Our Congratulations to Charles Lin
Inside Kung-fu Magazine's
2010 Competitor of the Year
Check out the February 2010 Inside Kung-fu (vol.38, #2)
Trained at Dr. Chi-hsiu Weng's Cupertino Kung-fu Club,
Charles is the first Shuai Chiao Competitor to be so honored!
Photo by Ann Ly
Grappling with the eventual winner in 
Taizhou, China, in late 2007 Charles took 3rd
place, pushing the USA Team to 4th place overall
Finishing in 4th place in his first appearance at the 2005
Great Lakes Kung-Fu and Shuai Chiao Nationals,
Charles rapidly ascended the divisions and places.
Photos by Mike Hall
Past Event and OSU Club News:
OSU RecSports Department Sport Club Banquet and Awards Ceremony
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club members share a table with the OSU Judo Club
OSU Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club Team Attends the GLKF Shuai Chiao Nationals
Our six-man team had only one previous fighter at the GLKF: Husam Sweidan, who took 2nd place in the Middleweight division.
Club President Amir Ahmed placed 4th in the Middle-Heavyweight division.
Kungfu Club Team members prepare mentally and physically for Combat
Come join us and develop your own "mad skills" in kungfu!
Congratulations to OSU Club Members who participated
in the 2010, 34th Battle of Columbus Chinese Martial Arts Division
Team members took home a 1st, two 2nds, and a 3rd place medal
in the Moving Push Hands and Sanshou Divisions, Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Amir Ahmed controlling...
...and throwing his opponent.
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Amir dominated through most of the match and took First Place in the Push Hands Middleweight Division
Sean
Duffy in his first match against an experienced opponent forced a third
round, and scored a maximum four-point throw before being edged out on
points.
Sean, in his second match, won on points.
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Jow Ga Master and Referee Mike Barry
raises Sean Duffy's hand as BOC Push Hands Lightweight Division Second Place winner.
Mike Grigsby pressing on Tim Hwang.
Master Hwang easily won this match with his superior push hands skill and power
A nice, clean, counter-throw,
but opponent James came back to win on points and take second place in the Heavyweight Division.
Battle of Columbus
Heavyweight Push Hands
Competition
First Place Winner,
Tim Hwang
Third Place,
Mike Grigsby
Chinese Sanshou Division
Husam Sweidan competed in the
Battle of Columbus Chinese Sanshou Middleweight Division
Despite
a very strong start, with a blitz of punches and a powerful throw,
Husam was eventually overcome by this experienced opponent's skill and
stamina, but took 2nd Place in his Sanshou weight division.
Lincoln Tower Demo for Chinese New Year
Our
thanks to our fellow martial artists of the Buckeye Tang Soo Do Club, who
joined with the OSU Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club to put on a demonstration
and offer free self-defense lessons to the Lincoln Tower dorm residents
on February 17th, 2010.
OSU Club Winter Belt Test -- February 11th, 2010
Congratulations to: Amir Ahmed (5th Chieh), Mike Hall (4th Chieh) and Husam Sweidan (2nd Chieh)
Push Hands Class at the Chinese Martial Arts Center November 29th, 2009
Special thanks to Master Shie-Ming Hwang and Sifu Timothy Hwang for instructing our Club members.
Thanks to the RPAC Staff who made our
2009 Year of the Ox
Shuai Chiao Kungfu
Tournament
Saturday, October 3rd
a successful event!
Held in the RPAC Building on
The Ohio State University campus
Columbus, Ohio
And our Thanks to all competitors, officials, and guests.
Year of the Ox Tournament Results
We welcome our new Club President for Fall, 2009
Amir Ahmed
The Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club at OSU Presents a Tan Tui Kungfu Seminar
Sunday, August 30th, 2009
OSU Shuai Chiao Head Instructor Mike Grigsby, President Andrew Malonis, and President-elect Amir Ahmed
Presented two hours of Tan Tui forms and applications to the instructors and advanced students of the
Buckeye Tang Soo Do Club
~~ World Tai Chi and Chi Gung Day ~~
Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Goodale Park, Columbus, Ohio
And around the world:
OSU Lantern article on the Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club:
OSU Lantern Video Interview posted:
http://media.www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2009/04/09/Multimedia/Kung-Fu.Club.Video-3703667.shtml
A print article is also available in the Lantern Online:
http://media.www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2009/04/01/Campus/Kung-Fu.Hustle-3690598.shtml
Check out extra action Club photos from Lantern photographer
Eric Pacella:
Club Photos, 4-1-2009
Shuai Chiao Club Winter Belt Test
January 20th, 2009
Andrew Malonis, Travis Stoy, Husam Sweidan, Thomas Seeber
4th Chieh 4th Chieh 3rd Chieh 4th Chieh
Our thanks to black belt Raymond Trepanier and 1st Chieh Jaron Bernstein
for being on the testing committee.
