Alfred Hsing Sport Accord Combat Games

The US and Canada national teams were in attendance at the 2010 sport accord combat games held in Beijing China among many other countries such as Russia, China, Malaysia, Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Brazil, and Japan. The US Team sent veteran wushu athletes Sarah Chang, Peter Dang, and Alfred Hsing.

Aug 28 Changquan Alfred Combat Games Competition

Changquan was the first event of the entire Combat Games held at 9am on August 28th, 2010. There was significant media coverage and the event was in part sponsored by Samsung. US athlete Alfred Hsing was 2nd to take the stage. Hsing had a dominant performance that impressed the crowd, however minor technical deductions set his score back. Hsing says “I didn’t make any major mistakes and given that I have been focusing on work in Beijing the past 2-3 months I am pretty happy with my performance today. This will probably be my last major wushu tournament and I am glad I got to share it with my good friends and teammates in Beijing – the land of wushu and where I always dreamed I would be on the main stage competing in front of hundreds. My dreams as a wushu athlete were finally completed today.”

Alfred Hsing Longfist – 2010 Sport Accord Combat Games

Alfred Hsing Athlete Interview with Tom.com (in Mandarin Chinese)

Other notable achievements were made by US team member Peter Dang who took 3rd in the staff competition beating worthy adversaries such as Russia and 2 other Asian countries. In attendance this trip was US team leader Li Su Dong who has in prior years organized Junior and National Wushu Team Trials.

13 Combat Games Ambassadors

In addition the Opening Ceremony held on the evening of the 28th spared no expense as a dazzling display of physical prowess and beautiful music filled the stadium main floor. 13 Ambassadors for each sport were in attendance – among the ambassadors were Don “the dragon” Wilson, mma fighter Fedor “the last emperor” Emelianenko, Jet Li, and many other legends of martial arts. The final closing song of the evening was sung by Jackie Chan who was surrounded by dancers and acrobats as the ceremony came to a close.

There are many more events such as kick boxing, sambo, jiu jitsu that are still occurring since the Combat Games just started. Look forward to these amazing sports broadcasts featured online.

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Tiger Claw Kung Fu Magazine Tournament

On Saturday, June 12th, 2010, KungFuMagazine.com, will be holding their second annual championship. They have many new exciting changes for this year. They are adding new divisions for Wing Chun and Tai Chi Push Hands. They are planning separate Grand Champions for modern wushu and traditional kung fu to encourage more traditional competitors. As we are cooperating with Tiger Claw and Shark City Nationals again, this tournament will showcase both Chinese Martial Arts and Karate. They will be separating the Grand Champions for these arts this year instead of combining them. Chinese style competitors will be able to compete with the Karate competitors and in their new WildAid Tiger Champion division. This special division promotes WildAid’s campaign to save wild tigers

Shark City Nationals is part of the Bay Area Sport Karate Association (BASKA) and is promoted by Tony and Theresa Kattengell. This historic cooperative event offers Cash Awards, Custom Grand Champion Trophies, Special First Time Competitors Divisions and of course magazine coverage.

Tiger Claw’s KungFuMagazine.com Championship will return to the luxurious San Jose McEnery Convention Center, in the heart of downtown San Jose, California. The Convention Center is Silicon Valley’s premiere venue for such events, large enough to accommodate a Karate tournament alongside a Chinese martial arts tournament, and is within walking distance of hotels, restaurants, bars, theaters and shopping, all the best that San Jose has to offer!

Please come out to support!

Cung Le

May 6, 2010.
Cung Le Interview by WushuKicks.com

Last Thursday I had the privilege and honor to chat with former US Wushu Team member, former Strikeforce Middleweight Champion, and current actor/action star CUNG LE.

Cung is an amazing martial artist, but he has also excelled above and beyond in other areas as well. In business – he started his own martial arts school and brand (USH!). In martial arts – he was a medalist at the world wushu championships, he won the middleweight champion title in strikeforce, and he has won countless tournaments in various styles of martial arts. In entertainment – he has worked with action star Donnie Yen and is going to be in the upcoming Hollywood film “Tekken”.

