Chin Woo World Championships 2006
For the first time ever the World famous Chin Woo organisation held their World Championships in Britain this year in London. Members attended from various countries including China, Malaysia, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Poland, Holland, Switzerland, Germany and the Czech Republic to name but a few. The Chin Woo also sent out invites to Chinese martial arts clubs that were not part of their organisation making it a truly World open championship. The Chin Woo has been instrumental in the unity and promotion of the Chinese arts since its formation in 1900’s. Several films have been made about the Chin Woo, but most notable ones include Bruce Lee’s “Fist of Fury”, Jet Lee’s “Fist of legend” and his new release “Fearless”.
Sil Lum Kune therefore felt privileged and highly honoured to receive an invite from this prestigious organisation. Our association has always done very well in competitions we have entered, so I was hopeful that we could possibly win a medal or two. Our association entered 31 members into the competition ranging in age from the youngest members at 6 years old to the eldest (myself) at 39 years old.
The competition was held over three days. Friday was for Chin Woo members only competing in the various open-hand forms and weapons categories specific to the Chin Woo organisation. Saturday was then open to all for Traditional open-hand forms and weapons categories, Tai Chi and Wu Shu categories. Our students entered several of the traditional categories for Southern Open-hand forms, Northern Open-hand forms, Long weapons and Twin weapons.
The large sports hall was split into 4 competition areas. Each area covering the various categories (ie Wu Shu on one area with the usual large green carpet, Tai Chi on another area and traditional categories on the remaining two areas.) The events began at 10.30am and continued until approximately 6pm in the evening. All competitors (children / adults / males / females) were initially grouped together and given a score after their performance. Because it was organised in this manner it was impossible to determine ones overall position until the organisers then split the results into the chosen categories for age and sex etc. This meant that we didn’t find out if we had won anything until the medal presentation on the Sunday.
There were some fantastic displays of skill from many of the competitors that had obviously worked so hard for this renowned and very important competition. The last categories of the day were the group events, which had the spectators, enthralled. These categories included multiple sparring, multiple weapons, flag displays and various group exhibition performances, which brought Saturday to an exciting and dramatic conclusion.
Sunday started with medal presentations for Saturday’s categories of Forms, Weapons etc. As these presentations went on it became clear that our members had done far better than we could ever have imagined. Only 12 of us had competed in the Forms and Weapons categories and 9 of us had achieved medals in the various events we had taken part in with 4 of the 9 winning gold medals to become World Champions.
Destiny Bradnick (9yrs old) World Champion for
Girls –11yrsTraditional Southern Open-hand Forms and Traditional Long Weapons.
Cameron Burkinshaw (8yrs old) World Champion for
Boys –11yrs Traditional Southern Open-hand Forms.
Morissa Bradnick (14yrs old) World Champion for
Girls –17yrs Traditional Twin Weapons.
Jakob McDougal (15yrs old) World Champion for
Boys –17yrs Traditional SouthernOpen-hand Forms.
The remainder of us achieving Silver and Bronze medal positions. (see chart for full results)
After the medal presentation was finished all competitors weighed in and San Shou fighters had a medical. The hall was split into two areas today. The main area was the Lai Tai (raised platform like a large boxing ring without the ropes around the edge) for San Shou (Full contact fighting) and adult Qingda (semi-contact fighting) and the second area was for the junior Qingda sparring. The Chinese style of sparring includes the usual kicks and hand strikes but also allows take-downs, sweeps, throws and push-outs from the area to score more points.
From the off set our juniors dominated the Qingda sparring taking many 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in most categories. It was turning out to be another amazing result for our association.
World Champions for the Qingda fighting are:-
Elliot Randle (9yrs old) World Champion for Boys –25kgs
Destiny Bradnick (9yrs old) World Champion for Girls –25kgs
Sam Forsyth (9yrs old) World Champion for Boys 25 to 29kgs
James Grieve (12yrs old) World Champion for Boys 35-39kgs
Morissa Bradnick (14yrs old) World Champion for Girls 35-39kgs
Kimberley Weightman (14yrs old) World Champion for Girls 45-49kgs
Nicky Jarockyj (15yrs old) World Champion for Girls 54-59kgs
Jakob McDougal (15yrs old) World Champion for Boys 45-49kgs
Joshua McDougal (15yrs old) World Champion for Boys 54-59kgs
Paul Burkinshaw World Champion for Adult 85-94kgs
Giving us 10 World Champions for Qingda fighting.
