..Shaolin monks tour from 1992.
I used to a copy of this on VHS years ago until I loaned it to a friend and never saw it again. Does anyone know where I could find another copy? I’ve been looking for this for years and have never run across it.
I have the program…
…but not the video. 
See The Dragon and the Eagle: The Shaolin Diaspora in America
sweet jebas ~G
that was a great article. I hadn’t read that one yet!
Houston Temple
[QUOTE=GeneChing;962731]…
See The Dragon and the Eagle: The Shaolin Diaspora in America[/QUOTE]
Hello Gene;
Thanks for that excellent background! Also, thanks for the extra info on the Houston Temple. Since you wrote that article, Shi Yan Feng has opened a nice studio here in Sugar Land and we are proud to have him. I enjoyed the few classes I took from him and plan on many more when the economy turns… someday…
[QUOTE=Shaolin;962726]..Shaolin monks tour from 1992.
I used to a copy of this on VHS years ago until I loaned it to a friend and never saw it again. Does anyone know where I could find another copy? I’ve been looking for this for years and have never run across it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQDYU98FTTs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diNhyg5yMoM&feature=related[/QUOTE]
i have the video in dvd format. will upload the other performances when i get the opportunity.
[QUOTE=LFJ;962839]i have the video in dvd format. will upload the other performances when i get the opportunity. :)[/QUOTE]
Awesome! Thank you. Do you know where can I find the DVD?
Dj & sj
That article was from 2004.
[QUOTE=Shaolin;962852]Awesome! Thank you. Do you know where can I find the DVD?[/QUOTE]
no idea. i’m sure its way out of circulation by now. i had it made from an old vhs and sent to me several weeks ago.
[QUOTE=GeneChing;962878]That article was from 2004.[/QUOTE]
ah that’s why I hadn’t read it.
Because I’m in 2009.
would love to see more of those vids and scans of the program!
2004
[QUOTE=GeneChing;962878]That article was from 2004.[/QUOTE]
Ah yes Gene, I noticed your into about it being an old submission… you sure do write a lot of words!!! Glad these did not go to waste.
Also, I do want to pick up your words about Shaolin training methods being much more strenuous than American style. My little 4 week session almost killed me. At 4 years plus experience, I was barely capable of being a beginner. His other taiji students were slim guys in their '30’s, mostly of Chinese heritage, and one guy of 50 who was a black belt in TKD. Of course, his KF students were much younger; again mostly of Chinese families. Lots of Chinese families move out to Sugar Land from S/W Houston just over the horizon…
dj, rs & sj
DJ: …but you’ve been here since 2004…
RS: I’ll look into that. I have to dig it out of my collection again. Heck, it might be here at the office. My files are in such disarray right now. It was a fairly small pamphlet.
SJ: Have you been to Shaolin yet? Because nothing compares to the hardship that the kids go through there. Nothing at all.
Yellow suit
[QUOTE=GeneChing;963023]SJ: Have you been to Shaolin yet? Because nothing compares to the hardship that the kids go through there. Nothing at all.[/QUOTE]
Ah no, not the temple, just to Shao Feng’s studio a few blocks from my house. But trust me, there is no sliding by in his class. It’s cool to go in after school and see all the little kids flippin’ all over the place.
What interests me is if you watch the old vids ya’ll have been talking about when he was the child performer, you see him flippin’ onto the top of his head. From the vids he posts now about his class performing around town, he still flips onto the top of his head… very impressive.
Back to the training, he’s polite and soft-spoken, but demanding. I have no doubt that I could not be a beginner in his taiji class, those guys are really tough! But I do intend to take qi gong from him someday when my finances improve. That yellow suit hangs in my closet just waitin’ on the day.
Shao Feng was an amazing kid
I knew him when he was a young shami. He was so intense. But there’s no way he can do what they do at Shaolin to the kids. It would be considered child abuse here.
[QUOTE=GeneChing;963112]I knew him when he was a young shami. He was so intense. But there’s no way he can do what they do at Shaolin to the kids. It would be considered child abuse here.[/QUOTE]
You should check out pee wee hockey. lol, now THAT’S child abuse. 
p.s I was practicing my facetiousness
child training
[QUOTE=GeneChing;963112]I knew him when he was a young shami. He was so intense. But there’s no way he can do what they do at Shaolin to the kids. It would be considered child abuse here.[/QUOTE]
Yes, I am honored to have taken a few classes from him, and watch his vids pretty regular, because they are at places around here I know well…
In a way he is very gentle with the kids, they all want to do what he tells them, nobody is made to do anything… still, the things they do are head and shoulders above most other CMA kiddoes… them being almost 100% of Chinese families instills a lot of stick-with-it most kids don’t have today.
Of course, it’s these same loyal kid students and their parents that provide him with enough of a stable base to open his own place, which then makes him available to the rest of us. There are at least 100 ma schools in Sugar Land, but he is the only Temple monk here. Ya’ll may remember that the Lopez family that wins the Olympics in tae kwon do are from here, so child ma schools have been a regular institution for awhile now.
[QUOTE=Skip J.;963158]Yes, I am honored to have taken a few classes from him, and watch his vids pretty regular, because they are at places around here I know well…
In a way he is very gentle with the kids, they all want to do what he tells them, nobody is made to do anything… still, the things they do are head and shoulders above most other CMA kiddoes… them being almost 100% of Chinese families instills a lot of stick-with-it most kids don’t have today.
Of course, it’s these same loyal kid students and their parents that provide him with enough of a stable base to open his own place, which then makes him available to the rest of us. There are at least 100 ma schools in Sugar Land, but he is the only Temple monk here. Ya’ll may remember that the Lopez family that wins the Olympics in tae kwon do are from here, so child ma schools have been a regular institution for awhile now.[/QUOTE]
Shifu Yan Feng is a very cool person. He may be the only Temple Monk in Sugarland but the others are close by off Bellaire. I agree with what you are saying about the kids. Most of our Chinese Children have way more focus than most of the causcasion kids. It is too bad we can’t do to them what they do to the kids at the Temple, a lot of them could use a little discipline.
across the line
[QUOTE=sha0lin1;963171]Shifu Yan Feng is a very cool person. He may be the only Temple Monk in Sugarland but the others are close by off Bellaire. I agree with what you are saying about the kids. Most of our Chinese Children have way more focus than most of the causcasion kids. It is too bad we can’t do to them what they do to the kids at the Temple, a lot of them could use a little discipline.[/QUOTE]
Ah yes, the reason our Chinese population is so high is because we’re the closest suburb (suburban schools and police, the same reason we live here..) to the Bellaire St. area just across the city/county line… I think it as much a case as him following his students out to Sugar Land as them following him out.
We’re going thru this with our grandsons now, after 20 years in the trenches with our own sons… we just do not require our kids to have the discipline to study and work hard that Chinese folks do… so it’s our own fault. The sad thing is, second generation Chinese born here become more like us and less like their parents…
But these same folks feel a connection to their past and bring their kids to a Shaolin school to instill that discipline for them. We take our kids to TKD schools for the same reason and then let’em drop out after the first belt.
Online RPG games rule today as tv did in our past, so we can’t say too much about our kids raising their kids anyway…
i’ve been uploading more of this tour. have a look:
http://www.youtube.com/user/LFJ#p/u
Thanks LFJ