It's been a while since we had a decent Shaolin troll...
...lord know the old SD threads were getting boring around here.:rolleyes:
You can quote me all you like, bungbukuen, but you are being selective like any good troll. Like I said initially, I think Xinghao's root style was Chuo Jiao. I'm sure he's not teaching that to his general classes. He was a performer, so he can do wushu, like many of the monks and his basic curriculam is probably based on Shaolin jibengong and the standard Shaolin basic forms. But he's got a lot for his indoor disciples that doesn't appear on the website. In fact, I'm not sure he'd be that happy about me disclosing his Chuo Jiao expertise.
Xinghao was one of the first generation tourist teachers. That's a real important point, because the first gen monks had to be able to do everything - perform, teach in many other languages and answer challenges. Challenges are fought at Shaolin all of the time. It was worse in the early years, but just do the math - 80 registered schools at 100-500 students on average, the largest coming in at around 19,000 students. Do you really think that no one ever fights there? It's really more of the second gen monks are of the wushu variety; those are the ones you want to criticize.
There's nothing wrong with being a troll, bungbukuen
Like I said, things have been a bit boring round these parts, so your 'devil's advocate discourse' is actually refreshing. There's nothing like a good troll, but a really good troll doesn't go for the old 'feign innocence' ploy, he produces the classic YHBT at the end. Do that, and we'll all respect you. ;)
But back to the 'pertinent question', last I heard, Xiaohongquan was not part of the contemporary wushu compulsories and would be useless for nandu now.
BTW, you aren't part of Deshan's school, are you? :rolleyes:
Just Call The **** School
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Originally Posted by bungbukuen
Does anyone have any insight what so ever into what traditional Shaolin system is being taught at Houston Shaolin? It just dumbfounds me that a shcool who claims to be teaching traditional Shaolin can not even tell you what it is in fact that they are teaching. The only details they give on their website chang quan (contemperary wushu), sanda (Chinese kickboxing), and taiji. Then they have the pretentiousness to just list 'traditional Shaolin'.
See I don't understand why you keep asking the question. You have been given the phone number to the school on several occasions. If you were truly interested in an answer you would pick up the phone and call.
Why are you dissin the school? Do you want to become a student? If not then whatever they teach is no concern of yours.:confused: