This past weekend the 2009 USA National Wushu Team Trial Selection event just occurred. There was tough competition and emotions ran high as people poured years of training and dedication on to the solitary competition carpet which would attempt to capture years and years of sweat and effort in a 1 minute and 20 second form.

Results are in!

Here are the Team Results and National Rankings:

Men (A Team):
Max Ehrlich
Colvin Wang
Peter Dang
Alan Zhao
Alfred Hsing

Women (A Team):
Elaine Ho
Stephanie Lim
Ashley Chung
Sarah Chang
Joana Pei

Men (B Team):
Phil Dang
Mikey Tsai
Donovan Hui
William Chen
Jian Wei Bench

Women (B Team)
Brenda Hatley
Claudine Tran
Tiffany Reyes
Melissa Yu
Tiffany Wang

Men (C Team):
Chase White
Eugene Moy
Stephon Morton
Jason Liu
Matthew Tay

Women (C Team):
Emily Fan
Jessica Shyy
Samantha Tsen
Karlee Yong
Isabelle Ju

The top ten (A Team) will represent the U.S. and compete in the World Wushu Championships during October 2009 in Toronto, Canada. Congratulations to all the competitors and thank you to the tournament organizers/staff.

Individual Results:

Men’s Changquan
1. Alfred Hsing
2. Phillip Dang
3. Chase White

Women’s Changquan
1. Sarah Chang
2. Stephanie Lim
3. Claudia Tran

Men’s Nanquan
1. Max Ehrlich
2. William Chen
3. Jonathan Sun

Women’s Nanquan
1. Melissa Yu

Men’s Taijiquan
1. Alan Zhao
2. Alfred Hsing
3. Jian Wei Branch

Women’s Taijiquan
1. Elaine Ho
2. Tiffany Wang
3. Isabelle Ju

Men’s Broadsword
1. Peter Dang
2. Michael Tsai
3. Edward Kahana

Women’s Broadsword
1. Joana Pei
2. Claudia Tran
3. Stephanie Lim

Men’s Straightsword
1. Alfred Hsing
2. Phillip Dang
3. Colvin Wang

Women’s Straightsword
1. Sarah Chang
2. Brenda Hatley
3. Samantha Tsen

Men’s Southern Broadsword
1. Max Ehrlich
2. William Chen
3. Jason Liu

Women’s Southern Broadsword
1. Jessica Shyy
2. Melissa Yu

Men’s Taiji Straightsword
1. Allen Zhao
2. Alfred Hsing
3. Jian Wei Bench

Women’s Taiji Straightsword
1. Elaine Ho
2. Tiffany Wang
3. Samantha Tsen

Men’s Spear
1. Colvin Wang
2. Justin Yu
3. Alfred Hsing

Women’s Spear
1. Tiffany Reyes
2. Sarah Chang
3. Kelly Kim

Men’s Southern Staff
1. Max Ehrlich
2. William Chen
3. Simon Ho

Women’s Southern Staff
1. Melissa Yu

Men’s Staff
1. Dennis Ta
2. Peter Dang

Women’s Staff
1. Joana Pei
2. Stephanie Lim

Congratulations to all and keep up the hard work!

EXPONENTS from three wushu academies in the Asia-Pacific region gathered for the inaugural HYJ Academy of Wushu Competition at the Sports Arena in Wisma OCM, Kuala Lumpur recently.

The exponents, from HYJ Academy of Wushu of Singapore, HYJ Academy of Tai Ji and Wushu of Australia and HYJ Academy of Wushu of Malaysia, took part in a variety of categories during the one-day competition that was held in the spirit of fostering ties. The categories included changquan, traditional quanshu, nanquan, daoshu, jianshu, nandao, 42-style taijiquan and gunshu.

HYJ Academy of Wushu of Malaysia’s Woo Chee Heong said the theme of the competition was “For Wushu We Gather, In Wushu We Pride”.

“Besides the competition, we also had a dinner to mark the third anniversary of our academy, and a joint training session.

“Competition alone will not benefit the students as much as training together with one another,” he said.

The activities were in line with the objectives of the event, which included raising the level of wushu among the members, promoting the art of Chinese wushu and upholding the spirit of HYJ founder Huo Yuan Jia.

During the training session, a dance performance incorporating hip-hop and kung fu moves was choreographed.

“About 80 students from the three academies spent an hour practising the dance, and they performed it at the opening ceremony of the competition,” Woo said.

Currently, HYJ Academy of Wushu of Malaysia conducts wushu lessons at five education institutions in Selangor.

“The younger generation admires Western culture and forgets their roots,” Woo lamented.

“I have conducted classes in Western countries before and the students there had so much passion for wushu. Their positive attitude was commendable while the students here sometimes lack enthusiasm. Learning wushu trains one to be disciplined,” Woo said.

Azrul Shahrif Ibrahim, a student of Multimedia University in Cyberjaya, took part in the traditional long weapon category in the competition.

“A roommate encouraged me to take up wushu. That was three years ago. I liked it a lot and my fellow students are receptive to us learning wushu,” said the second-year IT student.

In 2006, Azrul bagged a gold medal in an inter-varsity wushu tournament in Kelantan.

To him, learning wushu is more than just mastering a few Jackie Chan moves.

“I know more about Chinese culture now, as I always get invited to participate in the festive events organised by the wushu club,” the 25-year-old said.

From: http://news.rednet.cn/c/2008/11/04/1627922.htm
Editor: Sharon Lee
Source: enghunan.gov.cn
Updated: 2008-11-4 10:53:00

6th National Farmers’ Meeting comes to an end. This evening the curtain is about to fall on the 6th National Farmers’ Sports Meet in Quanzhou. Hunan athletes have made a superb athletic performance, harvesting 13 gold medals, 9 silver medals and 4 bronze medals and outnumbering the 12 gold medals for last one.

Peng Xiuqi, Secretary of Delegation of Farmers’ Meet of Hunan, told the reporter that Hunan athletes did an excellent job, manifesting a perfect sportsmanship as well as the spiritual style of farmers, and achieved double harvests in competition results and spiritual civilization.

84 Hunan athletes took part in 9 fields of matches on this meeting, including field and track, swimming, wushu, dragon boat paddling, dragon dance, lion dance, fishing, Chinese chess and body-building yangge.

Lion and dragon dancing team got a lion share in this big victory with 5 gold medals and 4 silver medals in their pocket, including 2 most valuable all-round champions, which represents that our team has become one of the best in China. Despite of the fact that this was their first time to participate in this game, the dragon boat paddling team from Changde also got a good result, winning 2 gold and 1 silver. 23-year-old player Liu Qunli won three gold medals in the three matches she attended, and 18 year-old Liu Shan from Xinhua exhibited an amazing performance in wushu, capturing the most valuable all-round Woman’s Champion in self-selecting long boxing, which is also the first won all-round gold medal in this field.