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    Brad you talking about the shaolin.nl site from holland?
    Yeah, that's the one!

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    Diggin up Matt...

    I've heard from my old friend Matt Polly - apparently he's managed to sell his screenplay, based on his experiences at Shaolin Temple as one of the first Americans to spend a lot of time there. He's scheduled to appear on the CBS Late, Late Show this Wednesday, April 13th. Check it out if you're up late.
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    gene is schooling us in how to search the archives to find the relevant topic in which to post.

    2 years back Gene?

    kudos to you man. lol
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    They don't call me admin for nuthin'

    Here's the listing for the Late Late Show. You'll see Matt there now, but it'll probably change next week...
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    what time is the late late show on 1am? ugh.
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    Oh come on, Shaolinlueb

    If Tamo could stare at a rock for nine years, you can stay up past midnite, can't you? Just keep your nacho sauce bubblin' and it's all good...
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    gene i am a busy man and lueb needs his sleep. if i knew how to work the vcr i would record it okay okay who am i kidding ill stay up
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    Baked goods

    Ferguson wasn't kidding when he said that Matt's mom sent them baked goods. She did that for us too when I published that article on him. She sent this frosting candy snack thing - it was sooo sweet.

    Anyway, it was killing me to see my buddy Matt last night. I felt he didn't get his story off fast enough for Ferguson and wound up sounding a bit off. What did you think (if you stayed up that late)? It's hard for me to be unbiased since I know Matt's story all too well and it's a big story that just can't be delivered in a short late night interview...
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    It was a pretty entertaining interview, but you could tell they cut it short Would've been nice if they could've show some kind of visual aid of some kind (photos or something).

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    Yeah, I was thinking that too...

    Matt originally wanted to demonstrate his iron forearm with some breaking - he actually contacted me about where to get good breaking staffs (I said a lumberyard). Then he was talking about having Ferguson hold a bag and Matt would kick it. I don't know how well he kept up with his training, but in his day, Matt had a fearsome sidekick that he could shoot out repeatedly, like a jack hammer. Plus he's quite tall, 6' 3" so that made him rather formidable.

    My TV reception for CBS is really bad. I could see he had some Chinese characters on his jacket but I couldn't make them out. Could anyone?
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    Sorry, don't read chinese, but I thought he did good, not great, especially given the circumstance...

    The story about the challenge thing kinda sounded hokey, but believable, I think he could have delivered a little better, but in the same right, a lot of people would have choked hard in that circumstance (being on TV).
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    The challenge

    There's a much better version of that challenge in that article I wrote on Matt in the May June 2001 issue. That host cut him short and was obviously looking for a specific ass kicking story. Matt was a bit more confessional in the article...
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    ooops i missed it. sorry gene, i was beat and passed out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shaolinlueb
    ooops i missed it. sorry gene, i was beat and passed out.
    Bad lueb....


    more redbull....
    practice wu de


    Actually I bored everyone to death. Even Buddhist and Taoist monks fell asleep.....SPJ

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    Quote Originally Posted by norther practitioner
    Bad lueb....


    more redbull....

    na no caffine.
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