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there's no evidence of that whatsoever

somewhere on youtube, there's a clip of two grandmasters fighting in front of a large audience, in the 1950s I think? It's bw and terrible quality, but it's quite obvious that either one of them would've been whooped in a bar fight on Friday night



china outlawed wushu fighting (lei tan) in the 1920s. Before that point masters would maim/kill each other and take over each other's schools.

We know of kung fu in the united states, but there is also sanda/sanshou which actually fight. Shaolin is more about art than the martial.




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