Wushu

[GeneChing]

MAY 3, 2024

All the right moves in martial arts: Researchers develop system to quickly identify errors and improve form
by David Bradley, Inderscience


Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain

Research in the International Journal of Biometrics introduces a new method for assessing a practitioner's precision in martial arts training. The method focuses on quickly identifying errors in the athlete's movements and allowing their trainer to more precisely guide them to correct form.

The system has been developed with a particular focus on Wushu, a collection of Chinese martial arts styles known for their complexity and precision.

Zhiqiang Li of the Department of Police Sports Teaching and Research at Jilin Police College in Changchun, China, explains how the system used advanced algorithms, including the optical flow method and shot adaptive K-means clustering. These are used to extract "key frames" from video and to then analyze texture features of the martial artist's movements.

The analysis can attain a high accuracy rate of 96.58% in detecting incorrect movements. The minimal recognition error is 1.9%, Li adds. Critically, the method is very efficient, giving the trainer or student a positive recognition within just 11 seconds or so.

The approach could be very useful in martial arts training, allowing coaches to identify errors in real-time and offer on the spot advice and guidance to their students, even if an error was difficult to spot in the class or there was ambiguity judging it.

The method could thus enhance training effectiveness and, given that incorrect actions are often associated with injury, it could also reduce the number of physical problems faced by students. The high precision will benefit the students in developing their technical proficiency but also make their participation in martial arts safer. The system will also benefit to the overall aesthetic appeal of a martial arts performances.

One might imagine that the system could be extended for refereeing purposes where there is ambiguity in judging a move or action as allowed or illegal in the particular martial art. It would also be quite easy to imagine that such a system would be as controversial as the likes of the digital line judges used in international tennis and the video assistant referee (VAR) used in (association) football.

More information: Zhiqiang Li, A method for recognising wrong actions of martial arts athletes based on keyframe extraction, International Journal of Biometrics (2024). DOI: 10.1504/IJBM.2024.138228
Journal information: International Journal of Biometrics

I included the link to the publication above.

[red5angel]

seriously though...it has its Martial merits.....I just still have yet to find any!

Well, we all know wushu is not a fighting art, most wushu practitioners will allow that however it does have some martial application to it if you look hard enough. It's not the sort of thing you want to practice for self defense or for sport fighting however.

[Sho]

I believe that wushu is an excellent art for developing one's foundations for further training. Wushu practitioners, as I've seen it, have extremely good form (better than most traditional players according to my own observations, even though their power generation might not be correct) and that's an integral part of martial arts training, because proper form leads to good power generation on the longer run, regarding that the student receives appropriate instruction. They are also capable of adapting to many different styles (of kung fu), because already modern wushu itself is a very diverse system containing a multitude of different styles and forms being strenuous and physically very demanding. Wushu requires its students to be precise on their movements, so they become perfectionists in a sense, because they are constantly required to practice every move with maximal correctness (precision and gracefulness being their priority).

[Brad]

Or should that be looking good while getting beat?

As opposed to traditionalists, who look like s#it while getting beat

[Judge Pen]

Originally posted by Brad

As opposed to traditionalists, who look like s#it while getting beat

I resemble that remark.

[norther practitioner]

It is good for athletisism, flexibility, etc.. but if you want to get into fighting... look elsewhere.

[wushu chik]

Originally posted by Tiger_Yin
Omg wendy :O HAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahaahahah.... didnt know you still hung around here probly forgot how we used to b!tch at each other on the volcano chat thingy a year or two ago heheh.. memories...

I do Wushu, I have my own lil school in town here. Like anything, its what you make of it. If you want to learn to fly like crouching tiger.. well sure go for it Its a great workout.. noone survives my classes so far The technique is awesome and the coordination it develops if hardly beateable.

All depends on what you want out of it.. some say its useless to fight with.. i say BS to that anyways go try it out.. one thing tho.. its not good for you at all hehe kills your body

Hi Tiger Yin,
You know, you should come and chat with us still!! We're all still there..... you can find us at the Fu-Ragz Chatroom!. There's a ton of us that are there nightly. While I'm not there all the time, Chris M, Shooter, Brassmonkey, Illusionfist, etc are all there.

Hope to see you there (always miss a good argument )

~Wen~

[SPJ]

If somebody is interested in learning Wushu/gym, how does he or she start?

[SevenStar]

by doing research and finding a reputable teacher, I'd imagine.

[Jason Martell]

Can anybody give me any sparring video clips pretty please with sugar on top? Also does Wushu sparring look flashy?

[gfx]

define what you call "wushu".
If it's contemporary performance "wushu", there is no sparring.
And no, those two men forms are not sparring.

[bigdoing]

Jason,

Wushu sparring, eagle claw w/ tkd, tkd w/ mantis.....You have to join job core to find a place with human beings to train, you must live on mars and read a lot of comic books...You have the internet so do a google search and you will find plenty of clips that compare all the styles you want...Maybe you should try BALLET and TAI BO

[Jason Martell]

NO when I said I was joning job core, that's to get a career to do something with my life, the thing is you have to live on the school campus, there is one in every state, and I'm trying to choose one based on nearbyness to a martial arts school I want to study at.

[rogue]

It's better to pick one that will get you the best job.

[nickV]

hi,is wushu a type kung fu style or does it just mean chinese martial arts like another name for kung fu??