Taguo contacts
My understanding is that Taguo is moving locations so they might be a little hard to contact until after the dust settles.
Tagou
Hi
Does anyone have an upto date e mail address for Tagou. There contact details from there web site appears not to be working.
thanks in advance
chen
Taguo contacts
Taguo is in transition right now - moving from Shaolin valley to Dengfeng - so a lot of it’s contact info might be a little sketchy. Here are my most recent contacts:
Tel: (0371) 2749100
www.shaolinmonastery.net
Let me know if those work for you.
Tagou Demo
Shown on the ‘Who’s the Hero’ TV show in China a little demo by the Tagou Institute demo team. Download takes a while but definitely worth a look http://www.5show.com/show/show/90850.shtml
I have Comcast…it took 3 HOURS to load the first 3:15 of this. What gives?
Interesting Video About Tagou & Their Role in the 2008 Olympic Ceremonies
In interview with the Tagou headmasters talking about their role in the Beijing Olympics Ceremonies & other similar such events.
But is it Kung Fu?
Certainly looks like it takes some skillz.
Shaolin Martial Students Perform Spectacular Aerial Stunts for 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Opening Ceremony
By David Sim
August 11, 2014 09:24 BST
The 2008 Beijing Olympics proved that the Chinese know how to stage a spectacular opening ceremony. It looks like they’re about to wow the world again.
IBTimes UK presents the first photos of dress rehearsals for the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games opening ceremony. Some 520 students from the Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School create complex patterns as they are suspended over the stadium.
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The 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games will be held from 16 to 28 August 2014 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.
An estimated 3,600 teenage athetes from 204 nations will compete in 28 sports. Security in the city has been tightened ahead of the games; thousands of soldiers and armed police have been drafted in to ensure the event runs smoothly.
Nanjing Youth Olympics opening ceremony
Thousands of members of the Jiangsu Armed Police Force line up in formation as they swear an oath to provide security for the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games(Getty)
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I’m only cut&pasting the first one. There are 10 more if you follow the link.
‘Building Dreams’ dazzles opening ceremony rehearsal of Youth Olympic Games
(People’s Daily Online) 08:01, August 12, 2014
Students rehearse for the opening ceremony. (Dahe.cn/Feng Weifeng)
The formal rehearsal of the opening ceremony of the 2nd Youth Olympic Games is held at the Olympics center at Nanjing on the evening of August 10, 2014. Nearly 1,000 students from Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School in central China’s Henan province take part in six performances in the six-chapter ceremony. ‘Building Dreams’ is the most dazzling show in this ceremony. In coordination with 400 students on the ground, more than 100 students form different shapes in the air with the help of wires.
nice article
Wired to wow
Updated: 2014-08-28 07:05
(China Daily)
“It took a while of swinging and massaging them before you could walk again.”
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Liu Baoshan is the board chairman of the Shaolin Tagou Education Group. Kung fu for everyone
When Liu Baoshan created the Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School 36 years ago, he had only one student.
But with increasing interest in kung fu and its evolving image on the back of the country’s development, Liu now boasts 35,000 students in six schools.
“The growing number of kung fu learners is a result of social development,” the 83-year-old said.
Liu, board chairman of the Shaolin Tagou Education Group, said that his ancestors had learned martial arts at the Shaolin Temple, China’s most famous Buddhism monastery, starting from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
Liu started to teach martial arts in his 20s, but the government prohibited the practice in the 1950s since some kung fu groups had become criminal gangs then.
The ban on martial arts was lifted in 1959 after some kung fu practitioners took part in an international competition and struck gold, he said. Still, Liu could not charge for his kung fu lessons since private businesses were not allowed during the “cultural revolution” (1966-76).
The situation remained unchanged until 1978, when the Communist Party of China launched the reform and opening-up policy. The reform, pushed forward by late leader Deng Xiaoping, legalized private enterprises.
“More and more people want to learn martial arts since it can make them healthier,” Liu said, adding that the number of students has been growing by 1,000 annually.
The Shaolin Tagou Education Group includes primary, middle, occupational and international schools to meet the demand of different learners.
“We have continued to attend international competitions and large performances in recent years, which has helped build our reputation,” Liu said. His group’s students have performed in State broadcaster China Central Television’s Spring Festival gala for 12 years.
The students have won 379 gold medals in the Olympics Games and other world-class competitions, according to figures from the group.
