Before Bruce Lee introduced Western folks to a more sophisticated understanding of martial arts, Western knowledge of East Asian martial arts was pretty much defined by Japanese karate (with a little jiu jitsu thrown in). It's what I call "chop socky" martial arts: lots of body flips, lots of open-handed chops with the side of the hand, lots of kicks.
Wuxia martial arts generally don't resemble that at all. But in all of wuxia, is there any martial art that approximates the somewhat awkward "chop socky" style I described above?