Club Alumnus, Gavin Max, visits OSU
Club Instructors Jack Chuang (Left) and Mike Grigsby (Right)
With Club Alumnus (1994!) Gavin Max, of Chicago
Ch’ang Style
Weekend in San Francisco
Was Saturday and Sunday, August 2nd, 3rd, 2008
Photo from E. Chen, www.shuaijiaonation.com
For Full Results, click here...
Tan-tui Kungfu Clinic Presented for the Buckeye Tang Soo
Do Club
August 3rd, 2008
Shuai Chiao
Kungfu Club Instructor Mike Grigsby with Buckeye Tang Soo Do Instructor Tom
Marker and BTSD members
OSU Kungfu Club Head Instructor Mike Grigsby presented a two-hour Tan-tui
Kungfu seminar for the Buckeye Tang Soo Do Club on August 3rd, 2008. The
founder of Tang Soo Do, Hwang Kee, studied Tan-tui kungfu and other Northern
Chinese styles which he incorporated, along with Okinawan and the Korean
martial arts, into his eclectic Tang Soo Do (literally, "Chinese Hand") style.
The Grandmaster of our school of Shuai Chiao, Ch'ang Tung Sheng, was
also an eclectic martial artist, and had passed down his knowlege and interpretation
of the Tan-tui forms. It was a pleasure and honor to help spread the
knowlege of this Northern Chinese Muslim form of kungfu to other serious
martial artists of the modern era.
Demonstrating a practical application of the Tan-tui number Four
form
Shuai Chiao
Club Picnic: June 21st, 2008
Thanks to Club VP Sugumar
Murugesan for promoting our picnic and boomerang throwing seminar.
Spring
Quarter, 2008, Shuai Chiao Club Belt Test
Congratulations to our three new 5th Chieh (Green) and two
new 4th Chieh (Green/Blue) belts.
Special thanks to Club Alumnus Elek Karnai,
and black belts Tamera Lake and Jack Chuang for being on the Testing
Committee.
Steve Feldman,
Andrew Malonis, Travis Stoy, Husam Sweidan, Michael
Hall, Mike Grigsby, Elek Karnai, Tamera Lake, Jack Chuang
Photo
by Club VP Sugumar Murugesan, photo support by Thomas Seeber
The OSU
Club Sends a Team to the USSA Shuai Chiao Nationals
April 19th, 2008
The Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club
at The Ohio State University
sent a three man team to the USSA
Shuai Chiao Nationals at the Great
Lakes Kungfu Tournament at
Case Western Reserve University
in Cleveland, Ohio
None of the team members had any previous tournament experience.
Despite this, our two Green Belts,
Husam Sweidan and Tom Seeber
both placed 3rd in their divisions.
OSU Club President Andrew Malonis
in his first match has opponent John Wedow
lightly dodge an attempted technique,
as referee Tim Braun observes.
~Photo by Michael Hall
OSU Club Safety Officer Husam Sweidan
soundly defeats Samuel Hai, 10-0.
Husam lost only to the eventual first place
winner, international competitor and
Shuai Chiao black belt, Charles Lin.
~Photo by Michael
Hall
OSU Heavyweight Thomas Seeber
brings down young Justin Eafford
after lifting him up to chest-height
with the Shuai Chiao "embracing" throw.
~Photo by Michael Hall
OSU Club Head Instructor
Mike Grigsby referees a
hard-fought match.
Chris Genet (left) finished 3rd and Matt Gelfand (right) 2nd
in the 196 to 215 lb division.
View a video of this Match at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JqVPwspCNc
~Photo by Michael Hall
We welcome
our new Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club President for 2008
Andrew Malonis
November 29th, 2007
Elek
Karnai Husam Sweidan,
Tom Seeber,
Steve Feldman, Joseph Belisle, Sugumar
Murugesan, Mike Grigsby, Raymond Trepanier
The Shuai Chiao
Kungfu Club at OSU held a belt test on November 29th, 2007. Five
Club members were elevated in rank:
Safety Officer Husam Sweidan, 5th Chieh; Tom
Seeber, 5th Chieh;
Treasurer Steve Feldman, 5th Chieh; President Joseph Belisle,
5th Chieh;
Vice-President Sugumar Murugesan, 3rd Chieh.
Our thanks to Club Alumnus Elek Karnai (1992-1995)
and 9th Teng Black Belt Raymond Trepanier
for officiating in the United States Shuai-Chiao
Association Belt Test Committee
Shuai Chiao
Mini-Camp at OSU, October 27th, 2007
Dr. Chi-hsiu (Daniel) Weng and the President
of the United States Shuai-Chiao Association, Jan-yu Weng
presented an all-day international tournament
training seminar and "Mini-Camp" at OSU. Members of
the Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club at OSU and Shuai
Chiao students from all over Ohio attended the RPAC event.
The highlighted participants: Ernest Smoot, Krisanne
Litinas, Jamie Van Doran, Krista Curtner, and Ian Donovan
were selected for the USA Shuai Chiao Team that competed
in Shanghai,China, in late November 2007.
The USA Team took 4th place -- the highest placing non-Chinese
Team!
All of these participants at the Mini-Camp
studied with Dr. Weng at OSU over twenty years ago!
