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what a ridiculous fight!!!! i dont know which one looks stupider? who can they find a wan-a-be shaolin monk to fight next? a monkey? what does this fight prove?

i live in shanghai and frequent a city for business in zhe jiang provice called tai zhou there is a temple close to there that aparently hai deng spent many years sorry i have forgoten the name but...

practicing gongfu is different for everyone who practices, there is no right or wrong method and in modern times it is mainly done for health benifits. it is also what you make of it whether you...

yeah would be great to see a few more of these old sets making an re emergence. what particularly interests me also is some of the variations on some of the applications as i have seen a few for...

yes i was originaly introduced to the louhan shi san gong as just rou quan but later learned of the other name which seems more common for this set, I also thought it was better to call it this as i...

yes it is the rou quan er lu set i am talking about (sorry if there was some confusion) i am in china and cant see the youtube video's and i have searched the chinese pages but could not find the set...

am I the only one that is over hearing about traveling shows? when are they gonna stop trying to cash in on everything that is vaguely related to shaolin and actualy get back to basics and real...

LFJ, no its not the shi san gong I studied this also, the set i know is maybe double if not more the length of the shi san gong and also contains similar movements. for me it is similar to doing a...

well, no thats not the set i know. it contains some similar movements which are common to all the rou quan sets i have seen however i was under the impression that this set was put together just for...

did it ever occur to you that they didnt have video several hundred years ago?:eek:

hey sal, sorry im in china and cant watch youtube here unfortunetly but the rou quan er lu I learnt is from the Shi su xi linange. to describe it, i would have to say it has a lot of similar and same...

i was watching this xing yi quan
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDQyMDg3NTI=.html (形意十二行拳)
and noticed it has a lot of similar or the same movements to some of a rou quan (er lu) set i previously...

who is the shifu actualy doing this pao quan? i have seen this version on youtube however it is missing a lot of moves I think? correct me if im wrong? the wu nan fang version is also slow and...

where are these new books on the old forms available from? i have heard of them being in the works for a while but havnt come across one yet. sal do you have a copy of it or similar? are they worth...

the last shifu in the clip seems to be doing a shaolin tantui form. before i studied a 12 road tan tui which came from the shi suxi linage and it has some lines identical to these.
however the first...

i do believe this is scraping the bottom of the barrel!! is there anything they wont do for money now? shaolin is becoming sader and sader every day. this kind of stuff just really isnt necessary.

I also agree with the above coments of how if the school is nice it disnt mean the teaching is bad. however unless i missed it i find it strange that the shifu dosnt seem to be mentioned on the...

As you said the Lohan 13 gong moves to the right (or starts facing the opposite way compared to other typical shaolin forms) why is this for these early forms? when they all go to the left now? or as...

has anyone got any ideas on what was the first of these rou quan or internal sets, i am lead to believe the luohan shi san gong was first but not entirely sure ? i am also curious as to why the...

hey sal always enjoy reading your research and thoughts on different taolu, history and the like. was interested in your thoughts along with anyone else about these forms of xiao hong and da hong...

hey guys i was just looking for some info of anyone who has trained in chen jia gou.

1.what was the daily routine? from what time in the morning till what time in the night?
2. who did they...

hey guys was having a look on taobao the other day and came across these shoes i dont know if they are the shaolinquans or not as i havnt seen the shaolinquans yet...

its funny that martial artists will slap sand, water , rock , concrete and whatever else in attempts to have hands like iron but nike thought it was important for something on the shoes for "ease of...

hey guys just started reading through this thread and had to throw in my 2cents i just moved to shanghai to live and study 2 weeks ago and have previously traveled a lot of china and stayed and...

As much respect i have for shaolin and the real monks within it, when will they take a look at what they are doing to themselfs and realise that this is not what they are supposed to be about or is...