what's the default chinese art?

[mantis]

when you hear someone studies "kung fu" is there a default art associated with "kung fu"?
what's the most common style?
i never heard of mantis kung fu until the day i joined my school!

 

[7starmantis]

Kung Fu is normally just used for CMA (Chinese MArtial ARts) there is no real "default" art its normally refering to. Mantis is actually a pretty well known system, probably behind Wing Chun, or the myriad of "Shaolin" "Systems".

7sm

 

[Andrew Green]

For the general public? I'd say wushu as that is what we go to the movies to see

 

[7starmantis]

For the general public? I'd say wushu as that is what we go to the movies to see

Yeah, although I would disagree that "the movies" as a whole are showing wushu at large. Plus...can any of us define "wushu"? Wouldn't it litterally be defined as Kung Fu?

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[arnisador]

Shaolin, I suppose.

 

[Andrew Green]

Yeah, although I would disagree that "the movies" as a whole are showing wushu at large. Plus...can any of us define "wushu"? Wouldn't it litterally be defined as Kung Fu?

7sm

Wushu is the closest system too what is used in movies, while it doesn't conform to the "rules" of wushu, that's what it's gonna look like to the untrained eye

Kung fu = Jackie Chan and Jet Li style fighting.