1st Taolu World Cup - Suijin Chen (HKG) - Women’s Taijijian - 1st Place

This is the winning performance at the most competitive modern wushu (Chinese Martial arts) tournament in the world, The World Wushu Championships. Suijin Chen (陳穗津) is performing a modern wushu taijijian (taiji sword) form. #wushu #taiji #taijijian #jianshu #hongKong #china #martialArts #taichi #kungFu ⭐ Support our channel & get some smooth merch: _______________________________________________ 🛒 Martial Arts Gear ▹Functional Miaodao: ▹Dragon Tiger Sword: ▹Blue Steel Lion Sword: ▹Lin Creative Guandao: ▹Fundamentals of Higher Performance Wushu Book: ▹Mastering Wushu Book: ▹Kung Fu Shoes: ▹Premium Taiji Sword: _______________________________________________ 🎬 The All-Time Best Martial Arts Movies ✩ Flashpoint: ✩ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: ✩ Fist of Legend: ✩ Drunken Master II (The Legend of Drunken Master): ✩ SPL (Killzone): ✩ Ip Man: ✩ Once Upon a Time in China II: ✩ Who Am I: _______________________________________________ 📺 More Great Wushu ✩ Performances & Shows ✩ ▹ ▹ ▹ ▹ ✩ Wushu Fun Edits ✩ ▹ ▹ ▹ ▹ ▹ ▹ ✩ Trailers & Shorts ✩ ▹ ▹ ▹ ▹ ▹ _______________________________________________ ✩ FAQ ▹Why is there no fighting? This is a performance of a taiji sword form in modern wushu. This is meant to be a form and not actual combat, although the movements all derive from real techniques. All Asian martial arts had a heavy emphasis on forms training, and it was the equivalent of shadowboxing or padwork in boxing. Traditionally, forms were really used to train and demonstrate techniques, and you would practice the form and actual fighting. For wushu’s adaption to sport, there is a forms division (taolu), and a fighting division (sanda). Today there’s no need to fight, so many people learn the basic applications, but focus only on taolu. Wushu taolu take a style’s martial techniques and builds them into aesthetically pleasing routines that epitomize the ideals of a style’s philosophy. These forms showcase techniques at the highest level, but are stylized and composed for performance in a sport setting. They are meant to be entertaining and pleasing to watch, just like a high-level gymnastics or ice skating routines. Wushu taolu is judged on proper technique, power, agility, technical difficulty, and martial intent. If you’re interested in actual Chinese martial arts in combat, take a look at Sanda (Chinese kickboxing): ▹Why is her sword floppy? Since this is adapted for sport and health, you want to change the weapons to be safer for practice and competition as a sport. Not only that, Taiji is regularly practiced by over a billion people, the last thing you need is these practitioners showing up to parks and gyms with real swords or anything close to it. Note, although these are made to be purposely floppy at the ends, they are counterbalanced at the hilt to be as closer to the balance weight as traditional Chinese swords. If you this seems to odd to you, think about some other sports that came from combat, such as fencing, archery, and javelin throwing . These sports use heavily modified weapons that are safer for sport practice as well. In fact, fencing swords doesn’t even look like swords anymore, and are even more flexible than wushu swords.