Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, on Feb. 2015
The Kung Fu It's one of the most popular fighting systems of the East. Many like to call it boxing Chinese and is characterized by proposing a series of attack and defense techniques. That is, kung fu is taught and learned to know how to defend itself against an attack but also because it is considered a sport what helps to find relaxation, to concentrate and find the mastery of oneself. For example, it is included within the vast group of martial arts.
It should be noted that this practice has a huge number of styles and each one of them presents tactics, techniques and a preparationphysical specific.
Although obviously its origin is in the civilization Oriental has known how to spread phenomenally throughout the world, especially in the West, where it has become a very common practice among non-oriental people.
The diffusion that this practice had the last century on the part of the media communication mass media of the West, such is the case of television and
movie theater, made this Chinese sport reach the tremendous repercussion that it has today in many western countries.The actor and martial artist of Chinese North American origin, Bruce Leehim, he learned kung fu in China during his adolescence, meanwhile, when he settled in the United States and began to spread the practice with successful films and talks about him, kung fu, also became part of the culture western. For example, he is considered a pioneer and main diffuser of it in the West.
Chan Kong Sang, better known as Jackie Chan, is another actor and martial artist who stood out for spreading the practice in the West and has done it like Lee, through the cinema, of great and funny films in which he leaves no doubt through his choreography of his high level of kung practice fu.
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