So I went to the Dutch Open Wushu Championships 2009 today which was held in Den Hague and hosted by no other than aNd artist Fei Bao Xian

Unfortunately we got to know of this event a bit late we had a lot going on and by the time our teacher could decide it was a bit too late. Our laoshi decided it was to late to alter our trainingprogram to accommodate going to a competition.

Basically not enough time to prepare, so that meant our school wouldn't be attending, he ofcourse encouraged us to go if we felt we were up for it (complete forms, no injuries, ready for duty)

Unfortunately it seems I'm the only one who values competitions enough to prepare by myself on a short notice to go to this competition and I ended up being the only person from my school attending. Our laoshi had to be out of the country for his work this entire week anyway.

Anyways there was another Euro Wushu Camp not too long ago with none other than the insanely powerfull wushu athlete and aNd artist He Jing De which also was cool and there I met these two cool dutch guys who came over to our school to prepare for this competition with me.

I hung out with them and other belgian peeps (Golden Harvest), students of aNd'er Stefan Leoni so all in all I had fun.

I was surprised when they announced the judges. OLA FROM POLAND!
I was like... wait what? Ola is the sweet cool alive not dead wushu girl I met (thanks to aNd) in Poland. But she never posted this on her blog so I didn't find out beforehand.

Anyways she did a good job judging because I've got the gold medal in Changquan. Haha! My form was so so, it was ok but could have been better. The level of competition was way higher than last year and there were a lot of cool people at the competition. But this blog post is huge as it is....

I'm definitely going to post the entire Changquan category on youtube.

Cya!

Long time since I posted a blog entry. But I figure why not.

European Wushu Championships 2008, Warsaw Poland.

If I had posted immediately after I would have more to say but I'll give a small summary.

Great event, had lots of  fun. It was a very important and fun experience. We were a small team of 4 people from our school and two people from outside of Flanders.

Will post some pics later, the video however I haven't even got myself, I'm going to ask for it though, even though my performance wasn't that great, I still want to see it again and have it to put in the archives

I did ok for my level, but my level was low so oh well... I did manage to rank in the top half of my event (Changquan) I was 19th out of 38. I suppose it's not that bad for someone who at the time was doing wushu for less than two years.

Other than that not that much news, since I graduated I have been working as a Webdesigner for the company I did my internship with during the last semester of high school. Which so far has been a fun experience.

I have a new portfolio website which you can check out here: randy.sitelink.be

Last blog entry seems a bit dramatic now. True I couldn't do the btwist anymore and time was of the essence..

My teacher just said, write down the btwist (Xuanzi Zhuanti), you could always do it so you'll be able to do it again. Just write it down on your nandu sheet and go practise. In the end it worked out, I did it at the Euro's, which I'll post an entry about later.

In the meantime, here is a lil sampler from the Euro Wushu Camp I attented in July.


Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fBOcm5q05c

I didn't have a lot of footage, I only filmed once for about an hour. Too bad coz our Guest instructor was doing 720's, 540 btwists all over the place, not to mention his ji ben gong was insane.

Thanks again to Rosa Mei (Antwerp) and Zhang Ling Fang (Beijing)

So the Butterfly Twist or btwist... is a move I have always had problems with... 

Sometimes it would be good, sometimes bad. Even the style of the twist sometimes looked different, never consistent. But at least the past year I have been able to do it without too much trouble..

So we're preparing for the European Championships... We're training on sunday... I do a btwist... and for no reason I just stop in the middle and fall..

It didn't hurt at all, but I was like... wth did I just do.

On monday, I couldn't do the btwist. I just couldn't go into it. Wednesday was the final day for nandu entries with my teacher! If you couldn't land the nandu you wanted to do at the European Championship, you couldn't put it on your nandu sheet, too late to put jumps in your form you aren't 100% sure you can land. We only have one more month to go!

So my btwist is gone  and Instead of it I put a 540 XuangFengJiao (630°) landing in Die Bu. So I still have a 2.0 starting score for nandu but have to edit my form a little, and XFJ has never been easy for me but if I don't have to land in Ma Bu I think I'll be able to do it

Here's a video of my butterfly twist when I could do it:

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bJN1jt3RyY

Looks easy right? It's gone

I graduated today, went to pick up my diploma.

Haha biggest anti climax ever (no not really I wasn't expecting anything):

What was your name? Randy... oh yeah you graduated, here's your diploma, if they ever ask for it, give a copy of it... bye.

So I graduated in Multimedia and I haven't got a clue as to what I'm gonna do now... Well actually I do, prepare for the European Championships 2008 in Poland. A month and a half to go.. :)