CMAT = 15th Annual UC Berkeley Chinese Martial Arts Tournament

Congrats to everyone that competed and thanks to everyone who helped coordinate!

Now to my own little afterparty at cmat…

Typically every year after the CAL wushu tournament there is an afterparty to celebrate. Well this year.. I got a little head start on the afterparty a couple hours before the afterparty started.

So I drove with a couple (non-wushu) friends from LA to Berkeley and they had been watching a day of wushu since 8am and it was about 7pm… I had finished longfist, straight sword, and spear and just had one event left which didn’t count towards all-around— drunken straight sword… so someone had the idea of dropping by a bar to get some food and drinks. Since these guys had been with me the whole day it was only right for me to go get some food and drink with them.

Long story short: 5 shots later- 1-2 hrs later- this is me a few minutes before my turn to compete drunken straightsword.

Here we go..

..and

Then we had Alex and Matt B. by the ring getting me up ready to go.. saying.. “The H is O”… cuz.. The HEAT is ON! Alex even had to help me- apparently I was having difficulty getting my sweater off.

And here’s me competing..

I took gold in this event! Woohoo! =)

Thanks guys!!