“We are optimistic about the future of our group and its kung fu since more people are making sports a higher priority,” he said.
By An Baijie
Students also had to endure the heat from training outdoors under the blazing sun in Nanjing, which is famous for its high temperatures in summer.
Still, the Tagou students have learned to stay upbeat amid hardship after years of high-intensity martial arts training.
“We are proud that we fulfilled the assignment again and delivered to the whole world,” said Tagou school teacher Zhang Jiwu.
Training ground
The Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School, located near Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng at the foot of Henan’s Songshan Mountain, has participated in a series of major ceremonies at grand events, including the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, the opening and closing ceremonies of the Guangzhou Asian Games, and 12 consecutive CCTV Spring Festival galas.
Tagou was established in 1978 when the government lifted the ban on private business. Its students range from those in kindergarten to the elderly. They come from all parts of the country to enroll in martial arts courses that take up to 14 years. The training costs about 5,000 yuan ($814) a year.
Shi Linlei, 16, a middle-school student who started training at Tagou three years ago, said that the physical training is harsher than what he had expected.
“At the beginning, I could not help crying when I called my mom and told her about the life here,” he said.
“The coaches are strict and there are no entertainment facilities like karaoke or cyberbars in the school.”
Shi said that he managed to get used to the tough training within a month, after the coaches gave them advice and helped them when they encountered difficulties.
The students also started to get along well with each other after several weeks because they are always told to be “polite and selfless”, he said.
Pan Guili, a businesswoman in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, said that even though her relatives had warned her about the possible violence in martial art schools, she still sent her 14-year-old son to one of them in early March.
Pan worried a lot about her son when he complained about being bullied by other students at the beginning of his training in the school.
“I told him that as a man, you should be strong and accept the rules there,” said Pan, who went to see her son on Aug 21.
“He has to live on his own or he will not get by when he enters society and starts looking for a job,” she said.
Importance of ethics
Liu Baoshan, 83, board chairman of the Shaolin Tagou Education Group, which runs six schools, including the Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School, said ethics are an important part of its education.
“I have been concerned with one question for decades after I established the school - will the students become talented martial artists or rogues?” he said.
That is why teaching ethics is the top priority for the 35,000-odd students in the six schools of the education group, he said.
“Before learning martial arts, we should learn virtue first. The students are given ethics courses every day,” said Yang Songpo, a coach who taught in the Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School for three years.
Some newcomers might not understand why they have to go through so many ethics courses, but they will gradually realize the importance of virtue, he said.
Many of the students are also “left-behind children”, whose parents have migrated to urban areas for work and left them in their rural homes. To foster better interaction and build teacher-student ties, coaches also live with their students in dormitories, eat with them in cafeterias and play games with them, Yang said.
“We are strict with the students in training and we are nice to them in their daily life,” he said. Such an approach helps, Yang said, citing an example of a rebellious student who improved his behavior and attitude after the teacher took care of him when he was ill.
Zhao Yibo, a teacher with the publicity department of the Shaolin Tagou Education Group, said that the students seem to be in high demand during the People’s Liberation Army’s Special Forces recruitment exercises.
“Because of their excellent physical condition, many students have become police officers and soldiers,” he said, adding that 48 students became SWAT members of Guizhou province in April.
Many students also choose to start an enterprise and teach martial arts after graduation, Zhao said.
“We teachers and coaches will do what we can to help the students fulfill their dreams,” he said.
“When my mom told me on the phone that she had watched the TV program and saw our aerial dance ‘Build the Dream’ during the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games opening ceremony, I felt that all my hard training had paid off,” said 16-year-old student Shi Linlei.
Contact the writers at sunxiaochen@chinadaily.com.cn and anbaijie@chinadaily.com.cn[/QUOTE]
There are more pix of the Build the Dream aerial dance if you follow the link.
One more Tagou tale for today
Today was a big day for Shaolin on the newsfeeds…
School of hard knocks
Updated: 2014-08-28 07:00
By An Baijie in Dengfeng, Henan(China Daily USA)
Like many fellow Americans, Colin Malick used to think kung fu was more of a “Hollywood thing” rather than martial arts.
But after arriving in China last year and taking up lessons at the Shaolin Tagou International Communication Center in Dengfeng for eight months, the 23-year-old has realized that kung fu is not child’s play.
Malick, from the US state of Oregon, said he trains for six to eight hours every day.
“We have to get up at about 5:30 am and run 3 km to the Shaolin Temple to exercise before breakfast,” he said.
