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Chinese Martial Arts jumping?

In some of the Chinese Martial Arts films I have seen I see people jumping atleast 20 feet or about 10 feet straight up, I don't know if this could really be done, but if it could I would like to learn how. Can anyone help me?

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1. yeh its definitely real, i can do it. 50 ft high hahah not really, i dont noe if those things are real? go to a martial arts club man.
2. I'm thinking that stuff would require alot of time, and dedication. When the shoalin monks toured North America some of them had some crazy jumping ability, but when thats all you do every day...your bound to get good. Working on your vertical would be something that you could look for in basketball routines, as again some of those guys got hops.
3. It's done with wires. Sure, I can help you--we just need three other guys, some rope, and a pulley.
4. That is humanly impossible. It is done with imagery techniques.
5. its not possible to do
6. I'm a chinese and let me tell ya impossible.most chinese even can't jump 3 feet straight up.it is movie stunt.don't believe it,even monks from Shaolin Temple can't do that.we are humans,not supermen.
7. I say this a lot!!!! Chinese KUNG FU is super fake!!!!! It only fits in the movies not in real life.........
8. I think you're referring to the 70s and early 80s old school Kung Fu flicks starring Jimmy Wang Yu, Ming Fei and company which I like to refer to as the Pre-Bruce Lee/Jacky Chan era Kung Fu movies. They were "special effects" done by having an actor jump down from a rooftop and then rewind or reverse the film making it appear he is jumping up the rooftop instead of down. Those were the old kung fu cliches back then that suggested Kung Fu masters were superhuman and could jump up a mountain and again into a meadow miles away with a single leap. Man I miss those cheesy dubbed Shaw Brothers vintage Kung Fu movies. I'm actually trying to find a copy of "The Shaolin Blackhand", lots of jumping over roofs and mountains featured in that one, plus the famously debated Dim Mak technique : P
9. The Olympic record for high jump is about 8 feet or so. No one on this earth has jumped higher than that yet under their own power. Martial Arts isn't magic, no one jumps that high. The traditional "feiyanzoubi" (Flying off a cliff and walking on walls) refers to the ability to jump on a 6-7 feet high roof with an intermediary step or two pushing off the walls. (The roof edge hangs low on traditional peasant houses.)
10. Practice jumping of course. Also, when you see a demo by people in orange suits, very rarely are they real monks. The real shaolin monks never come out of their monastery or go far from it unless they have special permission. The people you see in demos are usually laypeople.
11. wushu and wires...watch Chris Cruselli on 'Mind, body and kiss ass moves' he had a programme showing how they do it