Gene's coverage of the CA Sanshou/San Da situation
I moved a lot of threads off our Tiger Claw’s KungFuMagazine.com Championship & Shark City Nationals to this one because that was getting distracting. It makes for a slightly uneven archival read now, but if tangential threads bother you, wtf are you doing reading a web forum.
Cung knows - beleive me, we've talked about it.
It's not illegal to practice sanshou. It's illegal to hold sanshou competitions. The California State Athletic Commission banned both professional and amateur sanshou and muay thai kickboxing events. Muay thai has regained approval, but sanshou is still banned. I discuss this in our new issue, the March April 2009, which just hit the newsstands.
Muay Thai *is* legal again now
They rallied and were legalized. The article I mentioned above is about Female Fury, which was a Muay Thai match. I don't see any movement from the Sanshou circles here to get the ban lifted. It would take some legal fees to put up that fight and nobody has the cash. It's a shame really.
Cung was the only one really throwing sanshou events around here
Cung's 2007 Art of War went sour with the USAWKF Team trial situation. He spoke about in our 2008 July/August cover story Cung Le Brings Sanshou into the Cage. Given how the sanshou went for America in 2008, well, hopefully you all read Beijing in their own words: American Athletes Reflect on the Wushu Tournament Beijing By Elly Duchamp in our 2009 January/February Shaolin Special.
BTW, our latest issue, the 2009 March/April Wudang Special, is on the newsstands. I have two articles that grapple with the state of sanshou in this issue: Female Fury, which was mentioned above, and Art of War VII, which is about the US Open International Martial Arts Championship XII. I also have an article about the state of kickboxing in China titled Wulin Feng: USA Versus China. I'm working on another addressing that topic right now for our next issue, and have two pieces on sanshou in there already. That issue will drop on 4/7/2009, so stay tuned.
Meanwhile, who's coming to our tournament?
Gene's coverage of the CA Sanshou/San Da situation
Gene wrote a very nice piece about the situation with Sanshou/San Da with a female perspective in the newest issue (GO OUT AND BUY IT!)
He raises an interesting point at the beginnning, ie that CA banned BOTh sanshou/sanda AND muay thai yet the Thai community fought and got it leagalized again while the sanshou folks just packed it up, depressing :o
Thanks lkfmdc, I do appreciate that from you
We're struggling to keep Sanshou going here in America, but the legal/political situation in CA was a heavy blow. It's what I was talking about in our Tiger Claw’s KungFuMagazine.com Championship & Shark City Nationals thread.
And for those of you who want to know which issue we're talking about, it's this one: March/April 2009 Wudang Special. I may merge this thread with that someday.
Back OT for just a moment...
I'm using lkfmdc's Gene's coverage of the CA Sanshou/San Da situation thread to ttt this one. We can take up discussion of the state of sanshou in the state of CA there.