Chen Tai Chi Master Jeff Radcliff leads a Chen Tai Chi
workshop
Columbus
Ohio ComFest 2010, Saturday, June 26th
OSU Sifu Mike Grigsby is
instructed by Master Radcliff
OSU RecSports Department Sport Club Banquet and Awards Ceremony
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club members share a table with the OSU Judo Club
18th
Annual Great Lakes
Kung-Fu Championships and Shuai Chiao Nationals
Saturday, April 24th, 2010
Congratulations to all participants for a
successful event!
Our
thanks to Tournament Director Sifu John Ervin, and to Mr. James Van
Doren and the Case Western Kung Fu Club for the venue.
OSU Kungfu
Club member
Husam
Sweidan scores in a
hard-fought match against
Canadian Jerret Hansen
Great Lakes
Shuai Chiao Nationals
at Case Western University
April 24th, 2010
OSU Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club Team Attends the GLKF Shuai Chiao Nationals
Our six-man team had only
one previous fighter at the GLKF: Husam Sweidan, who took 2nd place in
the Middleweight division.
Club President Amir Ahmed
placed 4th in the Middle-Heavyweight division.
Kungfu
Club Team members prepare mentally and physically for Combat
Come join us
and develop your own "mad skills" in kungfu!
Congratulations to OSU Club
Members who participated
in the 2010, 34th
Battle of Columbus Chinese Martial Arts Division
Team members took home a 1st, two 2nds, and a 3rd place
medal
in the Moving Push Hands and Sanshou Divisions, Saturday, March 20th,
2010
Amir
Ahmed controlling...
...and
throwing his opponent.
---
Amir
dominated through most of the match and took First Place
in the Push Hands Middleweight Division
Sean
Duffy in his first match against an experienced opponent forced a third
round, and scored a maximum four-point throw before being edged out on
points.
Sean,
in his second match, won on points.
---
Jow
Ga Master and Referee Mike Barry
raises Sean Duffy's hand as BOC Push Hands Lightweight
Division Second Place winner.
Mike
Grigsby pressing on Tim Hwang.
Master Hwang easily won this match with his superior push hands skill
and power
A
nice, clean, counter-throw,
but opponent
James came back to win on
points and take second place in the Heavyweight Division.
Battle of Columbus
Heavyweight Push Hands
Competition
First Place Winner,
Tim Hwang
Third Place,
Mike Grigsby
Chinese
Sanshou Division
Husam
Sweidan competed in the
Battle of Columbus Chinese Sanshou Middleweight Division
Despite
a very strong start, with a blitz of punches and a powerful throw,
Husam was eventually overcome by this experienced opponent's skill and
stamina, but took 2nd Place in his Sanshou
weight division.
Lincoln Tower Demo for
Chinese New Year
Our
thanks to our fellow martial artists of the Buckeye Tang Soo Do Club,
who
joined with the OSU Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club to put on a demonstration
and offer free self-defense lessons to the Lincoln Tower dorm residents
on February 17th, 2010.
OSU
Club Winter Belt Test -- February 11th, 2010
Congratulations to:
Amir Ahmed (5th Chieh), Mike Hall (4th Chieh) and Husam Sweidan (2nd
Chieh)
Our Congratulations to
Cupertino's Charles Lin
Inside Kung-fu Magazine's
2010 Competitor of the Year
Check out the February
2010 Inside
Kung-fu (vol.38, #2)
Trained at Dr. Chi-hsiu Weng's Cupertino Kung-fu Club,
Charles is the first Shuai Chiao Competitor to be so honored!
Photo by Ann Ly
Grappling with
the eventual winner in
Taizhou, China, in late 2007 Charles took 3rd
place, pushing the USA Team to 4th place overall
Finishing in 4th place in his
first appearance at the 2005
Great Lakes Kung-Fu and Shuai Chiao Nationals,
Charles rapidly ascended the divisions and places.
Photos by Mike
Hall
Push Hands Class at the Chinese Martial Arts Center November 29th, 2009
Special thanks to
Master Shie-Ming Hwang and Sifu Timothy Hwang for instructing our Club
members.
