The Real Shaolin : Kung Fu

http://www.cbc.ca/thehour

They went to kick butt and gain englightenment, but what the men in the new documentary "The Real Shaolin" found in Chaina was loneliness, pain, bad food and angry kung fu teachers. The Hour's VJ Darby Wheeler, talk to one of the rare foreigners who cracked into Kung Fu's Mecca, The Shaolin Temple, and the documentary's filmmaker Alexander Lee.

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[LordJoseifius]

so.. can you just go and learn study kung fu for a few years, and they'll feed you and give you a place to sleep? If so, I'm going.

[wooshoo]

what lies. westerners go to train in china all the time. this is the 21st century, not the 8th.

as for people being disillusioned when they get there? of course. that's what you get when you try to go to a place you know nothing about, expecting it to be like the movies. that's also why people treat you badly. it also doesn't help that you show up not knowing the language, expecting to buy your way through the process.

[ShaolinHero1]

@LordJoseifius so did you go lol

[nooneknosmeufool]

There are no, "Real" Shaolin in China anymore once the government went after them! All these schools of Shaolin are fakes and created by the government for tourist purposed!! If you want to study with a real shaolin monk, there's plenty in the USA and elsewhere, none are in the Shaolin Temple!!!

[aclock2]

To be honest, if you are like above 20 you would hardly learn anything good, unless your body has been intensively trained since like 5. There are many techniques that are too hard for a regular body to bear and 99% of those are forbidden in regular tournaments => the dead of Kungfu.

[LordJoseifius]

@sexyjason That intensive training is exactly what I want. I spent a month jobless training daily for several hours. When I started working my training time dropped 70%. My rate of learning dropped severely. To be able to train at least 8 hours a day? I have never wanted for something as much as this in my life. That realization is shocking.

[sexyjason]

@LordJoseifius it is harder than it seems, like you gotta follow a lot of rules, maybe they'll go light on you because you're new, but their kindness is limited you know, the practice is intense, you gotta wake up soo early, you eat only vegetables, you gotta walk miles during the day, the place you sleep is like not so comforting either. Unless you going to some rip off shaolin temple...

[libertango779]

@LordJoseifius

No, you pay tuition to the school you study at.

[rvking2005]

@Moviebro This is very true and well said. But there is an exception. The hardest thing to teach people is how things come together in a 360-3D form. But there are some that are blessed to be born with this skill.

[nepalfool]

finding a real shaolin kung fu master is like finding a god.

[fogosona]

@dragob732 hum...

anyway.. thanks for the anwser and sorry my English... I m South American (Brazil)

[dragob732]

@fogosona thats not fake,he was the best master,if you cant do it,cant help you!i have seen him in new york when he made a demostration,he made this before everybody