Sanda takedowns from the World Championship in Macau 2003

Martials arts cannot be described by text, they are inherently a performance that can be captured only (and still only partially) by a video. This is one of the reasons why when I begun training around 1981 the only "real" things available were judo and karate, the rest being quite made up from cheap kung fu and ninja movies. There was no way to assess the reality of what passed for kung fu, and nobody could go to China to check.



Nowadays video clipping services such as Google Video and YouTube contain a lot of interesting footage that can be immediately shared. For example, this clip from the World Championship in Macau, 2003 is a good collection of sanda takedowns performed by top level athlets