Opinion

Recently, the International Wushu Federation has established the Ethics Committee in order to safeguard the ethical principles of the Federation. “The IWUF Ethics Committee’s responsibilities include but not limited to formulate rules and procedures governing the conduct of the ethics or disciplinary process, to oversee compliance with the rules of conduct, standards and policies, to receive, initiate and investigate; to report on types of cases investigated with specific description of difficult or recalcitrant cases; to dismiss or recommend action on ethical cases investigated; to resolve cases by agreement where appropriate.” (http://www.iwuf.org/2020/07/24/iwuf-establishes-its-ethics-committee/) We wonder who the judges are? The members of

Health Qigong Duan Wei: Most Australians are not Welcome to the Melbourne Health Qigong Event to be held on 7 – 13 August 2019 in Melbourne, Australia Wushu & Tai Chi NSW supports the global movement of Health Qigong as a holistic system of coordinated body posture and movement, breathing, and meditation used for the purposes of health, spirituality, and martial arts training. Wushu & Tai Chi NSW recognises International Health Qigong Federation (IHQF) as an international body coordinating the development of Health Qigong world-wide according to the directions from the leading experts in the area. For a long time, Wushu & Tai

  Almost a year has passed since the decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to grant access to the so called “Kung Fu X-Files” (as referred to in our previous publications). Still, from time to time people ask us what was the goal of that quest and what was the ultimate result. We would like to remind that the initial purpose of the Freedom of Information Request lodged by the Wushu Council Australia was to find out how the recognition by the Australian Sports Commission as a National Sporting Organisation (NSO) was transferred from AKWF (Australian Kung Fu (Wushu) Federation)

Tai Chi Push Hands Seminar / Workshop by Master Ji Shou Xiang & Norman Chong (Universal Tai Chi Academy) at Epping Creative Centre September 2017 By Dr. Khoo Cheng Choo The Push Hands technique has been much revered in Taichi circles as being one of the most challenging and satisfying of Tai chi practices.  Wushu Tai Chi NSW was honoured to have Master Ji Shou Xiang, one of the foremost Push Hands Masters from China conduct a 2-day Push Hand Seminar/Workshop at Epping Creative Centre in September 2017. Master Ji is known for teaching Push hands techniques at the Police Department

  Being based in Australia, the Wushu Herald is bound to be interested in how our region’s Wushu athletes, coaches and individual practitioners are represented in the International Wushu Federation (IWUF) which was established on October 3rd, 1990 and is the international federation governing Wushu in all its forms worldwide. Currently, the IWUF has 146 members, across five continental federations worldwide. The IWUF is recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and is also a member of both ARISF and Sport Accord. The IWUF is devoted to development of Wushu throughout the world, to enrichment of people’s lives by making