Sunday, April 26, 2009

How is the winner determined in a WUSHU competition?

At the 2008 Olympics China will be holding a WUSHU tournament and I was wondering how this style of martial arts works.. I have seen Karate, Taekwondo, and Judo tournaments, but never WUSHU.|||The performance will be based on three scores - A, B and C. The A score (overall performance) is 5 points of 10. The B score is quality of movement and is 3points of 10. The C score is called nandu (level of difficulty) and involves the artist following a prescribed set of difficult movements (mostly jumps and variations of landings though there are others as well) each with a set amount oof points, depending on whether or not it is followed my a connecting move- ex: jumping inside cresecent kick to horse stance (mabu) or into the splits... into the splits will give you more points, thus is greater nandu... When you register for a tournament, you send in a form showing the order all of your nandu will be performed in (and the possible points each nandu will bring you totalling up to 2.00 points- any more is not nandu points, but quality of movement and overall performance), and you must follow it or risk large deductions. Most nandu is between .1 and .3 depending on how you connect moves together. Not all athletes start with 2.00 nandu possible- I have teammates that start with 1.85 possible (meaning you can%26#039;t get a perfect 10, but no one ever does anyway, even China%26#039;s all-around champion) and they work their A and B scores more- nandu is very tiring, so it%26#039;s better to keep good form and not risk blowing a jump which can result in up to .7 a fall depending on how badly you blow it, and how many nandu points you miss by not performing it. These scores are only for longfist(changquan) and southernfist, staff and spear, broadsword and straightsword- most other open division weapons in wushu are not judged with nanu. In fact, weapons in general are not usually judged with nandu at this point in the US.. .in the future they may be required to have nandu in all forms. Generally it%26#039;s only handforms (non-weapon) that have required nandu. Whether or not this changes depends very much on what the Chinese Wushu Federation decides to make its international standard. I hope this helps- it%26#039;s late and I%26#039;m really tired so I%26#039;m maybe not as clear as I%26#039;d like to be though. Cheers- please enjoy wushu and support them at the 2008 Beijing Games where it will debut as a demo sport!!!|||Easy. Jet Li enters. Jet Li wins.

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