Check it out!Ĥ/9/07 - Happy Easter everyone. PS - Speaking of Justin Lin - for those Bruce Lee fans out there, check out the mini-site we've created to help promote Justin Lin's latest indepedent film, Finishing the Game: If you guys can check it out and sign up, that would be great. Other, Non-wushu related people already there include Actress Kelly Hu, Comic Book artist Pat Lee and Asian-American director Justin Lin. Phil Ng - US Wing Chun competitor / HK action actor.Ĭollin Chou - Martial artist and star of Matrix 2,3 and a number of HK action films along side Jet Li(Fearless, Dr. Sao - Former US Wushu Team member / long time friend of this website! Wu Di - current Beijing Wushu Team Member and 'Kungfu Star' competitor.ĭ.Y. He Jingde - former Beijing Wushu Team Member / Current HK Team Member, former cast member of 'KA' in Las Vegas. Li Jing - former Beijing Wushu Team Member, now Hollywood stunt woman / actress. Jet Li - No introduction is necessary of course! Jet is a strong supporter of ours, we're happy to have him aboardĭaniel Wu - Asian Cinema star / Brandon Sugiyama's first wushu coach! Martial Arts wise, there are a number of faces you're sure to recognize, such as: Lately Jet Li has been doing a lot of really cool blogs about things like Working on 'Forbidden Kingdom' with Jackie Chan and Preparing for his role in Mummy 3. With help from Daniel Wu and stars like Jet Li, we've created a pretty interesting format where you can blog, share pictures other and meet other people with similar interests. We've reinvented the site into a social network focusing on the entertainment and arts world. The site is:įor those of you who are fans of Asian film, you may realize that this website was actually started by HK Superstar Daniel Wu (who also happens to have been the founder of the University of Oregon Wushu club and one of my old wushu classmates back in the day!). :-PĪnd more importantly, its a community focused on Asian and Asian-American entertainment - specifically supporting artists and entertainers and their fans. Its an online community site, but unlike facebook, xanga or myspace, its not owned by some giant soul less corporate entity. I've taken up a position with some of my internet start-up buddies from college in their new venture, based here in Hong Kong. :-Pįor more frequently updated news, be sure to check out run by my good friend Brandon.ġ0/14/07 - Sorry for dipping off the radar again (for 6 more months!)Īs some of you may know, I've taken another transition in my career since the last update. In the meantime, let's keep it here for posterity and to serve as an archive of former competition results and other goings on (like Anthony Goh incompetence). but I'll try to add important stuff as much as possible. Unfortunately my career has taken my time elsewhere and this page can no longer be considered up to date. In reality this was a blog long before the word 'blog' was ever invented. This used to be the news page for, going as far back as 1997!. It’s a very exciting form as well as challenging to switch grips and spin and perform strong techniques on both right and left sides.Raffi's Wushu Notes CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WUSHU PAGE In the end, I think it’s a very underrated and underrepresented form in the vast Choy Li Fut system. It is most likely that this form was created in homage to the character from the story, but inspired by opera routines of the time. I speculate that there was a large influence of Chinese opera in the making of this form, with certain positions like “wearing the sword” and the frequency of weapon spinning techniques. Even though Zhu Bajie was reckless and lacking in tact, his martial prowess was well known as were his deeds as he joined monk Tan Sanzang, Sun Wukong the Monkey king, and Sha Wujing the sand monk, on their journey to the west. One of the more dynamic weapon sets in Choy Li Fut Kung Fu, the Nine Tooth Rake has is more than just a muck rake, forged in heaven, it was the chosen weapon of the immortal Zhu Bajie (Pig of Eight Precepts) or “Pigsy” (in western translations) from the Chinese literary classic Journey to the West.
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