gino, please check your PM
[QUOTE=ginosifu;1075899]Mooying Mantis - Richard Tolson will do a seminar on Mantis techniques… on Sunday following the tournament. This might be a chance for that meeting of the kung fu forum? anyone interested in hooking up? we can chat and stuff while Richard does his seminar and maybe after go out to lunch?
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I just finished speaking with tournament promoter John Ervin (my sifu). I told him about our meeting of the kung fu forum and stated he would consider paying the bill at a local Chinese restaurant, if we got together here in cleveland on april 9.
ginosifu
For everyone who has been waiting: Registration forms are down loadable at my site:
http://www.shaolininstitute.com/institute/Tournament.shtml
Mooyingmantis and EarthDragon are doing seminars on Sunday April 10… anyone else want in?
ginosifu
ginosifu,
Where did you purchase your shuai chiao top? I am looking to purchase one (or a few). I will be at the tournament with my sifu, Earthdragon. Thanks,
Andrew
[QUOTE=baldmantiz;1078682]ginosifu,
Where did you purchase your shuai chiao top? I am looking to purchase one (or a few). I will be at the tournament with my sifu, Earthdragon. Thanks,
Andrew[/QUOTE]
Dr. Weng … he is out of California… Call me if you need some. We will probably have a few for sale at the tourney.
ginosifu
Just got fliers in the mail thank you Gino, passing them out to the schools in WNY this weekend
Great Lakes and Cleveland Kung fu..
I am heading from Michigan to Cleveland, OH for the tournament. Welcome to ride with me. Carpool…maybe share hotel room???
Look forward to meeting u Brazilusa!
Have fun and good luck to all competitors and Richard hope the seminars you and Earthdragon give go well. Sorry I can’t attend this year, family obligations.
Friends,
Here are links to photos from the Great Lakes Kung Fu Tournament and seminars:
The first picture features Gino Belfiore (Ginosifu), Mike Haley (Earthdragon) and myself.
The second picture features Shaolinrasta, Earthdragon and myself. Shaolinrasta has the thickest and longest dread locks I have ever seen. They almost touch the floor. He is a heck of a forms demonstrator and fighter. Earthdragon and I were privileged to judge the ring Shaolinrasta demonstrated and fought in.
On behalf of my teacher John Ervin (tournament promoter) and myself, I would like to thank everyone who participated, helped out, judged, fought and worked their butts off to make the 2011 Great Lakes Kung Fu Championships a sucess!
Shifu Mike Haley and Shifu Richard Tolson both did tremenous jobs this weekend. They both help me judge forms, weapons and sparring and then today they both gave awesome seminars in which all of my students that attended were truly impressed!
ginosifu
thank you sifu Gino for the hopitality, it was a pleasure to meet you, help out, judge as well as share a little of my knowledge with you and your students. It w3as great time for us.
next yer we gotta work on doing a forum member meet and greet, maybe some of the forum members can get together and cross hands? would be great to see more of you all there next year. this is a great event! bravo!
Thank you, Shifu Tolson, for those kind words. I am the one who was honored to have been judged by people of your caliber & notoriety. I have seen or heard of several of you gentlemen in print and online, and it was really great to have the opportunity to meet you all.
Thank you also to Shifu Haley and of course Shifu Gino for the hospitality and patience shown. Our whole small group is grateful to have competed there. I learned a lot about where I am at this stage. Not too far!
Shaolin Rasta:
I would like to thank your school for coming. All of you did great. My students who seen you you perform were amazed at your ability to work your long hair! I really enjoyed your Shao Hung Chuan (Small Red Fist), Very sweet, you can tell you train hard!
Thanks again
ginosifu
ps Shifu Richard was looking to tag you in some FB photos. He wanted your real name? Maybe you PM him.
editing and photos will be done soon and I will post the links…
sweeeeeeet!
I have heard some complains from this tournament.
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You are told that there will be competers in your weight division, so you fly down there, rent a car, check in hotel, and pay your competation fee. During the tournament, you find out that you don’t have anybody in your weight class. Instead of getting your competation fee refund, you get a gold metal instead.
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You bring your students to compete in that tournament. During the tournament, since you are not competing yourself, you have to pay spectator fees.
Just wonder if it did happen.
[QUOTE=YouKnowWho;1089744]I have heard some complains from this tournament.
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You are told that there will be competers in your weight division, so you fly down there, rent a car, check in hotel, and pay your competation fee. During the tournament, you find out that you don’t have anybody in your weight class. Instead of getting your competation fee refund, you get a gold metal instead.
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You bring your students to compete in that tournament. During the tournament, since you are not competing yourself, you have to pay spectator fees.
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Sifu Wang:
Having no one in your weight division occasionally does happen. If there is no one in your weight you have a couple of options.
#1 Ask for a refund. You will most likely get it if you speak with myself or Sifu Ervin.
#2 Take your Gold in your division and do nothing.
#3 Take a chance and fight up a weight. You will get to roll around with someone and plus there is a chance to win that division. You will still get your Gold in your original division.
#4 No matter what happens I will make sure you get to roll around with someone. I agree that traveling a long distance and not fighting at all is not fun.
As far as spectators go. If you are not Judge or Competitor, you are a spectator. If you bring your students and you want to get in for free… become a Judge !
ginosifu
YKW,
one of the reasons most events like this can occasionally not fill every single event, is not enough participation.
This is one of the best run events on the east coast IMHO. But I personally would always like to see more particiapants. There were over 500 people in attendance for this years event and yet there are many thousands of MA in the surrounding states that did not come.
I would ask that to prevent this form happening we help promote the event, enroll our students and support each other and this event for next year. I personally would love to meet more of the members form this board there.
I would love to have a forum memeber get together for lunch or perhaps sunday like we did this year and exchange ideas techniques and share.
If we make our minds up about somethign that we have not yet expereicned we have short changed ourselves …
PS the shuai jiao competions were great and your students would have really enjoyed it… see you next year?
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As far as spectators go. If you are not Judge or Competitor, you are a spectator. If you bring your students and you want to get in for free… become a Judge !
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Absurd and why people don’t support events. You bring 20 students at what $60 a head and thus the event makes $1200 and they want you to pay extra to be there as a spectator?
If you don’t see that is wrong, wow