I'm looking for some Wushu Tournaments in Las Vegas what are some?

I%26#039;m looking for underblack tournaments, sparring, and forms.|||just watched fearless,have you?|||So you are looking for a Chinese martial arts tournament? Ok Which style? I am serious. I love all these dojos that say we teach Kung Fu or WuShu, Both mean the same thing. Basicaly Martial Art. Kung Fu is Manderine dialect and WuShu is Cantanese dialect. Neither is a style or form of arts. In China people say I train in GongFU or Wushu. In the western world we say I train in Martial arts. Not describing the style we train in... And even to Say Martial Art when talking about your style. If it didn%26#039;t originate in China then it is a different term. In Japanese they say Ryu which means style or form. So when you say WuShu or Kung Fu training that is fine but include a form you are training in such as Shaolin or Mantis if it%26#039;s chinese. If it%26#039;s Tae Kwan Do that Korean so a different term if its Judo or Karate that%26#039;s Japanese so its Ryu...


So a dojo that says we teach WuShu or Kung Fu is esentially using an American misconception to sell there training as everyone knows about Kung Fu movies and Kung Fu the legend continues... OR they teach multiple chinese styles in which case they should advertise Chinese MMA.


Saying Shaolin Kung Foo or Mantis Wushu is fine but not just the Wushu on it%26#039;s own





I made all the same assumptions too until I learned the truth about it by looking it up when someone corrected me about it.


So after you all cuss me out go look it up and see for your self.|||JudoKa: Both WuShu and Kung Fu are Mandarin dialect...Wu Shu translates most closely to martial art, whereas kung fu is a generic term referring to any skill gained throuhg time and effort. While technically and traditionally the terms are interchangeable, in modern english-speaking America -- especially within the tournament venue -- Wushu tends to refer to the contemporary martial arts of Communist China while kung fu is generally accepted to mean the more traditional martial arts of antiquity.





Anyway, to answer the original question, the West coast (I%26#039;m being very general with my geography here, so figure from NV/AZ out to the Pacific) has a lot of tourneys going on all the time. Check out martialartsmart.com. they are a supply store, but they sponsor a bunch of local and national tourneys which they list on their site. As a side note, Chinese style tourneys are not like Open, or Japanese tourneys in the fact that only Chinese stylists may compete; there are no divisions for japanese/korean kata, etc. The sparring will probably also be continuous rather than the %26quot;point fighting%26quot; used in Open tourneys...although with lawsuits the way they are, many promoters are being forced into the point game by their insurance companies (a sad state of affairs IMNSHO)