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Chin Woo New Zealand’s wushu athletes will compete in the 13^th World Chin Woo tournament in Shanghai, China in mid-August.

Congratulations from the Chin Woo New Zealand committee to the 11 member strong team, who are scheduled to fly out of New Zealand on 12^th August to participate in the 13^th World Chin Woo tournament in Shanghai, China which will be held between 14^th and 18^th August 2014.

Team Coach:      George Guo

Athletes:             Farah Thien

Rangiatea Buchanan

Michelle Lee

Helen Cheng

Ngaroma Buchanan

Jun Selwyn

Joey De Guzman

Derek Buchanan

Mark Botting

Supporter:        Mong Ying Sim

The 9 athletes comprise of a well-balanced mix of veterans, who will be attending this biennial world event for the third time, and first-timers. This 2014 World Chin Woo competition marks the official introduction of the 2^nd and 3^rd set of 10 traditional Chin Woo forms for competition, endorsed by a technical committee made up from the 26 members clubs around the world.

“Let a hundred flowers blossom.” A popular Chinese saying that conveys the intention to bring out the best from a multitude of practitioners in any undertaking, was a very appropriate phrase used to describe Chin Woo New Zealand’s most recent event.

The Chin Woo Athletic Association of New Zealand Inc (CWNZ) hosted its 10th Annual Tournament at the Mt Albert Grammar School, in Mt Albert, Auckland on Sunday 15th September 2013. The event was well attended by students from many different parts of Auckland, and it required two teams of referees over two full-sized rings to showcase the various age groups in the many barehanded and weapons routines during a seven-hour period. Notably there were a lot more younger ones as young as four or five years of age than previous years, however the skill and flair they demonstrated goes beyond the concentration and focus of their peers of a similar age, and they could well becoming the future wushu stars of Australasia in the years to come. Please see the attachment below for results of this tournament.

At the conclusion of the tournament, spectators and competitors were treated to a display of traditional Southern style Kung-Fu known as Wing Tsun by about 20 members from the Auckland branch of NZ Wing Tsun Association, followed by an awesome demonstration of wushu skills by the referees.

Chin Woo New Zealand would like to thank all the referees and helpers on the day for their ardent effort, with a special thanks to Lucy Ong, the Chief Tournament planner for her meticulous organisational skills and to David Cutler’s logistics team for their precision timing in delivering the floor mats on time, last but not least to Chris Rippon, our food kiosk chief with his selection of tasty morsels and hot drinks throughout the day. All of their efforts made this event a success.

Our cordial thanks to Kiwi Asset Finance Limited, for their generosity in sponsoring this CWNZ 2013 event.

This annual tournament has gained popularity and is recognised as one of the most legitimate Chin Woo forms-based competition events in New Zealand. Some of the athletes that have gained good results from the CWNZ tournaments have achieved very good results in international tournaments recently.

Apart from the traditional Chin Woo forms, there were categories specified under the International Wushu Federation, i.e. International Competition Forms, optional routine and traditional forms. Medals for seventeen different bare-hand routines (including Tai Chi), short (saber, sword and broad-saber) and long weapons (staff and spear) categories were up for grabs.

The tournament was an opportunity for participants to exchange knowledge and develop friendship through competition. Learning and practicing the martial ethics is equally important as learning and practicing the techniques in wushu. While drinking water, one must remember its source. In the case of wushu, one should always remember and pay respect to their instructor, for it is due to their commitment that the tradition and art advances to the next generation.

CWNZ2013_Result Field 1&2

Chin Woo New Zealand wishes to congratulate the NZ athletes who attended the recent 12th World Chin Woo Tournament & Festival held in Tianjin, China from 26th to 31st October, bringing home 3 Gold, 5 Silver & 1 Bronze medals among the 6 athletes.

The New Zealand team was almost unable to participate at this tournament owing to the postponement of the event by 8 days, with notification reaching us only 3 weeks out from the original date. However, with much patience and determination from the NZ side, the team of 12 successfully attended this biennial international event.

The Chin Woo New Zealand team comprised of Mr. Kenneth Liu (Patron & Life President), Mr. Jack Chan (Vice-Chairman), Mr. George Guo (Chief Coach), 6 Athletes – Ngaroma Buchanan, Rangiatea Buchanan, Jenny Ling, Tessa Ewens, Nick Ewens & Helen Cheng, with 3 Supporters – Derek Buchanan, Tanja Blinkhorn & Ben Ewens.

A more detailed account accompanied with photos of this event will follow.

Click this link for a printable flyer. (PDF)

 

Chin Woo New Zealand Inc (Chin Woo NZ) needs a magazine cover for its upcoming 2012 edition!

We’re inviting you to get on board and design this year’s magazine cover for us! The cover design competition is open from 4 June 2012 to 31 July 2012.

The Competition’s Events page is on facebook, follow this link.

 

Competition Rules

Eligibility
The contest is open to all Chin Woo NZ members except the panel who are judging the competition and therefore are not eligible.

Contest Rules & Guidelines
Participants can email their entries to davidchan@orcon.net.nz or drop their entry into Martial Arts Supplies, Level 1, 45 Courtenay Place, Wellington

Participants may submit a digital magazine cover or a paper magazine cover.

Entries must include the full name and contact details of the participant.

All entries are due on the 31st July 2012 at 12 midnight. Any entries submitted after the due date and time will not be accepted.
Submitted covers must have the words “Chin Woo New Zealand”, must have a connection with the year of the Dragon and New Zealand.

Entrants can enter an unlimited number of entries.

Entry is free of charge.

Intellectual Property
Submissions must be the original creations of the entrant. If a particular submission violates any copyright laws or is not the original work of the entrant, the entrant will be immediately disqualified from the competition.
The winner of the competition transfers all intellectual property rights in relation to their winning entry, to Chin Woo NZ.

Chin Woo NZ reserves the rights to edit the winner’s artwork if and when necessary and to display the cover publicly on Chin Woo New Zealand’s website, Facebook page, printed materials, any signage, and in any other way or place that Chin Woo New Zealand determines.

Judging and Selection of Winner
The magazine cover competition will be judged by the Chin Woo New Zealand Judging Panel.

Decisions made by the judges are final.

Entries will be judged based on overall creativity, concept, visual impact, as well as the appropriateness for use as a magazine cover.

The judges reserve the right to not adopt the winning cover page as the cover page of Chin Woo NZ’s 2012 Magazine.

Prize
The winner will receive the official commemorative Stamp Collection celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the popularisation of Simplified Taijiquan. More photos are at “Chin Woo Event Facebook Page”

The winner will also be profiled on our website www.chinwoo.org.nz and Facebook page.

Acceptance

Entering the contest constitutes the participant’s agreement and acceptance of the rules and regulations for the Chin Woo NZ Magazine Cover design contest outlined above. Any participant who violates any of the competition rules in any way will be immediately disqualified from the competition.