Wed was work at the bank as usual and then a nice business meeting with Adam about a NEW project. Too much on my plate? Or not enough? Haha, well I definitely have enough on my plate, but is it too much? Perhaps not. Why? Adam, from what I can tell, is a very motivated and action oriented individual so if our partnership works out right I think we will be an effective team. I really like people who get results and get things done sooner than you expect because I feed off that and want to work harder and faster.

Anyways, this new project is not really new. Ive already done a lot of the leg work and its more about organizing a few action items and getting the product consumer ready. I have contacts, research, names, descriptions, etc worked out. Now we are going to put it all together – which is the beautiful part.

I also bought up our business domain names yesterday. Adam will be in charge of reaching out to our sources.

Got home and continued cleaning a little, sending out emails, and then went to eat. After dinner I took Hue and Eric to get some drinks at a lounge.

My other projects are still waiting on things from various contacts.

Tuesday was filled with move in and move out fun. Tuesday I was back at work and tired from a long (but productive) weekend up north.

I say Tuesday was filled with lots of moving in and out because my old roommate moved out and had all these things she needed to move. Then the new roomie taking over her room came by to get the keys and inspect her room and all. So I was moving, cleaning, and hustling all day. I still hadn’t eaten until 11pm when I decided to make some ramen. Pretty sad. =(

After that was all done my 2 friends from nor cal came down. They arrived around 1:00am. I was cleaning my room and doing some crazy cleaning of my garage as well – throwing away all these boxes and unneccesary things. It’s funny how after you live in a place.. it starts out all empty/clean and then magically fills up with all this junk that you never use or need, but yet you keep. So when they arrived I helped them get situated.

One of my friends is named Hue (thus the title). He will be staying with me for a little while and hopefully helping me and David out on some business ventures. At first I was just annoyed that he was coming down so soon (because I had so much going on with competitions and interviews) but when he arrived I actually feel pretty excited and hope we can have some fun / make progress on business.

I ended up sleeping at 3am and had a killer time waking up this morning.

Kung Fu Magazine

I had a long weekend again this week because I took Monday off work to take care of some kung fu interviews! On Wed. Kung Fu Magazine called me to attend their Kung Fu Magazine / Shark City National Tournament at the San Jose Convention Center (plus to do an interview and photoshoot).. so Thursday I booked a flight back to SJ for Friday.

Friday I flew back. My bags were late checked and they didnt make it on the flight! =(
How was I going to compete without my weapons and shoes??

Butterfly Twist in my dope yellow silks!

Saturday morning my dad gave me a ride. I had to do 3 things all before 9am (tournament registration was at 9am). We went to pick up a spear at Fu Bi De’s place, pick up my bags from the airport, and then made it to the tournament in time for walk-in registration. I competed and took home first and seconds (second to Zhang Hai Yang Beijing Wushu Team member – who competed dao against my jian and gun against qiang – you know how open karate/kung fu tournaments lump weapon divisions together).

A journalist from Sing Tao Newspaper dropped by the competition to interview me and snap a few pictures. Then at night I did a demo with Julie, Jimmy, and Master Tu Jin Sheng! I also taught the famous international wushu handshake developed by me and Margie Cina (and we’ll give Sam Tjhia some credit too) to the Pei sisters. The tournament and demo didn’t end until night. Then Sifu Zou (my tai chi master) came by and we went to an after party to get some food and drinks.

First Place Drunken Straight Sword at Kung Fu Magazine Tournament

and if you want to see My LongFist you can click here.

and if you want to see My StraightSword demo you can click here.

Sunday I had to

• over 9 years of sweat and sacrifice, i finally made the US national wushu team. placed first in longfist! #
• I have no idea why, but I almost shed a tear when I heard Man in the Mirror on the radio today #
• what is Beast Mode? read about it at http://ping.fm/BN55z #
• wu bin (jet lis coach) just watched me compete in san jose! #
• got first place in drunken sword.. one of my best performances even tho i havent been training drunken lately #
• just finished a photoshoot with kung fu magazine.. now at a chinese tv station for an interview #

Beast Mode

I’m going beast mode is a phrase I commonly used during the 2009 US Wushu Team Trials. What is going beast mode?

During practice beast mode often occurs 45 min after warm up while I’m into my last sections before I do full forms. Beast mode can also occur on your third section after you have done 2 full sets already.

Beast mode is a switch that can be turned on and off in the user’s mind. Typically it converts the user from a sane modern civilized human into a primal animal with beast strength and rage. This switch must be learned to be controlled and not used at the wrong place or wrong time. Typically for me it is turned on at full power during competitions and even during parts of the warm up phase. Some such as He Jing De have so much beast that beast mode is maintained on while performing normal functions such as walking around or putting on an everyday shirt.

Opening Gates

Being able to turn on beast mode is a requirement for opening gates.

There are eight wushu power gates. These gates are

My Changquan

My Taijiquan

My Jianshu

My Qiangshu

My Taijijian
Coming soon…

Wednesday was all about Wushu and more Wushu.

