Taolu / Performing Art

Taolu is a performance or display of sequences known as ‘Routines’. It incorporates Punching, Kicking, Throwing, Seizing, Striking and Thrusting into set routine exercises using various combinations of Attack and Defence, Advance and Retreat, Dynamic and Static states, Quickness and Slowness, Toughness and Softness, Solidity and Emptiness in motion, etc. The categories are based on Empty Hand Styles and Weapon Styles.