Taolou or forms, half forms performed by the kids from shi cha hai elite sports school in Beijing.
These kids will go on to be professional athletes and very likely reprsent their country in the sport of wushu!
A Wushu demonstration from students of Xinzhang wushu school in Shanghai, China. I recorded this footage on my travels to the World Traditional Wushu Championships, in Oct. 2006
Here we see a different group of children practicing weapons training. These children have a different coach to earlier posts, so you'll see a lot of constistencies in the training and some variation too!
This is the sport of wushu and this is how it is taught and it hurts.
Wushu Shi Cha Hai China Sport My trip to Beijing China in 2005 were I learnt straightsword from a great coach xu ding yuan ex-beijing team and learnt from fu yang also ex-beijing team v:}
Doing some wushu finally after a long break through injury. All this training is without the coach, he was organising a demo, you can see when he enters telling the others I need to go easy :p