Shaolin Temple

[CadetRay]

now a days u will not get to learn anything good but mayb a good training session. It would be much much better if u know some one from China better if he/she is a kungfu master or some one who works in the government perferbally highrank.

[tigerclaw2]

On villaris web site https://www.villarisonline.com. its says you can learn up to 3 forms a day not that you have to.

[ShaolinMonk]

fallen_milkman and valhalla,

when my freinds went to China they pair off with monks as trainning partners my sensei's sensei got to pair with the head warrior monk and was shown something he must never speak off to anyone, and being told this i was instantly driven to find out and i was an inch close from losing my life that day haha. i asked if he learned how to fly or was flown with chi or something absurd and he just replied "way cooler." so i dont think they just do forms.

the monks jobs are to spread what they know, there are only twenty warrior monks left since the sabbotage at the temple many years ago. So the art is still alive

[tigerclaw2]

Shaolinmonk, all I know is what I heard from my friend who did the 2004 shaolin trip but he said that you test in the hotel parking lot not the shaolin temple and you dont even get your belt there you have to wait till you get home and buy it from your instructor even though he already paid a high test fee for going there. He was under the impretion that he would test at the temple. He was very disapointed. That combined with getting one form and some mysterious chi magic that a master gets not a student sounds like a rip off to me. Just my opinion.

[fallen_milkman]

The monks are basically owned by the Chinese government. They only show what the government will let them. Like I've said before, and can be backed up by most who are familiar with traditional Shaolin forms of fighting, most of the great fighters left China long, long ago. The ones who remain teach for the government, and charge outlandish prices at schools in the city near the temple, not the temple itself.

[ProjectJanus]

http://www.shaolin-wushu.de/en/main_fr.htm?home_fr0.htm

Click on Training.

[fallen_milkman]

All that shows me is that the Shaolin Temple truly has become a money-maker for the Chinese government. The true heart of the Shaolin Temple for me was the dedication it took to leave society and learn from the greats. No monitary value, as long as you worked hard and learned, you could stay. Now, they charge REDICULOUS sums of money for the stuff you can learn in Canada and the United States for around $50 a month.

[tigerclaw2]

There is also a SHAOLIN TEMPLE in new york and 2 in texas. That would be much cheaper than going to china

[ProjectJanus]

There is also a SHAOLIN TEMPLE in new york and 2 in texas. That would be much cheaper than going to china

Are they anything like the ones in China though?

[fallen_milkman]

I would imagine the training is as close to Shaolin Temple training you can get, without living in a temple and practising all day. Those schools are all run by actual fighting monks. The schools themselves aren't actual temples, but Shi Yan Ming of the USA Shaolin Temple in NYC is currently raising money to build an actual American temple in Upstate New York. You can count me first in line, after reading this quotation about the final testing in Shaolin requiring the forearm brands.

From an article on http://www.usashaolintemple.com/:

The reporter who was present when I asked this question asked if there were any monks still alive with the marks today. Shi Yan-Ming said that they were all dead now. Later that evening, one of my students asked if, once he has his temple built here in the United States, he would reinstitute the practice of the branding of the arms. His answer, without a moment's hesitation, was "yes".

Ever since I was a very young child, there was nothing I wanted more than to earn those marks. Notice I stress the word earn. Anyone can brand or tattoo those marks. To recieve them as a part of tradition would be amazing.