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Kung fu grandmaster and former fight choreographer Leung Ting has been sentenced to two months in jail in Hong Kong for attacking his girlfriend.

Leung is best known to genre film fans as an action director on several classic kung fu movies including THE CHINATOWN KID and THE FIVE VENOMS. He is also the founder of the International Wing Tsun Association.

Leung, 62, was released on HK$50,000 bail pending appeal. He was accused by his former girlfriend, Rita Lip Sik-ying, of banging her head against the floor, kicking her in the stomach and boxing her ears during a dispute over one of Leung’s former wives.

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The head of the fabled Shaolin monastery has been accused of selling out heritage for commercial gain, reports Clifford Coonan.

The Shaolin monastery is the birthplace of an ancient, elegant fighting code, where fists of fury and the way of the dragon have for thousands of years peacefully coexisted alongside calm Buddhist meditation.

But the temple, built in AD495 as a place of contemplation and discipline, is now a thriving tourist destination and multinational business venture, run by a monk who has won the respect of many for his business sense and canny marketing skills.

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Make way for the 44th National Sport in Sri Lanka – Wushu. In the wake of this the independent Wushu Development School has sprung up. This has been set up by the sport’s advisors such as Buddhi Daston Thabrew who is dead keen on refurbishing the game.

The School pays attention to the development of the various aspects of the art and is dead keen on promoting it.

Thabrew has noted that a systematic method to build the physical and mental background of martial arts exponents has not been followed and as a result the performances at national and international tournaments have suffered.

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Name List:

1. 刘清华
屡次获得全国冠军、亚洲冠军、世界冠军

2. 吴迪
08年全国武术套路冠军赛 – 枪术冠军
08年全国武术传统赛 – 醉剑冠军
09年世界武术锦标赛 – 枪术冠军

3. 李昕豫
08年全国武术套路冠军赛 – 太极剑冠军

4. 王曦
08年全国武术套路冠军赛 – 长拳亚军

5. 郭靖
09全国武术传统赛 – 八卦掌冠军

6. 罗弘
09年年全国武术传统赛 – 翻子拳亚军

7. 李岩
08年全国青少年武术锦标赛 – 长拳冠军

8. 张丰
08年武术锦标赛 – 第四名

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Singapore’s wushu trio of Tay Yu Juan, Khor Poh Chin and Tao Yijun emerged victorious in the women’s duilian (with weapons) event.

SUPERB team execution won Singapore the two golds that bookended their medal harvest at the Vientiane South-east Asia Games yesterday.

In the morning, the women’s wushu trio of Khor Poh Chin, Tao Yijun and Tay Yu Juan won the weapons gold by just 0.01 point in the women’s duilian with a brilliant display of precise pugilistic skills.

The wushu event, which pits the one-minute choreographies of competing teams against each other, was a blur of rapid weapon thrusts and acrobatic flips, as the competitors thrilled the spectators at the Lao International Trade Exhibition and Convention Centre.

The Singapore trio – with Khor and Tao on spears and Tay on double broadsword – triumphed over Indonesia and Brunei, scoring 9.46 points to the other two teams’ 9.45 points.

The small price they had to pay for the narrow win? A slight nick on Tao’s nose during their routine, which drew a trace of blood.