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亚洲 - 武术名单

FOUNDED (成立): 2010 
UPDATED (更新): December 15, 2019

This site is a directory of martial art clubs and associations along the Silk Roads and brief news about illustrious martial arts people, events, history and philosophy.
该网站是丝绸之路沿线的武术俱乐部和协会的目录，以及有关杰出武术人士，事件，历史和哲学的简要新闻。

NOTE: I've noticed on some phones the sub-menus on the navigation bar above don't appear. So, I've added a site map with links at the bottom of this page.

Myat Noe Eain from Myanmar - at the 15th World Wushu Championships in Shanghai

Old Gate of Shaolin Monastery

Visitors to this site are now welcome to donate to keep the Silk Road Friendship Tour going.
现在欢迎该站点的访问者捐款，以保持丝绸之路友谊之旅的顺利进行。

Yes, after nine years of publishing www.fightingartsasia.com
the Big Boss of the school where I taught for 10 years said he wants "all young teachers." Ha! Consequently for the first time donations are accepted to keep the Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour going strong.
Click on:
paypal.me/silkroadtraveler
And contribute to building bridges between martial artists everywhere.
director@silkroadresearchcenter.org
The name on PayPal is: Brundage Gregory Christopher - location is Beijing
A few thousand dollars will keep Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour going for six months! But hay, anything is appreciated.

Stone Dragons 石龙
At ShaolinSi 在少林寺

Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Parts 29 & 30:
15th World Wushu Championships in Shanghai
丝绸之路功夫友谊之旅第29和30部分：
第十五届世界武术锦标赛在上海

Opening Ceremony, Asparas, Taolu, scoring criteria, some of the greats and Sanda action!
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1521
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 30 - 15th World Wushu Championships, Cont.
Interviews with Wushu Federation presidents, coaches, athletes and journeys to the ancient Maritime Silk Road Port in Zhenhai District of Ningbo City in Zhejiang Province (just a hop across the bay from Shanghai), Tientong Temple that passed the torch of Zen to a major branch of Japanese Buddhism, and back in time some 7,000 years to the archeological site of Hemudu where some of the most ancient domesticated rice in China was found.
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1524

Looking Forward to:
期待：

8th World Junior Wushu Championships in Morocco 2020 (年摩洛哥第八届世界少年武术锦标赛)
3rd Taolu World Cup - Japan 2020 (第三届桃鹿世界杯-日本)
Sanda World Cup (SWC) - 散打世界杯（SWC）2020
4th World Taijiquan Championships - Italy (第四届世界太极拳锦标赛-意大利) 2020

http://www.iwuf.org/competitions/iwuf-official-events/world-wushu-championships/

At the bottom of the Contact page of this site is a list of my favorite "alternative news media" sites. Reading just a few of them can double your IQ overnight!
Is asking for donations to keep an online news media going unusual? Almost all the alternative news sites are all supported by donations. So, this is not unusual, it's actually the industry standard. Live long and prosper, keep on training and donate to keep the one and only Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour sailing smoothly.

Medicine Buddha at Shaolin Monastery

Myat Noe Eain from Myanmar - at the 15th World Wushu Championships in Shanghai - My pick by the way, for the gold medal, but, alas, the judges didn't agree.

Master Xu Xing Wu - North Style Shaolin 6th Generation

Banjarbaru Indonesia - Great people, martial artists and friends

Young Kung Fu master from Ukraine

Master Meng Xian Jun playing with writer in Peixian

Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour - Full Steam Ahead!

Earlier this year intrepid Kung Fu Reporter visited the National Wushu Team in Jakarta, Meeting Hobbits, Buddhas and Hindu Gods in the National Museum, Introduction to Pencat Silat and Journey up Kawah Putih, or White Crater Volcano. In Part II of this adventure visited a countryside Pencat Silat (martial art) School in South Kalimantan Island in Indonesia, dug and panned in the traditional ways in Indonesia’s second largest diamond fields at Cempaka, followed by a spectacular Pencat Silat martial art festival, and then a few beautiful days at the National Pencat Silat Training Center in Jakarta called Padepokan Pencak Silat Indonesia.

