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bushido_man96
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Styles: Taekwondo, Combat Hapkido, Aikido, and I research Medieval Combat
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| Karateka_latino wrote: |
| And it doesnt make sense for a normal person to do that. i mean, Pull a car using your ........, Monks do it because they are not going to use them anymore. lol |
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Rainbow_Warrior
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Joined: 01 Oct 2006
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Styles: Now : MMA/luta livre/Thai , before :Kung fu,kick boxing , boxing, amateur wrestling
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| Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| And it doesnt make sense for a normal person to do that. i mean, Pull a car using your ........, Monks do it because they are not going to use them anymore. lol |
 good point...but not all the monks are like that....
And yes...some of that things are not usefull...and maybe they are for showing greatness....kind of weird within monks who are buddists and want to be released from the ego....
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autohuman
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Just because a guy can pull a car by their....you know....doesn't mean they are great fighters. It is just a different aspect of what they study. |
That's very true. My instructor/sifu traveled to the Shaolin temple in China for a while and said he saw some monks sparring at a surrounding school. He said they were almost amateurish in their sparring, but then they could turn around and break concrete with their head or whatever. |
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NightOwl
KF Sempai
Joined: 08 Dec 2006
Posts: 1060
Location: Lost on the West Coast
Styles: Ronin Judoka
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Most traveling Shaolin Monk exhibitions are actually sponsored by the 'communist' (not really anymore but...) government of China to promote Chinese culture. They are jaw-droppingly good gymnasts and have spent years of their lives training to do stuff that most could never do (one finger handstands, using various parts of their anatomy for pulling weights...). However, I wouldn't consider an Olympic gymnast a good fighter by default, and neither do I feel the same way about the monks. In fact the irony lies in that the CCP actually cracked down on and destroyed MA in mainland china, thus the curriculum they use now to showcase 'traditional China' is more or less a slightly modified version of contemporary wushu, and not an ancient art passed down for centuries. 
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bushido_man96
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That is very interesting info, NightOwl. Thanks for sharing.
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on the post.
