August 2021 | Journal of Healthcare Engineering | by Jing Li, Guangren Zhou Abstract Martial arts tracking is an important research topic in computer vision and artificial intelligence. It has extensive and vital applications in video monitoring, interactive animation and 3D simulation, motion capture, and advanced human-computer interaction. However, due to the change of martial […]
01 September 2021 “By no means,” exclaimed Hamilton, in his clear, thrilling, silvery voice.”It is not the bare printing and publishing of a paper that will make it a libel; the words themselves must be libellous, that is, false, scandalous, and seditious, or else my client is not guilty.” ― Crown v. John Peter Zenger, 1735 […]
August 2021 | by Farhad Ghadiri et al Abstract The aim of present study was to compare the mental skills of elite male youth and adult in Wushu and Kickboxing. Subjects included of 20 youth kickbox, 20 adult kickbox, 20 youth Wushu and 20 adult wushu players. Results showed psychosomatic skills and stress reaction of […]
It had to happen one day or another. Thousands of Facebook users find themselves locked out of their accounts by invisible robots controlling the platform. The Wushu Herald did not escape this fate either. But maybe it is for the better? The last two weeks experience of being caught in the infinite computerised loop of […]
“The world governing body for kung fu is using copyright law to identify a user who allegedly made defamatory remarks about the organization on YouTube. The action by the International Wushu Federation is taking place in Australia’s Federal Court where a judge has ordered Google to hand over subscriber information. …Why this matter is being […]
07 August 2021 Code of Ethics was “But the plans were on display…”“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find [it].”“That’s the display department.”“With a flashlight.”“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”“So had the stairs.”“But look, you found [it], didn’t you?”“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on […]
by Svitlana Zavialova. The Wu Woman Company (January 11, 2020). Shen-fa: The Art of Cognitive Transmission of Martial Movement and Emotion is an installation diary by The Kung Fu Visionary artist Svitlana Zavialova known as Wu Woman. Devoting a decade in China to the passionate pursuit of immaterial force in wushu. Svitlana’s writing aims to invoke […]
May 2021 | In book: Expériences du corps vivant | Publisher: L’Harmattan Abstract In spite of their inexhaustible variety, martial practices and energy medicines from China (wushu, taiji quan, qi gong, etc.) share at least one common element: they all stress the importance of shenfa (身法), an operative concept for which symptomatically we cannot give […]
by Matthew Lee | 24 July 2020 Abstract In July 2020, the 2020 Summer Olympics were originally set to kick off. Karate is also set to be included a sport in the Olympics at this time, something that Wushu has failed to achieve with multiple attempts. There are numerous factors for this, which surround different […]
Recent History of Oceania Wushu11 July 2021 Introduction If we were to discuss the history of Christianity we would have to rely on the Synoptic Gospels (of Luke, Matthew and Mark). If we are to discuss the history of Wushu in Oceania, we have to rely on the Gospel of Glen (Keith) and Walt (Missingham) […]
