Doc-Fai Wong's Lion Dancing Team Wins Double Championships in China
On June 25, 2006, the Athletic Bureau of Jiangmen City of China
sponsored the Lion Dancing King Competition in the East Lake Park
Square of Jiangmen. In this out door competition, there were 15 teams
of lion dancers who traveled from all over of the Guangdong Province.
This competition began at 9 AM and continued until 12 PM for the High
Jongs division, after lunch from 2 PM to 5 PM was the Traditional
Ground Jongs
division. The first place winner of the High Jongs competition's will
be awarded a large trophy cup and 6,000 Chinese yuan in cash. The
team winner of the Ground Jongs competition will be awarded a smaller
trophy cup and 4,000 yuan in cash.
Grandmaster Doc-Fai Wong is the Overseas President and head coach of
the Choy Li Fut Association of Jiangmen. His team participated in the
competition for the first time and won first place in both divisions
under the hot sun. It was 95 degree's of heat and humidity.