Is Shaolin-Do for real?

[lxtruong]

Originally posted by Jhapa
how much did your hand move. in the video he moves his hand about 1 foot, that's a lot of distance. i have seen clips that hand only moved about an inch from atleast 1 foot or more away. now if you can blow out a candle with your hand only moving about an inch, now that takes skills. i have only done it twice out of 100's and i don't know how i did it. if you asked to do it, i probably won't be able to do it to save my life. i was not impressed with the clip of master smith blowing out the candles.

I'm a beginner, so I make no illusions as to how much my hand moved. I didn't measure it, but it had to have been somewhere in the 4-6 inch range.

[Jhapa]

Originally posted by lxtruong
I'm a beginner, so I make no illusions as to how much my hand moved. I didn't measure it, but it had to have been somewhere in the 4-6 inch range.

i'm a beginner also. i just got lucky.

[shen ku]

hi i am very new to all of this forum stuff. But i would like to here more from judge pen. what is your rank? i am sure i know who your teacher is by the thiengs you have said. i also practice shao-lin do, and teach as well,

[MasterKiller]

Man, these threads are like pheromones for SDers.

[Golden Tiger]

Originally posted by MasterKiller
Man, these threads are like pheromones for SDers.

kinda like flypaper for freaks? eh MK?

[MasterKiller]

Originally posted by Golden Tiger
kinda like flypaper for freaks? eh MK?

Don't be so hard on yourself.

[shen ku]

does anyone here know if the guy posting under the name sin the is really grandmaster sin the ???

[MasterKiller]

Originally posted by shen ku
does anyone here know if the guy posting under the name sin the is really grandmaster sin the ???

Of course it's him. Who else would it be?

[Wharg0ul]

Originally posted by shen ku
does anyone here know if the guy posting under the name sin the is really grandmaster sin the ???

I HIGHLY doubt it. Especially looking at the schedule I have here. I doubt very much if he'd have time, or the inclination, to post here.

Edit: not to mention, just look at the attitude presented by this forum user, as exampled by their post history. This is not the attitude of one who has studied martial arts for a lifetime.

[MasterKiller]

Are you kidding? Any man that can learn 900 forms, swim using only his pecs, and climb a pole without hands or feet by twisting his body like a snake surely can find enough time to set us non-believers straight. I mean, c'mon. Maybe you need to re-watch your copy of "At the Feet of the Grandmaster."

[Radhnoti]

shen ku, the Sin The' persona is a second account set up by a regular here for fun and mockery.

JP is a student of one of the Masters' Mullins.

Welcome to the somewhat addictive and entirely unhealthy world of martial arts internet forums. Good luck.

[shen ku]

hay sorry i have not looked at all of his postings, i was with master sin on the 2001 china trip and did some of the demos , i will try to get the names of the school where the master and his top student did and extra demo for us at the end and it was just like the stuff i have seen in shaolin do. the master was 75 years old and ya like they all say told us we did like what he was shown

[shen ku]

hello Redhnoti, i take it that you train in shaolin do , what area are you from? time in the art? and rank?

[Wharg0ul]

Shen Ku, welcome to the forum (from one n00b to another).

I do need to warn you that some people around here are a bit.....harsh on us Shaolin Do students, but don't let it get to ya.

There's a lot to be learned here, if you ignore the rumblings from beneath the bridge...

[sean_stonehart]

Originally posted by shen ku
hay sorry i have not looked at all of his postings, i was with master sin on the 2001 china trip and did some of the demos , i will try to get the names of the school where the master and his top student did and extra demo for us at the end and it was just like the stuff i have seen in shaolin do. the master was 75 years old and ya like they all say told us we did like what he was shown

Well... that was Xian... Zhao Chang-jun's school... It was Zhao's top student & he did a Taiji Mei Hua Mantis (I think...) set (none in SD... nothing like SD's interpretation of Mantis). Zhao's teacher did a Xingyi linkage. SD xingyi bears a superficial resemblance to what did because the postures were almost the same, but the moving & linking of the postures wasn't even in the same ball park.

He said that stuff to be nice & oh yeah... there was a solo Hua set that was done that bears a resemblance to his root system, Zha Quan.

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