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Contacting the Deng Feng CITS might also lead to some results.

You get used to anything after a while. Even when it's 5:30am and dark and you're trying very hard NOT to touch the floor... All part of the game.
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For what it's worth, my Master Shi De Meng also had a black tiger form. He joined the temple at 7 and left a good few years back - he's 40 now. I'm not really sure where this fits into the big...

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I'll never be able to do it properly, but just training it makes all other forms that little bit easier. And it looks cool..

I love some of those animal imitation forms - beware the fearsome fighting spirit of the, um, frog...

Yep, I had a lot of trouble just walking about for a month or so at one point. Combination of low stances, training with leg-weights on (and running with them) and not stopping when I should have...

What do you mean "a real experience"? Did you have a fake one? Didn't you get up every morning with aching legs, run up a big sodding hill and then practise jibengong and forms all day? Didn't you,...

Hi,

I'm at john_greenhow@hotmail.com.

Antonio, you should have my email by now. I'm sure you'll do well fighting here - I'll be there at the ring-side.

BL - I know of a number of kungfu...

After my 6/7 months in Shaolin, I came here to Australia to earn some hard cash to get back to Asia. Met some Southern Mantis folk in HK on my way, and have just started training in that here in...

Antonio,

A little off topic for this thread, but at least I know you read this one...

Just wanted to say that the San Da vs. Muay Thai article was (for me) your best yet. Nice one.

John

One bit me once.

Shaolin winters. Meh. Time to reach for the baijio.

Not long after I left Shaolin to travel around China I found myself on my way to Wudan - some kind of weird rebound thing, I guess. Just a few more months, I thought, just to get the flavour, just...

Western way? Please...

China has been ferociously capitalist for 5000 years. It's been "communist" for 50, and that's being rapidly left behind.

I'm English. Tea is my cultural heritage.

For the record, Monks have also been spotted drinking baijio faster than I can drink Coke.

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Does all this mean that having my picture taken while looking mean and wearing my orange pants *doesn't* make me a monk?
****. Maybe if I shave my head or something...

Thanks - I'll be in touch just as soon as I've found work.

But seriously, who's going to start making crank phone calls to a kungfu sifu?

Go to Shaolin, there's a little shop with stacks of those Tagou manuals lying around. Just take the ones you want, but don't forget to haggle!

Thankyou both very much!

Hi all,

I'm fresh into Australia and am looking for Bagua and XingYi classes/masters, having caught just little in China - enough to get me deeply interested.

Am currently floating between...

Have a good one. By the way, for those of you who never met him, Gene still looks no more than 30. Must be doing something right...

Congratulations!

Good answer, Gene.

I don't want to argue, and I mean absolutely no disrespect to Antonio or his martial arts ability (which is no doubt well above mine) but having read his article I'd like to...

I didn't mean to put any one off going, or to devalue the place for anyone - it's just an account of what I learned there and perhaps with hindsight of what I'm taking away with me.

Yes, people...

Am I the first person to have smoked a joint while sat on the steps of the Shaolin temple?

Gene,

Wow, what can I say? Great answer, thankyou.

And apologies for the photos - some 'fun and games' with my own Sifu here put it all out of my mind for a bit. Never make a professional,...