Malick became interested in martial arts after watching movies of kung fu star Jackie Chan. His father’s girlfriend, who is Chinese, told him to learn Shaolin kung fu.
Malick said his dream is to become a police officer, and learning martial arts can improve his physical condition.
His martial arts course costs about $10,000 a year, with the training fees, accommodation and food included. There are currently 11 foreign students learning martial arts at the center and 9,800 foreigners have studied there since 1997.
By performing at many international events, the center has attracted more international students, said Liu Baoshan, founder of the Shaolin Tagou Education Group.
Won Zong, a 15-year-old Korean-Frenchman, said that he was studying Shaolin martial arts under the orders of his mother to become more independent.
The campus is better than what he had expected, he said.
Shen Jia, a coach for the international students, said that some foreign students were homesick at the beginning, but he always encourages them to persevere.
“Many foreign students thought that it would be fun to learn martial arts, but actually it’s tough and tedious,” he said.
“After all, Shaolin Temple is not Hollywood.”
(China Daily USA 08/28/2014 page6)
Slightly OT
13 spectacular pictures of the art of Shaolin
By Multimedia Desk Published: April 8, 2016
PHOTO: REUTERS
Shaolin is among the oldest institutionalised styles of Chinese martial arts practiced today. Dating back 1,500 years, the Shaolin Temple is the main temple of the Shaolin school of Buddhism to this day.
Shaolin Kung Fu, also called Shaolin Wushu was developed in the Buddhist Shaolin temple in Henan province, China. With its rich content, and over 1500 years of its development, Shaolin kung fu has become one of the largest schools of kung fu.
Here we look at students of Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School participating in a rehearsal at a stadium in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China.
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PHOTOS: REUTERS
Not all of Tagou but mostly, which is why I say ‘slightly’ OT. 
There is something fundamentally disturbing about that kind of mass choreography.
Taguo - 29,560 strong
It’s been a while since we’ve done a Shaolin Special. We were going to do one after the The 4th Shaolin Cultural Festival last year, but after that fell apart, we’ve been on hold. Maybe soon. A lot of readers have been asking. I truly appreciate that support. Soon come.
30,000 students in International Shaolin Wushu Festival rehearsal
2016-10-16 16:30:58 CRIENGLISH.com Web Editor: Shi
The 11th International Shaolin Wushu Festival rehearsal takes place at the Shaolin Temple Scenic Spot on Mount Song in Dengfeng City, central China’s Henan Province on Oct. 14, 2016. A total of 29,560 students from Tagou martial arts school participate in the event. They showcase numerous performances featuring group exercises, Shaolin stunts and Wushu melodrama. [Photo: qq.com]
The 11th International Shaolin Wushu Festival rehearsal takes place at the Shaolin Temple Scenic Spot on Mount Song in Dengfeng City, central China’s Henan Province on Oct. 14, 2016. A total of 29,560 students from Tagou martial arts school participate in the event. They showcase numerous performances featuring group exercises, Shaolin stunts and Wushu melodrama. [Photo: qq.com]
The 11th International Shaolin Wushu Festival rehearsal takes place at the Shaolin Temple Scenic Spot on Mount Song in Dengfeng City, central China’s Henan Province on Oct. 14, 2016. A total of 29,560 students from Tagou martial arts school participate in the event. They showcase numerous performances featuring group exercises, Shaolin stunts and Wushu melodrama. [Photo: qq.com]
The 11th International Shaolin Wushu Festival rehearsal takes place at the Shaolin Temple Scenic Spot on Mount Song in Dengfeng City, central China’s Henan Province on Oct. 14, 2016. A total of 29,560 students from Tagou martial arts school participate in the event. They showcase numerous performances featuring group exercises, Shaolin stunts and Wushu melodrama. [Photo: qq.com]
The 11th International Shaolin Wushu Festival rehearsal takes place at the Shaolin Temple Scenic Spot on Mount Song in Dengfeng City, central China’s Henan Province on Oct. 14, 2016. A total of 29,560 students from Tagou martial arts school participate in the event. They showcase numerous performances featuring group exercises, Shaolin stunts and Wushu melodrama. [Photo: qq.com]
The 11th International Shaolin Wushu Festival rehearsal takes place at the Shaolin Temple Scenic Spot on Mount Song in Dengfeng City, central China’s Henan Province on Oct. 14, 2016. A total of 29,560 students from Tagou martial arts school participate in the event. They showcase numerous performances featuring group exercises, Shaolin stunts and Wushu melodrama. [Photo: qq.com]
The 11th International Shaolin Wushu Festival rehearsal takes place at the Shaolin Temple Scenic Spot on Mount Song in Dengfeng City, central China’s Henan Province on Oct. 14, 2016. A total of 29,560 students from Tagou martial arts school participate in the event. They showcase numerous performances featuring group exercises, Shaolin stunts and Wushu melodrama. [Photo: qq.com]
‘Wushu melodrama’ 
Trending back once more
Will this never end? Imagine if they actually succeed.
