Ch’ang Style
Weekend in San Francisco
Saturday, Sunday, August 2nd, 3rd, 2008
The Cupertino Kung-fu Club, USSA, and Dr. Weng’s Kung-fu
School will be hosting a weekend of Kung-fu in the Bay Area of San Francisco.
The event is hosted by Dr. Chi-hsiu Weng and his sons Jan-Yu and She-Peng
as well as a special guest from Taiwan: Grandmaster Ch’ang’s grandson,
Master David Chang.
The event starts Saturday, August 2nd, at 10:00 am with a small friendly
tournament for Shuai-chiao, Chang Style Tai-chi, and Chiao Chuan #1.
Incorporated in the tournament fee will be a learning sparring session on
Sunday with some of the local black belts where students can get feedback
on their tournament performance. The tournament will cost $60 a person
which includes the workout session the next day. Additional seminars
will be available to all: Contact: Jyweng@aol.com
or call 408-554-6595
AAU
Nationals
Shuai Chiao and Chinese Kungfu Competition
August 16, 2008
Clay Madsen Recreation
Center, 1600 Gattis School Road, Round Rock, TX 78644
For information please contact Dave Pickens:
via phone at 512-244-7410 or via email at rrkungfu@hotmail.com
For more Information, contact Jennifer Miles - Phone 407-828-3764
or Jennifer@aausports.org, visit
us online at: www.aauchinesemartialarts.org
Past Event and OSU Club News:
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
Former President,
Joseph Belisle, is on an Engineering Internship
in Kentucky
for the next six months.
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,
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