Attn : Tiger Yin & All Others Looking for a Good Chat!
Originally posted by Tiger_Yin
[B]Omg wendy HAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahaahahah… didnt know you still hung around here probly forgot how we used to b!tch at each other on the volcano chat thingy a year or two ago heheh.. memories…
I do Wushu, I have my own lil school in town here. Like anything, its what you make of it. If you want to learn to fly like crouching tiger.. well sure go for it :rolleyes: Its a great workout.. noone survives my classes so far The technique is awesome and the coordination it develops if hardly beateable.
All depends on what you want out of it.. some say its useless to fight with.. i say BS to that anyways go try it out.. one thing tho.. its not good for you at all hehe kills your body [/B]
Hi Tiger Yin,
You know, you should come and chat with us still!! We’re all still there… you can find us at the Fu-Ragz Chatroom!. There’s a ton of us that are there nightly. While I’m not there all the time, Chris M, Shooter, Brassmonkey, Illusionfist, etc are all there.
Hope to see you there (always miss a good argument ;))
Wushu sparring, eagle claw w/ tkd, tkd w/ mantis…You have to join job core to find a place with human beings to train, you must live on mars and read a lot of comic books…You have the internet so do a google search and you will find plenty of clips that compare all the styles you want…Maybe you should try BALLET and TAI BO
NO when I said I was joning job core, that’s to get a career to do something with my life, the thing is you have to live on the school campus, there is one in every state, and I’m trying to choose one based on nearbyness to a martial arts school I want to study at.
wushu is not a specific style. It simply transliterates as wu/martial shu/arts
kungfu is also a touch of a misnomer as well. Kungfu is not a specific style, but rather it is a blanket term for chinese martial arts in general.
specific styles have specific names.
the term wushu is usually associated with contemporary iterations of martial arts modified for performance purposes as in displays of forms.
the term kungfu can actually be applied to anything. It essentially refers to time and effort. The more time and effort you put into something, the better you will be at it, hence a person ‘has’ kungfu as opposed to ‘does’ kungfu.
so, I like to use the examples of Ernest Hemingway had kungfu in writing or Julia Childs has Kungfu in cooking and so on.
so, one can have Kungfu in their wushu as well.
If you click the Kungfu magazine.com link at the top and check out some of the info such as “what is kungfu” and how to pick a school and so on, you will likely get a better understanding. I think there is even a glossary of terms that will be helpful as well.
spj’s info is good, but I think because of the depth of his own understanding it’s hard for him to not hand out meat when he should be feeding with milk.
Wushu is a generic term for martial arts. However, in the US (i don’t know about everywhere) it is synonymous with the flashy modern version of the chinese martial arts. Before it was called wuyi and before that it was called chuan fa. All of these terms mean one thing. Chinese martial arts as a general concept. If you are talking about a specific type of CMA just call it by its name like tonglong chuan, chang quan, choy lee fut (or however its spelled), wing chun (or however that is spelled too), hung gar, etc. the term kung fu is used a lot in america but not so much in China. They call all kung fu wushu. hope that helps.
Let’s be honest, Wushu doesn’t mean those things anymore than “gay” means to be happy. The meaning has changed.
Wushu means the gymnastification of martial arts into flowery form. For example, backflips and tornado kicks have been added to the taiji form for the next olympics.
This is not Taiji. Taiji is the pursuit of integrating the whole body, so every part contributes to striking – from heal to finger tip. It’s also a style based on principles of non-resistance, or better yet, giving the attacker what they want but in a way they don’t expect so as to take advantage of them. This principle, if internalized, will balance out the odds for the old fighting the young.
How many people in their mid-40’s can do a back hand spring or tornado kick.
Chinese martial arts is getting ruined with this crap.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahaahahah… didnt know you still hung around here
probly forgot how we used to b!tch at each other on the volcano chat thingy a year or two ago heheh.. memories…
anyways go try it out.. one thing tho.. its not good for you at all hehe kills your body 