Bagua Seminar by Grandmaster Sun Zhijun

As part of Victoria School Wushu Team's partnership with our coaches, Victoria School played host to visiting teacher and respected Grandmaster, Sun ZhiJun




Grandmaster Sun, is one of the oldest living exponents of Bagua in China still teaching and practicing today. His student, Mdm Ge Chun Yan, coaches our wushu team in Taiji.



The seminar was well attended by martial enthusiasts from all walks of life. Despite his age, Master Sun was vigorous and passionate about his art and would punctuate his demonstrations with personal demonstrations.
Here we see him explain the finer points of balance in bagua footwork.


Here Master Sun demonstrates some Bagua applications:

It's good to see that he is still vigourous and spritely at his age.
Let all of us from the younger generation of martial artist follow in his example!

Even more shooting ...

Today, I brought the VS Wushu Team down to DM Archery at Suntec

Well, it was a good outing for all of us. As DM Archery were keeping track of scores for Top 6 shooters, there was a mood of friendly competition amongst the boys to see if they could qualify against the ladder board.

Our little DSA talent, Lee Jing Wei managed to score 104, placing him amongst the Top 6 shooters in Under-12; team captain Ryan Goh blasted his way with 110 to place within Top 6 for Under-16 (tying my score for the day at that time!)


Last session, I hit 114 and was tied for 2nd place in the Open category but a check on the ladder board showed that I was relegated out of the Top 6 cos some ace had hit a 120pt perfect score. Subsequently, 2ns and 3rd position were 116 pts with the rest of us mere mortals trailing at 114pts.

Inspired by Ryan Goh's fantastic scoring, I aimed to better my personal best. After some meticulous zeroing and consolidating my grouping shots, I took my final round for the day.
With 11 shots on the yellow and 1 on the red, I'm back in the running for 2nd place in the open category with 118 points! An almost perfect score.

Woots! Not let's keep my fingers crossed... and see if I can stay at 2nd position on the ladder board

38th East Zone Colors Awards (2008)

Today, was the presentation ceremony for the East Zone Sports Colors Awards.
This year was a special year for Victoria School in many ways.

First off, the cover design for the backdrop and program (seen above) was chosen from artwork submitted by students in the East Zone. Our very own Victorian,Ong Kang Sheng from Sec 2D, had his design selected to grace the cover and the facade for the ceremony.

In all we took 11 Team awards and 15 Individual awards.



It was a fitting welcome for our new VP Mr Anith who just reccently joined VS in June. In his short time with us, Mr Anith has already made himself an integral part of the Victorian family and his presence at the award ceremony made it all the more special for the boys.


This year's award ceremony was special for another reason. In the short time that Wushu was introduced in VS, we have managed to break through into National Top-4 ini both the B and C Divisions.

The B-Div boys managed to take National 3rd place.


While the C-Div boys managed to clinch National 2nd.


This means that next year, we will have to keep working harder to push ourselves.
With the potential in the team and the effort that we know we can put in, I am sure that next year we will be able to do better.

Let us work together boys, all the sports, all the CCAs and make tomorrow better than today.
Nil Sine Labore

Day 2 of "Aspire- 我武维扬" VS Wushu Talent Development Camp

Today is Day 2 of our camp, so bright and early we got the boys and girls to wake up and begin the day with some sports and games:

The VS boys introduced our Primary School friends to a favourate VS sport- Floorball.
In no time at all, our little wushu juniors had picked it up and were going at it with their hearts out.


After that, we began with more stretching. Darren had a taste of what it meant to undergo 'hard core' partner stretching exercise.


After that is was back to our fundamentals. Although the boys and girls were tired, I was glad to see some pronouced improvement in some of the VS boys. I'm sure that the presence of their little juniors working hard must have spurred some of them on.




We ended the day with the small competition. All participants were divided into groups. Each group was given a task to choreograph a short 15-30sec routine for their group.

Here we have Zhen yu's Group



Next we have Ryan's Group



After that came Yuda's Group



The winner of the this little mini-contest was Jinjies' group. Jinjie and group showed the most dedication and in the short time they had, they managed to stay focus and work on their routine to showcase the best of their abilities.



It has indeed been a fulfilling camp and today being Teacher's Day, I couldn't think of a more fulfilling way to spend the day :)

Thank you to all our little boys and girls from the various primary schools, we definitely enjoyed your presence here. We hope you'll all join us for future events and we can learn and train together again!