Shaolin & Olympics

[shrub]

A team from the Shaolin Temple will demonstrate in the closing ceremony of the Olympics on August 29.

[Shaolinlueb]

Originally posted by shrub
A team from the Shaolin Temple will demonstrate in the closing ceremony of the Olympics on August 29.

nice, really? ill have to watch. be the only olympics i watch this year.

[Liokault]

A team from the temple is good, as long as no one starts saying that they are monks and that there has always been a team of such monks at the temple and that the monks want taiwan back etc.

[SaMantis]

If the gymnastics announcers do the commentary, they'll definitely say something like that.

(Psychically funneling events a week into the future):

Al Trautwig: "Now, the monks are wearing orange clothing. They traditionally call this saffron. A saffron is a kind of grape."

Tim Daggett: "Call it what you will, orange or saffron, but man are those guys BALD!! Wow!"

[David Jamieson]

...and that the monks want taiwan back etc

bwahahahahaha...thats pretty good man.

also, southpark sports announcers would rocksors!

[Serpent]

Originally posted by SaMantis
If the gymnastics announcers do the commentary, they'll definitely say something like that.

(Psychically funneling events a week into the future):

Al Trautwig: "Now, the monks are wearing orange clothing. They traditionally call this saffron. A saffron is a kind of grape."

Tim Daggett: "Call it what you will, orange or saffron, but man are those guys BALD!! Wow!"

LOL.



Is this supposed demo confirmed? Where's the official scoop?

[Shaolinlueb]

[southpark announcer] i havent seen a china men run and jump like that since the japanese invaded manchuria in the late 30's[/southpark announcer]

oh man that wasnt toooo bad

[blooming lotus]

very cool. Can we get a time on that ?

[GeneChing]

Can you tell us where you heard that? I did some web searches and all I could come up with was this.

[wall]

GENE,

the Chinese WuShu National Team was recently in Italy for 2 demos ( I saw one of them, fantastic stuff) and then they were travelling to Athens for a demo to the IOC and a, big unconfirmed (officially) rumour, a demo during the closing cerimony, obviously in the segment about the next olympics in Beijing. Now weather they are doing that demo in monk robes I don't know, but they were the current male and female wushu champs from all the various disciplines, definitely no monks there (unless they arrived in Athens separately)...

We'll see sunday night

PS, I received my 4 pairs of black feiyues, I should be right for the next 12 months or so

[shrub]

Gene,

here is the source:

http://www.taiji.net.cn/Article_Show...ArticleID=1811

[GeneChing]

schrub: That link didn't work.

wall: Thanks for your input and your order! We've been expecting something 'wushu' at the closing ceremonies when they do the little tribute to the next Olympics.

[shrub]

try this one:
http://www.21wulin.com/files/read.php?ID=744

[SaMantis]

The closing ceremony few forests boy steps on the stilts
Type: Martial arts world tendency
Clicks: 29
Issues the person: Colorful south day
Origin: World military network of forest belts
Double-clicks the mouse to roll


The 8 month on 29th, the 28th session of Olympic Games will fall in Athens the curtain. At the Olympic Games meeting pennant handing-over ceremony, Beijing will have 8 minutes theatrical performance, but will come from the Mt. Songshan Shaolin Temple tower ditch martial arts school 28 young students to carry on the stilts performance.

It is reported, these 8 minutes theatrical performance total direct will be Zhang Yimou, the performance by series and so on traditional music, Chinese martial arts, children Peking opera becomes. 28 stilts team members wear extremely have the national characteristic the clothing, in the hand are selecting 28 scarlet lanterns, is performing the central area to go through the performance.

Better translation out there? Or is it really a stilts performance??

[blooming lotus]

that tranlsates to 1:30 am Liaoning ( NE China ) time monday morning ( beginning of work week ) . I 've heard about Bejing prep activity but have no local word on the performance this ceremony. I'll take your word for it though and set my alarm. If you are wrong though, I'm pm ing you with whinge - mail for 3 weeks!!!

Ps: funny side note : just had to edit my post because because a few bai jius ( 20 ml shots of white rice wine) later spelling was kind of atrocious. Told colleague "lol.. I think this jiu's effecting my co-oridination by "that much", so these folks wonder how I got qualified to teach le yingyuea!!" Logical sugesstion : move my chair 5 dgrees right and I should end up hitting the key I intended

lol.....

i'm just going to try that and tell me if it makes a difference