Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour

Updated 更新时间：2025 年 11月 14 日 November 14

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The AMAZING 10th World Kung Fu Championships held October 14 – 20 in beautiful Emei Mountain (Emeishan in Chinese), in Sichuan province.

令人惊叹的第十届世界功夫锦标赛于10月14日至20日在美丽的峨眉山（中文名：峨眉山），四川省举行。

I was honored to be asked to assist in doing the English language voiceover for this history making event. Some 5,092 athletes from 54 countries and regions participated. Hosted by the International Wushu Federation (IWUF) and Chinese Wushu Association (CWA) it was four non-stop days of live action covering three floors with 10 competition areas on each floor! This biannual international sporting event was established in 2004 and is always a truly HUGE event.

我很荣幸被邀请为这一历史性事件的英语配音提供帮助。共有来自54个国家和地区的5,092名运动员参加。由国际武术联合会（IWUF）和中国武术协会（CWA）主办，这次活动连续四天不停的精彩赛事在三层楼上进行，每层楼设有10个比赛区域！这一每两年举办一次的国际体育赛事始于2004年，总是一个真正盛大的活动。

Emeishan martial arts have over 3,000 years of history, over 80 branches and hundreds of distinct boxing styles and routines. Emeishan is a UNESCO World Cultural and National Heritage site, renowned for being one of China’s four Sacred Buddhist Mountains, a national 5A-Level tourist attraction and a National Park of China.

峨眉山武术有着三千多年的历史，拥有80多个分支和数百种独特的拳法和套路。峨眉山是联合国教科文组织世界文化和国家遗产地，以中国四大佛教名山之一而闻名，是国家5A级旅游景区和中国国家公园。

At the opening ceremony, Chinese actor Wu Jing was appointed as the new wushu image ambassador for the IWUF and the Chinese Wushu Association, succeeding kung fu actor Jet Li, known as Yi Lianjie in China.

在开幕式上，中国演员吴京被任命为国际武联和中国武术协会的新武术形象大使，接替了在中国被称为李连杰的功夫演员。

Wu Jin was very famous mainly in China until 2017 when his Wolf Warrior 2 movie hit the silver screens worldwide and he became a true international celebrity actor, martial artist and director. In his most recent movie, “The Meg 2: The Trench” he co-stars alongside box office mega-star Jason Statham. Some of his other greatest movies are listed here: https://collider.com/wu-jing-best-movies-ranked.

吴京在中国一直非常有名，直到2017年他的电影《战狼2》登陆全球银幕，他才成为真正的国际影星、武术家和导演。在他最近的电影《巨齿鲨2：深渊》中，他与票房巨星杰森·斯坦森合作主演。他的一些其他经典电影可以在这里查看：https://collider.com/wu-jing-best-movies-ranked。

On the slightly comical side, being busy chatting into the mic about the smorgasbord of competitions right in front of me, I wasn’t able to make a video of my own 😂 except a few little snippets that missed the best action because 1) they deserved commentary and 2) they were mind-boggling excellent!

有点滑稽的是，我忙着对着麦克风聊眼前各种各样的比赛，结果没能拍自己的视频 😂 除了一些小片段，因为 1) 它们值得评论，2) 它们实在是太精彩了，错过了最精彩的动作！

I was and remain very pleased to report the judges agreed with all my appraisals of the action and those I predicted would get the highest scores did. That’s a little surprising because I’m not trained in most of the specific styles I observed and judges have exacting criteria for mandatory movements in each routine of every art there. (They must have encyclopedic memories to be able to reliably do that.) There were more styles represented there than the usual competitions, mainly hailing from South China. Maybe my predictions were just dumb luck, but I think it is possible there is some kind of universality in great martial arts that transcends style. Whatever the case, the judging was excellent and without bias of any kind in my opinion.

我很高兴地报告，评委们完全同意我对比赛的所有评价，而且我预测的高分选手确实获得了最高分。我有点惊讶，因为我并没有接受过大多数我观察到的具体流派的专业训练，而评委们对每个门派每套套路中的必做动作有严格的评分标准。（他们一定有着百科全书般的记忆，才能可靠地做到这一点。）那里展示的流派比平常比赛更多，主要来自华南。也许我的预测只是好运，但我认为，在顶级武术中可能存在某种超越流派的普遍性。无论如何，在我看来，评判非常出色，没有任何偏见。

Wrapping it up this competition was beautifully organized, in an awesome location, with spectacular action and came off without a hitch making it all appear easy, which I’m very sure it wasn’t for the athletes, organizers and officials all of whom deserve an enduring round of applause for their roles in making this a truly splendid celebration of China’s martial arts by people of all ages from all around the world.