Thanks to the RPAC Staff
who made our
2009 Year of the Ox
Shuai Chiao Kungfu
Tournament
Saturday,
October 3rd
a successful event!
Held in the RPAC Building on
The Ohio State University campus
Columbus, Ohio
And our Thanks to all competitors, officials, and guests.
Year of the Ox Tournament Results
We welcome our new Club President for Fall, 2009
Amir Ahmed
The Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club at
OSU Presents a Tan Tui Kungfu Seminar
Sunday, August 30th, 2009
OSU Shuai Chiao Head Instructor
Mike Grigsby, President Andrew Malonis, and President-elect Amir Ahmed
Presented two hours of Tan Tui forms and applications to the
instructors and advanced students of the
Buckeye Tang Soo Do Club
~~ World Tai Chi and Chi
Gung Day ~~
Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Goodale Park,
Columbus, Ohio
And around the world:
OSU Lantern article on the Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club:
OSU Lantern Video
Interview posted:
http://media.www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2009/04/09/Multimedia/Kung-Fu.Club.Video-3703667.shtml
A
print article is also available in the Lantern Online:
http://media.www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2009/04/01/Campus/Kung-Fu.Hustle-3690598.shtml
Check out extra action Club
photos from Lantern photographer
Eric Pacella:
Club
Photos, 4-1-2009
Shuai Chiao Club Winter
Belt Test
January 20th, 2009
Andrew
Malonis, Travis Stoy,
Husam Sweidan,
Thomas Seeber
4th Chieh
4th Chieh
3rd Chieh
4th Chieh
Our thanks to black belt
Raymond Trepanier and 1st Chieh Jaron Bernstein
for being on the testing committee.
Club Alumnus, Gavin Max, visits OSU
Club
Instructors Jack Chuang (Left) and Mike Grigsby (Right)
With Club Alumnus (1994!) Gavin Max, of Chicago
Ch’ang Style
Weekend in San Francisco
Was Saturday and Sunday, August 2nd, 3rd, 2008
Photo from E. Chen, www.shuaijiaonation.com
For
Full Results, click here...
Tan-tui
Kungfu Clinic Presented for the Buckeye Tang Soo Do Club
August 3rd, 2008
Shuai Chiao
Kungfu Club Instructor Mike Grigsby with Buckeye Tang Soo Do Instructor
Tom
Marker and BTSD members
OSU Kungfu Club Head Instructor Mike Grigsby presented a two-hour
Tan-tui
Kungfu seminar for the Buckeye Tang Soo Do Club on August 3rd, 2008.
The
founder of Tang Soo Do, Hwang Kee, studied Tan-tui kungfu and other
Northern
Chinese styles which he incorporated, along with Okinawan and the
Korean
martial arts, into his eclectic Tang Soo Do (literally, "Chinese Hand")
style.
The Grandmaster of our school of Shuai Chiao, Ch'ang Tung
Sheng, was
also an eclectic martial artist, and had passed down his knowlege and
interpretation
of the Tan-tui forms. It was a pleasure and honor to help
spread the
knowlege of this Northern Chinese Muslim form of kungfu to other
serious
martial artists of the modern era.
Demonstrating a
practical application of the Tan-tui number Four
form
Shuai Chiao Club Picnic: June 21st, 2008
Thanks
to Club VP Sugumar Murugesan for promoting our picnic and boomerang
throwing seminar.
Spring
Quarter, 2008, Shuai Chiao Club Belt Test
Congratulations to our three new 5th Chieh (Green)
and two new 4th Chieh (Green/Blue) belts.
Special thanks to Club
Alumnus Elek Karnai, and black belts Tamera Lake and Jack Chuang for
being on the Testing
Committee.
