# Greetings from Shaolin **URL:** \ **Category:** Shaolin Kung Fu\ **Created:** [April 3, 2003, 7:59am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459 "2003-04-03T07:59:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GeneChing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/geneching/32/96_2.png) [@GeneChing](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/GeneChing)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 7:59am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/1 "2003-04-03T07:59:55Z")
Hey all, I said I would post from shaolin if I could manage it - so here you go. It’s great to be back here again. I’ll let you in on more later. amitoufo ---
**Author:** ![prana](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/prana/32/101_2.png) [@prana](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/prana)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/2 "2003-04-03T12:45:41Z")
Hey Gene, hope all is well. Please burn some incense on my behalf. Thanks 🙂 Be well ---
**Author:** ![dezhen2001](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/dezhen2001/32/222_2.png) [@dezhen2001](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/dezhen2001)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/3 "2003-04-03T16:43:56Z")
hey i think doc was out there and came back coz he was sick and didnt wanna catch that crazy bug going around now. Just imagine if BOTH of u guys were there :eek:🆒😃 dawood ---
**Author:** ![Guile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Guile](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Guile)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/4 "2003-04-04T20:34:49Z")
Whats up Gene. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Jamieson](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/david_jamieson/32/19_2.png) [@David\_Jamieson](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/David_Jamieson)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/5 "2003-04-05T00:21:36Z")
Hey Gene- Amitoufo 🙂 i can only imagine the degree of enjoyment you are experiencing right now. (even if you are training really hard) Be nice to hear what the state of things are. Stay warm. cheers ---
**Author:** ![dezhen2001](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/dezhen2001/32/222_2.png) [@dezhen2001](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/dezhen2001)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/6 "2003-04-05T00:23:53Z")
im sure with all the stuff happening there he will be warm enough 😃 dawood ---
**Author:** ![shaolin\_kungfu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@shaolin\_kungfu](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/shaolin_kungfu)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/7 "2003-04-05T07:02:41Z")
Hope your having fun there, Gene. Stay away from anyone with a cough. ---
**Author:** ![Shaolin\_Master](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/shaolin_master/32/69_2.png) [@Shaolin\_Master](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Shaolin_Master)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/8 "2003-04-05T13:16:42Z")
how long are you there for ? what you up to ? …I could always visit ya 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jun\_erh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@jun\_erh](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/jun_erh)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/9 "2003-04-06T15:08:46Z")
try to set up a UFC or Pride Shaolin if you have time. 'preciate it ---
**Author:** ![richard\_sloan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/richard_sloan/32/194_2.png) [@richard\_sloan](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/richard_sloan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 7:10am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/10 "2003-04-16T07:10:40Z")
the village… …is gone now? Schools all relocated? Must be quiet. How is Su Xi holding up? ---
**Author:** ![Cheese\_Dog](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/cheese_dog/32/363_2.png) [@Cheese\_Dog](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Cheese_Dog)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/11 "2003-04-16T15:16:49Z")
Hey Gene! Having a great time, wish I were there. Bring me back a shaolin monk bobble-head, preferably with a suction cup on the feet so I can mount it on my dashboard for my edification as I drive. 😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![cha\_kuen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@cha\_kuen](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/cha_kuen)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/12 "2003-04-17T06:12:46Z")
Gene or anyone else, I’m curious, what do these shaolin monks in China, the temple, or the ones that tour the US say about fighting? What are their basic principles, stratgies, foundation and stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Sin\_The](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@Sin\_The](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Sin_The)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/13 "2003-04-17T13:25:48Z")
When you visit the Shrine to me, kow tow 3 times. ---
**Author:** ![Brad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/59ef9b/32.png) [@Brad](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Brad)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/14 "2003-04-17T14:16:35Z")
> How is Su Xi holding up? Is Su Xi that really old monk? I was thinking he was made abbot of the Southern Temple that’s being built 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![richard\_sloan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/richard_sloan/32/194_2.png) [@richard\_sloan](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/richard_sloan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/15 "2003-04-21T06:30:59Z")
Shi Su Xi… …is one of those ‘really old monks.’ Unfortunately he has parkinsons. I had the great honor of meeting him, and the priviledge of listening to him speak for quite some time about Shaolin history, philosophy, and martial arts…he is one of the 14 or so monks who returned or stayed at Shaolin during the CR, and is one of the Four Olds. From what was told to me, he had a pretty rough time of it during the CR. Many of the monks owe their martial and Ch’an heritage to this man as well as some of the Wan’s and other Su’s… Here is the list of generational names, which actually comes from a poem written by the Abbot Fu Yu: Fu hui zhi liao jue zi ben yuan ke wu zhou hong pu guang zong dao qing tong xuan zu qing jing zhen ru hai zhan ji chun zhen su de xin(g) yong yan heng miao feng chang jian gu xin lang zhao shan shen xing ming jian chong zha zhong zheng shan xi xiang jin zhi yuan ji du xue ting wei dao shi yin ru gui yuan lu I also heard (read?) that he had been made the Abbot of the new southern temple, and that quite a few of the monks have sort of made that their headquarters so to speak…but from what I saw of his condition it would seem that doing a lot of traveling would prove difficult for him. ---
**Author:** ![cha\_kuen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@cha\_kuen](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/cha_kuen)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 7:50am UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/16 "2003-04-21T07:50:02Z")
So these monks don’t talk about fighting? ---
**Author:** ![Shaolin-Do](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/shaolin-do/32/396_2.png) [@Shaolin-Do](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/Shaolin-Do)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/17 "2003-04-21T18:32:01Z")
Gene- Lucky dog. must be nice… Ive never been to china but the pictures are absolutely beautiful… Careful with the SARS… hope your enjoying yourself. I know I would be… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![richard\_sloan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/richard_sloan/32/194_2.png) [@richard\_sloan](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/richard_sloan)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/18 "2003-04-22T16:57:11Z")
Fighting… Cha… A google search should set you up with a bunch of articles that will have some of the information you are looking for. There’s a bunch of other websites as well as printed articles. ---
**Author:** ![GeneChing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.kungfumagazine.com/geneching/32/96_2.png) [@GeneChing](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/GeneChing)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/19 "2003-04-22T22:23:46Z")
I’m back… And boy do I have a lot of Shaolin news. Shaolin is about to undergo another amazing transformation, but you’ll have to wait until I get on top of everything here at the office before I can give you the details. I intend to put something up on the ezine about my recent trip. Suxi is still alive, although I didn’t get the chance to see him. He was asked to go to one of the 3 southern shaolin temples, but declined. Deyang had a pagoda built for him in the pagoda forest (apparently it’s a show of respect to have one built for great monks before they pass) but it’s a wacky one. More on that later. I was fortunate enough to catch the grade A school tournament and saw all the Sanda and Taolu finals. Wicked. The performance monks that you might see on some of the more recent tours are performers - they don’t emphasize fighting. But don’t judge the tens of thousands of shaolin practitioners on some show you might see. That ain’t a fraction of it. If you want to bang, go to shaolin and train Sanda. Or put in your dues and train traditional. Either way, there’s plenty of fight left at the temple, and more coming! It was a great trip and it’s great to be home. ---
**Author:** ![shaolin\_kungfu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@shaolin\_kungfu](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/u/shaolin_kungfu)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.kungfumagazine.com/t/greetings-from-shaolin/19459/20 "2003-04-22T22:42:31Z")
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