Chinese Buddists and Taoists have a long history of harmonious friendships, because all chinese religions are based on tolerance and respect, if one religion has good practise, the other would take it up.
Hongers1 1 year ago
@Hongers1 The closest Shaolin gets are breathing exercises. If it was using qi, it'd be put with Baguazhang and etc. in the internal category.
If what you say is true, then Shaolin and Wu Tang would never have been two separate and rival schools. Plus the cultural revolution changed everything. Taoism is pantheism and can be seen in it's proper form in Taiwan and etc. The northern shaolin temple is mostly just a theme park now. The real southern temple hasn't existed since the Qing dynasty.
HyperDrive2020 1 year ago
for training purposes, it is aluminium..........have you every get a paper cut
gellydrop 2 years ago 6
wtf the things aluminum
sk8tergarret 2 years ago