What is the difference between shaolin kung fu and kung fu wushu ?

what would you think is the best ?|||You first have to know that these terms Wushu (Martial Arts, or Martial Way), and Kung Fu (Hard Work), are utilized today as meaning Martial Arts.





As jjbeard92 stated todays Wushu was created in the 50s-60s, and the Shaolin Styles of Kung Fu originated centuries ago.





Today Wushu is a Chinese National Sport, with competiion around the World.








There are many styles of Shaolin Kung Fu that are practiced and taught in just about every country today.





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http://www.pacificwingchunassociation.co...|||Wushu means %26#039;martial art%26#039;. Today, people associate it with the accrobatic style with high jumps and low stances. Wushu was the more accepted term for martial art than Kung Fu (which means skill). Kung Fu could be applied to any craft. A chef could be said to have good Kung Fu.





In this regard, Wushu is similar to Jeet Kune Do. Bruce Lee didn%26#039;t want to give a name to the principles he had developed because by giving it a name, it then had boundaries. In other words, once he named it JKD, then only people that learned from him or any of his certified instructors actually learned JKD. The truth is that if you read his books, you will see that ALL mma is JKD. It%26#039;s using what works and abandoning what doesn%26#039;t. Wushu used to refer to any martial art, but now it has been tied to a specific style and therefore has artificial boundaries.





Shaolin Kung Fu refers to the practice of the Shaolin Monks. Kung Fu refers to their practices as a whole (meditation, excersize, fighting, etc). If you only study the fighting style of the Shaolin Monks, this is Shaolin Wushu.





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But anyway, Shaolin Kung Fu DID NOT necessarily originate over 2000 years ago. As the historical story says, Boddhisharma(name is spelled incorrect), one of the legendary Buddha%26#039;s, traveled from India to the Shaolin temple in China and believed that the Shaolin monks practicing there were not as strong as he believed they could be. So basically what he did is he introduced a training regimine, both physically and mentally, that would be referred to as %26quot;Shaolin Kung Fu%26quot;. This event happened around 520 A.D.





%26quot;Wushu%26quot; is just a term, among many others, that basically means %26quot;kung fu%26quot;. If you want extensive information from a REAL expert on Shaolin Kung Fu, you can get the book called %26quot;The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu%26quot; from a bookstore or a library. It was written by Wong Kiew Kit.|||Shaolin Kung Fu dates back over 2000 years. It was honed and perfected by generations of monks. It is still very useful today.





Wushu was invented in the 1950%26#039;s or 60%26#039;s, I can%26#039;t remember, by the Communist leaders of China. They had discovered that their ban on the Buddhist monastery way of life was killing a national treasure of martial arts. So they took the knowledge of martial arts that they had access to and made up a new style. Wushu is more about appearances then fighting. Don%26#039;t get me wrong, it%26#039;s still a good martial art, but it has a fighting style and an art style within it. The art side is not useful in a street fight but it looks great in movies.