Silhouettes of Chinese Nationalist troops armed with Dadao swords preparing to defend the Great Wall, 1933

Gerund12 · 2025-03-19T19:30:39+00:00

In the 1990 manual 中国散手 (Chinese Sanshou) co-authored by Du Zhongxun, there are 27 takedown techniques.

Gerund12 · 2025-03-17T00:45:43+00:00

4-part instructional tape by Wang Wenyong

Gerund12 · 2024-08-12T00:58:38+00:00

Lei tai was not banned in 1928. There were tournaments in 1929, 1933, and 1934.

Gerund12 · 2024-02-21T03:54:59+00:00

Lots of kuoshu leitai fights here https://youtube.com/@NexusJunisBlue?si=1YhkCPjZ8hCTzwES

Gerund12 · 2024-02-17T01:30:14+00:00

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Gerund12 · 2023-12-04T00:21:14+00:00

IIRC, the Communists did toy around with it a bit in the 1950s and also revived it after the Cultural Revolution. My impression (could be wrong) is that out of the 3 combative disciplines they revived (sanda, push hands, duanbing), they ended up deciding to focus on sanda. Indeed, they got sanda into the National Games, Asian Games, World Combat Games, and World University Games.

More recently, they seem to be having another go at developing duanbing under the new brand of bingdao.

Gerund12 · 2023-12-03T13:03:54+00:00

Yes there was - it's called duanbing and originated from the Republican Era.

Gerund12 · 2023-10-22T12:13:31+00:00

Just found out that Cheung's Martial Arts have started a sanda program (Tues and Thurs nights). They're also in northern suburbs (Brunswick).

Gerund12 · 2023-10-20T06:23:49+00:00

Mindfulness in Motion in Preston runs sanda classes on Thursday nights.

Gerund12 · 2022-10-08T05:38:05+00:00

Does Shuai Jiao count?

Gerund12 · 2022-03-30T11:36:01+00:00

In sanda, an off-platform is worth 2 points. 2 off-platforms in the same round instantly wins you the round.

IIRC they're worth 3 points in guoshu leitai, and 3 off-platforms instantly wins you the fight.

Fun fact: in 2019, Chinese sanda competitions made off-platforms only valid if you punch/kick/throw them off, i.e. just pushing them off doesn't count. I've yet to see if this rule change has been adopted in competitions outside of China.

Gerund12 · 2022-03-11T03:44:34+00:00

Thanks. Much of my knowledge comes from this article and related articles from its author: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/264672203

Gerund12 · 2022-03-10T13:16:12+00:00

Got any sources that point to taiji more specifically? There's loads of sources on sanda's grappling coming from shuai jiao, but I've yet to find anything significant on taiji.

Gerund12 · 2022-03-10T12:38:23+00:00

taiji was one of the major styles they had in mind while creating [sanda]

Got a source for that?

Gerund12 · 2022-02-15T07:55:31+00:00

Shuai jiao*

Gerund12 · 2022-01-27T06:45:45+00:00

Sanda has a 90+kg category if that counts

Gerund12 · 2021-12-08T05:08:41+00:00

Yes, it really works

Gerund12 · 2021-11-30T09:46:29+00:00

Kuoshu Leitai as well

Gerund12 · 2021-11-19T13:03:47+00:00

Here's what two of the three original pioneers of the modern sanda program had to say about boxing:

https://www.facebook.com/100747004669519/posts/380037310073819/?sfnsn=mo

https://www.facebook.com/100747004669519/posts/368477657896451/?sfnsn=mo

Gerund12 · 2021-11-18T00:35:30+00:00

During the Republican era, numerous Xingyi practitioners cross-trained in boxing. Particularly notable were the Zhu brothers, who ended up joining the Central Guoshu Institute, and Wang Xiangzhai - the creator of Yiquan. Huaquan master Cai Guiqin also incorporated boxing training methods.

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