About

The Club

The Monash University Wushu Club was founded in 1994. Apart from providing the opportunity for students to learn wushu, the role of the club is to promote both wushu and Chinese culture at the University and in the wider community.

Strategic Plan

In 2007, a 5 year strategic plan was formulated to give the club and its future members more direction in achieving operational goals.

The plan also provides an analysis on various internal and external factors that affect the club, as of 2007.

These directions are to be continuously addressed by the president and by 2012, the Monash Wushu Club should have achieved all the outlined goals.

Monash-Wushu-Club-Strategic-Plan-2007-to-2012.pdf

The University

Monash University is a large multi-campus university situated in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne Victoria. The Wushu Club is based at the Clayton Campus, and is affiliated with Monash Sport.

The Website

On Thursday August 8th, 1996, the Monash University Wushu Club's website was made active for the very first time. It was one of only a small number of websites promoting the then unknown martial 'art' known as Wushu across a rapidly growing communications network. The website, run by Ryan Oei and Tony Dowman (both of whom still train at the club and continue to inspire younger members) was set to dominate search engine results for years to come.

At the turn of the century Nathan Liu, then vice-president of the club, was given the task of designing a new face for the website.

When Nathan left the committee in 2001 the task of running the site was handed over to Patrick Donelan - that's me . The monashwushu.com domain was soon registered, an online forum added (introducing innumerable wasted internet hours into the lives of club members), and then...