2nd Annual International Wushu Tournament in Los Angeles

The 2nd Annual International Wushu Tournament in Los Angeles.

Join us as we kick-off the second International Wushu Tournament in Los Angeles bringing together leading Wushu experts, competitors, coaches, and officials for a weekend of stellar performances, activities and exchange. During the tournament weekend, activities will include traditional and contemporary wushu competition, wushu performance, the exchange of martial skills and cultural exchange.

A Masters' Wushu Demonstration will be featured prior to the tournament from 9:00 am to 9:30 am, with the tournament set for 9:30 to 5:30 PM.

A Traditional Chinese Banquet will immediately follow the tournament at approximately 7:00 pm.

This year our special guests are members of the Zhejiang Wushu professional team in China. On Saturday morning our guests will perform a Masters Demo. This will be followed Sunday morning by a Masters Seminar to teach form, which will be held at the Shaolin Wushu Center in Los Angeles.

Special Master Seminars/Workshops with members from the Zhejiang Wushu Professional Team in China.
Date: Sunday, May 29th, 9am-1pm
Location: Shaolin Wushu Center of Los Angeles

    * qiang (spear)
    * shuang jian (double straight sword)
    * changchuan (northern style)
    * nanchuan (southern style).

Admission tickets will only be available for purchase at the door on the day of the event.

Judges
International

Chen Shu’an
Master Chen Shun’an is one of the top national martial arts coachs and named “China’s top ten martial arts instructors” by the China State Sports General Administration. He has served as a coach of the Chinese Wushu delegation and visited 14 countries and regions in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Master Chen also has engaged in teaching martial arts, and has trained a large number of outstanding martial arts athletes, such as Master Hu Jianqiang and Master Zhang Xiaoyan.

Mao Yaqi
2003 Chinese National Wushu Routine Competition: Nan Quan Championship, Individual Overall Championship; 2004 The 6th Asian Wushu Championships: Nan Quan Championship; 2005 The 10th Chinese National Games: Nan Quan Overall Championship; 2005 The 8th International Wushu Championship: Nan Quan Championship; 2006 The 15th Asian Games: Nan Quan Overall Championship; 2008 The Chinese National Wushu Routine Championship: Nan Gun Championship; 2009 The 11th Chinese Games: Nan Quan [ Southern Fist], Nan Dao Overall Championship.

Ma Guoliang
He joined the Zhejiang Province Huzhou Qingquan Wushu Academy in 1996. He started to study at Zhejiang Province Professional Athletics Institute since 2003. Awards and honors include, 2010 Chinese National Wushu Campionship: 1st place Straight Sword, 2nd place Spear, The Sword and Spear Championship in the 2010 Chinese National Traditional Wushu Competition, The Three-section Cudgel champion in the 2004 Chinese National Traditional Wushu Competition, 2nd place in the Sword and Spear in the 10th Chinese National Games in 2005.

Yu Te
Master Yu was born in 1988. He joined the Zhejiang Province Professional Athletics Institute in 2000, and then started to pursue his undergraduate degree in Zhejiang University in 2008. He holds the following distinguished awards; 2010 National college Championship: Double-sword 2nd Place, 2009 National College Championship: Individual Sword Championship, 2008 Chinese National Wushu Routine Championship: Traditional Double-sword Championship and 2007 International Youth Wushu Routine Championship: Chang Quan [Long Fist] Championship

Zhang Chunyan
Master Zhang was born in 1984 and  joined the Zhejiang Province Wushu Team in 1995. In 2006,  she became an athlete and coach and received her undergraduate degree from Zhejiang University, majoring in Chinese Traditional Wushu. She is the distinguished Female Sword and Spear Overall Championship at the 10th Chinese National Games, 7th Asian Wushu Championship in Sword and 8th and 9th International Wushu Champion in Sword.

