lol my thread made a reapperence.
andoi
* You guys im SURE could addapt to ring combat but i would say you may have to make a few sacrifices depending a little on the rules. As Stumblefist pointed out San Shao is HEAVILY baised towards throwing and spinning kicks. Hence whilst you may be able to knock the average person out cold with those swinging punches im not sure that they would do so well under a point scorring envioment. Still im SURE you guys could do well given half a chance.
"in general do u think we would have to alter a lot or just drop certain moves. thanx again"
* I think you would proberly find yourself doing a combination of the two. Honing some movements to make them legal and removing others compleatly. I think one of the main things though would just be to get hold of the ruleset and stuff. Im going to try and get a few printed up, ill try and get one over to you guys if your interested? At least then you can see exactly for yourself what will and wont be allowed.
To my memory White crane has some high level kicking ablity as well which im SURE could work in there favor in a ring situation.
Anyway let me know if you want a rule set and ill do what i can, already need to get one for FT.
Stumblefist
Im well aware of the bias San Shao has towards throws, we are an internal school so luckly the Bagua provides MANY nice throws and the Tai Chi has centre control. Its actualy a VERY solid combination for San Shao.
"Is the "full contact" you mentioned something different than Sanda?"
* I like to think of myself as a martial artist first, anything competive comes second. As such i spar full contact under just about any rules from ring right down to simple gentlemans agreements. I try not to fixate myself to much on anyone aspect as i dont want to lose why i study in the first place - the art.
BTW the reason for the bias towards throws is to do with the scoring. A non contested hand strike will earn you a single point, a takedown or throw nets you three. Hence obviously its MUCH better in terms of competion to contantly be on the lookout for a throw.
Bow Dul Fu
* There is no SET agelimit that im aware of yet, still im sure that indiviual competions would have there own limits.
Honestly man if your under 18 and your keen then start training. San Shao is basicaly just chinese kickboxing, a good avenue to test aspects of your combat ability and have some fun.
It has its own rules and regs but there not TOO stringent really, its a pretty darn good form of ring competion.
Its also certainly true that China are on the push for San Shao 2008, though we proberly wont know till after November.
Liokault
Glad to hear there are some others who are training in this format. I actualy have to say im doubtfull that San Shao will make it fully for 2008, one big problem is female competitors. Still wushu and Tai Chi are looking very solid and as such its highly likely that San Shao will at least be on display over there.
Anyway im crossing my fingers, i mean heck they let TKD into the olympics for crying out loud 
Up and down, forward and backward, left and right, its all the same. All of this is done with the mind, not externaly.
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Shaped dragon and looking monkey, sitting tiger and turning eagle.
"I wonder how they would do against jon's no-tension fu. I bet they'd do REALLY WELL."
- Huang Kai Vun
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