Shuai Chiao Club President
Joseph Belisle and
Club Treasurer Steve Feldman work on some
of the basic hand entry techniques.
It gets much harder when
you
actually try to throw someone!
Dr. Weng shows hand technique
control on
Instructor Raymond Trepanier
USSA President Jan-yu Weng
shows OSU Club Vice-
President Sugumar Murugesan basic entry
technique.
The 2007 AAU Chinese Martial Arts Division Kung
Fu
and Tai Chi National Championships
Was completed Saturday September
8, 2007
At the Brushy Creek Community Center
- Austin, Texas
Competitors and Officials of
the AAU 2007 Shuai Chiao Division
For More information check out the official
website: www.kungfu-taichi-championships.com
Or contact Sifu DavePickens directly
at: rrkungfu@hotmail.com
Short video clip of Grandmaster Ch'ang
posted on the web.
[click here for video]
Great Lakes Kung Fu
Championships, USSA Shuai Chiao Nationals -- April 21st,
2007
Congratulations and thanks to
all competitors and officials at the Great Lakes Kung Fu
USSA Shuai Chiao Nationals Tournament
held April 21st, 2007
Click here for Full Results...
Special Pre-Nationals
Workout Hosted by OSU Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club
On March
29th Master Matt Mollica and Ho-I students joined Sifu Mike
Grigsby and members of the
Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club at OSU for a
special pre-tournament workout before the 2007 GLKFC
Congratulations
to Club Members tested for Belt Rank, June 1st,
2006
Kyle
Kelly, 4th Chieh Tim Goytowski,
1st Chieh Jaron Bernstein, 1st Chieh
Sugumar Murugesan, 4th Chieh
-- Special thanks
to test committee Black Belt Instuctors Tamera Lake
and James Mattox --
Special
Thanks to all Participants in the
2006 Great Lakes Kungfu
Tournament
OSU
Shuai Chiao Club President Kyle Kelly Places at
2006 Great Lakes Shuai
Chiao Kungfu Nationals
International competitor She-Peng Weng dominates
in the last match of the
division.
Kyle
Kelly takes 3rd Place
2006 GLKF Shuai Chiao Nationals
OSU
Shuai Chiao Club members attend
"Strategies for Advanced
Tournament Fighting"
Seminar
by Dr. Daniel Weng, held March 30, 2006
Held
at the Ho-I Martial Arts Academy
10 Oakland
Park Ave., Columbus, OH 43214
Congratulations
to OSU Club Members
Tested for Belt
Rank 11-17-2005
Kyle
Kelly, Sugumar Murugesan, Melinda Foote, Matthew Samples,
Randolph Johnson
OSU Club members elevate
rank at June 2005 Belt Test:
Tim Goytowski,
2nd Chieh Willie Theunissen,
4th Chieh
Congratulations
to OSU Club Members
Melinda Foote and Willie Theunissen
for
placing in their divisions at
The 14th
Annual Great Lakes
Shuai Chiao Tournament
U.S.S.A.
National Championships
Saturday, April 23rd, 2005
Melinda Foote, 3rd Place
Melinda throws
Carrie Miranda
on her way
to winning their match
with a 2 -
0 score
Due to a three-way
circular tie,
final places
were determined by
total points,
giving Miranda first
place, despite
the loss.
Willie Theunissen, 2nd Place
Willie grapples
with black-belt Danny
Hall in the
Men's 180 pound final.
After a long
and cautious battle,
Hall took
the match by one point
with a clean
counter-throw.
Historic
Last Shuai Chiao Tournament in Larkins Hall
2005 Year of the Rooster Shuai
Chiao Tournament
1986 Chang Tung Sheng Memorial Tournament
Court
5, in Larkins Hall at the Ohio State University,
has been the venue for over twenty years of Shuai
Chiao Kungfu Tournaments. This Summer the
historic building will be demolished to make way for the
new PAES building.
The
OSU Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club was founded in the early
eighties by Dr. Daniel (Chi-hsiu) Weng while he was
completing his graduate studies at OSU. Over the years
dozens of tournaments and hundreds of Shuai Chiao classes
have taken place in the cavernous Court 5 area, with its ample
spectator gallery and wall-to-wall mats. We are looking
forward continuing our tradition in the exciting new RPAC
facility soon to be opening.
Jerry
Sheldon Mike Grigsby
Matt Mollica
Jeff Williams
Tim Braun
These
Rooster Tournament officials all competed in
the first Chang Tung Sheng Memorial in 1986.
Congratulations
to Club Members placing at the
OSU
Year of the
Rooster Shuai Chiao Tournament
February
12th, 2005
Melinda Foote
First Place, Women's Lightweight
David Reed Blocksom
First Place, Men's Middleweight
Willie Theunissen
Second Place, Men's Middleweight
Jaron Bernstein
Third Place, Men's
Heavyweight
See
Tournament
Results for more information.
2004 Tai-chi
for Fitness
International Wushu Championships
Saturday, Sunday: August
14, 15
