K-STAR Shaolin Temple Seclusion (Part 1)

March 30th 2006, Shenzhen Satellite Television together with the Shaolin Temple, declared the official start of the First "Chinese K-STAR" Global TV Contest. 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.

The 2006 K-STAR Martial arts TV competition would be the first and largest 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.

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 at the birthplace of the martial arts... The 1,500 year old Shaolin Temple

(This is Part One of Shaolin Seclusion before competition, recorded from an episode of K-STAR)

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[Wr2]

Da hong boxing 1st form. We all had to learn this form as part of our seclusion and education

[Nameless2k6]

You mean you didn't know it before? Stuff like this, Shao hong chuan, lohan, etc. i thought you all knew these forms from before...?

[Wr2]

Many of us did, especially the competitors from China but the rest of us had mixed martial arts backgrounds... ranging from modern wushu, baji, xinyi, choy li fut almost everything you could imagine.

[kungfufreddy]

what were the viewing figures for this do you know ?

[Wr2]

Something like 300 million viewers in mainland China... but it only played in some parts of the region

[Obbyto]

Don't really like the idea that Shaolin is becoming commercialized.

[dragonvalor9991]

do you know where can i get the complete episodes from the k-star series?

[djhollywoodaus]

love the shaolin bell at the start

[mompeller31]

hahahaha the video gets funny at :54 lol

[CulturePeaceForever]

Thank you for this video.Finally!!!!!

[Nameless2k6]

Whats the name of the form they were doing at 7:00?

[WillyTung]

Think of it like Shaolin Soccer.

[Myderion]

It's a sad truth...