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As a point of interest to anyone that would be reading through this topic, my coach (4 years Wu Shu longfist) told me that karate was developed from Wu Shu. The story goes that the military sent some people to train with the monks because they had heard of this new fighting style. They only gave it a few months and then went back and developed karate off of what they had learned - which had only been the stretching exercises! Thus the reason that karate is a more military style training and fighting technique, and lacks more of the spiritual side.
Now I understand that everybody has a story about the origins of their particular style, and I mean no disrespect. This is just the story that is told to all the children in China the first day of training. Coach was on the Chinese National Team with Jet Li - quite a lot of fun to watch him in action.
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Oft expectation fails...
and most oft there Where most it promises
- Shakespeare, W.
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