Martial Arts Odyssey: Shaolin Bangkok Part 2

A one-time student of the Shaolin Temple in China, host, Antonio Graceffo, pas a visit to the Shaolin Temple, Bangkok, where he meets the chief instructor Liu Gao Jie. It was Antonios Shaloin experience that spawned his first book, The Monk from Brooklyn, and subsequently lead to Antonios nick name, the Brooklyn Monk. Spending time with the solid and skillful monks of Shaolin tool Antonio back to the beginning of his martial arts odyssey, back in 2001.

Liu Gao Jie explains how he is able to teach Kung Fu in a country that is crazy for Muay Thai.
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[brooklynmonk1]

all my languages were learned by going to school and then by being out in the field training and living with locals. you are right, money is alwys tight. sometimes i take jobs as a teacher, because i have a teaching degree, i teach english and study the language of the country where i am. it takes about a year to two years to get fluent normally. i only studied khmer for 3 months but i was doing interviews in khmer all of the time for my journalism.

[brooklynmonk1]

i have studied thai at school for about four or five months and lived in a temple for three where i spoke thai all the time. chinese i studied for 13 months and lived in a temple for three.

you need the classes. you cant just learn it by living with the people.

[tahmos]

@5till13lazin

Hi, do you have more info about it? some vid? some results?

Cheers!

[5till13lazin]

Hey antonio, have you heard about the fighters from thailand challenging the shaolin monks not too long ago?

[OGkrs]

nice vid as always ;).i want to ask you something, i saw that you speak many languages and you learned most of them when you where in the country the language was spoken.how did you do it?obviously you must have a talent in learning languages but how much did you study in each country?1,2 years?and how did you do it because i thought that you didn't have money so obviously i think that you couldn't afford a class.please respond because that really intrigues me!

[jiand21]

nice vid!!

man his kicks were fast!