[QUOTE=GeneChing;1001645]Always carry something to wipe up with in your back pocket while traveling in China. That’s just some free advice from me to you, marbas. 
[/QUOTE]
paying extra for those extra little luxuries can actually be a good thing. specially if you are over 25 and not interested in ruffing it.
if you could, go visit wudang. much better vibe than disney world … i mean shaolin temple
hi marbas sorry to ask you frend, but perhaps you could lend me about 500 dollars cash? please send via western union
thanks
[QUOTE=Andy Miles;1001693]I had an Australian call me saying that he only had a month in China and he wanted to train with the best and that he wanted to find the most hardcore school. He had a list of styles he had done for a short period of time. The first thing I thought is that I didn’t want to waste my time, then I thought of my friends here who are kung fu masters. Unless they could charge him 10k, none of them would forgive me for introducing this guy. He said if there wasn’t anyone in Sichuan good enough he would go to Beijing. Happy trails.
I had another guy say that if I beat him up I could be his Shifu. Kind of a lose/lose situation. Yeah, I get to teach an idiot. When I asked him to step outside for a quick demo of h2h he said, “Nah man, I’m not into that.”
You aren’t going to find anything worthwhile in this way. Over time people get to know you and your character and then will open up to you. They need to know you are serious. There is lots of garbage, but the people who know wont be yelling about how great they are. They may smoke or drink and aren’t your holywood image.
There was another guy practicing Chinese medicine and wanted to find a great doctor to study under. The doctor was young and he had no eye for content. Too bad, I study under him. He sees up to 200 patients a day. Some people want an old bearded master. They don’t care about content. Then again I have students that realise content when they see it and have a foreign teacher.
Don’t be a walking stereotype. Have quality and quality will find you.
www.kungfuchengdu.com[/QUOTE]
Unfortunately, you will find that there is still a great deal of stereotypical thinking that comes with visitors seeking the hard core kungfu training they saw in a movie and they only have a month to learn :rolleyes:
It’s no wonder some guys just decide to charge a lot of money to indulge such minds as these. May as well get something from the idiot right? 
If I opted to go to China, it’d be just as a tourist. There are things to be gained by going, but none of them will involve becoming a super duper ninja master. Go for the cultural and historical benefits.
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1001434]when you are lying on your death bed, what will have more importance in your memory?
3000 dollars you once had or the time you spent in China?[/QUOTE]
Well said.
[QUOTE=GeneChing;1001645]Always carry something to wipe up with in your back pocket while traveling in China. That’s just some free advice from me to you, marbas.
Shaolindynasty is right. If you’re going with Shi Yanju, he’s very well connected at Shaolin Temple, one of the Abbot’s favorites. He could probably arrange for some very special opportunities there. Go for it![/QUOTE]
My toilet advice. Make sure you use it at your hotel every time before venturing out or training. You will be a much happier person for it. Unless you are brave and you just have to go to see what all the fuss is about like myself. We were walking around the streets of Beijing checking things out. Fortunately I just had to go number 1. My Master warned me not to use the public toilet on the street but I was not a good student and I didn’t listen. I probably just should have whipped it out on a street corner like everyone else but something deep inside me called for me to go in and see. Oh the horror! Oh, and don’t put your paper in the toilet and flush it. We stayed in the village across from Shaolin and my roomate and I plugged our toilet up because we didn’t know not to, the housekeepers were ****ed and it took them three days to fix it.
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;1001434]when you are lying on your death bed, what will have more importance in your memory?
3000 dollars you once had or the time you spent in China?[/QUOTE]
3000 dollars
(sir, thats approximately 2500 delicious kfc chicken legs
assuming u eat 3 a day, u can eat kfc for about 833 days, then have one piece left on the 834th day for a total of 834 days. assuming individual price is 1.25 dollars/delicious chicken leg including tax
the bones can build a small hut or be execellent fertilizer for ur backyard garden. also u can break open the bones and eat the marrow inside, illegal immigrant style
a life time supply of KFC or for 4 weeks have a sh1t faced beijing coksucker smirk at me and say corny bullsh1t, and having to spit black loogie every five minutes because of the fuked up air, sir i choose colonel sanders)
[QUOTE=bawang;1001721]3000 dollars
(sir, thats approximately 2500 delicious kfc chicken legs
assuming u eat 3 a day, u can eat kfc for about 833 days, then have one piece left on the 834th day for a total of 834 days. assuming individual price is 1.25 dollars/delicious chicken leg including tax
the bones can build a small hut or be execellent fertilizer for ur backyard garden. also u can break open the bones and eat the marrow inside, illegal immigrant style
a life time supply of KFC or for 4 weeks have a sh1t faced beijing coksucker smirk at me and say corny bullsh1t, and having to spit black loogie every five minutes because of the fuked up air, sir i choose colonel sanders)[/QUOTE]
I’d take the $3,000.00 and duct tape a brand new turbocharger setup to my Yugo. I’ll be stylen’ and picken’ up chicks.
bawang you pay too much for your delicious chicken legs.
id say it would be more than worth it id love to spend along time in the orient training