Wushu

[Shaolinkfman]

Poor Wushu, such a cool word "war art" but has lost so much meaning. When did wushu become such a sissy art or did someone make a flashy art and just chose that name?

[m.artist]

One name
Mao Ze Dong

[Broadsword2004]

Wushu refers to reg. Chinese martial arts too, just these days it is used to refer to contemporary Chinese wushu (taolu); the forms.

Wushus is very good for overall health and agility training; I mean, face it, acrobatics and stretching are part of gymnastics training, and gymnastics training was originally taken off of what knights did for physical training.

Just in order to create a national art, they decided to make a performing out of the forms.

So they mixed the flashies moves with gymnastics and traditional Chinese acrobatics such and made a performance art from it.

Remember though that performing art Chinese martial arts were nothing new.....Peking and Beijing Opera had been integrating martial arts as a performing art, mixed with weapons, for a long time.

So they also based off of that. Remember, Jackie Chan was Peking Opera trained; he was primarily trained as a performance martial artist, just not in the traditional contemporary wushu sense.