To see Cung in action check out this highlight reel.

Cung has been an inspiration in the chinese martial arts community in more ways than one. To top it off he has helped promote Asian Americans in a positive light AND he is an EXTREMELY humble guy. For a guy that could throw you upside down on top of your head, he carries himself in a very calm and respectable manner – as you would expect of a disciplined martial artist.

Now to the interview! He was in town in LA to promote his recent movie “Bodyguards and Assassins“. This is a movie that was released in Asia, but it was playing at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival. I interviewed him for the Pacific Rim Video Channel. In our interview he talks about what it was like working with Donnie Yen, his thoughts on wushu/sanshou in MMA, and his strategy on his rematch with opponent Scott Smith scheduled to fight June 26, 2010!

Without further ado, here is the interview.

For the martial artists, what are your thoughts on his upcoming fight with Scott Smith and do you guys think its possible to juggle a competitive martial arts career with filming and making movies?

Also thoughts on Cung Le and the UFC? Dana White has mentioned that he would like to see Cung in the UFC. Anyways, just food for thought. Feel free to leave comments.

To check out more about Cung, the man, check out www.cungle.com!

This video interview was brought to you in part by Pac Rim Video and WushuKicks.com.

CMAT 18 Gold Medalists

We also have the results of the all-around championship. The all-around champions of CMAT18 are:

• Adult Contemporary Wushu (Female) – Ngan-Ha Ta
• Adult Contemporary Wushu (Male) – Phillip Dang
• Adult Traditional Wushu (Female) — Priscilla Herrera
• Adult Traditional Wushu (Male) — Randall Tran
• Internal Wushu (Female) — Sing May Chen
• Internal Wushu (Male) — Michael Ng and Larry Rothman
• 13-17 Year Old Contemporary Wushu (Female) — Chrystina Yu
• 13-17 Year Old Contemporary Wushu (Male) — Michael Yu
• 13-17 Year Old Traditional Wushu (Female) — Whitney Vuong
• 13-17 Year Old Traditional Wushu (Male) — Richard Lee
• 8-12 Year Old Contemporary Wushu (Combined Gender) — Robert Yu
• 8-12 Year Old Traditional Wushu (Combined Gender) — Drake Wong
• Senior Wushu (Combined Gender) — Mayumi Yoshida

Here are some exclusive wushukicks.com pictures from our CMAT event coverage! Click picture to see larger image. Scroll down to the bottom to see videos of some US Wushu Team members and the men and women’s adult all-around champions performances.

cmat18 butterfly kick

cmat18 beijing wushu team wudi

cmat 18 power up bryan cartago

cmat18 wei-hsin lee

cmat18 sponsor - wushukicks on jumbotron

cmat18 sifu bryant fong

cmat18 tiffany reyes double swords

cmat18 stephanie lim

cmat18 peter dang

cmat18 ming qiu

cmat18 marc goodman

cmat18 li jing and alfred hsing

cmat18 judges table

cmat18 emcee announcer alvin hsing

cmat18 wushukicks wushu shoes

cmat18 dennis ta

Here are the videos of the adult wushu all around champions Phil and Ngan.

Phillip Dang

Ngan-Ha Ta

Dennis Ta

Peter Dang

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Videos and photography courtesy of Alfred Hsing.

The official CMAT 18 Tournament begins today! We will have top level traditional and contemporary wushu competitors hitting the competition floor today. There will be guest appearances by Beijing Wushu Team members Wu Di and Gao Jing.

This is one of, if not the biggest chinese martial art tournament in the United States. We hear there is a bumpin after party as well! =)

Stay tuned as www.wushukicks.com brings you more coverage of the days events and results!

CMAT Trailer from derek cheung on Vimeo.