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The moment I’ve been waiting for!

Lu Yongxu - Legend!!!

Although I don't follow Taolu as much anymore, I think I am a fan of Loan Drouard, he has a great combination of all aspects a modern Wushu Taolu athlete should have, great athleticism, solid jibengong, a balance of both explosiveness and fluidity as well as fast and slow rhythm, and unique choreography, complete with my favorite fist technique, fanquan (翻拳； fānquán, “turning”/“flipping” punch), also known as fandiequan (翻叠拳； fāndiéquán, “turning”/“flipping” “folding”/“layered” fist), or 滚打； gǔndǎ, rolling hit, according to the 翻子拳； fānziquán， tumbling or “rotating” fist, literally “turning/flipping fist” 段位； duànwèi, formal ranking system by the CWA (Chinese Wushu Association), and a mix of Yingzhaoquan and Zuiquan to make things interesting lol 7:41 More Yingzhaoquan? Lol

Great video! Watched all the way to the end 😁 amazing that you just kind of stumbled across the EU championships, also what a vacation!

Wow. ("Wow" count 1) What an amazing adventure! I just want to know which person comes up with the most roundabout route from the US to Dublin for the cheapest tickets! Does someone just pull airport names out of a hat and say, "Oh, Oslo. Good one." LOL! Your videos have had a worldwide ripple effect, Mark. And they'll continue to resonate, inspire, and teach, so keep up the *amazing* job. Venice--Wow. Switzerland? Double Wow! (Total "Wow" count = 4) Jiayou!

You have and are continuing to make a big impact covering Wushu! Crazy to see you still travel so much for Wushu! Jiayou judging for the 2024 Golden State International Wushu Championships! 🙂

It was amazing to finally see you there, thanks for the appreciation and the beatiful words about european wushu (and obviously about Italy). Jiayou, as always

thanks for this great video!!!

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Based on this: ua-cam.com/video/QNhhBXeUigs/v-deo.html, I believe this is Yuan Xin Dong.

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Hey Mark, thanks for helping us judge this year! Your insights in the video were very interesting and helpful, and I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts with the wider wushu community on the state of collegiate wushu. Your words on the competitors made me realize I need to start training better haha One thing I will say, the skill level issue is something that came up even before the competition while we were dealing with registration. Levels can be super hard to determine, since there are so many nuances when everyone has different backgrounds and experiences. The rules we currently have determines skill level by years of experience, which tends to mitigate the majority of the potential issues that may come up. However, these guidelines are not perfect. The collegiate wushu committee members even had a long debate about skill level after the competition, but ultimately we all collectively came to the conclusion that there's no perfect way of preventing all skill level conflicts and that what we had is the best we can do at this time. Especially with athletes that started in college, there are many who do not have the wushu knowledge and experience to know the difference between the levels, so unfortunately there were some cases were we didn't realize levels were mismatched until we saw them compete live. I'll link the rules here if you would like to take a look: collegiatewushu.org/tournament/rules.php Overall, it really excites me to see the collegiate wushu community thriving, as I feel that the majority of us are in it out of pure passion and love for this sport, rather than for other reasons. It was also great seeing so many OG wushu people coming to support our competition (finally got to meet Alfred Hsing in person! and Li Jing!) Again, really appreciate you making the trip out to support us and I hope you enjoyed your time in LA. Also, you didn't miss the Longhorns, they just weren't there :(

Thanks for your thoughts, and it was great to see you again after all this time!

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Nice video, Mark! What a long day of judging! Happy you got to see friends and visit your Dad. I did get teary-eyed when you had to leave your Dad's place.😢 One thing I wanted to put out there about your insight on having athletes compete at the appropriate level is actually a negative that I've seen, not in Wushu, but in other sports that even goes back to high school sporting events. Sometimes, an athletic program gets pressured to "fill the card" with athletes in order to collect as many awards/trophies in order to keep the program going, financially and popularity speaking. So, for instance, a program that has too many beginners and not enough true intermediate level competitors, may have the higher beginner athletes being pushed into the intermediate levels as a way of gambling on a good outcome for those athletes, and the program. Anyways, I enjoyed your video, insights, musings, and, boy, is your sister smart about the Long Beach Airport terminals! 😂

Zhang Kun Rong is watching you! ;-)

No longhorns this year? sadge. I don't keep up with them much anymore but from what I hear their membership is thriving! -S

Thanks for the great vlog and insights! I agree with many of the points you brought up about the current state of collegiate wushu, as I have already encountered most of the things you brought up in my 2 years with my college's wushu club. I've always seen the skill diversity as a positive aspect of collegiate wushu, as more often than not, it gives the lower experienced athletes a target that they can shoot for, while also receiving the mentorship from the higher experienced athletes. It also gives the more experienced athletes the chance to practice leadership skills and get more experience with teaching college kids as opposed to the younger children that they are more used to teaching at their wushu schools. All of the critiques of the actual wushu you saw at the competition are all things I can work on, especially relaxing my shoulders and working on my pacing and rhythm. I find it amazing that literally everyone has something they can work on, no matter how experienced they are. Collegiates was a great experience for me and the club as a whole! It was great going head to head with other collegiate wushu athletes, as well as seeing what I could improve on for my future wushu endeavors.

