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The Chinese Wushu Association, the primary governing body for Chinese-style martial arts in that nation, has released a statement declaring martial arts practitioners should refrain from calling themselves “masters” or the head of a style. The organization also seemed to indicate that practitioners should not participate in staged public fights.
The decrees apparently come in response to a series of public humiliations alleged traditional Chinese martial arts masters have suffered in challenge matches against mixed martial artist Xu Xiaodong and other modern trained combat sports fighters. Xu ignited a firestorm of controversy when video of his 2017 demolition of “thunder style” tai chi exponent Wei Lei in an MMA fight went viral on Youtube.
This article first appeared at Black Belt Magazine
