* Saturday 30 April 2022 – ausWushu invites everyone to celebrate the World Tai Chi & Qigong Day! Currently announced and likely but unconfirmed locations: – Newcastle Station,– Epping NSW: Boronia Park,– Wynyard Tasmania. Schools and clubs! Let us know your location – it will be added to this list!
Journal of Health, Sports, and Kinesiology, 2021, 2(4), 10-19. by Peter A. Hastie, Yanhua Mo, & Hairui Li Abstract This study examined the veracity of the commonly held notion that ‘there is only one way to teach Chinese martial arts.’ To achieve this, a cohort of Chinese physical education majors and their teacher participated in […]
Here are the results of our Photo Competition: 1 prize ($100) – Wilson Lo (Canberra) 2 prize ($50) – Lanna Leung (Sydney) 3 prize ($25) – Amanda Heidke (Newcastle) and Helen Dalsto (Sydney) Congratulations to the winners! The selection of submitted images can be viewed on Flickr album:
January 2012 | in book Recent Advances in Theories and Practice of Chinese Medicine by Stefan Jaeger Abstract This chapter shows how to compute Yin and Yang for different latitudes so traditional Chinese herbalists can quantify the efficacy of herbal drugs. Based on daylight hours, the chapter provides a simple formula that allows computation of […]
18 October 2021 Cadres decide everything. Joseph Stalin, 1935 We have already discussed the Code of Ethics adopted by the International Wushu Federation (IWUF) and its Ethics Committee playing essential role in the enforcement of this Code. We saw that the fundamental ethical principles of the IWUF are loosely aligned with the IOC (International Olympic […]
June 2021 | International Journal of the History of Sport by Wenbo Li, Guobin Dai Abstract Wushu as a Chinese cultural inheritance has for centuries encountered the question of ‘what is to be inherited and how’? The question should always be answered in the light of fresh discoveries and current research on Wushu history. This […]
January 2021 | All-Russian Science and Practice Conference by A.V. Rotar, A.V. Korichko Abstract In this article, the value of flexibility in the training system of Wushu players is analyzed at the theoretical level, including the associated influence of flexibility on the development of physical qualities. It is assumed that the development of the physical […]
A charming, inventive and entertaining live-action debut for the superhero Shang-Chi, originally modelled on Bruce Lee and first introduced into the Marvel comics at the height of the kung fu boom in the 1970s. Shang-Chi might not have the same superhero clout as Spider-Man or Captain America, but this origin story very much positions him as an […]
September 2021 | Sport, Ethics and Philosophy by Andrew J. Dell’Olio Abstract Cheng Man-ch’ing (1901–1975) is as responsible as anyone for the wide popularity of taijiquan in the West. While his stature as a master and teacher of taijiquan is legendary, he is less well-known as a philosopher. Yet Cheng wrote a number of philosophical commentaries on Chinese classics […]
by Michael A. DeMarco M.A. | September 2021 | Via Media Publishing (September 27, 2021) Abstract The themes in this book—drawn from Chinese history, culture, and martial arts experience—are entwined in a fictional narrative to animate events envisaged to have occurred during the mid-eighteenth century. From the outset, a thin veil separates fact from fiction. Our story […]
