*Ding!* *Ding!* *Ding!*
"Round 348 of the same old tired song and dance!!!"
Honestly people, don't you get tired of bickering over the same old cr@p over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again?
"Is Shaolin Do 'Shaolin' or not?"
"NO ONE could EVER learn 900 forms!"
"Grandmaster The is a charlatan out to take your money!"
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!
Here, let me answer the first one for you:
Shaolin Do has Crane, Tiger, Snake, Mantis, Hua Fist, and other styles that were traditionally taught at the Shaolin Temples and as Erasmus so lovingly pointed out: 'Shaolin' isn't a STYLE, it's a couple of MONASTARIES. Since Shaolin Do isn't taught by a bunch of monks who recently immigrated from the Shaolin temples, then no, Shaolin Do ISN'T affiliated with them, but that doesn't mean that the material taught in Shaolin Do didn't originate from there. Remember, the monks were scattered to the four winds after their temples were destroyed and you can't honestly assume that these monks were so grief stricken from their lost that they NEVER practiced their kung fu and NEVER taught it to people afterwards.
The guy who taught our lineage, was Grandmaster Su Kong Taijinn. He was afflicted with hypertrichosis, so you can understand if he wasn't in the limelight at the Temples back in the day.
for the second question:
900 forms CAN be learned by a single individual if all he had was kung fu. Say, maybe, he was socially ostracised because of a visually appalling condition and couldn't do all the cool things monks do, like smoke pot, chase after girls and seek enlightenment.
and the final question:
OF COURSE GRANDMASTER THE WANT'S OUR MONEY!!! ALL MARTIAL ART MASTERS WANT YOUR MONEY; IT'S CALLED CAPITALISM! WELCOME TO AMERICA!!!
Can we please get back to serious discussions now?
Last edited by Lamassu; 06-26-2007 at 12:29 PM.
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