Shaolin Soccer the movie gets real in China
posted November 19, 2016 at 12:01 am by AFP
China’s national team is struggling: the world’s most populous country ranks a lowly 84th according to FIFA and the latest setback to its fading hopes of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia was a 0-0 home draw this week with Qatar – which has only around 300,000 citizens.
But China is investing hugely in football training and has vowed to have 50 million school-age players by 2020, as the ruling Communist party eyes “football superpower” status by 2050.
The vast Tagou martial arts school, a few miles from the cradle of Chinese kung fu, the Shaolin Temple in Henan province, has 35,000 fee-paying boarders, who live in Spartan conditions and are put through a rigorous training regime.
Some 1,500 of its students, both male and female, have signed up for its new soccer program, centered on a pristine green Astroturf football pitch where dozens of children play simultaneous five-a-side-games.
A concrete viewing stand is under construction to accommodate future spectators, with cement mixers churning and a crane swinging girders above the children as they practiced.
Shaolin monks show off their football skills during a demonstration game in Dengfeng, central China’s Henan province. China’s celebrated Shaolin Temple is training young kung fu disciples to play football in the far-off hope of reversing the flagging fortunes of the national team, state media reported. AFP
“We are responding to the country’s call,” said Sun Dawei, a crew-cut former martial arts champion who took a soccer coach training course last year.
“What we want to do is combine Shaolin martial arts with football and create an original concept,” he added.
Sun’s class of 12-year-olds wore red jackets emblazoned “Shaolin” and the canvas-style shoes favored by practitioners of Chinese martial arts, known as wushu.
They cartwheeled from one side of the pitch to another, before assembling in formation and running through tightly choreographed routines of high kicks and punches.
“With a foundation in wushu, their bodily flexibility and force is a great help when they are playing football,” said Sun. “Their jumping ability is helpful.”
Awesome movie
The training base has drawn comparisons with the hit 2001 Hong Kong film “Shaolin Soccer,” about a ragtag band of out-of-shape martial artists who defy the odds to storm to victory in a football tournament.
The film’s heroes play in yellow monks’ robes, flying through the air, carrying out dazzling dives and overhead kicks of tornado-like power and winning one game 40-0.
“The flying and those sort of awesome things I can’t do,” admitted 12-year-old winger Sun Linyuan.
But he added: “In the future I will be able to do spinning kicks and bicycle kicks. Then I’ll be a better footballer.”
When the soccer program opened a year ago the province’s top sport official Zhang Wenshan addressed a ceremony which saw thousands of students carry out a tightly choreographed martial arts routine.
“We have carried out deep research into using our province’s advantage in traditional martial arts to develop youth football,” he said.
A provincial document vows to “build shaolin soccer into a brand”, and the school has given itself five years to become one of the province’s top three youth teams.
Each child who signs up for the soccer program practices for several hours every day and the school has signed a deal with a British firm to import coaches.
Work in progress
Sun’s group split into two teams, with captains assigning positions. One striker in a number 10 jersey backflipped his way onto the pitch.
Despite their years of kung fu training, the students’ football skills were still a work in progress, school staff admitted, with sloppy defending, shaky shooting and poor ball control all in evidence.
“You’re just running wherever the ball is! Do you think that’s ok?” an exasperated Sun told his students in a half-time huddle. “Should you be marking people or not?”
“Yes!” the students all affirmed at once.
Long a football fan, Sun admitted there was a “vast” difference between the Beautiful Game and Shaolin kungfu.
Still, he said, “We are the number one school for martial arts. So we have the confidence that in another area we can also be among the nation’s best.”
More on Taguo and Shaolin Soccer (football)
The key point here that the author misses is that Taguo is not a direct branch of Shaolin Temple. It’s run by the Liu clan, and they are CCP members. Communism does not extol Buddhism, or religion of any sort.
