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Then define mastery.

Can everyone learn the movements from a book and make it their own?

There becomes a point when it becomes something completely different than what it once was.

Well, back in 2001/02, Willow Sword was getting pretty heated on these boards during an SD debate with another poster named Reemul. WS challenged him, went to meet him, and reported back here saying...

and the hairy guy that happend to master the "full" Shaolin system just slipped out of the history books???
The last surviving master of all the Shaolin arts, who managed to have his photo taken,...

It most definitely is a style and system. Its origins are just not what they claim to be, and that's what bugs everyone.

This isn't a Shaolin-do topic! No one is calling each other names or questioning each other's lineage!:mad: :mad:

okay, I got one for y'all: If that hairy guy was such a bad ass, how come there...