Steve Feldman, Andrew Malonis, Travis
Stoy, Husam Sweidan, Michael Hall, Mike Grigsby,
Elek Karnai, Tamera Lake, Jack Chuang
Photo by
Club VP Sugumar Murugesan, photo support by Thomas Seeber
The
OSU Club Sends a Team to the USSA Shuai Chiao Nationals
April 19th, 2008
The Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club
at The Ohio State University
sent a three man team to the USSA
Shuai Chiao Nationals at the Great
Lakes Kungfu Tournament at
Case Western Reserve University
in Cleveland, Ohio
None of the team members had any previous tournament experience.
Despite this, our two Green Belts,
Husam Sweidan and Tom Seeber
both placed 3rd in their divisions.
OSU Club President Andrew Malonis
in his first match has opponent John Wedow
lightly dodge an attempted technique,
as referee Tim Braun observes.
~Photo by Michael Hall
OSU Club Safety Officer Husam Sweidan
soundly defeats Samuel Hai, 10-0.
Husam lost only to the eventual first place
winner, international competitor and
Shuai Chiao black belt, Charles Lin.
~Photo
by Michael Hall
OSU Heavyweight Thomas Seeber
brings down young Justin Eafford
after lifting him up to chest-height
with the Shuai Chiao "embracing" throw.
~Photo
by Michael Hall
OSU Club Head Instructor
Mike Grigsby referees a
hard-fought match.
Chris Genet (left) finished 3rd and Matt Gelfand (right) 2nd
in the 196 to 215 lb division.
View a video of this Match at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JqVPwspCNc
~Photo
by Michael Hall
We welcome our new Shuai Chiao
Kungfu Club President for 2008
Andrew Malonis
November 29th, 2007
Elek
Karnai Husam
Sweidan,
Tom
Seeber, Steve Feldman,
Joseph Belisle, Sugumar
Murugesan, Mike Grigsby, Raymond Trepanier
The
Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club at OSU held a belt test on November 29th, 2007.
Five Club members were elevated in rank:
Safety Officer Husam Sweidan, 5th Chieh; Tom
Seeber, 5th Chieh;
Treasurer Steve Feldman, 5th Chieh; President Joseph Belisle,
5th Chieh;
Vice-President Sugumar Murugesan, 3rd Chieh.
Our thanks to Club Alumnus Elek Karnai (1992-1995) and 9th Teng Black
Belt Raymond Trepanier
for officiating in the United States Shuai-Chiao Association
Belt Test Committee
Shuai
Chiao Mini-Camp at OSU, October 27th, 2007
Dr. Chi-hsiu
(Daniel) Weng and the President
of the United States Shuai-Chiao Association, Jan-yu Weng
presented an all-day international tournament training seminar and
"Mini-Camp" at OSU. Members of
the Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club at OSU and Shuai
Chiao students from all over Ohio attended the RPAC event.
The highlighted participants: Ernest Smoot, Krisanne Litinas, Jamie Van
Doran, Krista Curtner, and Ian Donovan
were selected for the USA Shuai Chiao Team that competed in
Shanghai,China, in late November 2007.
The USA Team took 4th place -- the highest placing non-Chinese Team!
All of these participants at the Mini-Camp studied with Dr.
Weng at OSU over twenty years ago!
Shuai Chiao Club President
Joseph Belisle and
Club Treasurer Steve Feldman work on some
of the basic hand entry techniques.
It gets much harder when
you
actually try to throw someone!
Dr. Weng shows hand
technique control on
Instructor Raymond Trepanier
USSA President Jan-yu Weng
shows OSU Club Vice-
President Sugumar Murugesan basic entry technique.
The 2007 AAU Chinese Martial Arts Division
Kung Fu
and Tai Chi National Championships
Was completed Saturday September 8, 2007
At the Brushy Creek Community Center - Austin,
Texas
Competitors and Officials of the AAU 2007 Shuai
Chiao Division
For More information check out the official website:
www.kungfu-taichi-championships.com
Or contact Sifu DavePickens directly at: rrkungfu@hotmail.com
Short
video clip of Grandmaster Ch'ang
posted on the web.