China’s investor-monks offer divine example
By Kunal Sinha | December 22, 2016, Thursday
IN China’s startup scene, restaurant delivery firm Ele.me is a standout success story. With 20,000 employees picking up food ordered from 300,000 restaurants, mostly over the mobile phone, it serves over 40 million users in 1,000 cities, and racks up a daily turnover of 60 million yuan (US$8.65 million).
So even as the company recently raised capital from the likes of Tencent, Sequoia Capital, and CITIC Capital pushing its market cap beyond US$1 billion, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the angel investors in the fledgling firm was none other than a fund started by the monks at Shanghai’s Jade Buddha Temple. (Shanghai Daily, 13 December 2016).
The firm’s founder and CEO, Zhang Xuhao started the company while still a student. But when he was about to go bankrupt in 2009, he received a 100,000 yuan sponsorship from the temple. Ele.me never looked back — and its founder calls the investment his “lucky money.”
Devotees across the globe shower wealth on their deities, their Gods and Goddesses, in the belief that their prayers will be answered. It is extremely rare to hear of instances of monks and priests investing the money they have received from the grateful into social good, especially in young people. Granted, they feed the poor and sometimes build charitable hospitals. But venture capital for the young? It is indeed a move that merits applause.
Out-of-the-box thinking
For a temple to be aligned to a national, or societal interest — such as boosting entrepreneurship and employment — requires out-of-the-box thinking.
This is something that the Tagou school of martial arts, a training ground for thousands of Shaolin monks in Dengfeng County, Henan Province, has also demonstrated. Even as China invests big in football training, vowing to have 50 million school-age players by 2020, some 1,500 students at the school (all trained in the martial arts) have taken to football. The program’s founders, all Shaolin monks, believe that the martial arts form with its emphasis on body flexibility, jumping, control and force meets essential requirements for the game. Their investment is of a different kind, but one that shows an engagement with a young community and their ideals.
Why did these stories appeal to me so much? I’ve been reading about how much money is being collected by temples in India right now, in the aftermath of the country’s demonetization drive.
Unable to convert their “black” money legally, many people are dropping them into collection boxes in temples, hoping for a karmic payback.
The collection at one of Mumbai’s most popular temples, the Siddhi Vinayak Temple dedicated to Ganesha, increased from 4 million rupees (US$59,000) a week to 6 million. At the Tirumala Temple in Tirupati, arguably India’s richest temple, daily collections have similarly increased from 20-30 million rupees to almost 60 million — even as the number of devotees came down slightly.
I wonder what the temples in India would do with so much extra cash. I would urge them to take a leaf out of the book of the monks at the Jade Buddha Temple and Shaolin Temple and invest in providing young people startup opportunities. Or invest in building the infrastructure that the country desperately needs, even if it is about doing it in the immediate vicinity of the temples. These are places that are often in need of better hygiene and sanitation, parking lots and wider streets. We need the priests and policymakers to sit down together and work out where the collaboration can have the quickest payoff.
Such investment can really be the kind of divine intervention that could boost the fortunes of any society.
Kunal Sinha has over 25 years of unearthing and commenting on consumer and cultural trends, and helping companies profit from them. Based in Shanghai for over a decade, he is the author of two books about creativity in business: China’s Creative Imperative, and Raw – Pervasive Creativity in Asia, and has taught at some of the world’s leading business schools.
35,000 students
In my recent article, Shaolin by the Numbers (JAN+FEB 2018), I reported 38000 students. That number was given to me by my old friend, Wang Yu Min, who is seriously connection in Dengfeng and gets my stats.
© Sputnik/ Zhanna Manukyan
Enter the Student, Exit the Dragon: A Tour of Legendary Martial Arts School
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Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School, located near Mount Song (the site of the legendary Shaolin Monastery) in Henan, China was founded in 1978 by Liu Baoshan, a lay disciple of the Shaolin Monastery.
A vast complex of buildings that accommodates some 35,000 students, Shaolin Tagou is one of the largest martial arts schools in China.
While an applicant needs to be at least 5 or 6 years old to become eligible to train here, there’s no ‘upper age limit’ in Shaolin Tagou.
The school accepts students regardless of their gender, though boys and girls live and train separately, and out of the school’s 35,000 students only 3,000 are female.
