I hear you JP. Dont get me wrong, I'm not against SD just the SD self media/press/claims. SD, or who it may be, places Th'e above all the Shaolin martial arts world in one way or another. SD website after website reinforce his position as the highest authority concerning the various Shaolin Styles. My point is this, There are so many more Shaolin martial art masters that have worked hard to complete their training and achieve high level skill in the Shaolin MA for one guy to claim he has mastered and achieved all
. I would like to see Sin Th'e intermingle with the Chinese masters here in U.S. who have documented history and lineage of the arts (for the most part). Better yet, why hasn't Sin Th'e offered his assitance to the U.S. Shaolin masters, Chinese and non-Chinese?
His claim to be youngest Shaolin GM in history, I can buy that, but only in the context of being GM of his own system/style, SD, not Shaolin Temple kung fu. There are and were too many others Shaolin exponents ahead of him for ST to claim GM... But thats another conversation...
If ST footage can not be produced then how about someone letting us know who and where are the masters teaching SD (ST lineage and other teachers from his masters) outside the U.S. ; China, Indonesia, Mongolia, Taiwan, etc. Surely there's a link back to Indo-China and abroad. There's got to be other school outside of his creation. I would like to research the original schools that still exist over there. I have resources throughout the CMA both here and in China, as well as some of the International Chinese martial art Federations that I belong to.
ST claiming to be GM of his own system is purely his right, but claiming be the only GM that completed and masterd all of the Shaolin Temple arts is just not true.
Who knows where the Indo-China SD schools are and the teachers that teach ST's art? Whatever info you can give would greatly be appreciated.
JP, this post wasn't directed at you, but to /sd in general. I just kinda trailed off, lol... Like I said, I'm not against SD or its members, just the press that is allowed by ST to be posted to the public... He controls all other aspects of SD, why cant he control whats be relayed to the public by his own people and their schools, hmmmm,
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