[QUOTE=bawang;1245197]they share the same salute.
tai chi exaggerated the slow aspect of longfist and fabricated a mythology around it. then it became popular exercise for physically weak manchus.[/QUOTE]
That’s just ignorance, but one which the physically weak who pretend to know taijiquan have made easy to believe. But ignorance nevertheless.
[QUOTE=Miqi;1252312]You’ve obviously never met a professional level wushu athlete from China. They are all superbly fit and atheletic, in most cases much stronger and fitter than an average wester martial arts “expert”, and usually with far more authentic knowledge of traditional wushu, which is as rare as hen’s teeth in the west.
And b, if that was true they wouldn’t have introduced san da, and built a massive army.
And c, you must know zero about China. There are literally tens of thousands of riots in China every year - I mean, tens of thousands. It’s always astonishing how people have these bizarre notions about wushu, when wushu players are so much better, and generally have so much more authentic knowledge and skill than the people who criticise them.[/QUOTE]
FWIW, Jet Li himself, as well as several of his Beijing Wushu Team contemporaries, openly admitted that, while they certainly understood the performance aspect of wushu, they did not know how to fight for real. Among wushu athletes, they were the best of the best, at least during their time, and for many years after. Perhaps of all time. I don’t see any reason why they would have said that if it weren’t true.
Of course, someone might say they said that to ‘hide’ their real knowledge from the general public or the West, or they were being humble. I don’t buy it.
Obviously, more recent wushu athletes whose training includes sanda would be different.