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Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School Students
People become students at Shaolin Tagou for various reasons. Some of them are unruly children brought by their parents in hopes that the school’s discipline would set them straight. Others are attracted by the fame and prestige of Shaolin Tagou. And yet there are also plenty of those who simply consider wushu a hobby or just want to become famous martial arts film actors like Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan.
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Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School Students
The school’s regimen is strict and almost military-like: a wake-up call at 5:30 in the morning, PE, breakfast, training time, general education lessons, lunch, more training, more lessons, supper, yet more training and then bedtime.
While corporal punishment wasn’t uncommon in martial schools in the past, the Shaolin Tagou faculty does not resort to such methods: after all, in this day and age striking a child might result in a lawsuit being filed by his or her parents.
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Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School Students
Faculty members also believe apart from learning martial arts at Shaolin Tagou, the students also build up their willpower – something that will help them in life no matter what career they may decide to pursue in the future.
38K students!
Spectacular footage shows 26,000 Chinese martial arts students performing Shaolin kung fu in unison
Students put on a stunning performance of Shaolin kung fu, one of the oldest styles of Chinese martial arts
The students were seen carrying out difficult acrobatic acts and sparring with poles in perfect sync
The impressive performance was filmed at the foot of Song mountain in Henan, home to the Shaolin Temple
By KELSEY CHENG FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 12:26 EDT, 8 June 2018 | UPDATED: 12:55 EDT, 8 June 2018
A total of 26,000 students showed off their excellent martial art skills in a spectacular performance on Wednesday in central China.
The young energetic students, donning red and black kung fu uniforms, put on an awe-inspiring performance of Shaolin kung fu, one of the oldest and most famous styles of Chinese martial arts.
The massive cadre of students were seen carrying out difficult acrobatic acts and organising themselves into different formations with their bodies - all completed in perfect unison and under a single command.
Students of a martial art school perform Shaolin kung fu at the foot of Mount Song on Wednesday in Henan province, China
All 26,000 students in the performance are from Shaolin Temple Tagou Martial Arts School in Dengfeng city
The student then assembled themselves in a flawless formation to show the words ‘Glory to our country’
The breathtaking performance was filmed at the foot of the Song Mountain, which is home to the Shaolin Temple, the Buddhist temple founded more than 1,500 years ago.
In a video of the event released by Modern Express, the students were seen leaping, hitting, kicking, grappling and sparring with poles in a perfectly synchronised choreography.
They were seen performing difficult aerobics movements, flying through the air and landing in human pagoda formations.
A single kung fu master, dressed in white, is seen giving out commands from the centre of the arrangement, with the students converging and dispersing around him, creating a stunning sight of human wave.
The breathtaking performance was filmed at the foot of the Song Mountain, home to the Buddist Shaolin Temple
The students are seen converging and dispersing to form perfect patterns and words during the spectacular performance
The young energetic students, donning red and black kung fu uniforms, are seen getting ready for the big performance
The school is renowned for its martial arts training and the entire education group has six institutions with 38,000 students
Spectacular aerial shots also show the students doing back flips and splits in perfect unison, demonstrating the superb results of their rigorous training.
The student then assembled themselves in a flawless formation to show the words ‘glory to our country’ with the China flag, followed by an impressive performance of Tai Chi as well as other individual performances.
All of the young kung fu practitioners are from Shaolin Temple Tagou Martial Arts School in Dengfeng city, Henan province.
Spectacular aerial shots show the massive cadre of students doing back flips and splits in perfect unison
The ancient Shaolin kung fu combines kicks, blocks and punches to stop attackers, achieved through rigorous training
The students are also seen carrying out individual acrobatic performances during the event on Wednesday
The school is renowned for its martial arts training and the entire education group currently has six institutions with 38,000 students, according a statement on its website.
The ancient yet powerful Shaolin kung fu combines kicks, blocks and punches to stop attackers, achieved through rigorous mental and physical training.
The discipline also stresses on ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ striking techniques, making it an aesthetically-pleasing fighting style.
Worth it to follow the link and see the vid.
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“Shaolin Kung Fu” performed at Shaolin Temple scenic area in Dengfeng, C China’s Henan
Source: Xinhua| 2018-10-21 11:07:16|Editor: Chengcheng
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Students of the Shaolin Tagou Martial Arts School stage performance “Shaolin Kung Fu” at the Shaolin Temple scenic area in Dengfeng City, central China’s Henan Province, Oct. 20, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhu Xiang)
Nothing like a Tagou mass demo.
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