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SANSHOU RULES SANSHOU TECHNIQUES PUNCH (DA) KICK (TI) THROW (SHUAI) KICK CATCH (JIE TUI) LEG GRAB (BAO TUI) COMBINATION AND COUNTER BLOCK & PARRY (DANG & SHAN)
Sanshou and Wushu
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Sanshou is the practical applications of wushu. Wushu is an important component of the cultural heritage of China, with an immense wealth of content that has been continuously enriched over the centuries. Literally translated, wu is military, and shu is art. Wushu therefore means the art of fighting, or martial arts. It incorporates the four main categories of fighting: ti (kicking), da (striking), shuai (throwing, take-down), and na (grappling, control). What sets this martial art apart from others is that individual technique is based upon the applications hidden within the beauty of traditional wushu forms (taolu, or routines) that have been passed down from generation to generation.
In today’s formal sanshou competitions, participants are allowed to score points through the first three categories of form: punching, kicking and throwing. The application of the fourth category, grappling (na), is limited because participants are required to wear closed gloves for safety reasons; this prevents the use of fingers and therefore, performance of many powerful na techniques. In the meantime, because of the use of the gloves, punching becomes basically the only applicable striking technique in sanshou among the rich variety of hand striking (da) techniques in wushu.
