A Busy and Productive Spring Season
Sigung’s Corner
by Sigung David Moylan
Fu For You Summer 2025
Although the feeling is perennial, this Spring was truly one of the busiest and most positive! We transitioned from a brisk lion dance year right into competition season. The Competition Team was one of the most diverse and energetic ever! Thank you, team members and our coaches, Sifus: Erich, Mark, Neel and Syd.
We had a strong showing at the annual CKKA Convention in Toronto on April 12th. Our judges and competitors shone throughout the day. Sifu Rikin held a couple of great workshops through Reset Pediatrics. Sifus Robin and D’Arcy led our Lion Dance Team and a team from North Bay through a fitting opening ceremony at the banquet. I was emcee at the banquet and past President, Peggy Day, surprised Sigung Dave from Kitchener Kicks and I with lifetime achievement awards. Our Competition Team brought back the prestigious Chong Cup for their group form! Our Performance Team kicked off the dancing portion of the evening with a dynamic show! Mark your calendars for the March 28th weekend, as we are once again hosting in 2026 – at St.George Banquet Hall.
April started with a grading and finished with our annual Spring Invitational Tournament and BBQ. The day was a lot of fun and ended on a high note with some amazing displays of skill by our Advanced students. Thank you to Sifus Anne and Sarah, our friends at Bast and Fore Quarter, as well as all the Black Sash judges, volunteers and of course participants! Next year we are set for April 26th!
Following our participation in the 45th annual Karate Maynia on May 3 and Sifu Cristina’s wedding (huge congratulations!), we snuck in a Spring maintenance day – thanks for all those that lent a hand! Then it was time for the largest Advanced grading in our 38-year history on May 10th. All the preparation paid off as the candidates looked fantastic! I proudly welcome Sifus Jackson, Jordan, Karthik, Maia, Richard and Veronica to Black Sash. Gavin, Matthew and Zia – welcome to Brown! Sifu Rikin (our longest standing member, going back to 1988) was promoted to 3rd Degree and Sifu Daryl was promoted to 4th Degree. Way to go everyone – we are proud of you!
Congratulations to Sifu Laura, on the birth of her healthy boy, Warren, on May 15th!
On May 24th, a mighty handful of our students and I participated in a collaborative demonstration with Kitchener Kicks at the Schwaben Club in support of their 50th Anniversary. You can learn more about our connection with them through the lineage section of the Student Handbook and this video. It was an honour to be part of their event. With gratitude and respect, we wish them many more years in our community!
At the time of this writing, we still have a few more weeks of Spring then right into lion dance festival/wedding season, demonstration season then into summer camps! Check us out at the Hydrocut on June 14th and the Cherry Park Festival on July 5th. There’s never a dull month at WKFA!
