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Chin Woo World Championships 2006

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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”.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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)

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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.

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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.

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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

Qingda

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Traditional

Southern Form

Traditional

Northern

Form

Traditional

Long

Weapon

Traditional

Twin

Weapon

Callum Burkinshaw

6

Boys -25kgs

Silver

Boys -11yrs

Silver

     

Matthew Powell

7

Boys -25kgs Bronze

       

Darcie Bradnick

7

Girls -25kgs Silver

       

Harry Randle

7

Boys 25-29kgs Bronze

       

Cameron Burkinshaw

8

Boys 25-29kgs Silver

Boys -11yrs

Gold

     

Elliot Randle

9

Boys -25kgs Gold

       

Destiny Bradnick

9

Girls -25kgs Gold

Girls –11yrs

Gold

 

Girls –11yrs Gold

 

Sam Forsyth

9

Boys 25-29kgs Gold

       

Paisley Randle

10

Girls 45--49kgs

Silver

       

Stephanie Grieve

11

Girls 35-39kgs

Silver

       

Charlotte Burkinshaw

12

Girls 54-59kgs

Silver

Girls –17yrs

Bronze

 

Girls –17yrs

Bronze

 

Summer Bradnick

12

 

Girls –17yrs Bronze

X

Girls –17yrs Silver

 

Jack Forsyth

12

Boys 35-39kgs

Silver

X

     

James Grieve

12

Boys 35-39kgs

Gold

       

Morissa Bradnick

14

Girls 35-39kgs

Gold

Girls –17yrs Silver

X

X

Girls –17yrs Gold

Kimberley Weightman

14

Girls 45-49kgs

Gold

       

Dannielle O’Brien

14

Girls 35-39kgs Bronze

       

Tom Richardson

14

Boys 45-49kgs Silver

       

Jennifer Thompson

15

Girls 54-59kgs Bronze

       

Nicky Jarockyj

15

Girls 54-59kgs Gold

       

Jak Webster

15

Boys 54-59kgs Silver

       

Joshua McDougal

15

Boys 45-49kgs Gold

Boys –17yrs Silver

     

Jakob McDougal

15

Boys 54-59kgs Gold

Boys –17yrs Gold

     

Matthew Reynolds

16

Boys 60-65kgs Silver

       

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