Wushu national championship 2007

So here comes the photo blog about Wushu. Went there as a ticket buyer but bring along my entire photography gear i look much more like the pers than regular audience. As expected meet some of my friends who are actually pers themself. After a small talk figured out that it was actually quite easy to get a crew/pers pass from the organiser, should have make a few call before. Browsing the hall and seeing how sitting with the crowd wont be a good option for taking photograph as you cant stand up or risk being thrown object at your head by people behind you.

We end up going behind the crew only area anyway, all you need is a photographer look, which i certainly got since I AM a photographer, prob just hold your camera in front of your chest where the pass should be, and seeing that I carry a big lense they wont suspect a thing.

So, the event run late as predicted, official start time was 7.30 but not untill 8.10 that the show start rolling, so here is the reportage of the show in photos

Opening act: Traditional dancer from Nias picking up all the honorable guest to their seat

Display of the contestant starting

One of the cuter contestant

North Sumatera!!!! accompany by a roaring applauses from the entire hall (and a very sexy sign girl)

Our fighters

(my) main attraction of the night

sexy lady

Fireworks along with the opening drums played by honorable guests

The fireworks actually was a pretty stupid move from the organiser, as it filled the indoor hall with smoke, audiences fan their face with whatever they got right after the fireworks and it didnt disappear complete untill very late into the show. The smoke-and some poor lighting- gave photographers an almost nightmarish condition to shoot. So you have to pardon my lack of sharpness in the action shots.

One more look at the sexy lady

The all chinese dancer that has won some international competition and will represent indo in some int bla3 competition soon

in action


Demo from the Chinese Wushu team, very impressive

Some of the duel action was breathtaking,and funny (because they were suppose to be a comedic fight like jackie chan, not because they were stupid)

syncronised side jump

the picking up dandruff from the back of someone's head move

triple back somersault

Hyatttttttt!!!!!

The Barongsai from Malaysia, equally impressive

Misjudged the step and fall, see that the guy behind already on the ground, pretty dangerous stuff

The crowd were pretty sportive, they broke into applauses to give support after the Barongsai fell, they got up again and repeat the jump and succeded, and after that they were just showing off by doing some intentional "almost fall down" move, well, they manage to make the crowd gasp anyway.

Mr.Lion

The co-MC from china which is a singer herself put on some show for us. Unfortunately that was right after the end of the Wushu and Lion dance show, some of the crowd probably didn't realise there were going to be second session of Wushu action started to leave the hall, that probably explain the look on her face

The Wushu artist from N.Sumatera team got the honor the do some demo

they even fight with a shovel

grab the enemy by his feet and throw him over head, just like in a movie

Bye bye Medan

Yuni shara, if you dont know her then "big sis of Krisdayanti"

celebrity hogging time with Mr.Edo Kondologit (damn u ali, not sharp!!!)

Thats it folks, the competition still going on for another 3days, see if i will feel challenged and go take some more action shots or not. But with no demo from Chinese Team prob wont be much fun anymore. Now if you excuse, I m going to track down that sexy lady that hold the N.Sumatera sign............