fundamental problem in modern wushu? stop constipating!! ::

personally, im quite pissed while looking at this post at sgwutan.com.

i seriously don't see the problem. can't they realise wushu has since evolved into 2 forms. the cultural form and the sports form? by cultural i meant those really cultural practical, traditional type. sports ala those competitive routines.

anyway, not that we shouldn't preserve culture. but the very fact that if you like stunts and like to go for competitions, you should go for the sports form of wushu. and that is the form which is under the governace of china wushu arena. okay, not exactly sure how to go about addressing it. but you know, sports wushu = soon-to-be olympic standard.

if you want to be able to ko someone proper, by all means, go and learn the cultural wushu. don't come and muck around the forum and say there's a fundamental problem with modern wushu. there's no problem. the only problem is you're still too old fashion. wake up your idea, if you want to earn 1 million bucks for 2008 olympics, go and do the sports one. ko-ing someone might even land you in jail, and you can forget about even smelling 1 mil.

wushu itself is a very unique sport comprising of cultural and scientific aspects. yes its scientific. biomechanics, biophysics, biomedical etc. its judged based on how high you can jump, how flexible you are.. the international standards doesn't require you to ko people or crush a pot with 1 finger.

if you'd chosen to do the cultural form, good for you. you can help entertain people during mid autumn festival and lang sai during chinese new year. once in a while break a couple of bowls and help a few people obtain a cheap flight from SG to US. Or even, train those body building sportsman so that they can bulge extra muscles - qi. But i think there's no need to go around saying people who do the sports kind are merely "dancing". can you do a proper xuan zi 360? or even a ce kong zhuan ti? then can i say you're merely constipating while doing your ma pu?

different people admire different aspects of wushu. some for practicality sake, some for beauty. so let's just admire in our own respective groups. im putting it in defense of sports wushu cos i kept hearing the people practising traditional saying its "dancing" and personally, im for sports wushu than the usual traditional, mystical types. and that is the direction china wushu is heading towards and i can assure you, its definitely more interesting than seeing someone constipating in public.