http://kungfuchampionship.com/sanfrancisco/

Master Tat-Mau Wong and Nick Scrima bring you the "Golden Gate Kung Fu Championship" an official ICMAC 5 Star Rated event.

Over the weekend of July 2-4, 2010, a first rate Chinese martial arts championship will be staged in the beautiful city of San Francisco.

Over 350 divisions will ensure exciting competition in Traditional and Contemporary Wushu-Kung Fu, Taiji, Bagua, Xing Yi, weapons forms, Tui Shou (Push-Hands) and fighting.

We are excited to bring this tournament to what is considered the biggest home to Chinese martial arts outside of China. This is another great opportunity for West Coast competitors to build up their points standing for the Inside Kung-Fu Top Ten Rating and also to qualify for the ICMAC World Championship in the Bahamas in December.

Oakland San Shou Team will be competing at the upcoming event:

Saturday November 7th (all day)

American Kickboxing Academy
1830 Hillsdale Ave. #2
San Jose, CA 95124

The new schedule for fall classes is posted on:

There are no public classes for the month of August at EBM Kung Fu. Classes will start Wednesday September 2nd. We will be posting the new schedule around mid-month. Please check back or send us an email so you can receive notifications.

The USAWKF San Shou committee is taking proposals for the venue of the San Shou Team Trials for the next World Championships which will be held in Toronto Canada in October 2009.  The Team Trials will be held sometime between May and July 2009.  If you have a proposal for the venue or any questions please contact EBM@KUNGFU.NET

The next kettlebell workshop is Sunday, January 18th 2009 from 2:00-3:30PM.

Please contact us if you are interested in attending but not a student at EBM Kung Fu: EBM@KUNGFU.NET

We have posted the new schedule for the new year on the training page.  The schedule going into 2009 has a few modifications.  We are still pushing forward with the new approach to Northern Shaolin training.  We will continue to do the stance training on Friday nights from 6:30-7:30.  The Monday night Northern Shaolin class will introduce new drills focused on kicking.

The Wednesday night San Shou class will emphasize circuit training for San Shou kicking and medicine ball conditioning.  The Friday night San Shou class is more circuit training with an emphasis on boxing drills and conditioning.

Sunday sparring will emphasize more International rules San Shou training.  http://iwuf.org/rule1.asp

We have updated www.kungfu.net. The general layout of the page has been rewritten. We have added some new content and removed the outdated material. We have added a new 'news' section to the first page that we will be updating more frequently. We have also added a guestbook and a testimonials page. If you feel so inspired, we would appreciate any testimonial you might like to share about your experience training at EBM Kung Fu. Drop us a line and we will give you the link to post a testimonial.

If you are a fighter with a profile on the fighters page, and would like to change, remove or update your profile, let us know.  Or if you are a fighter, and do not have a profile, please send the relevant details: ebm@kungfu.net.

Fight Videos: Oakland San Shou at Pacific Ring Sports Muay Thai Smoker, on google video:

Steve M.
Brian M. opponent quit after round two.
Matt C.

Thanks Michael H. for making the videos.

Krystal Willis was unable to train last Sunday so she brought her camera to class. Here are 83 pics of the drills, free fighting and conditioning practiced in San Shou:

Cilck here to see the pics.

Thanks Krystal.

Brent Hamby is featured in the San Shou section of a new book on Chinese Martial Arts. Check out Joy of Wushu

Rick Wing, a top student of Wong Jack Man and the successor to Sifu Wong's San Francisco class, has released a book on Northern Shaolin. Be sure and check out: Shaolin Number 5, Martial Skill Thanks to Rick for cataloguing this important information.

The US San Shou Team was determined at the team trials as:

Men's team:
123 lbs. Andrew Valladarez (Cung Le)
133 lbs. Duncan Duffin (Independent)
143 lbs. Jose Palacios (Cung Le)
154 lbs. Max Chen (William CC Chen)
176 lbs. Russ Middleton (EBM Oakland San Shou Team)
188 lbs. Brian Madigan (EBM Oakland San Shou Team)

Women:
118 lbs. Van Do (Cung Le)
123 lbs. Sarah Ponce (Texas Kickboxing)
143 lbs. Tiffany Chen (William CC Chen)
154 lbs. Elaina Maxwell (Cung Le)

These fighters will be representing the US at the World Championships in Vietnam in December. Brent Hamby and Cung Le will be serving as the coaches. Tat Wong is the Team Director.

Oakland San Shou had a strong showing at Pacific Kickboxing today, punctuated by Brian Madigan's knock out kick against a 244 pound opponent. Congratulations to Christopher Lin, Tyler Ross, Ryan Thompson and Brian Madigan of Oakland San Shou.

See the knockout footage!

The following pictures of Brent Hamby and Russ Middleton were taken at EBM Kung Fu on September 10, 2004 by Lily Liu for her book "The Joy of Wushu". Click here to see the pictures

Brent Hamby appointed Assistant Coach to Gao Mae Jian

Brent Hamby will be the assistant coach to Gao Mae Jian for the US San Shou Team at the 7th World Wushu Championships. Brent, and Oakland San Shou fighter Russ Middleton will be traveling to China in November for the World San Shou Championships. The USA has never won the Gold in international San Shou competition, perhaps this year history will be made.

Born to Fight III results
The Oakland San Shou Team had a good day on Saturday competing at Cung Le's Born to Fight III. Here are the results for Oakland San Shou during the day event:

Antonio Delgado	GOLD MEDAL (A div)
Ross MacWhinney	GOLD MEDAL (B div)
Scott Weber	GOLD MEDAL (B div)
Marco Aguilera	GOLD MEDAL (B div)
Sean Mitchell	BRONZE MEDAL (B div)

Here are the results for Oakland San Shou during the evening Super Fights:

• Brian Madigan DEFEATS James Fanshier from Cung Le's
• Beth Wolfe lost to Sarah Ponce from Texas
• Russ Middleton DEFEATS Ritchie ??? from Ohio

USAWKF Nationals Results
Oakland San Shou Team

• Brian Madigan 90 kg GOLD MEDAL
• Russ Middleton 85 kg GOLD MEDAL
• Matt Calaleta 80 kg GOLD MEDAL
• Antonio Delgado 75 kg SILVER MEDAL

Congratulations to the fighters! The Oakland San Shou Team now has six National Champions.

The Oakland San Shou Team at Nationals