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What do you mean? If you do any type of fighting or "competing" its the same as what they are trying to accomplish? I guess it all comes down to how you train san shou or how you compete in san shou. I dont compete in most "san shou" tourneys, I do more "full contact" events. I'm using san shou in the traditional sense of the word, not that I'm training in the sport section of "san shou". My 7* sifu is my sifu in san shou as well, so its not seperate training, but using the same principles. I'm not against competition all together, or fighting by any means, I simply think making an olympic sport of "kung fu" is for one, impossible if staying true to kung fu, and not at all the educational vehicle many claim it is. In my san shou training and fighting, I dont train for certain techniques while leaving others out. Grantit, there are a few techniques you can't do in the ring which is one reason I dont do all that much ring fighting anymore. I use the same principles of my 7* fighting in my "san shou" fighting. In most tournements, that is simply not the case, many techniques and principles are different from sparring match to kung fu class.InvisibleFist said:7*, you train in SanShou????
How is SanShou any different from what the Kung Fu federation is trying to accomplish?
Competing with kung fu is hard to do, does that make it impossible? No. Does it make it useless? No. Does that mean we should encourage sport training and exalt point sparring or padded, highly ruled sparring? No. Exalting this "olympic kung fu" is only going to encourage training for what techniques are allowed in the Olympic competition. however, these athletes are still going to say they are practicing Kung Fu. The millions or billions of viewers will then see this "kung fu" nad believe that is what Kung Fu really is.
JMHO,
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