Kung Fu Magazine Weekend (plus drunken sword still alive and official wushu handshake!)

Kung Fu Magazine

I had a long weekend again this week because I took Monday off work to take care of some kung fu interviews! On Wed. Kung Fu Magazine called me to attend their Kung Fu Magazine / Shark City National Tournament at the San Jose Convention Center (plus to do an interview and photoshoot).. so Thursday I booked a flight back to SJ for Friday.

Friday I flew back. My bags were late checked and they didnt make it on the flight! =(

How was I going to compete without my weapons and shoes??

Butterfly Twist in my dope yellow silks!

Saturday morning my dad gave me a ride. I had to do 3 things all before 9am (tournament registration was at 9am). We went to pick up a spear at Fu Bi De’s place, pick up my bags from the airport, and then made it to the tournament in time for walk-in registration. I competed and took home first and seconds (second to Zhang Hai Yang Beijing Wushu Team member – who competed dao against my jian and gun against qiang – you know how open karate/kung fu tournaments lump weapon divisions together).

A journalist from Sing Tao Newspaper dropped by the competition to interview me and snap a few pictures. Then at night I did a demo with Julie, Jimmy, and Master Tu Jin Sheng! I also taught the famous international wushu handshake developed by me and Margie Cina (and we’ll give Sam Tjhia some credit too) to the Pei sisters. The tournament and demo didn’t end until night. Then Sifu Zou (my tai chi master) came by and we went to an after party to get some food and drinks.

First Place Drunken Straight Sword at Kung Fu Magazine Tournament

and if you want to see My LongFist you can click here.

and if you want to see My StraightSword demo you can click here.

Sunday I had to return Fu Bi De’s spear and randomly Matt McBride and I ended up helping him out with a demo at San Jose City College. It was for a hua ren yun dong hui(chinese american athletic event). Then after the demo we got boba and then did a full practice. I competed against Fu Bi De and Yang Yang (both former He Nan Team) doing btwist + 720 inside combos. Whoever landed the most would have to buy drinks. Only Fu Bi De hit 1 out of 5 so we owed him drinks. We all sorta hit them, but they had to be perfectones with full rotation and stable landing. Then we battled 540 outsides and Fu Bi De and I tied and Yang Yang lost.. so she owed him 3 drinks and me 1 drink. Haha! I beat a former China female athlete! Very tiring day, but still decided to get some drinks with Matt. Went over to my brothers place in San Jo and had some drinks then went home.

Monday I woke up sore as hell but still had to drag myself up and over to Kung Fu Magazines headquarters for a photoshoot! Photoshoot was fun. Kenny Perez and Kyle were there too. I took some pics for some ads/articles that Kung Fu Magazine should be featuring in the near future (so look forward to it on newsstands!). Right after the photoshoot (with no lunch yet) I ran over to New Tang Dynasty Television station to do a filmed tv interview that they are going to put on their channel which apparently airs in Asia and the US. I did a short demo at the end of my interview and then headed home. Got home, passed out for 30 minutes and woke up realizing I had 45 minutes to get to the airport. Long story short – made it in the nick of time and got back to LA.