For those of you who don't know Kungfu magazine wrote an article for their shaolin issue about China's K-STAR Martial Arts contest...
On March 30th 2006, Shenzhen Satellite Television together with the Shaolin Temple, declared the official start of the First "Chinese K-STAR" Global TV Contest.
The contest would be the largest and first contest on such a global scale ever produced by China. It's aim, to search for potential Kungfu stars globally to find a new spokesperson of Chinese Kungfu for new generations.
After a half-year process of searching and eliminating over 100,000 applicants from six contest divisions in China (Shenzhen, Zhengzhou, Shengyang, Chengdu, Shanghai, and Beijing) and six overseas contest divisions (North America, Germany, Russia, Italy, France and Australia) the top 3 contest division winners would emerge to compete in the World Final Competition.
In September of 2006, 36 Kungfu practitioners from abroad would arrive in Shenzhen and began a tour of China's cities and media stations to give performances and face eliminations.
The contest would begin after two-weeks of closed door training and zen studies at the birthplace of the martial arts... The 1,500 year old Shaolin Temple
blah, blah, blah
I brought you guys some video from the comp (Chinese Language Only) ^_^
K-STAR Shaolin Temple Seclusion (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcY8fr-JuOo
K-STAR Shaolin Temple Seclusion & 18 Lohan Perform (Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9s9L50FnUQ