we had a guest come visit our school today.....
well i just felt like sharing, we had a special guest appear at our school(shaolin jing wu yuan) today. some of you guys might of heard, the beijing wushu team is here in america doing a tour. well one of those wushu guys use to be a monk/warrior monk/performance monk/wushu monk whatever you want to call it, and he was on tour with the shaolin monks a lot back in 1998 and whenever. well the guest was Zhao Qing Jian(monk name i dont know). but yeah just felt like sharing. and it was cool. my master Shi Yan Feng know him personally before back at the shaolin temple and use to train with him. i use to always download his wushu videos online and watch his *gymnastic feats* and be so amazed. but today i saw it in person, and i can tell he wasnt even trying but WOW i was still impressed. and hes look old too, but wow he can still do all that stuff and move fast....=)
Zhao will retire from competition this year
He was clearly one of the main stars of the BWT tour this time. I caught their show last night. He stood out, or maybe jumped out, amongst all these much younger kids. It's fascinating to see the older veterans of the BWT move on. I would love to get his story someday, just to get in his head a little. The wuseng-to-national-champ tale would be very interesting. Most of us would settle with just one of those roles in life.