2019                     Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 27 Wushu in Indonesia
October               http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1513

2019                     Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 28 Wushu in Indonesia
Nov. 9                   http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1517
                               Also see: http://www.silatindonesia.com/2009/08/ipsi-indonesia-pencak-silat-federation/
                              And: Padepokan Pencak Silat TMII on Facebook

2019                     Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 29 - 15th World Wushu Championships in Shanghai
Nov. 20                http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1521

2019                     Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 30 - 15th World Wushu Championships, Cont.
Dec.                      http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1524

2019                    Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 31 – in Thailand
Dec.                     Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 32 – in Thailand cont.
                             Awaiting Publication

The Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour & Silk Road Taekwondo Quest Series CONTINUES!
和丝绸之路功夫友谊之旅和丝绸之路跆拳道任务系列的继续故事

- The Silk Road Kung Fu & Taekwondo
Friendship Tour -

Life size sculpture at Padepokan Pencak Silat National headquarters in Jakarta Indonesia.

Writer at Korean TKD School in Doha, Qatar, Master Jae Kun Shin, the head instructor, 7th Dan from Jeonju South Korea. Felt like home to me!

Traditional Arabic Sword dance performed at wedding, August 3, 2017

Padepokan Pencak Silat Indonesia.

Writer G. Brundage with Grandmaster Malik Iftikhar Ahmed, President & Founder of the Pakistan Wushu Federation and one of his teams in Lahore, January 2017

Writer with Pakistani Taekwondo Federation President Lt. Col. Waseem Ahmed Janjua in Islamabad and one of his teams

Best MMA Training in Qatar?

Gotta say thanks to the great guys at The Cage Sport on Salwa Road, Ain Khalid Area. They have an excellent scene there with boxing, kickboxing, jujitsu, and taekwondo. Cool atmosphere with a ring, bags and top coaches.

June 4, 2016 Below is a photo from a the Peixian County Shaolin School, Jiangxu Province – (The Real) Hometown of Chinese Wushu with a history going back to the Han Dynasty. There I witnessed one of the most impressive Shaolin Kung Fu demonstrations I've ever seen. Master Meng Xiang Jun is a 12th Generation descendent Master of Xu Style of North Shaolin Fist, founded by Grandmaster Xu Xing Wu. Though a full-time elementary and middle school, people of all ages are invited to live and train here. Peixian is an idealic small town. I spent a truly beautiful three days there during the recent Dragon Boat Racing Festival.

The Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship series
丝绸之路功夫友谊之旅
and Silk Road Taekwondo Quest
丝绸之路Taekwondo任务
2015 - 2018

Segment III of the Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour, and Taekwondo Quest completed
August 14, 2016

Left to right: Taekwondo master and good friend Mirza Yvavadze, writer G. Brundage & great teacher and friend to the Silk Road traveler, ITF Fed Pres Levan Tsaretashvili in Tbilisi

Click below for the Wushu Federation Calendar
http://www.iwuf.org/calendar/

For information contact:
http://www.internationalkungfu.com/

If you're curious about Kung Fu in Kabul - They've got a lively scene there! This is a series I researched and wrote in the spring of 2015. 阿富汗喀布尔
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1213
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1214
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1219
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1223
And as always, many thanks to Gene Ching, editor of Kung Fu Tai Chi magazine in the U.S. Though I didn't know it at the time, my visit to Kabul's Masters of Kung Fu was the precursor for my entire Silk Road martial art tour series. Such great martial artists! Profound thanks to all.

This Silk Road is, and always was -
The Heart of the World

For the most complete directory of martial arts training in China, look here:
http://www.fightingartsasia.com/provinces3046520221.html
For the most complete directory of martial arts training in Asia, look here: http://www.fightingartsasia.com/asia20122279542749426415.html

