Bull fighting, China style.

[Satanica]

Hat tip to Sugar Cookie

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-Fighters-mix-kung-fu-bullfighting-China.html

Several times a week, kung fu teacher Ren Ruzhi enters a ring to spar with a bovine opponent around five times his weight and capable of killing him.

Ren's mixing of martial arts and bullfighting worries his mother, but the 24-year-old has never been hurt. Besides, he says, grappling with a snorting bull is exciting.

'It symbolises the bravery of a man,' Ren told Reuters in Jiaxing in China's eastern province of Zhejiang.

A unique sport of China's Muslim Hui ethnic minority, bull-wrestling has been gaining prominence among Kung Fu masters as well as Chinese tourists.

Video footage shows a fearless Ren approaching the bull head on, grabbing its horns and twists, turning its head until the beast toppled over.

Unlike Spain's more famous sport, the Chinese variant of traditional bullfighting involves no swords or gore but instead fuses the moves of wrestling with the skill and speed of kung fu to bring down beasts weighing up to 400 kg (882 lb).
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'This (the Chinese variety) is truly a contest pitting a human's strength against a bull. There are a lot of skills involved and it can be dangerous.'

The physically demanding sport requires fighters to train intensively and they typically have short careers, said Han Haihua, a former pro wrestler who coaches bullfighters at his Haihua Kung fu School in Jiaxing.

Han calls the bullfighting style he teaches 'the explosive power of hard 'qigong'' - an ancient Chinese mind-body practice - saying it combines the skill and speed of martial arts with traditional wrestling techniques.

'What do I mean by explosive power?' Han asked. 'In a flash! Pow! Concentrate all your power on one point. All of a sudden, in a flash, wrestle it to the ground.'

If the first fighter gets tired, another one can step into the ring, but they have just three minutes in which to wrestle the bull to the ground or lose the bout.

The bulls, too, are trained before entering the ring, Han said, and learn themselves how to spread their legs or find a corner to brace against being taken down.

'A bull can also think like a human, they are smart,' Han added.

Although he says his bulls get better treatment than the animals involved in the Spanish sport, animal rights activists believe Chinese bullfighting is still painful for the animals and cruel as a form of entertainment.

'In Chinese bullfighting, we cannot deny the bulls experience pain,' said Layli Li, a spokeswoman for animal welfare group PETA. 'As long as it exists, that means there is suffering.'

 

[ghosttruck]

I'd like to see them try that with one of our crazed American rodeo bulls!

 

[Sejanus]

The first thing this sport has going for it is the fact that they're not dressed up like those pansy-ass matadors in their tight tight tights. Always looks like homos on Parade!

So Peta chiming in on another sport involving animals. As I said before they can suck a dick when it comes to commenting on cruelty to animals. As I have previously pointed out Peta has the worst record for euthanizing completely adoptable dogs and cats. Their kill rate is appalling!

I will say this looks like it actually has a little bit more physicality to it then some Spanish cock and ball twit prancing into a ring armed-to-the-teeth with blades slaughtering some helpless meat puppy.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

I'd like to see them try that with one of our crazed American rodeo bulls!

No shit!! That thing is tame.

 

[Satanica]

Bull wrestling Madagascar style.



In North America, however, we wrestle steers not bulls.