10 YEARS OF TRAVEL, PART 2
Nov 24, 2020
4 minutes
BY ANTONIO GRACEFFO, PH.D.
East and West may never meet. At Shanghai University of Sport, Dr. Dai Guo Bing, dean of the Wushu Department, explained to me the differences between the Chinese arts and Western arts like boxing, wrestling and fencing. He said the commonalities between those three Western styles are identical to their differences from the Chinese styles. One, the Western styles’ main purpose is to fight/compete. Two, they don’t have a performance component. Three, they cannot be practiced alone.
It would be strange in the West to meet someone who claimed to be a boxer, wrestler or fencer but had never competed. In China, however, you can dedicate yourself to practicing or for a lifetime without
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