Making Sense of Wushu or Kung Fu Training

If you've spent any time looking at martial arts classes lately, you've probably wondered whether you should be searching for wushu or kung fu. It's a super common point of confusion, and honestly, if you feel a bit lost, you're not alone. Even within the martial arts community, people tend to throw these terms around as if they mean the exact same thing, but then you'll see someone doing a backflip and calling it one thing, while someone else is doing a slow, rooted form and calling it the other. It gets messy fast. ...

April 28, 2026 · 6 min · Middleton Cornell