Wah Lum Tournament 2000!

[meltdawn]

This was terrific!!!

Lilly Lau, Gini Lau, Henry Poo Ye, Frank Yee, Shaolin Monks, CC Chen,Zhang Bing Dao, Bredan Lai, Gigi Oh, the list goes on! It was a great competition and a wonderful event. The Master's exhibition started late, ran a little awkward, but the perfomances were all spectacular. I have never seen so much GOOD taiji!

I have a question though. Since there are few competitions around the US, I haven't had much chance to see what women's forms competition looks like. I was a little disappointed. I saw six women compete at advanced level, and none of them put any power in thier forms. The wushu women were spectacular, but the short hand forms were unimpressive. Did I just catch a bad turnout for this division, or is this common? I'm definitely a novice, but I was itching to get in that square and do some damage!!


No insults are intended by this post, it was just not what I expected so I'd like some input.

Meltdawn who won the southern teen girls forms competition? I had a friend compete im curious as to how she did. Also can you please go into some more detail on the Masters demo? Thanks.

[Constipated Wombat]

Heya "Dawn"

I've seen this same problem before, tho not just with women. When I was studying with Lily Lau, I used to wonder why I was sweating so much more than the rest of my classmates, until I realized that a great many of them were just walking though their forms with no focus, speed, or power. One wonders what benefit, if any, they derived from their form work, especially since many didn't much care for the self-defense or sparring.

Hasta,
Brian

[manfukuen]

I ALSO COMPETED IN THE WAH LUM TORNAMENT, AND DID WELL AS DID MY SCHOOL. THE WOMENS COMPETITION WAS REALLY GOOD. THE SHAOLIN MONKS WERE INCREDEBILE AS ALWAYS. THE ONLY THING I FOUND FUNNY WAS THAT THE MONKS ONLY APPLAUDED FOR THEMSELVES. THE NEVER APPALUADED FOR OTHERS.

[meltdawn]

D -
I'm not sure about the girl's competition, but Kung Fu/Wushu magazine was there so I believe they'll post results soon. Otherwise, try Wah Lum's website.

Brian!
I agree that many PEOPLE, not just girls do this. I guess if I took the percentages into perspective, I'd see it's not exclusively a female issue.

Manfu-
What was your school? In what divisions did you compete? I loved all the broadsword forms and the Wah Lum school had an incredible showing! A school as strong as Chan Pui's is quite impressive.

The monks were awesome, and we did notice they mainly applauded for themselves. Then again, the wushu teams only applauded for their team members too. I did watch the monks closely observe the guys from the HK CMA team and their Monkey exhibition. They did applaud for them, maybe because they were fellow exhibitors. Also, they DID applaud the Taiji masters.

[manfukuen]

I STUDY HUNG-GA. MASTER FRANK YEE IS MY SIGUNG. I COMPETED IN SOUTHERN HAND FORMS AND SPARRRING.

[meltdawn]

Manfu -

Awesome! I was happy to see Frank Yee. Heck, I was impressed just watching the kid's do forms!

I'm sorry I didn't get to stay for Sunday and see the fighting. I spent oo much money in one day to get a hotel, lol. How did you do?

[mantis boxer]

Who won the 4 star competition? Was it a student of Chan Poi?

[TongLongPai]

Hello,

I too was at the tournie 2000. It was a really good tournament!!! A lot of stuff to buy, but the best of all was all the Great Kung Fu and Masters.
But there was this little kid (he looked 6 or 7years at the most) he was wearing a blue silk uniform with a white spade in the collar. His mantis boxing was to die for!!!
His stances were perfect! I think I envy him! HEHEHE! Out of everyone there, my Favorite competitor was Sifu Mike Martello. He competed in the mens Praying mantis and weapons division. He came in second, but he was only one point away from Gold. Some judges are biast. HeHe.

Hoped everyone enjoyed themselves!!!

------------------
Omitoufo,
TLP

[LeeKoonHung ChoyLayFut]

We are happy to say one of our team (Joe Keit) won the traditional men's Grand Champion. It was tough, alot of good competition including a monk from Shaolin. All the competitors were great as well as all the Masters! Congratulations to all!

[bong]

Were there any Southern Mantis folks in the competiton?
How did they do?
I was out of the country and could not attend.http://216.219.234.88/forum/roundtable/icons/icon9.gif

[mantis boxer]

Wow I'm very surprised that a student of Chan Poi didn't win the 4 star. I thought politics would fix the outcome of that. Joe Keit must have done a hell of a job!

[LeeKoonHung ChoyLayFut]

He did a great job! We were surprised the Shaolin monk didn't win.

[SwiftKill]

Joe Keith did performed very well but his sifu was cheif judge in a division that Joe Keith was also competing in and that from what I have heard should not have been allowed.

[NorthernMantis]

I'm a kung fu cousin of the student that you're talking about.His name is Fu.I don't know his last name though.He is part of a wah lum school in maryland.

[This message has been edited by NorthernMantis (edited 07-27-2000).]