Hello everyone, it’s been awhile since we have posted on our blog!

Our Spring Term practices are now:
Monday: 7-9pm, Gerlinger Hall 220
Wednesday: 7-9pm, Mat Room 47-Rec Center
Friday: 5-7pm, Multipurpose Room 1-Rec Center
Feel free to come by and try some Wushu out!

Now that it is spring term, we have a couple of demos lined up for us this upcoming week! Here is the list:

Friday, May 1 – 12:15pm-1pm: FLIS Demo, EMU Gumwood Room
Saturday, May 2 – 6:30pm: ISA’s I-Night Demo, EMU Ballroom
Saturday, May 2 – 7:30pm – 11pm, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (We will be running a Wushu photobooth, feel free to stop by and learn some Wushu!
Sunday, May 3 – 12:30pm-3pm: Cinema Pacific Presents: MASTERS OF CHINESE MARTIAL ARTS, Gerlinger Hall 220

Please stop by and support UO Wushu, we will gladly appreciate it!

UO Wushu has been very busy with competitions and demos the past couple months. At our first competition of the year, CMAT, Kasey Sullivan and Tommy Yang received 1st place in their weapons division. Kasey won gold in her straightsword event, and Tommy won gold in his staff event. Blake Rawson, placed 2nd in his staff event. At our second competition this year, the 19th Annual Collegiate Wushu Tournament at University of California – Irvine, Beginner Kasey Sullivan placed 1st in her straightsword event, Elirissa Hui placed 3rd in her advanced Changquan event, and alumni Michael Nilson placed 3rd in his advanced Spear event. Congrats and great job to all competitors at Collegiates this year!

Here is a photo of UO Wushu with some alumni at this year’s 19th Annual Collegiate Wushu Tournament in Irvine, California!

Our Winter Term Practices have changed slightly. Please feel free to stop by if you are interested in training with us or just want to see what we do! Our practice times are:

Monday & Wednesday: 7-9pm in Gerlinger 219
Friday: 5-7pm in Rec Center Multipurpose Room 1

We hope to see you there!

Hello everyone!

Demo season for UO Wushu is coming up very soon. Here are dates and times of our upcoming performances, be sure to come and support us!

1. East Dream Chinese Dance Group’s Annual Dance Concert
When: Sunday, February 8th at 7:30pm
Where: OSU LaSells Center
*tickets are needed for entry

2. Asian Celebration
When: Saturday, February 14th at 10am (on the Martial Arts Stage)
and Saturday, February 14th at 5:45pm (Presentation Stage)
Where: Lane County Events Center

3. Willamette University’s Chinese New Year Festival
When: Sunday, February 22nd, time TBA
Where: Willamette University, Cat Cavern

Please come and support us, we would greatly appreciate it!

Hello everybody!

UO Wushu has been working very hard as a team, learning more and more at each practice! Just two weeks ago, we trained with UO Alumni, Phillip Dang! We all had a wonderful time learning from Sifu Phillip and trained very hard!

We hope everyone is doing well! Thank you everyone for all your support! We really appreciate it!

We are now halfway through the term!

We have been working hard these last couple weeks to continue on this tradition! We can’t celebrate Halloween without this!

We hope you enjoyed it! We had so much fun preparing for this!

We just had our final demo for the beginning of the school year! It was for the Asian Pacific Islander Welcome Event in the LLC South Performance Hall. If you missed it, make sure you check it out here:

Like our Facebook page to stay updated:
https://www.facebook.com/uowushu

Thanks to everyone who has been supporting us for our first couple demos! Make sure you stay updated with us for our other demos later in the year!

Hello Everybody!

We have had our first week of practice and it is going great! We hope all of you that are interested in trying Wushu out can come to our practices! Feel free to show up whenever you are able to. Just come wearing workout clothes and workout shoes and be ready to do some Wushu!

Our practice days and times are:
Monday 7:00pm-9:00pm – Gerlinger 220
Wednesday 7:00pm – 9:00pm – Gerlinger 220
Friday 5:15pm – 7:45pm – Rec Center, Multipurpose Room 1

Don’t forget to check out our Facebook page and like it!

Here is the link:
https://www.facebook.com/uowushu

We hope to see some new faces!

UO Wushu had a fun time performing for the Confucius Institute’s 5th Year Anniversary for their Martial Arts Presentation Event! If you missed it, check this video out:

We also have one more demo coming up in the next week on Tuesday, October 7 at 6:00pm, for the Asian and Pacific Islander Welcome event. Please come to the event and support us!

Thank you to all those who have been coming out to support and cheer us on! We hope to see you all on Tuesday!

UO Wushu had a great time performing for Duck N2 the Rec last Thursday! If you missed the demo catch it down here:

Performers: Blake Rawson, Brenda Heng, Elirissa Hui, Martin Leung, Megan Bernatzki Michael Nilson, and Wing Ng.

Also coming up we have demos coming up for the next two weeks!

Confucius Institute 5th Year Celebration – 10/1 Wednesday 3:30 PM to 4:15 PM
Circle Lawn in front of the Knight Library and Jordan Schnitzer Museum

API Welcome Day – 10/7 Tuesday 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
LLC Performance Hall

We hope to see you there to support us and learn more about wushu!

Hello to those checking this page out! UO Wushu team is updating this blog now starting this year! We’re still putting together parts and pieces but check back every now and then to see posts about the team from the past year and updates on how the team is doing now!

For now check out this picture of former Captains Nathan Andrus-Hughes and Ray Tsunoda at SIMAC 2014!