Which is better: Shaolin kung fu (Buddhist) or Wudang Kung fu (Taoist)?

Question

Who's got the better kung fu - The Buddhists or the Taoists?

Answer 1

its all depending what u are looking for:

   if u want to be jumping and more "looking cool" then take northern sholin. any northers styles are more jumping and "cool" looking stuff.

   If u want  to be a crazy fightes i would go to the southern styles. some of them are very practial no noncense systems.

  example: in southern style u wlk up to some one and break there neecap

  in northend you joup and back fist him in the face. both of these work and work even better if u combine the 2.

  just do not take any stiles that u scratch people or that u hissed you will just get laughed at

  an example of a southern style is wing chung

Answer 2

"There is no such thing as a superior martial arts, there are only superior martial artists."

Answer 3

When looking at the Chinese martial arts, the line between Taoists and Buddhists is often blurred if not nonexistent. The original monks who created Shaolin Temple Boxing (Chuan Fa) followed a tradition of Chan Buddhism (Chinese Zen Buddhism) which is a combination of Taoism and Buddhism. Any assignment of a Chinese martial art to a particular philosophy of Taoism or Buddhism would have occurred long after the creation of the Chinese martial arts in the Chan Buddhist Temples. The answer to your question is that most Chinese martial arts are descended from both a Taoist and Buddhist lineage.  Anyone can come along centuries later and say "My style is more Taoist than Buddhist, or vice versa", but the Chinese martial arts started out being both Taoist and Buddhist.

Answer 4

from my time in China 1991-2006, I have seen differences between the two

Shaoling can be more hard, definitive, and focused

Wudang is somewhat more flowing, graceful, yet to the untrained eye Wudang may appear to be lacking in strength, but both systems have their individual values.......................

Answer 5

Well, they are both excellent, but I'm Taoist (sort of), so I'm leaning that way. I'm learning Taoist kungfu right now in rural china near Wudang Mountain with an actual priest from Wudang. Shaolin is mostly offense, not much defense. Kung fu (hem, sorry, it's gong fu actually)...gong fu is smooth, but by no means easy. It follows a back and forth motion, ending near or ideally at the same position. Shaolin, a lot of the time I see, is about "cool tricks." But Wudang doesn't really have the "cool tricks." It depends on what kind of gong fu you're looking for.

Answer 6

there is no better gong fu, there is only such thing as more dedicated gong fu practitioners.

as in all arts it is not the art ,but the practitioner (and more importantly the instructor and how effectively they teach!)

Answer 7

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