Martial Arts?

In these movies: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of Flying Daggers...what type of Martial Arts is it?





I would like to know what type it is...if it is anything at all. Also, what type of technique do they use with the swords.





Sorry for my iggnorence!





And yes, I know you can't really fly, ect. %26gt;.%26gt;

Martial Arts?
A variation of wushu.





It might interest you to know, that every star in those movies, aside from Hero, has absolutely no Martial Arts experience.





Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, are trained dancers. No Martial Arts background at all.





Chow Yun Fat, no Martial Arts experience what so ever, just good at choreography.





Everyone from the House of Flying Daggers are primarily dancers, or just good at choreography.





If you can base this type of choreography on anything you can could some of it contemporary Wushu. However you won't even see a lot of this stuff in Wushu either. Most of it is from the imagination of a skilled choreographer, who has an extensive Martial Arts background, who then chooses things that look good, and adds some flair around it.





Jet Li is a Wushu champion. Which is essentailly a creative forms type of competetion, in which grace, flash, and acrobatics are encouraged, not realism.





But outwardly answering your questions.





Variations of Wushu, along with a ton of things straight from the imagination of a choreographer.
Reply:It is most likely a combination of WuShu and KungFu. Wushu is more of a showy martial arts rather than something practical. You will learn the sword techniques when you train long enough at a school.





Good luck!
Reply:Contemporary Wushu. This is a flashy looking performance based art.
Reply:What you are seeing in these movies is Wu Shu or a modern form of Kung Fu with fanciful moves and swordsmanship most excellent for fight choreography in movies. Wu Shu [Fighting Art] is a generic form of Kung Fu [A Thing Done Well] or Chuan Fa [Fist Art] mixed with Chi-Na [Tendon pressing, Joint locking] developed by the Communist Chinese government. Its pretty to look at, very flowery and elegant and requires the agility of a circus acrobat. It's effectiveness in real-life situations would be rather doubtful to say the least....But then martial arts movies were always about fantasy anyway. Somebody messes with me, I don't whoop out a Nunchaku or pair of Sai or Samurai Sword, I whoop out my sawed off shotgun!





When Bruce Lee lived (Wing Chung Kung Fu stylist) there was a movement towards martial arts realism in film. Unfortunately, filmmakers in Taiwon, Hong Kong et. al have returned to the absurd fight scenes that were the hallmark of the pre- Bruce-Lee era. These fanciful fighting scenes involving more "magic" than skill comprise such films as the two you mentioned above and others like Shaolin Soccer et. al. But Western Filmmakers have gotten on this crap too, viz. the Matrix with their wire fighting maneovres. I'm a 6th Dan in Aikido and 3rd in Krav Maga and 2nd in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. And for the life of me I still can't jump standing on the ground to the roof of a house! And If I keep getting any fatter, I might have to take up Sumo!





Lee wrote years ago "There are fighting styles that are real crowd pleasers.(flying kicks, spectacular stunts), but these are like diluted wine. Then there are others that are not so pretty to look at. They are like olives, one acquires a taste for them. Nobody acquires a taste for diluted wine." [Tao of Jeet Kune Do] Steven Segal uses predominantly moves from Aikido in his films. Notice the difference between the workable and usable and the just plain stupid! It's to the credit of Tony Jaa (The Defender) that his extremely acrobatic stunts were done WITHOUT wires. That guy's speed and agility would have stunned Bruce Lee! I think I'd leave him alone!
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Reply:Chinese Wushu