Is the Chinese Wu Shu federation version of San Shou different from the San Shou in the west here?
Are the rules different?
Who has better san shou fighters in your opinions? PRC Wu Shu Fed or Western san shou orgs?
peace
I think Cung Le rules but I haven’t seen to many others fight San Shou. I would personally like less rules in Sanshou it’s too clean, it need some of the grit that Muay Thai has. Of course I’d probally be satisfied with sanda national comps:)
yes, but San Da is style-centric. a framework of rules would be difficult to build.
San Shou and San Da aren’t interchangeable.
San Shou is competition fighting based on Chinese martial arts.
San Da is the free fighting of your given system.
eagle vs tiger
bear vs horse
tiger vs tiger, etc
and with san da, all teachniques with the exception of killing intent strikes are explored in the San Da environment.
San Shou is, or rather has become, a full contact fighting style in a general framework that discludes many Kung Fu techniques and allows the sportive aspects to take precidence.
so all san da from school to school is “different” I’m wondering more about the main bodies and rule sets differences (if any) between to the two major organizations that run these events?
peace
In China, the word “Sanda” is coined for what is “Sanshou” in Western countries. Now “historically” [for what it worths], sanshou was mostly use for “challenge” [crossing hands] and sanda for competition or massive brawls
San Da is pretty much San Shou with knees and in a ring from what we know of the King of San Da competitions. The rules for Lei Tai fights are pretty much the same as IWF rules used at the world championships with the consecutive headshot rule not being enforced in the US since last year. In the ring San Shou only really differs in the total scoring done. Some use 10 point must while others use points awarded for throws added to point total. In NY we score the fight as you would in a normal Lei Tai match then give 10 to the winner and 9 to the loser with points taken off for standing eights or large point/skill discrepancies. In CA they award more points for throws than stand up skills so you get much larger point differentials.