总结来说，这次比赛组织得非常出色，地点极佳，比赛精彩纷呈，整个过程顺利无阻，让一切看起来轻而易举，我很确定对于运动员、组织者和裁判来说并非如此，他们都值得我们长久的掌声，感谢他们为这场真正辉煌的庆祝活动——由来自世界各地不同年龄的人们共同参与的中国武术盛会——所做的贡献。

As an afterthought I hope more people who don’t have a martial art background attend grand competitions like this for several reasons, with one being that such events are truly civil, with everyone working on doing their best at their art – whatever it might be. In action movies at least, there are virtually always some diabolical bad guys doing monstrous things, but in real martial art classes and competitions large and small there is a feeling of solidarity, of Oneness of purpose to do and be the best one can be. That is where the true satisfaction comes from. Yeah, some you win, some you lose, but everyone wins something; the knowledge that is gleaned from that experience, and the knowledge that one had the courage to try to be the best at one’s art. And that, at the end of the day, is the true victory shared by all.

事后想想，我希望更多没有武术背景的人能出于多种原因参加像这样的大型比赛，其中一个原因是，这类赛事真正体现了文明，每个人都在努力发挥自己的最佳水平——无论他们的艺术形式是什么。在动作电影中，至少几乎总会有一些邪恶角色做出残忍的事情，但在现实的大小武术课堂和比赛中，却有一种团结的感觉，一种共同追求做到最好、成为最好的目标感。这才是真正的满足感所在。是的，有些人赢，有些人输，但每个人都会有所收获；从那段经历中获得的知识，以及知道自己有勇气尝试在自己的艺术中做到最好。而最终，这就是所有人共同分享的真正胜利。

Where to find the Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour online?

在哪里可以在线找到丝绸之路功夫友谊之旅？

My humble multi-media efforts focus more on information content than visual effects, probably because I’m not trained in video production. Nevertheless, I hope people enjoy and learn something from those efforts.

我谦虚的多媒体创作更注重信息内容而非视觉效果，这可能是因为我没有接受过视频制作的专业训练。尽管如此，我仍希望人们能从这些创作中获得乐趣并学到一些东西。

www.tiktok.com/@SilkRoadMartialArts

Below is the QR code for my Chinese TikTok called Douyin.

And, I’ve been running, swimming, biking and practicing martial arts with ever greater enthusiasm. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER stop training! A way can be found if one searches for it.

而且，我一直在跑步、游泳、骑自行车和练习武术，以更大的热情。永远不要停止训练！

17个丝绸之路国家，无数公里的陆路旅行，至今已有12000年的历史。

Silk Road traveler, writer, martial artist and founder of the Silk Road Martial Art Friendship Tour Gregory Brundage, better known as Abdul Rashid, 石龙 Shi (meaning “stone”and pronounced “Sure”) Long (meaning dragon), started learning Judo and Taekwondo in 1969, Karate in 1971, and Kung Fu in 1972. He first moved to southeast Asia in 1992, and started the Silk Road Kung Fu Friendship Tour and Silk Road Taekwondo Quest in 2015 while living in Beijing. First, his articles are published in Kung Fu Magazine (California) and then he collects those articles and publishes them in books. A similar arrangement was made with Taekwondo Times magazine also published in the US and a book emerged as well.

丝绸之路旅行家、作家、武术家和丝绸之路武术友谊之旅的创始人格雷戈里·布伦戴奇，更广为人知的名字是阿卜杜勒·拉希德，石龙于 1969 年开始学习柔道和跆拳道，1971 年开始学习空手道，1972 年开始学习功夫。他于1992年首次移居东南亚，并于2015年在北京居住期间开始了丝绸之路功夫友谊之旅和丝绸之路跆拳道探索。首先，他的文章发表在《功夫杂志》（加利福尼亚州）上，然后他收集这些文章并将它们出版在书中。美国出版的《跆拳道时代》杂志也做出了类似的安排，并出版了一本书。

“Kung Fu” refers to a transcendent level of skill development.

它是关于建设，而不是破坏。

It is about building, never destroying.