I performed a longfist and straightsword/drunken sword combo for a demo a month or two back for LAFA’s Annual Food Fight benefiting the Los Angeles Food Bank. The event was to raise food for those less privileged.

Here are the videos of our wushu demo portion:

Part 1 has some longfist / changquan performance.

Part 2 has some straight sword and drunken sword.

Had a great time and met some Sword Fight Inc buddies from the History Channel Art of War episode. I am up north in nor cal this week. Last night I randomly found out I am in a Bollywood movie! I’ll fill yall in on that on my next post.

Also.. HAPPY SAINT PATRICK’S DAY EVERYONE!

Performed drunken sword at the Long Beach Internationals on August 8th, 2009. Suzy of UCLA Wushu performed straight sword. It was supposed to be mainly a UCLA wushu demo, but some FORCES OF NATURE were literally OUT to prevent this demo from happening. Normally its super easy to get people to demo. This time everyone happened to be out of town, out of the country (stopher), running errands (dennis), parents in town (adam), CAR ACCIDENT (rickie), and more random occurences. In the end it was me and Susan. Then the demo coordinator had his line up of demos running late and he almost couldnt squeeze us in and Suzy had parked at a metered spot so she needed to leave to prevent being charged exorbitant rates so she was almost out of the picture. This was not meant to be, but in the end my beast mode willed through it and made the demo happen… which might explain why I went beast mode on my demo itself.

Dragon The Bruce Lee Story

Bruce Lee Similarities
So a few nights before, “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story” was on TV and there was a scene where Bruce Lee was at the First Ed Parker Long Beach Martial Arts Tournament. He did a minute long demo where in the movie he challenged anyone in the building saying he could defeat them in under 60 seconds. Bruce’s wife Linda told him not to fight but then he still did. In the end, he won and was spotted by the director for the Green Hornet where Bruce was ultimately cast as Kato.

Coincidentally, I was going to a similar Long Beach Tournament. I was asked to demo. My form (drunken sword) is about a minute long. There were forces trying to prevent me from demoing. I was submitted and trying out for the role of Kato. My roommate and I joked that it was meant to be. (My “Alfred as Kato” article http://www.casualiscool.com/martial-arts/alfred-hsing-as-kato-in-the-green-hornet-plus-my-new-2009-demo-reel/) Unfortunately Jay Chou got cast as Kato. LOL! =(

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=57816 – It hurts me!.. but good luck to Jay Chou!

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!!