August 18, 2015
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 1: Introduction
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1239
August 27, 2015
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 2: The Kung Fu Masters of Xian
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1241
September 4, 2015
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 3: Turpan: Pflaming Moutains, Eid Al-Fitr with a Uyghur Family and Bezelik 1000 Buddha Caves
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1243
September 16, 2015
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 4: Turpan to Urumqi Jingwu School - Interview with Faculty Member Young Master Ali and other Kung Fu schools in Urumqi
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1245
September 30, 2015
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 5: Road to Almaty Kazakhstan - Interview with Shifu Mike Adams that teaches private classes in Wing Chun and Tai Chi in Almaty
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1250
October 7, 2015
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 6: Master Yuriy Vyalkov and Vinh Xuan Dang Gia, Vietnamese “Buddha style” Wing Chun Kung Fu
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1256
October 15, 2015
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 7: Bishkek Kyrgyzstan and an interview with Dmitrushenko Yuriy Vladimirovich, President of the Kung Fu Federation of Kyrgyz Republic
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1258
October 23, 2015
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 8 Interview with Mr. Ganiev Ravshan, President of the Wushu Federation of Uzbekistan And a Visit to the Barakh-khan Madrasah
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1260
October 29, 2015
Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 9: Kung Fu Magazine and International Diplomacy
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1261
March 19, 2016
The Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 10: Shifu Arteom and the Tashkent Traditional Wushu Association & The State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1287
April 8, 2016
The Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 11: The Wushu of Young Master Anar Budagli, Tashkent’s City Center’s Chorsu Bazaar & a Visit to the International Caravanserai of Culture in Tashkent
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1291
June 14, 2016
The Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 12: The Road to Ashgabat: Interview with Yazmyrat Annamyradov & a Visit to the National Turkmen Kurash (Traditional Wrestling) Training Center
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1292
June 15, 2016
The Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 13: Silk Road’s Northeast Terminal Beijing, the Niujie Masjid, China’s Islamic Association and Wang Zheng Yi, also known as Great Broadsword Wang the 5th
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1301

October 14, 2016 The Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 14: Interview with Azer Mallem, President of the Azerbaijan Wushu Federation & Azerbaijan Muay Thai/Thai Boxing Federation and “Zorkana” – The House of Force and Strength
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1320

Oct. 19, 2016 The Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 15: Visit to the Georgian Wushu Federation Summer Camp in Kobuleti & Interview with Federation President & Taolu Head Coach Giorgi Verulidze, their Sanda Head Coach Lasha Sumbulashvili and some Junior National Team Members
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1321

January 5, 2017   Silk Road Friendship Tour Part 16: Interview with Abdurrahman Akyuz, President of the Turkish Wushu Federation and Fathomless Histories in Ankara, Bursa and Istanbul
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1334

April 3, 2017 Silk Road Friendship Tour Part 17: Amazing Pakistan: Interview with Wushu Master Noor Ahmed Saqib & Visit to the Ancient Metropolis and Silk Road Junction of Taxila
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1350

May, 2017 Silk Road Friendship Tour Part 18: Kung Fu Federation of Pakistan in Lahore – Interview with Grandmaster Malik Iftikhar Ahmed, President & Founder of the Pakistan Wushu Federation and Interview with Muhammad Shah Bukhari, Director of the National Museum of Pakistan
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1355

August 17, 2017   Silk Road Friendship Tour Part 19: Ancient Martial Arts of Gansu Province, China - Through the Eye of the Camel - The Secrets of Ancient Kung Fu in China’s Mogao Caves, Western Frontier Fortress and the Gobi Desert
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1365

October 5, 2017 Silk Road Friendship Tour Part 20: Through the Eye of the Camel – Dunhuang Museum and Mosque, and White Horse Temple
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1373

January 3, 2018   The Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 21: The Noble Martial Art Legacy of Qatar
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1379.

January 4, 2018 The Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 22: The Noble Martial Art Legacy of Qatar Continued
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/index.php?p=article&article=1394

July/Aug. 2018     Trans-Saharan-Trade Route - During the summer of 2018 I started two new series of articles, “The Trans-Saharan Trade Route Kung Fu Friendship Tour” in Ethiopia, the most ancient roads of all, though I also plan to continue the Silk Roads Friendship Tour on shorter vacations.
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/index.php?p=article&article=1444
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/index.php?p=article&article=1452

May, 2019 Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 23: Wushu Federation in Vietnam
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1490

June, 2019 Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour Part 24 - Nam Hong Son Bac Ninh Martial Arts in Hanoi
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1493

Bukhara, Uzbekistan: Citadel of the Ark - Visited with Furkat and Umida, great TKD brother and sister

Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour
and Taekwondo Quest -
Miles and Kilometers

In Part 1 of the Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour (July/Aug. 2015) I traveled:
Beijing - Xian - Turpan - Urumqi - Almaty - Bishkek - Tashkent
TOTAL Kilometers: 5, 133 Total Miles: 3,188 on the ground
While interviewing and in some cases training with the masters and their classes.