Domestic

Zong Jianmei
Master Zong Jianmei has extensive experience teaching Taiji and other forms of Wushu in China, Argentina and the U.S. She has been practicing Taiji and Wushu for over 30 years. From 2005 to 20007 she was the co-chief judge of the Greater Hartford International Wushu Competition.At the age of 10 she attended the Zhejiang Wushu Institute in eastern China and started taking the full-time Wushu training program. At the age of 18 she became the head coach for the children's team of the Zhejiang Provincial Wushu Institute. In 1981 she became a certified international Wushu judge, the only female Wushu judge in Chinese National Wushu Competition.
In 1991 Master Zong moved to Argentina and established the Chinese Wushu School in Buenos Aires, Argentina together with her husband, Master Hu Jianqiang. She was also the head coach for Taiji and Wushu at the center. In 1997 the family moved to the United States and founded the Shaolin Wushu Center, originally in South Windsor, CT and now also in Los Angeles, CA. In addition to her teaching and administrative duties at the Shaolin Wushu Center, Master Zong also teaches Taiji at UCLA.

Wang Wei
Born in the Dongming District of Heze in Shandong Province, Coach Wang signed up for wushu when he was 6 years old. He spent his day divided between training in wushu, and completing his studies in school with the other children. His training in these early years was very strict and disciplined; not only doing conditioning and strength building exercises, he would also do drills of basic wushu movements in his own time in order to keep ahead of the others. After 5 years of this arduous training, it all paid off, and in 1987 amongst stiff competition, he became a member of the Shandong Wushu Team.

A short two years later, Coach Wang entered the National Wushu Youth Cup and won third place. This was just the start of his successful professional wushu career which would span over the following decade and earn him numerous awards. In addition to earning medals for his team, he also was called upon to go abroad and perform to promote wushu on an international level. During his thirteen years of life on the Shandong Professional Wushu Team, training was his profession, and he worked extremely hard.

It was this hard work and dedication that led to Coach Wang becoming the first and only athlete ever to obtain a waiver of the tryout and interview for admittance to the number one sports university in China, Beijing Sports University. And so, Coach Wang ended his professional competition career, and enrolled himself as a member of the class of 2000.  While attending Beijing Sports University, Coach Wang continued to travel abroad to promote wushu. He was even chosen to represent China at an activity to bid for the 2008 Olympics where wushu was an official demonstration event. June of 2004 Coach Wang graduated from Beijing Sports University with a degree in National Traditional sports Education.

Jiang Bangjun
Jiang Bang is a 6th  time World Wushu Champion in ChangQuan (Long Fist style). As a young student he worked his way from being a member of the North China Petroleum Sport Association Martial Arts Team in 1984 to placing second at the National Youth Wushu Championships in NanQuan (South China style) and Sword categories.

In September 1990, Jiang was directly admitted to the "Movement" Department of Shenyang Sports Institute. Thanks to cultural & theoretical studies, he received his degree in training pedagogy. In 1991 he won 4th in the National Wushu Championship in sword (Jian). In 1994 Jiang helped the Liaoning Wushu Team reach the A division, obtain 2nd in Sword (Jian) and 3rd in YingZhaoQuan (eagle claw style) and 4th in DuiLian (fight pattern). After completing his studies he became a Wushu teacher in the martial arts office of the institute.

In July 1995 he was admitted by Wu Bin, the famous coach of Jet Li, to join the Beijing Wushu Team, both as a coach and athlete. At the National Champion title in 1996 he won first place in the all-around category and also ChangQuan, Sword (Jian), Double Hooks (Shuang Gou), DuiLian (fight pattern).  In May 2000, he was selected by the International Wushu Federation to be the official demonstrator for ChangQuan taolu and appeared in the official instructional video. Later, he was invited by the Hong-Kong Wushu Association to train their team before competitions, including the 1999 World Championships and the 2000 Asian Championships. Now, he's a teacher in the Beijing Wushu Team, and has been invited by the Beijing Foreign Languages University to train the foreign students Wushu team.

Shao Li
Master Shao Li is a graduate of the Martial Arts Department of Beijing Athletic Conservatory with 27 years of experience in Martial Arts. While much of it was spent practicing the art, a decent majority was also spent learning the art of teaching both Wushu and Taiji. She arrived in the United States from Mainland China and currently resides in Shawnee, Kansas. Master Shao Li is a member of the National Wushu Demonstration Team and a Bronze Medalist in the Chinese National Games (Taiji Sword). She is also an expert in many traditional Chinese weapons.