[click
here for video]
Great
Lakes Kung Fu Championships, USSA Shuai Chiao Nationals -- April 21st,
2007
Congratulations
and thanks to all competitors and officials at the Great Lakes Kung Fu
USSA Shuai Chiao Nationals Tournament held April 21st, 2007
Click
here for Full Results...
Special
Pre-Nationals Workout Hosted by OSU Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club
On March 29th Master
Matt Mollica and Ho-I students joined Sifu Mike Grigsby and members of
the
Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club at OSU for a special pre-tournament workout
before the 2007 GLKFC
Congratulations
to Club Members tested for Belt Rank, June 1st, 2006
Kyle Kelly, 4th Chieh
Tim Goytowski, 1st Chieh Jaron
Bernstein, 1st Chieh Sugumar Murugesan, 4th Chieh
-- Special thanks to test committee Black Belt Instuctors
Tamera Lake and James Mattox --
Special Thanks to
all Participants in the
2006 Great Lakes Kungfu
Tournament
OSU
Shuai Chiao Club President Kyle Kelly Places at
2006 Great Lakes Shuai
Chiao Kungfu Nationals
International
competitor She-Peng Weng dominates
in the last match of the division.
Kyle Kelly takes 3rd Place
2006 GLKF Shuai Chiao Nationals
OSU Shuai Chiao Club members
attend
"Strategies for Advanced Tournament Fighting"
Seminar
by Dr. Daniel Weng, held March 30, 2006
Held
at the Ho-I Martial Arts Academy
10 Oakland
Park Ave., Columbus, OH 43214
Congratulations to OSU Club Members
Tested for Belt
Rank 11-17-2005
Kyle
Kelly, Sugumar Murugesan, Melinda Foote, Matthew Samples, Randolph
Johnson
OSU
Club members elevate rank at June 2005 Belt Test:
Tim Goytowski, 2nd Chieh Willie
Theunissen, 4th Chieh
Congratulations to OSU Club Members
Melinda Foote and Willie
Theunissen
for placing in their divisions at
The 14th Annual Great Lakes Shuai Chiao Tournament
U.S.S.A. National Championships
Saturday, April 23rd, 2005
Melinda
Foote, 3rd Place
Melinda throws Carrie Miranda
on her way to winning their match
with a 2 - 0 score
Due to a three-way circular tie,
final places were determined by
total points, giving Miranda first
place, despite the loss.
Willie
Theunissen, 2nd Place
Willie grapples with black-belt Danny
Hall in the Men's 180 pound final.
After a long and cautious battle,
Hall took
the match by one point
with a clean counter-throw.
Historic Last
Shuai Chiao Tournament in Larkins Hall
2005 Year of
the Rooster Shuai Chiao Tournament
1986 Chang Tung Sheng
Memorial Tournament
Court 5, in
Larkins Hall at the Ohio State University, has been the venue for over
twenty years of Shuai Chiao Kungfu Tournaments. This Summer
the historic building will be demolished to make way for the new PAES
building.
The OSU Shuai Chiao Kungfu Club was founded in the early eighties by
Dr. Daniel (Chi-hsiu) Weng while he was completing his graduate studies
at OSU. Over the years dozens of tournaments and hundreds of Shuai
Chiao classes have taken place in the cavernous Court 5 area, with its
ample spectator gallery and wall-to-wall mats. We are looking
forward continuing our tradition in the exciting new RPAC facility soon
to be opening.
Jerry
Sheldon Mike
Grigsby Matt
Mollica Jeff Williams
Tim Braun
These Rooster Tournament officials all competed
in the first Chang Tung Sheng Memorial in 1986.
Congratulations to Club Members placing at the OSU
Year of
the Rooster Shuai Chiao Tournament
February
12th, 2005
Melinda Foote
First Place,
Women's Lightweight
David Reed
Blocksom
First Place, Men's Middleweight
Willie Theunissen
Second
Place, Men's Middleweight
Jaron Bernstein
Third Place, Men's Heavyweight
See Tournament
Results for more information.
2004 Tai-chi for Fitness
International Wushu Championships
Saturday, Sunday: August 14, 15
Chinese New Year
Thanks
to all the 
