Is Shaolin-Do for real?

[Mas Judt]

i'd be surprised if they actually appeared... the tale keeps growing in the telling...

[Shaolin Wookie]

GMT was featured in IKFM several times, ironically. But anyone who implies that he believes everything GMT says is probably not very intelligent.

1. It contradicts all other info.

But perhaps more importantly:

2. You shouldn't believe everything anyone says.

[Shaolin Wookie]

Excepting, of course, Pres. Bush.

[Judge Pen]

Oh I know... fire away , but that's not what I was using them for as indicative performances, but as representative of the topic at hand.

Besides... you kick about as well as I do... I'll move my ankles before you get there. :P

Didn't you know? I've got full splits now...

And you may not have intended them for indicative performances, but its hard to get past some of those videos. Not knocking them per se, most of them are regular guys that stuck around and learned the forms and are doing them the best they can, but from their stances and intent its not a great example. And I still scratch my head at the Tiger/Crane video..... I can do that form in my sleep right now and I still strain to recognize his version.

[bodhi warrior]

1. Gee, what a shock, you're a Shaolin Doh! guy

2. Well, if they are "just wushu people who pretend to be monks to bring money to the government" then a bunch of fake monks putting up a stone tablet for Sin The doesn't mean much does it?

Your right. It doesn't mean anything to me. I could care less about the carnaville show called shaolin in china. I also don't care for the promoting of a stone tablet to make my art seem more legit. I don't agree with alot of things Sin The' has done, all I know are the techniques I learn from my teacher. Regardless of how he obtained them, the techniques are real and useful to me. The majority of schools in SD are becoming very watered down and weak. You see it very clearly in the CSC videos. But there are also some very good teachers who have a good grasp of different types of training ie. forms, stances, drills, conditioning.

[mantis7]

Man, I wish I still had the article of the Sharon (Soards or whatever her name was) and her group buying the stone thingy to honor 'Sin. The article, if i remeber correctly, was in IKF, in the back page with the school adverts. This was before it became that the monks honoring him with the steele.

[sean_stonehart]

Didn't you know? I've got full splits now...

You lie...

[kwaichang]

JP does not lie he can do it ive seen him The splits that is KC

[sean_stonehart]

Photographic proof then...

JP's a lawyer... fibbing is ingrained & part & parcel for him as a profession...

[brucereiter]

i'd be surprised if they actually appeared... the tale keeps growing in the telling...

hi bhodi, mas and the rest ...

here are a few pictures from that time that were given to me.


The photo is in front of Master Ie's home. Master Sin is in the middle with Master Ie's adopted son and family. sr master grooms on the far right of the photo, Master David Theroff is the guy ****hest to the left. earlier that day they visited Master Sin's parents and his brother Sang's (hiang) home.


demo/banquet that was done in Master Sin's honor.



copy of the ticket to the demo/banquet that was done in Master Sin's honor.


best,

bruce

[bodhi warrior]

Hey bruce, thanks for the pics. Looked like a big event! I wish we had more pics of stuff like that, as well as when Sin was training. I think it would help curb some of the anti sd sentiment.

[brucereiter]

Hey bruce, thanks for the pics. Looked like a big event! I wish we had more pics of stuff like that, as well as when Sin was training. I think it would help curb some of the anti sd sentiment.

it might ... lol ... but "they" will always find something to pick on ...

i too would like to see/hear more about ie/sin's training and hear about the method and day to day practice etc ... if any "older" sd people have any pictures or documents they would like to share with the public that would be awesome.

best,

bruce

[Leto]

That's a lot of folks to bring to someone's house *lol* I see some other familiar faces in there too. When was this trip? early eighties?

on a side note...Master Theroff looks miserable every time I see a picture of him. He must be a super serious guy. Even at his sixth black promotion, he barely cracked a smile.

[brucereiter]

That's a lot of folks to bring to someone's house *lol* I see some other familiar faces in there too.

sure is ... lol ...

When was this trip? early eighties?

july 1 1992 is when the demo/banquet was according to the picture of the ticket to the event which is linked in the previous post.

on a side note...Master Theroff looks miserable every time I see a picture of him. He must be a super serious guy. Even at his sixth black promotion, he barely cracked a smile.

i have never met him but several people i know have spoken highly of him.

best,

bruce

[bodhi warrior]

Just read this book, and I must say I see some similarities in training between one of the co-authors(tjoa khek kiong) and shaolin do. This guy taught chinese martial arts in indonesia and looking at the form it has a familiar flavor to it. I really liked how he broke down martial arts into three groups, one for fighting, one for health, and one for show. Anyone else read this or other books by the same author?