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Greetings and a Happy New Year

The South African Wushu Federation has the pleasure of inviting all to the globally acclaimed, Oscar nominated motion picture, 'Hero'.

The screening will be on...

Greetings and a Happy New Year

The South African Wushu Federation has the pleasure of inviting all to the globally acclaimed, Oscar nominated motion picture, 'Hero'.

The screening will be on...

Hello people

Has anyone heard of a International Shaolin Federation being set up by some of the monks now living outside of China? Any info would be appreciated.

WushuSpear

Hello

This article sparked some thought and I'd like to post some of my humble observations.

Brooklan Monk Wrote:
The forms I saw people doing at Shaolin were super human. I have never seen...

I might just do a little something along those lines. I'll try put up some photos and do a little write up. It should be very interesting as the last one's attendance was badly affected by Sept 11....

Hello Gene

Are you by any chance going to be at the Wushu World Champs in about 2 weeks? It's just that I'll be there and would honoured to hook up.

Cheers
WushuSpear

Helo Gene

Do you know who has the international rights for the new contemporary wushu compulasaries? Their distribution network was a complete balls-up and my school had to go to IWUF head-office...

Opps

I'll use the search function and see what I come up with. Thank you

WushuSpear

Hello People

Whilst browsing Russbo I came across this interesting titbit on an incident that happend nearly a year ago. Anyone else know about this?
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Hello

As a foreign observer, I'd be interested in how Americans explain the current mess that is US amateur sanshou. I know that the federation's melt down and separation has been a major...

Thanks for the great replies Gene.

My knowledge of Chan is limited to what I've read on this and similiar pages so some of my questions will be off. My next question seeing as from my...

1. So where does the temple source new monks from?
2. What are the requirements in order to be chosen?
3. How does the temple maintain any level of standardization in terms of wushu knowledge?
...

In my limited understanding, 'Shi' isin't limited to monks only but also their disciples who may be lay men eg Gene.

WushuSpear

It understandable why the abbot would want to keep the nuns out of the very bright limelight surrounding the temple seeing the cult of celebrity surrounding certain monks.

Just my 2 cents...

Thanks for the reply

I was wondering what the current role of the wushu guan, if any, is regarding current and future monks and nuns.

Thanks again
WushuSpear

Hello Again

Just wondering if anyone has an idea of how many monks there currently are. By 'monk' I mean fully ordained monks not disciples or laymen. It would also be fascinating to see the...

Hello Stumblefist

Are you still around? I need some options about places to crash in Zengzhou during the festival. The cheapest I've found is 100USD a night which is pretty steep. I was hoping you...

Interesting point you raise John. I gues that family atmosphere would be preferable since it looks like I'll be there alone again, which I promised myself I wouldn't to again.

My main aim is to...

Thanks Gene

I guess I've got my list of three schools to check out. Since you went to shaolin for the symposuim, does this mean you'll miss the festival later this year? I can't wait to go over...

Hello People

I was wondering since in Deng Feng there are so many schools all teaching the same thing in the same way, there must be a lot of competition as to which ones are the best. And by...

Wow

Am I the only person who thinks this might be a good thing in the long term for the Temple? Removing the last remaining private schools and shops is just a continuation of a process that was...

Hello

Just heard that it's been confirmed that the festival has been postponed till later in Spetember. Guess you called it first Gene.

Anyone with contact with Master Liang Yi Quan's school in...

Hello Gene

Any developments on the timing of the festival? Heard there's some major development around the temple and the 'village' has been totally relocated from your younger brother Doc.

Hello People

So who's going to the Shaolin Festival this September? I might be there and it would be great to meat some of you guys who post here.

Cheers

Glad to hear that you didn't lose too much money. I just hope the expirience didn't put you off from hosting future events cause it's my favourite. Let me know when the video becomes avaliable cause...