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bustr
12-10-2002, 06:22 PM
Does anyone know where I could find some historic (Early 19th century and before) photographs of Northern Shaolin Kung Fu systems?
Kristoffer
12-11-2002, 01:53 PM
No.. But www.emptyflower.com has alot of old pics. Maybe you can find something of interest.

piz
hasayfu
12-11-2002, 05:42 PM
But look here:

http://www.harmoniousfist.com/kuyucheong.asp
norther practitioner
12-12-2002, 08:59 AM
Early 19th century and before) photographs



err, photos.....lol
from the early 19th century

hey does anyone have any videos of da mo?

Sorry for the sarcasim, it would be cool if we could peek back a few hundred years and look at how they did things around the temple and such.
GeneChing
12-12-2002, 10:04 AM
yijinjing (http://store.yahoo.com/martialartsmart/pr-gs001.html)
xisuijing (http://store.yahoo.com/martialartsmart/pr-gs009.html)
sword (http://store.yahoo.com/martialartsmart/pr-gs007.html)

OK, so they're not actually Da Mo, just his legacy, but I'm sure that video of Da Mo would just show him sitting there. I guess that's what the impression on the rock is, medieval video, or at least image capture ;)
norther practitioner
12-12-2002, 10:29 AM
I had a feeling Gene was going to come back with that`!
GeneChing
12-12-2002, 10:50 AM
:p
Buddha's Hand
12-21-2002, 07:21 PM
Originally posted by norther practitioner

hey does anyone have any videos of da mo?


Please step into my Holodeck... :D

Seriously, the problem back then was not that the camera was not invented, but the lack of photographers, not to mention that cameras were probably used mostly by Westerners... Do you seriously think that most kungfu masters back then would have agreed to reveal their techniques to a Westerner, and on a photograph?

It's possible that it happened, but those photos must be pretty rare...

I did find some Qing-era pictures though... here:
http://thomaschen.freewebspace.com/photo4.html