The Adaptability of Traditional Wushu

Traditional wushu is known for its high adaptability to current culture, physical environment and to individual’s need as well. To elaborate these, let me start with the age aspect. To learn traditional wushu, one can actually start at any age and practice it until old age. You can start as early as ten years old and it’s not too late if you start learning when you are in your 40’s. What I’m trying to tell here is traditional wushu caters a wider range of age compares to competition type of wushu.


Secondly, traditional wushu can be tailored to your own physical body structure, your present health conditions, and also which I had mentioned above, your age as well. There are peoples who prefer to practice forcefully and fast. There are also peoples who prefer to practice fast yet in a light manner. While some may prefer to do it full force in step by step manner. And yet another group would rather have it going light and easy. There are nothing wrong in those 4 ways of practicing. It’s entirely up to you to decide whichever suits you the best.

As I had told you in my earlier posting of full-stance practice and soft practice. So, if you think you can afford wider stances when you’re practicing the routine, just go ahead and keep up with your good work when you have a bigger space for training. But, if your small home is the only place available for your wushu revisions, then just opt for soft practice and you are still practicing anyway.

Due to the adaptability nature of traditional wushu, it does prove its sense of mass appeal. Thus, breaking away from the perception that traditional wushu was only meant for the young. For me, it meant for everybody who are interested.

I had learnt Taichi in the past and I can tell you frankly, Taichi is actually much more difficult to master compares to traditional wushu. If you were to follow a 30 years back old wushu syllabus, Taichi would be the last form for you to practice. In other words, it is meant for advanced practitioners because the requirement for each of its form is high indeed. So, do not think that Taichi is easy when you saw its’ movements are slow and easy to follow. He fact is it’s never been easy at all.