doc,
yeah, i remember that thing you had written about. i think the thing i'm talking about might be a different thing altogether. and, well, who knows what the jilin school is talking about, the website is confusing sometimes, mostly differences in the usage of language. mr che sometimes clears things up on email, but his english isnt the best, and i certainly dont trust my chinese enough to ask that way either. ehhh....
but back to ranking and such. i remember reading about this probably 2 to 3 years ago, on raffi's wushu website. (btw, if you're into contemporary wushu, that's the place to be, nice website.) at first it was simply a means of getting a grading by your peers as to what level you should compete at. kind of like in america when you go to colligiate wushu tournaments, there's the division break down of beginner (1st year) intermediate (2nd year) advanced (3 years and up), except that, well, in china, there's probably tons of people who've been doing wushu since age six and are probably in their 20s. i think the top three levels or ranks or whatever you want to call them were designated as coaching and judging ranks. of course, the traditional gong fu guys wanted some recognition so they got their own ranking system, along with scholarly types. but i dont think it was in any way meant to be like the japanese system, where, if you have a 1st dan in a particular school, there's a very specific syllabus that you know and can perform...in the chinese system it was just there for recognition among peers.
but.....this was a while back, i dont remember reading anything else about it since. but here's what ill do....i'll get on raffi's forum and ask, and maybe get a reply, which i will post here. okay? okay.
yeah, i remember that thing you had written about. i think the thing i'm talking about might be a different thing altogether. and, well, who knows what the jilin school is talking about, the website is confusing sometimes, mostly differences in the usage of language. mr che sometimes clears things up on email, but his english isnt the best, and i certainly dont trust my chinese enough to ask that way either. ehhh....
but back to ranking and such. i remember reading about this probably 2 to 3 years ago, on raffi's wushu website. (btw, if you're into contemporary wushu, that's the place to be, nice website.) at first it was simply a means of getting a grading by your peers as to what level you should compete at. kind of like in america when you go to colligiate wushu tournaments, there's the division break down of beginner (1st year) intermediate (2nd year) advanced (3 years and up), except that, well, in china, there's probably tons of people who've been doing wushu since age six and are probably in their 20s. i think the top three levels or ranks or whatever you want to call them were designated as coaching and judging ranks. of course, the traditional gong fu guys wanted some recognition so they got their own ranking system, along with scholarly types. but i dont think it was in any way meant to be like the japanese system, where, if you have a 1st dan in a particular school, there's a very specific syllabus that you know and can perform...in the chinese system it was just there for recognition among peers.
but.....this was a while back, i dont remember reading anything else about it since. but here's what ill do....i'll get on raffi's forum and ask, and maybe get a reply, which i will post here. okay? okay.
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