WushuKicks
I had some large orders come in which I had to personally help process. The single largest order we ever had came in the week I made the US Team. From now on June 21 is going to be my second birthday. lol
Had a talk with Adam about taking our products/service/investment to the next level. Been too busy with training, but maybe this month I will sit and think about this. I also have a site revamp in the back of my mind, but its one of those things that I will have to really sit down and spend 2 good full days on without any distractions.. and right now if I have a good 4 hours even I’d be lucky.

Also had an idea to have WushuKicks help or co-sponsor the US Wushu Team Jackets this year. I’ll have to talk to Tiger Claw who usually sponsors us.. but It’d be nice to have some super pimp warm up jackets.

WUSHU SPONSORSHIP
I have 2 goals. I was talking to my friend who is on the taekwondo national team and his organization takes care of all their travel, housing, and expenses to their World Championships in October.

The US Wushu Team’s travel expenses should be covered for World Championships this October. We spend all this time, effort, and money to make the team. Only 5 girls and 5 guys in the US make it. The least our federation could do is try to organize some sponsorship or fundraising in our name. Instead they leave it up to the individuals to do their own fundraising. Granted taekwondo is a more well known sport- Their previous national team even received a salary while they were on the team so that they could focus on training. Anyways, my goal is to at least fundraise to cover travel expenses.

My second goal is if I can get a major donation or sponsor.. I would quit my job and go to China from now until team trials and train my ass off for World Games. Otherwise, I’ll have to grind 9-5 and then drag myself to train after work like I have been doing. It’s do-able, but its very mentally draining to train after work.

One thing that was a slight bummer was that Jackie Chan came to visit Jack Tu’s school (where I train part of the week and used to help coach) and do that concert in LA on Monday. I was too busy making the US Wushu Team – not that I would ever trade my accomplishments to have been in LA, but its ironic that the one Monday I’m not in LA, he’s here. (If you don’t know the back story Jackie Chan and Jet Li are my childhood icons. I met Jet Li already, but there were 3 separate occasions where Jackie Chan was literally within arms reach but I just missed him.)

Done with Team Trials! I can now eat like a pig for this week (and probably next week!) Right after my competition ended I began my binge junk food eating streak. Let’s see.. how did it begin?

After the competition I was mad craving curry house so we all went and got some delicious curry. At night we went to BJs for some beers/tequila shots/and Tokyo Tea. O_O After that we went to Rumors for soju and more booze. I drank, but was actually so tired from competition that it inhibited my drinking/partying ability. I guess that was a good thing.

The next day was when my true junk food binging began. Dennis Ta, William, Sarah, and I began our road trip back to sunny LA. On the road trip back I had a Choco Taco ice cream, cheetos, a nasty quickie mart self blended cookies n cream shake, some cookies, and a sub.

When we got back to LA we went to In & Out because Sarah has never been to one. I ordered animal style fries and a burger.

At work the next day (Tuesday) I went to Johnny Rockets and got me some fries and a fatty Route 66 burger. Then at night Dennis Ta, Dennis Chen, Sarah, Ngan, and I went to eat at The Boiling Crab in Garden Grove. We had a couple Coronas and pounds and pounds of shrimp and crawfish (what I called the dirt of the sea or cockroaches of the sea) but it was delicious. Haha.. my stomach was so jacked up because lately Ive been eating chicken, rice, and steamed vegetables or a turkey and avocado sandwhich on wheat bread.

Wushu
After we ate a million super spicy crawfish we went over to SCWA and I jokingly started teaching Dennis Ta my straightsword form.. but surprisingly I think it works with his body type. He can probably bust out a mean straight sword form in a few months if he tried. I also felt like passing out after walking through a section. haha.
I taught Sarah and Ngan how to part the wild horse’s mane in Tai Chi. Pretty soon I will come out with an expert village clip of How to Learn Tai Chi in 24 Hours. Maybe someone can sponsor this idea and help me make it happen =P

We had a cool idea to open a wushu school in Irvine. I like the idea actually. Apparently Ngan, Sarah, and Dennis found a For Lease location by

My Victory Stance

Alfred Hsing Changquan Final Score 9.61
Alfred Hsing Jianshu Final Score 9.55
Alfred Hsing Taijiquan Final Score 9.28
Alfred Hsing Taijijian Final Score 9.33
Alfred Hsing Qiangshu Final Score 9.56

I took first (longfist), first (straight sword), second (taiji), second (taiji sword), and third (spear).

After wanting to make the team for 9 years (since I started preparing for team trials in 2001) I have finally accomplished one of my biggest dreams. All the time, money, sacrifices I’ve had to make from taking time off work to skipping out on partying with friends or sleeping in have paid off.

• in a state between sleep and wake #
• if u like TWITTER u will like my blog http://www.casualiscool.com – take a look! #
• If you knew using a cell phone for 15+ years would give you an 80% chance of cancer would u still use it? #
• on the carpet i have no worries #wushu #
• jammin to the airport #
• getting ready for competition tomorrow! #