Tiger Claw

We’re doing a special Twitter promotion for DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION tickets. These are only good for the S.F. Bay Area. DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION opens in theaters April 10. This promotion ends on 4/20/2009.

We’re in the process of moving KungFuMagazine.com to a new server. That’s what’s been affecting the forum service over the last week and we apologize for any interruption of service or lost posts. The new server is more reliable and secure. What’s more, we’re laying the groundwork for some updates to our website. Thank you all for your continued support and patience.

We’ve got two new reviews from our resident critic, Dr. Craig Reid, both on the cartoon invasion of martial arts media. First is DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION: Manga Meets American Movieland starring Chow Yun Fat, Justin Chatwin and Jamie Chung. The second is Matt Mullins: The New KAMEN RIDER. You’ll also find two Wudang articles. First is RZA on Breath Control, Martial Arts and Being a Student, part three in my RZA interview trilogy as well as Women of Wudang by David Wei, who also contributed to our Wudang Special. Part one of my RZA interview is also online, but for part two, you have to see our 2009 March/April Wudang Special. What’s more, for the serious researchers out there, we’ve published The Rosetta Stone of Traditional Chinese Martial Arts by our own forum regular Salvatore Canzonieri. This unique contribution has video and a chart for download.

Save the date! On June 27th, 2009, we’ll be holding our first tournament – Tiger Claw’s KungFuMagazine.com Championship – at the San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA. Watch this site for upcoming details! We hope to see you there!

Enter for your chance to win SECRETS OF THE FURIOUS FIVE. Contest ends 6:00 p.m. PST on 4/13/09. Good luck everyone!

Be sure to check out our new issue, the May June 2009, with Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang on the cover, on the newsstands now. Help support Kung Fu Tai Chi magazine by subscribing!.

The Tiger Claw Elite Championship will be taking a hiatus for 2009. Founded in 2006, the Tiger Claw Elite Championship encompassed 31 tournaments and crowned 36 Grand Champions over its three-year history. In order to better serve the martial arts community at large, Tiger Claw will use this year to refocus on its ongoing tournament sponsorship program. The Tiger Claw Sponsored Events will be involved with over 40 tournaments in 2009 alone. Thank you all for your support of the Tiger Claw Elite Championship. The Tiger Claw Elite Championship is very proud to have cooperated with Disney’s Sports Attractions on this unique project and is looking forward to more exciting opportunities in the future.

This year, Tiger Claw is cooperating with KungFuMagazine.com, the official website of Kung Fu Tai Chi, and Tony & Theresa Kattengell of the Bay Area Sport Karate Association for an unprecedented tournament of Chinese Kung Fu and Wushu alongside Karate. On June 27^th, 2009, Tiger Claw’s KungFuMagazine.com Championships & Shark City Nationals will be held at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California. Watch www.KungFuMagazine.com for more details to come.

October 17, 2007, Fremont, California — Tiger Claw has been named the Official Sponsor of both the Men’s and Women’s U.S. Wushu National Team and the Official Martial Arts Supplier for the United States of America Wushu Kungfu Federation (USAWKF) . Both sponsorships will last until 2009. This will cover two major international modern wushu competitions that will be held in Beijing, China: the 9th World Wushu Championships from November 10-18, 2007 and the Wushu Tournament Beijing from August 21-24, 2008. The Wushu Tournament Beijing will run at the same time as the Olympic Games.

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Article in the Knoxville West Side Shopper News

July 5, 2007, Knoxville, Tennessee — Martial arts equipment manufacturer Tiger Claw has been named the Official Martial Arts Sponsor of the 2007 Amateur Athletic Union Junior Olympic Games, to be held in Knoxville, Tennessee, July 24 – August 4, 2007. The AAU Junior Olympic Games are held annually as the cumulative competition for amateur athletes in the United States. Competitors from all 50 states and several U.S. Territories will participate in over 20 different sports including Karate, Taekwondo and Wrestling. This is the fifth time the event has been held in Knoxville.

Article in Black Belt, October 2007

“Tiger Claw is proud to be the Official Martial Arts Sponsor of the 2007 AAU Junior Olympic Games, and we are all excited to be involved with this major martial arts event in Knoxville, where our East Coast office is based”, said Tiger Claw Managing Director Jennifer Oh.

The AAU Junior Olympic Games are the largest national multi-sport event for youth in the United States. The AAU was founded in 1888, and in 1967, the first AAU Junior Olympic Games took place in downtown Washington, D.C. The next year, the event was held in Knoxville for the first time.

Visit http://www.aaujrogames.org or call 407-934-7200 for more on the 2007 AAU Junior Olympic Games. The Amateur Athletic Union operates from Lake Buena Vista, FL.

Helen Liang DVDs, Black Belt Essential Gear Pick

In Swimming Body Bagua Zhang and Water Style Boxing: Part 1, Chinese martial arts expert Helen Liang teaches the internal arts. The first DVD focuses on the pa kua (also spelled bagua) palm, while the second covers liu he ba fa (six harmonies and eight principles)…