Great video as always! Collegiates was kind of a mixed bag for me. My team doesn’t have a coach or anything. I’m the closest thing they have to one. So I was pleasantly surprised that my teammates did pretty well in their events. As for myself, not so much. I knew that going into my first Nandu event I was probably gonna place last, but it ended up being last by a long margin. I do still feel kind of aimless right now because I’m stuck just guessing what I need to focus on. Also yes, still working on shoulders :)

Great video! I agree with your comments. One more thing to add that Li Jing and I agree on: I would really like to see competitors' eyes lock in on their targets. Many competitors even at the top level had trouble driving their performances forward with their gaze.

Collegiates was so fun! It will be 10 years to the day tomorrow since I competed at my first Collegiates! 🙂 Also, the irony of "new school" Wushu being called more "flashy" when everyone outside of Wushu has always had that impression is hilarious 😂

❤love the video. You make my back yard prettier 👍✔️

Great vlog!! Thanks for sharing. I will always have so much love for collegiate wushu. The diversity of experience was actually key to the environment that made me fall in love with wushu. As a beginner, I saw a lot of higher level athletes, and didn't really understand that it took years upon years to develop their mastery of movement. I always had this sense of being like "oh I'm so close to being able to do what they do". Years of training later realize that I had such unrealistic expectations of what I could achieve, but because of that, I went much farther than I would have, had I known how hard it was from the start. A big downside though, is the prevalence of injury. I got really lucky early on to cross paths with some folks who knew a lot about strength + conditioning + mobility, which really saved my "Wushu life" from the get go. I really wish ideas like you mentioned - rhythm, relaxation, whip vs stick, etc, were better documented so that they're easier to learn without coaching. A lot of clubs dont have consistent coaching, and its much easier to pick up on the big picture movements of wushu than its subtleties. Learning these qualities is a huge challenge of learning wushu, not only because they're hard, but because its rare to find an environment that teaches them well and consistently.

Wish I could’ve gone, but hopefully as some of LVMKF’s students age out of HS and move to college, we can make a club at UNLV so we can compete to represent Vegas 🫡

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I definitely agree with many of the things you said. The diversity in terms of skills and experience can feel like a double-edged sword sometimes, but I do think it varies depending on the ways each school is coaching the beginner/intermediate athletes. There’s so much diversity amongst schools and even within schools! Each individual has different goals in the sport and ultimately it’s up to them to dictate where they want to take this journey. During my first year, I remember one of our coaches saying “we can help you get on the USA team or help you learn some cool new skills, it all depends on your goals.” Having never competed wushu before college that really stood out to me and I honestly didn’t think I would still be this invested in the sport two years later. We will also be working on those shoulders for the rest of the year 😅.

Nice video! Didn’t compete but I was there for the opening. Regarding the current state of collegiate wushu, it is clearly bouncing back from the pandemic. Many clubs struggled and some even essentially died during the lockdown, but many of them built back up, even exceeding where they were pre Covid. I do agree with your brief analysis on the differences of wushu quality or focuses in training, but that’s a whole other conversation I don’t want to write here cause it takes too long 🙃

Did you compete at the 25th collegiates at UCLA? What do you think of the current state of collegiate wushu? Am I totally off base? Let me know in the comments below! Thanks for watching!

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Ho is the nanquan guy?

been loving your stuff since the early wushuzilla days, hope to see more of you in the near future. Keep it up!

I'm a big fan! Can you please do a video about the basics techniques we can train to improve our Jianshu the most, based in your experience and the time with chinese teams?

You trained with the Shanghai Wushu Team at your age? AND YOU'RE STILL ALIVE? No, just kidding

Thank you. I love this video, Mark! Personally, if I'd like to figure out a way to see 1:54 to 2:26 in super slow motion on repeat.

I remember watching all those interviews and the footage you shared back then. It was also the reason why we stood on that very carpet in Shanghai to train with Yang Yu Hong in 2016. Thank you for sharing back then and for still sharing now, it's a joy to watch and still as inspiring! Also your nq form looks nice, revisit it 😏! 加油

A truly beautiful wushu journey,, so many special experiences, thanks for sharing, jiayou!

That was a really great watch! So interesting to see that you have always had this type of formula to vlog and set/work on goals in this format. Much respect for this consistency! And that was quite the training journey too! And the shoutout! 🙏 can’t wait to meet up at golden state!

I also remember setting up a camcorder on basketball, tennis courts, and soccer fields, to film all my repetitions of Taolu during training camps, being alone definitely forces you to confront and reflect on yourself. Also 20:45 I think that is former Shandong Wushu Team member and champion Lǚ Yongxu? The labels and footage for him and Ma Guoliang may be switched?

need the king of kings footage !!

I love watching your videos as always. 🙏

Sanda Nationals or King of Kings? Which competition footage would you be most interested in seeing on the channel?

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