The San Shou fights had the crowd sat on the edge of their seats cheering the various fighters’ courage and commitment. Many of the categories appeared to be dominated by fighters from Russia and Holland. I was practically taken with the Russian fighters who showed tremendous skill and endurance. Once all the fighting had finished there was the medal presentation and photos for these events and all competitors received a certificate commemorating they had taken part in the 9th Chin Woo World Championships. The day was then brought to a close by several performances from the Chin Woo branches of China and Malaysia and a spectacular Lion Dance.
The overall result for our association was 31 members competing, 25 of them winning a total of 15 Gold medals, 14 Silver medals and 9 Bronze medals. Many clubs / associations have a few talented people that achieve similar results, but I can only assume for our club to win so many, that this confirms how good our system is and that our methods of teaching are also getting the required results. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all my students. At the end of the day it was their hard work, skill and commitment that gave them the resources to achieve these results.
Written by Paul Burkinshaw
(Chief Instructor of Sil Lum Kune)
Full Results
Name |
Age |
Qingdasparring |
Traditional Southern Form |
Traditional Northern Form |
Traditional Long Weapon |
Traditional Twin Weapon |
Callum Burkinshaw |
6 |
Boys -25kgs Silver |
Boys -11yrs Silver |
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Matthew Powell |
7 |
Boys -25kgs Bronze |
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Darcie Bradnick |
7 |
Girls -25kgs Silver |
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Harry Randle |
7 |
Boys 25-29kgs Bronze |
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Cameron Burkinshaw |
8 |
Boys 25-29kgs Silver |
Boys -11yrs Gold |
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Elliot Randle |
9 |
Boys -25kgs Gold |
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Destiny Bradnick |
9 |
Girls -25kgs Gold |
Girls –11yrs Gold |
Girls –11yrs Gold |
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Sam Forsyth |
9 |
Boys 25-29kgs Gold |
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Paisley Randle |
10 |
Girls 45--49kgs Silver |
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Stephanie Grieve |
11 |
Girls 35-39kgs Silver |
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Charlotte Burkinshaw |
12 |
Girls 54-59kgs Silver |
Girls –17yrs Bronze |
Girls –17yrs Bronze |
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Summer Bradnick |
12 |
Girls –17yrs Bronze |
X |
Girls –17yrs Silver |
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Jack Forsyth |
12 |
Boys 35-39kgs Silver |
X |
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James Grieve |
12 |
Boys 35-39kgs Gold |
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Morissa Bradnick |
14 |
Girls 35-39kgs Gold |
Girls –17yrs Silver |
X |
X |
Girls –17yrs Gold |
Kimberley Weightman |
14 |
Girls 45-49kgs Gold |
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Dannielle O’Brien |
14 |
Girls 35-39kgs Bronze |
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Tom Richardson |
14 |
Boys 45-49kgs Silver |
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Jennifer Thompson |
15 |
Girls 54-59kgs Bronze |
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Nicky Jarockyj |
15 |
Girls 54-59kgs Gold |
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Jak Webster |
15 |
Boys 54-59kgs Silver |
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Joshua McDougal |
15 |
Boys 45-49kgs Gold |
Boys –17yrs Silver |
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Jakob McDougal |
15 |
Boys 54-59kgs Gold |
Boys –17yrs Gold |
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Matthew Reynolds |
16 |
Boys 60-65kgs Silver |
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Paul Burkinshaw |
39 |
Mens 85-94kgs Gold |
Mens Bronze |
X |
Mens Bronze |
The six remaining members of our squad who worked very hard but unfortunately missed out on the medals.
Name Age
Bodie Miles 6
Ryan Elliott 8
Rosie Davison 12
Shannon O’Brien 12
Andrew Lamb 13
David Richardson 25