In Part II of the Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour, (Jan/Feb 2016) I traveled:
Tashkent - Samarkand - Bukhara - Farab Border of Turkmenistan - Turkmenabad - Dayakhatyn (and back)
Turkmenabad to Mary/Merv - Ashkabad
Total Kilometers: 2, 058 Total Miles: 1,278 on the ground, while interviewing and in some cases training with the masters and their classes.

In Part III of the Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour, (July/August 2016) I traveled:
Tbilisi Georgia - Baku, Azerbaijan - back through Tbilisi - Kobuleti - Batumi - Sarpi Border of Turkey - Sarpi Border to Hopa (in Turkey) and Erzurum - Ankara - Bursa - Istanbul
Total Kilometers: 3156 Total Miles: 1,962 on the ground, while interviewing and in some cases training with the masters and their classes.

Wushu Master Saqib and his team - Taolu Gold and Silver

Thus far, CUMULATIVE TOTAL of
15,000+ Kilometers
On the ground, along the ancient Silk Road, interviewing the Masters of Kung Fu and Taekwondo all the way!
到目前为止，CUMULATIVE TOTAL

在地面上，沿着古丝绸之路，一路走来采访功夫和跆拳道的大师！

There are over 40 countries along the land and Maritime Silk Road. To quote the UNESCO Site:
"The Silk Road enriched the countries it passed through, transporting cultures, religions, languages and of course material goods into societies across Europe, Asia and Africa, and uniting them all with a common thread of cultural heritage and plural identities."
http://en.unesco.org/silkroad/countries-alongside-silk-road-routes

It seems to me this ol' world could use a LOT more uniting, and I'm happy to help in my own small way as long as I get a good Kung Fu/Wushu and Taekwondo workout now and then, and heck, I rather enjoy swimming, biking and running too.

In fact, I'd like to see a trans-national Silk Road Triathlon one day, and even greater cooperation between all these marvelous countries. Gotta say I've never met friendlier people.

LIVE YOUR DREAMS

I read of lot of books about the Silk Roads and highly recommend this new book. Excellently researched and written. It's an "eye-opener."

The oldest peace treaty I have ever seen with my own eyes: Kadesh Treaty-between Hittites and Egyptians, 1269 . BC - found in the Archaeological Museum, Istanbul - BEAUTIFUL in the extreme. Photo by G. Brundage

Dayahatyn Caravanserai, Turkmenistan - Living History

2 Kings of the MMA Hill in China? Kunlun FIGHT & CKF - China Kung Fu

Kunlunjue was founded in 2014. They've got international connections, great fighters and nice sites! (But in Chinese language only.)
http://www.kunlunjue.com/
Facebook: Kunlun-Fight

For more information about CKF go to:
http://www.c-kf.com/saishi/
(This is a new 2016 link, in Chinese)

One Fighting Championship headquartered in Singapore is still GOING STRONG!
http://www.onefc.com/

Below are links to a few of my other Internet sites:

https://fightingartsafrica.weebly.com

http://www.silkroadresearchcenter.org

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote: "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."

北少林寺
North Shaolin Monastery is being rebuilt on Panshan, in Jixian. This site has some photos of the new temple and Shang Kung Fu of North Shaolin.
http://beishaolinsi.weebly.com/

Triathlon in China (铁人三项)

http://triathlonchina.weebly.com
http://www.beijinginternationaltriathlon.com/

非盈利组织
Non-profit Organizations in Beijing and China
http://npochina.weebly.com/

Chinese Traditional Medicine 中药
It's far from finished, but the address is:
http://chinamed.weebly.com

China FashioNation 中国时装
Do your friends threaten to call the "fashion police" on you? If so, this is the place to start remolding your public image.
http://chinafashion.weebly.com/

You can find some Wushu related and contact information at these sites:

Chinese Wushu Association中国武术协会:

http://wushu.sport.org.cn/
In Chinese but Google Translator does a reasonable job of translating it.

INTERNATIONAL WUSHU FEDERATION
http://www.iwuf.org/

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Confucious said:
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Directory of Martial Art Training Schools in Asia亚洲 - 武术 名单

Visitors to this site are now welcome to donate to keep the Silk Road Friendship Tour going.现在欢迎该站点的访问者捐款，以保持丝绸之路友谊之旅的顺利进行。

Stone Dragons 石龙At ShaolinSi 在少林寺

Looking Forward to:期待：