Investigation In The Standard And Methods Of Wushu Duan Examination

Chinese Martial Arts Duan system is to evaluate wushu practitioners’ overall skills level designed and implemented by Chinese wushu association. For a system that measures wushu skills level, its standard and methods are the keys. National Wushu Duan examination is a important way to evaluate wushu practitioners’ overall skills level. 2011 "Wushu Association Handbook" manual release, make provisions for technical examination and scoring methods. With the development of martial arts Dan system, the original scoring method and increasingly unable to meet Dan system’s own characteristics, followed on scoring criteria and methods be revised, simultaneous, it is also the practical mean to test the appropriation of the standard and methods of the Duan examination. The current evaluation standard and methods of national Duan examination is only on trial. From national wushu Duan examination, it shows assignable problems; therefore, the standard and methods of Duan system is under scrutiny.This article sorted out the development of the regulations of wushu Duan examination. According to the regulation used in 2015 national wushu Duan examination, and employing literature research, questionnaire survey interviews, field study, statistics, etc., the study investigated the standard and methods of Duan examination, analyzed the current issues existing in practical application, and proposed strategies for reformation.From analyzing the current standard and methods of Duan examination, it is found that different areas have various evaluation standard, and evaluation standard also varies between different examiners, who often rely on their own experiences; Judging standard for paired people borrows from single person events, so the style of the paired events is under-evaluated. The distribution of the grade value too emphasizes the quality of the movements; Other deductions are not well considered, and there is no specification of the deduction regarding the error of the content; Except for self-defense, other taolu events do not touch upon evaluation about parry skills; the Duan examination does not have regulation in terms of timing; Deduction for compulsory taolu movements has low operability; Current wushu Duan examination adopts overall grading methods that greatly reduces the objectivity of the judgment.For the above issues, the strategies for reformation are: The first adding Wushu Duan examiner training courses, Therefore, people from various levels can be familiar and master the Duan regulations and in turn to realize the goal that different areas having the same Duan regulation. It is important to strengthen the training before Duan examination especially to unify the regulation and to advance the examiners judging skills; The second For events with paired people, it should include scores for the consciousness of attacking and defending, coordination, rhythm, and power of the movements while decreasing the emphasis for the quality of the movement,For the group set, rise the score for the choreography and lower the points for the quality and technique of athletes’ movements; The third Adding two taolu content errors to the other deductions, deductions including changing of movements(adding or reducing movements) and changing of the directions; The fourth Adding the parry part to all events, testing the compulsory parry movements combining with the improvise parry; The fifth Taiji and group set should have time limits; The sixth set up form examiners focusing on the deductions regarding errors on typical movements. Typical movements of every compulsory events should go with images. Examiners should be familiar with these movements via training courses and actual exam, and via experts explanation of the movement; The seventh On the basis of standard regulation, Duan examination should employ integrated evaluation methods in order to add the operability, Duan competition can use several groups to evaluate the practitioner to ensure the fairness and transparency.