Shanghai RSFers - Nantong TCMA Tournament

[nicklinjm]

For all the Shanghai-based RSFers, there's going to be a big traditional CMA tournament in Nantong (short drive from Shanghai) on the weekend of September 12-13, the tournament will include:

(i) Forms competitions for Taiji, Xingyi, Bagua, Bajiquan, etc
(ii) Taiji push hands competition
(iii) Shuai jiao competition

There will also be several famous masters attending, such as my own grand-teacher Song Guanghua, xingyi master Pan Xiaojie (潘小杰), Shaolin master Shi Yanlei, Baji gatekeeper Wu Lianzhi, Yang style taiji master Tian Jinlong (famous for his ability to actually use Yang taiji in sanshou), etc.

I will be competing in the xingyi forms section, if any Shanghai-based RSFers want to come along just PM me!

[chenyaolong]

Certainly sounds interesting.

Will let you know nearer the time. Will there be any Xinyi Liuhe or Mantis that you know of?

[nicklinjm]

There will definitely be Xinyi Liuhe, as one of the masters invited is Lu Gonghan (陆功翰), who I understand is from the Lu Songgao branch (through a lesser known teacher called Bai Hengxiang). Not sure about mantis, apparently there are groups from Taiwan and Guangdong performing, so there will probably be some performances of typical styles from those two places as well.