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About Master Malee Khow
Master Khow was born in Bangkok, Thailand and has trained in martial arts for over twenty-five years. Before moving to the U.S. in 1989, she had won five straight annual Thailand Wushu National Championships from 1985 to 1989. She has also won several honors around the world (in China, Japan, Spain, Argentina, and the U.S.A.), including world champion in Tai Chi and Double Sword (1986) and first place in Tai Chi and Sparring form (1987). In 1989, Master Khow relocated to the United States and was certified by the International Kung-Fu Federation as a sixth degree black belt coach and competition judge. In the same year, she won overall first place in Tai Chi and Swords at the Second International World Cup Grand Championship in competition against wushu athletes from over forty countries. She also won first place in Nan Chuan (Southern Boxing) compulsory form. In June 1993, she attended the Overseas Chinese Cup and Fourth World Cup Grand Championship held in Los Angeles. She won a total of five gold medals in Tai Chi, Tai Chi Sword, Double Sword, Staff, and Chang Chuan (Long Fist Northern Style Shaolin Kung Fu). In August 1993, Master Khow attended the 3rd International Wushu Tai Chi Exhibition in Bejing, China and won two gold medals (in Double Sword and Tai Chi). In April 1995, she participated in the Fifth International World Cup Grand Championship held in Cordoba, Spain and came home with three gold medals in Tai Chi, double sword and Shaolin sword. In October of 1997, she won two first place trophies in Argentina at the 6th World Cup International Martial Arts Championship in Master Level Competition and won a first place trophy for Famous Person Top-Level Demonstration Match in He style tai chi. Master Khow’s students in the U.S. have also done very well. In 1995, she and forty-five of her students demonstrated at the 3rd World Wushu Championships in Baltimore, Maryland. In November 1996, seven of her students competed in the 1st Pan-American Wushu Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her students won a total of seventeen medals. She won the Master's Demonstration trophy and was the Head Judge of the traditional kung fu and tai chi competitions at the event. In 1997 and 1998 Master Khow’s students competed in Baltimore, Argentina, and Toronto, winning over 100 medals in tai chi and kung fu. In 1998, at the 2nd Pan American Wushu Championship held in Toronto, the school’s students won over a dozen medals. From December 3-5, 1999, Malee’s School of Tai Chi and Kung Fu hosted the 1st New England International Chinese Martial Arts Championships in Manchester, CT. Master Khow was the tournament organizer and director. It was a tremendous success for a first tournament, attracting over four hundred competitors, and the biggest Chinese martial arts tournament in New England to date. Over fifty tai chi and kung fu masters were there to perform and teach seminars. Master Khow’s students won over a hundred medals in all in individual and group competition. Now that her schedule permits, Master Khow is organizing the 2nd New England International Chinese Martial Arts Championships to be held November 1-3, 2002, at Eastern Connecticut State University.
From August 9-12, 2001, Master Khow brought twelve of her students to compete at the 2001 International Wushu-Kungfu Festival and Championships. Her students won 42 medals, including 22 gold medals. Master Khow was also the head Internal Styles judge (tai chi, ba gua and xing yi). Master Khow always encourages her students to participate in national and international competitions. Every year her students bring honor to themselves and the school by winning many medals. A student at the school has the exciting opportunity to meet and compete with new friends from around the world. Both beginners and advanced students can compete at their own level. |
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Master
Malee Khow is the President and head instructor of Malee's School of Tai
Chi and Kung Fu. She is one of only four individuals in the United
States certified as an international judge by the International Wushu
Federation, the largest Chinese martial arts federation in the world
with over 83 member countries. She is also President of the USA National
Tai Chi Chuan Federation and an advisor and the Connecticut liaison for
the U.S.A. Wushu-Kung Fu Federation.
