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It is with heavy hearts this morning that we observe the passing of Yang Taiji Master Fu Sheng Yuan, son of Alice’s master Fu Zhongwen. Master Alice and the rest of the school’s thoughts are with his family and his many students throughout the world.

Fu Sheng Yuan worked tirelessly to achieve his father’s dream of spreading traditional Yang style Taijiquan across the globe, including many years teaching in Perth, Australia. His loss is a significant one for the Taiji community and he leaves behind an enduring and towering legacy of achievement and service to the Chinese martial arts.

Rest in peace Master Fu.

On Sunday April 2nd, we will be starting a weekly Taiji Push Hands group at the Baulkham Hills venue. This will be an open training group for Pei Lei Wushu students to develop their skills in Push Hands and Taiji applications in a safe, supportive, friendly and most of all, fun, environment.

We will be training both Fixed Step and Moving Step. It is an opportunity for people to deepen their understanding of the Taiji forms and experiment practically with different training partners. This will also be great chance for anyone competing in the TCAA Push Hands event to get valuable practice before the competition. Push Hands events are becoming more common in competitions internationally and was included recently at the KWA National Championships in Perth.

This will be more of a group training session than an instructor-led class, but with supervision provided by instructors Ben, Krista and Mitch. Each class, we will warm-up with co-operative Yang drills before moving into “open” training. If you’ve never done this sort of thing before, you can be eased into it!

Cost of each weekly session will be $10-12 (depending on turnout) to help cover the venue fees.

The group will start at 10:30am at Studio@104, Baulkham Hills Stockland Mall. Access is via the ground level car park, Row S. If you are attending, please wear soft-soled shoes to avoid damaging the sprung floor of the studio. If you want to practice competitive Moving Step Push Hands, we also suggest a mouth and groin guard for safety. While there will be no intentional striking or kicks to those areas, far better to be safe than sore and sorry!

If you are interested in joining in please get in touch.

Registrations are now open for the 2017 KWA National Championships. This year’s competition will be held in Melbourne on Sunday 28th May 2017, and is being used as the selection event for this year’s international World Wushu Championships and World Kung Fu Championships (formerly World Traditional Wushu Championships).

Rules & Regulations: http://www.kungfuwushuaustralia.com/Events_Nationals/2017Nationals.pdf

EventBrite registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2017-australian-kung-fu-wushu-championships-registration-31446289699

 

 

 

 

Registration is now open for the 2017 Tai Chi Australia open Championships. The event will be held Saturday 3rd June, 2017 at the Sydney University Sports & Aquatic Centre. Rules and registration information can be found at the TCAA website – http://www.taichiaustralia.com/.Registration is now open for the 2017 Tai Chi Australia open Championships. The event will be held Saturday 3rd June, 2017 at the Sydney University Sports & Aquatic Centre. Rules and registration information can be found at the TCAA website – http://www.taichiaustralia.com/.

Following on from a stellar 2016 for the Pei Lei Wushu Association, we are please to announce the opening of two additional school venues for 2017.

Along with our regular Marrickville, Eastwood and Carlingford classes, we are now operating weekend classes in Baulkham Hills and Campsie.

Baulkham Hills classes are held on Sunday mornings, with Tai Chi and Bagua taught by Instructors Krista Brennan and Mitchell Brown. The venue is an air-conditioned dance school (mirrors and sprung floors!) with two seperate studio rooms. Currently teaching Yang Tai Chi and Beginners Bagua from 9am – 10am, we are hoping to expand with more beginner classes and additional Sunday training options for those in the Hills area. Please contact us if you or your family/friends wish to join in. We are also taking suggestions for new classes to operate throughout the day. The venue is located at Studio @ 104, Baulkham Hills Stockland Mall (View map). Entrance via the Blue Level Carpark near parking Row S. Please contact Krista/Mitch or Shifu Alice for class details.

Instructor Clifford Quan will be teaching Tai Chi on Saturdays in Campsie at the 2nd Floor of the Healthpac Medical Centre (2nd Floor). Classes open on the 18th February. The venue can be found at 260-262 Beamish Street, Campsie 2194 (View map). Please contact Clifford or Shifu Alice for class details.

The school will be holding an end of year event featuring Tai Chi and Wushu demonstrations on Sunday 4th December 2016 at 1:00pm in Marrickville.

Please invite your family members and friends to support this function.

‘Bring a plate’ is a great way to share the party workload. We suggest each class bring a few plates of savoury dishes, nibbles and light refreshments to share for afternoon tea.

This weekend, a number of Pei Lei Wushu members will be competing in the 2016 Tai Chi Australia Open Championships. The competition will be held at the Sydney University Sports & Aquatic Centre on Saturday 4 June. Taiji hand forms will begin at 9.00am, with weapons and competitive push hands events from 1.30pm. If you have the time, you are encouraged to come along and show your support. For those competing – good luck and “jiayoo”!

It’s been a very long time coming but Pei Lei Wushu Association has finally released its revamped website!

Along with a substantial visual upgrade, we’ve improved the mobile phone experience, provided much improved photo galleries and hopefully made the site all round easier to navigate.

But we’re not quite done yet! Over the coming months we hope to be able to add more video content and general articles on Tai Chi and Wushu to benefit our students and friends from around the world!

As something of a “grand opening gift”, we have also published a collection of rarely seen photos of school founder Master Alice Bei Dong and her teacher, 4th-generation Yang style Tai Chi Grandmaster Fu Zhong Wen.

Click here to view this special gallery.

The Tai Chi Association of Australia (TCAA) is once again holding its Open Tai Chi Competition. This year’s competition will be held on Saturday June 4th, 2016 at the Sydney University Sports & Aquatic Centre.

Registration details are available via the TCAA website – http://www.taichiaustralia.com/competition.html.