Daniel Philip was among the win­ners in the open hand and weapons forms rou­tines when the Wushu As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (WATT)–the Na­tion­al Body for Chi­nese Mar­tial Arts –cel­e­brat­ed its 20th an­niver­sary with a Na­tion­al Kung Fu Wushu Cham­pi­onship in St James, Port-of-Spain.

Apart from Philip, oth­er top fight­ers were Math­ew Bal­go­b­in, Eli­jah Philip, Daniel Jesu­rum, Nicholas Alex­is, Ronald Ram­lochan, Ian Jute, Je­sus Vil­lafana, Kath­leen Davis, Jaden Pow­ell, Pres­san Seep­er­sad, Michela Jabar, Josadech Williams, Kar­daish Gob­indass, Ma­lin­da Year­wood, Robertha Philip, Ke­ston Ear­le, Ryan Bhu­lai, Ren­eve Bhu­lai, Jadan Pol­lard, Ganesh Maraj, Ra­jev Reesal and Clem­son Richards. WATT Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al, Si­fu Khabir said the as­so­ci­a­tion had tak­en a no non­sense ap­proach to dis­ci­pline and mar­tial ethics.

"All Wushu events will start on time not a minute late," said Khabir. "Un­tidy uni­forms or in­cor­rect uni­form worn by ath­letes, along with those ar­riv­ing late, will be sub­ject to a yel­low card sys­tem for both stu­dent and in­struc­tors. "In­ter­na­tion­al stan­dards are in ef­fect and every­one must com­ply, reg­u­lar fit­ness lev­el test to be con­duct­ed month­ly and on­ly those who can meet the re­quire­ments will be cho­sen to rep­re­sent the coun­try in the 2010 Pan Amer­i­ca Cham­pi­onships in Ar­genti­na."

The next Na­tion­al Kung Fu Wushu Cham­pi­onships will be Jan­u­ary 17 at the Goshin­do Do­jo/Taichi In­sti­tute, 22 Agra Street, St James, from 10 am.