Guo Pei
Master Guo Pei has the Seventh degree (duan) ranking by Chinese Wushu Association. Master Guo was a former team member of the Shanghai Wushu Team and over the last  twenty years has been coach for the Shangahi Wushu Team. Master Guo was former Head Coach of the Shanghai Wushu Academy and  former Assistant Secretary General of the Shanghai Wushu Association. Former team member of Shanghai Wushu Team.  Master Guo was a distinquished member of the 1974 China Wushu delegation to the United States

Emilio Alpanseque
Emilio Alpanseque is a 5th Degree Wushu Master by the Chinese Wushu Association, with over 25 years of training, he has pursued his Wushu career with passionate determination and exceptional commitment. His extensive experience as a successful international competitor, former Spanish National Team athlete, qualified judge and dedicated writer has made him a highly respected member of the international Wushu community.

Jiang Guiqin
Master Jiang is a career athlete and was selected at age twelve to join the State Wushu Team in her home province of Gansu, China. She went on to attend China Northwest Teaching University and the famed Beijing Sports University where she earned degrees in both Wushu Instruction and Coaching. After college, Master Jiang was Team Coach of the Lanzhou Wushu Team in Gansu, leading the team to numerous championships. In 2001, she moved to the United States where she now serves as coach, instructor, tournament judge and fight choreographer. Master Jiang is currently Head Coach at the Shaolin Wushu Center in South Windsor CT. Master Jiang has served as master judge in numerous tournaments.

Wang Rengang
Master Wang founder of International Dachengdao Kungfu, holds the rank of gold sash in Chinese Wushu. He studied under and is the successor to the well-known Wang Xuanjie, the second generation grandmaster of Dachengquan. Wang Rengang is also the fifth generation successor of Hao Tai Chi Mei Hua Mantis Fist (northern praying mantis). He learned northern praying mantis first from Wang Yue and then from Yue's teacher, Hao Wei Zhi, the fourth generation successor of the northern mantis system. Wang Rengang has participated in and won numerous gold medals in martial arts tournaments worldwide. Competitions where he has placed first include the Liaoning Wushu Performing Competition (1985); Yuen Tai International Mantis Fist Association (1991); China Qing Dao International Martial Arts Tournament in both the Tanglang Quan (Mantis Fist) and Tanglang Sword (1999); International Wushu Championship sponsored by the North American International Wushu Association (Orlando, Florida, 2000); and the 1st Annual New Century Kung Fu Strike Tournament (New York City, 2000) in the three competitions: Tai Chi Hand Slap, Fist and Sword.

He currently serves as the Vice-President of two organizations: the Tai Chi Mei Hua Mantis Martial Arts Association and the Dachengquan Martial Arts Society of China. The Chinese government awarded Mr. Wang the status of Certified Grade 1 Wushu (Martial Arts) Judge. He was appointed by the U.S. and China Wushu Association as a judge for free sparring and was a judge in the 2nd Annual New Century Kung Fu Strike Tournament, New York City, 2001

Matt Zhang
Master Zhang was born in Shaanxi Province, China and began practicing  martial arts at the age of ten. From 1993 to 1995, he pursued his master degree in martial arts at Xi'an Physical Education College, China. After passing the exams and tests of national 3rd-class and 2nd-class certifications in martial arts, he became a Certified National 1st-class Referee of Martial Arts in China in July, 1995. He is also a certified 3rd-class gymnast in China. Master Zhang came to the United States in August, 1995 as a visiting professor of martial arts at the College of Physical Education, University of Delaware. Master Zhang has run many martial arts demos, workshops and seminars in the United States. Master Zhang's favorite martial arts are Northern Styles of Kung Fu, including Shaolin boxing, Shaolin 13-fist Short Stick, Chinese Military Police Boxing, Pi Gua Quan (Chopping Fist), Fan Zi Quan (Tornado Fist) as well as Chen Style, Yang Style Tai Chi and Zhang Style Tai Chi Gong. Master Zhang is currently president of the East West Institute and the head instructor of the Tai Chi, Kung Fu, Qi Gong and Self-defense classes.

Zhao Changjun
Master Zhao was the all-around Chinese National Champion for 10 consecutive years; Nobody has broken the record so far. In Wushu circles, it is said that the 70s belonged to Jet Li, but the 80s belonged to Zhao. Zhao is also a world's renowned Wushu coach, with more than 20 years of experience coaching professional Wushu teams in China and multiple national teams of foreign countries, such as Japan, Malaysia, Italy, Switzerland.