Houston Shaolin Show?

[Pk_StyLeZ]

Anyone know about the *shaolin monk demo* that is performing in houston for the international festival?
the website advetise them from china
i been out the shaolin scene for a while. anyone know anything?
just wanted to post it here incase if no one knew about it

http://www.ifest.org/dnn/default.aspx
click entertainment to see it say something about shaoin

[GeneChing]

Members of the spectacular Shenzen Acrobatic Circus will thrill crowds with amazing stunts, daredevil acts and balancing feats. Don't miss the Shaolin King Fun Spectacular. Shaolin Monks, direct from China will demonstrate their spectacular martial arts.

Twenty Shaolin Monks, direct from China, demonstrate their spectacular martial arts (Kung Fu) during the second weeknd of the festival.

China's Shaolin Temple has many legends and much mystery surrounding it. For centuries, the Shaolin monks have been named Kung Fu masters, and the Temple has been recognized as "The origin of all martial arts throughout the world."

The Shaolin Temple is probably the most famous temple in China because of its long history of Chinese Buddhism and its dynamic martial arts training. Historically, the Shaolin Temple was located in a geographically strategic area of China. Shaolin monks, because of their martial arts skill, protected China from wars and invasion, earning great respect during dynasties of Chinese Emperors. From ancient Shaolin monk heroes to modern Hollywood Kung Fu stars, like Jet Li & Jackie Chan, "Shaolin" remains supreme in martial arts mastery.

Don't miss the amazing demonstrations of different forms of martial arts at the WaMu Center Stage.

I don't recognize anyone in that pic, although for a moment I thought the guy in the back might be Shawn Liu. There are so many Shaolin touring troupes. This one doesn't look 'official', but official status only seems to matter to the Abbot.

[Songshan]

heh, didnt even know there was monks coming to perform at the festival. Thanks for the info Pk_StyleZ.

[Pk_StyLeZ]

ya i didnt know either
my friend told me so i decided to check it out and see
look like 3 of the shaolin schools here are performin there also
shaolin festival =D
hahaha

[Pk_StyLeZ]

just watched it
it def wasnt a monk show, they werent wearin robes. just black pants with the white socks and the black leg ties...and most had no shirt on..of ir they did.. they some weird white black wushu shirt on
didn use the omitofu bow when they end/start form, instead they use the open hand and closed fist bow most of the time.
this show was really different though. it had A LOT of tradtional FORMS in there.
saw taiji and bagua also.
i saw many that tradtional long fist form and seven star fist form with NO EXTRA ADDED WUSHU MOVEMENTS in it and some other traditional (made up?) loking forms that wasnt wushu flashy and stuff
but i missed the first 10-15 mins of it, so i dnt know wat happened then. there was bout 10 of them. it was alrite. they didnt seem like they were tryin very hard IMO.

tryin to upload some videos right now

any of the other houston guys see it?

[sha0lin1]

I saw the show, was initially there because my school did a performance also. I spoke with the monks. They were all 33rd (Yong) generation monks. I thought the show was pretty cool.

[SunBeam]

Man, Dude I guess I missed a very good thing indeed! I was thinking hard about going but schedule and other crap kept me. I sure hope that someone there filmed it and will post it up soon.

[Pk_StyLeZ]

Man, Dude I guess I missed a very good thing indeed! I was thinking hard about going but schedule and other crap kept me. I sure hope that someone there filmed it and will post it up soon.

my friends filmed parts of it
but it takes forever to send to me
im asking them to burn me a copy to cd and then i ama upload it i guess

[Pk_StyLeZ]

was surfin on youtube
and found this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k64qOTmbYOo
i plan to get the cd frm my friend sunday and upload wat i got sometime next week on youtube as wel
stay tuned

[Songshan]

Hey PK,

I saw the Sunday show. Yeah was interesting because the "Monks" were very much on the down low. No orange robes, bags or Shaolin mysticism. It was mainly just kung fu. After the show there was a chance to buy t-shirts and what not. Only the old monk wearing the tradtional robes who did the insane stretching seemed to dressed as a monk...maybe he was the shifu? I asked one of the I-Fest workers where they were from and he said Beijing. So who knows. Nice performance....took photos couldnt get any video. If you do get a decent video maybe you can send me a copy? Thanks.

[Pk_StyLeZ]

Hey PK,

I saw the Sunday show. Yeah was interesting because the "Monks" were very much on the down low. No orange robes, bags or Shaolin mysticism. It was mainly just kung fu. After the show there was a chance to buy t-shirts and what not. Only the old monk wearing the tradtional robes who did the insane stretching seemed to dressed as a monk...maybe he was the shifu? I asked one of the I-Fest workers where they were from and he said Beijing. So who knows. Nice performance....took photos couldnt get any video. If you do get a decent video maybe you can send me a copy? Thanks.

tryin to get the videos right now. they are large files so they take a while to send online. keep forgetting to tell my friend to burn it on a cd for me
but i let u know
the show was really different than most shaolin shows i been to. i can say that for sure. what time did u go on sunday? i was there sunday too, for the first show.
the old monk stretching was crazy, he squeezed him self through that loop..i was like WOW

[SunBeam]

was surfin on youtube
and found this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k64qOTmbYOo
i plan to get the cd frm my friend sunday and upload wat i got sometime next week on youtube as wel
stay tuned

Okay...that was okay. I guess I was thinking it would be "more". Oh well, I look forward to when PK gets the cd to post.

[Pk_StyLeZ]

sorry i totally forgot about this
and my friend still hasnt given me a copy of the cd
but some dude just uploaded some clips on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/user/buddhamonkk
go there and see his videos and you should be able to see it
here are some of the tradtional forms that were performed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-z9gO9wBPE

[PaiLumDreamer]

Aw, I missed it. I didnt even hear about it

[Yao Sing]

Gotta be fake, it didn't look anything like Shaolin Do.