Laughs on the “dim mak” demo…
Let us know what’s up with the “mission” as soon as feasible… //theme music… “mission impossible” …\
we always remember the misses…
…i’m sure that the failed dim mak demo will be all that anyone is talking about this show. Nothing like a snafu to upstage everything else, especially in the martial world.
Re: we always remember the misses…
Originally posted by GeneChing
…i’m sure that the failed dim mak demo will be all that anyone is talking about this show. Nothing like a snafu to upstage everything else, especially in the martial world.
so the review of the show and plenty of pcitures will be in the next issue, exluding the dim mak demo?
no review…
…that was the review above. I will be reporting on other stuff that happened in conjunction with this show, but the show itslef wasn’t really worth anymore of a review than I just gave.
BTW, here’s something from the Marin Independent Journal about the recent happenings (there was also an article in the World Journal, but it’s in Chinese).
Zen Buddhist monks display skills in Assembly chamber
Tuesday, March 23, 2004 - Associated Press
The highest figure in Chinese Zen Buddhism and a group of his monks attended yesterday’s Assembly session during the monks’ first visit to the United States.
The group of Shaolin martial artists from Songshan, China, demonstrated their world-famous Kung Fu on the Assembly’s green carpets, after Venerable Master Abbott Shi Yong
Xin led the morning prayer.
The performance included acrobatic flips and shows of strength by the monks.
One performed a handstand balanced only on his index fingers, and another stood coolly while former Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson, D-Culver City, repeatedly kicked him between the legs. The monks urged Wesson to kick harder.
Republican Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy of Monrovia was invited to deliver a series of blows to another’s midsection. After being socked three or four times by the legislator, the monk was unfazed.
The monks belong to the 1500-year-old Shaolin Temple, the place credited with creating the beginning of Zen Buddhism.
They were invited to the Assembly session by Speaker Pro Tempore Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, and performed Sunday night in San Francisco.