someone posted, “go ask the monks”
hhhmmmm, okie-dokie, lemmie just fire up the ol’ ouija board, light some candles and see if I can scare up a monk,…okay…wait a minute, something’s comming through…“Girl? What you do to yo’ hair?!” “Why it’s Autumn Sunrise, do you like it?”
Yeah, you can tell that Bruce was a martial artist first and an actor second by how he cut his acting studies short to go train.
No, wait a second…
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Reemul
I'm not beyond your help because I don't know the story!! All you said was that he met a shaolin monk. OK? AND? Then what?
As I recall
I did say that, they didn’t think much of him one way or the other.
Here is what happened anyway(not much):Some buisiness men who belonged to a Tong brought Bruce
to where the Shaolin masters “hung out”. The buisness guys were impressed cause he basically made it in terms of Chinese Actors. As I said he met Master Lo of the White eyebrow clan and another master. Bruce got cocky and wanted to display his abillities and called upon the "un-named " master to go a couple of rounds. He said ok. As
bruce started squareing off, the master just stood there. Bruced told him to put his guard up and I believe the master replied something to the effect of “my chi will be my guard” and just stood there.
To cut it short Bruce backed down. It is just as well, the master in question had approximately 170 fights in a year and these were underground fights
,not in a ring.
But as I said they didn’t think much of him one way or the other, the only KF guys that got upset
when Bruce started teaching were the Wing Chun people
Another question
Thanks for Clarifying Reemul,
That is an interesting story. As much a fan of Bruce that I am–I will be the first to admit that he was cocky. I can only speculate based on logic alone that as the years went on(assuming he had lived) he would have matured enough to know that it was best not to brag needlessly. Have you or anyone else on this bulletin board seen the movie “Dragon” with Jason Scott Lee? I can’t say for certain what style the other kung fu stylist with the long hair was using. It was definitely Tiger based of some sort(Hung Gar?)..but there was a scene where he(the opponent) did a Phoenix eye fist move and a Flying Side kick(Tae Kwon Do?)at the end of the first fight. Do you know what style it was? Nice chatting 
they tried to make it bak mei mix with northern. But considering it should have been purely Northern Wong Jack Man I do not understand!!!
I hated that “Dragon” movie.
I thought it was an insult to JKD and to Bruce Lee - having a prettyboy get up there and act like the quintessential arrogant martial arts bully that Bruce Lee so obviously WASN’T.
As far as the speculation about how he did in fights goes, none of us were there so none of us really know.
Nor should we care.
reemul - are you making that up? i have never heard of underground shaolin msaters living in San Francisco. Never heard that story basically. you got reliable source?
HEY
theres a jkd forum for u bruce lovers… Maaaaybe u should bring this up over there?
just a though 
~K~
the super-duper supreme
To all of you who doubt Shi Yan Ming, he has come to my school and done some seminars and I know one thing: he will kick all your asses. He does not just teach Wu Shu because he taught us some traditional forms and a few techniques. Jealosy is the only reason you people talk crap about the monks. Everytime I see them do something, whether it be Wu Shu or not it is amazing. If you really doubt Shi Yan Ming and think he only does Modern WuShu then go to his school and tell him to his face. You dont have build your ego on the net, just go to his school, you could show his students that his training isnt traditional.
Temptation tempts my victim to proceed,
forward ignorence wouldn’t allow retreat,
you’d rather pursue death than admit defeat (Masta Killa: Wu Tang Clan)
Chris V.
Wasn’t made up
The story wasn’t made up, but honestly I don’t think anything I can say would remove your skepticism.
Shi Yang Ming exposed himself like a subway pervert in the last issue of blackbelt. Before I assumed some abilities to him, but when he said that he didn’t teach blocking and posed with a six pack I pushed the BS alarm. Kung fu guys have stomaches like babies, it’s called breathing properly, anyone that has ever held a bow stance for any length of time needs to do this to increase both balance and endurance. EVEN THEATRE PEOPLE KNOW THIS. It’s called the “Alexander method.” Don’t think that some guy is a kung fu master because he’s fit and chinese. These days, it’s just as likely that some fat Cajun guy is a kung fu expert. In any case a picture is worth a thousand words. BTW Did he ever claim to be a Master…or just a “fighting monk” If thats so then I’d like to introduce “FRANK, THE KUNG FU FIGHTING PLUMBER!” Or Albert the kung fu fighiting college student. Shi Yan Ming’s sets are pretty, but they guy has no real kung fu. I’m not gonna waste any more time on this cardboard sifu, as far as I’m concerned he goes in the Ashida Kim pile
If your not bleeding, your not having enough fun.
To 8stepsifu
if you think shi yan ming’s stomach is weak, go give it a try. Ask him to go punch for punch with you. You punch him in the stomach and he’ll punch you back. Lets see if that six pack is as weak as you claim. Im sure he wont say no. After that, ask him to spar with you a little bit, bare knuckle or with gloves, im sure it wont matter to him. Go find out if your judgements about him are true.
Temptation tempts my victim to proceed,
forward ignorence wouldn’t allow retreat,
you’d rather pursue death than admit defeat (Masta Killa: Wu Tang Clan)
Chris V.
Shi yan Ming
HE, is not a Shaolin practioner. Dont’ get caught up in the temple hype.
Sifu Shi Yan ming having a 6 pack is a good thing. Should he have a pot belly like most of the “Sifu John Smith from north buttfuck”. I can’t beleive you people rip him. I train with the guy and he is invincible. I would love to see any of the fake tough guy kung fu nerds that doubt him step up. You couldn’t touch him. I am not just some starry eyed student. I have trained at this school for three years. There is more to it then an outsider could possibly know.
If he is not a monk, maybe but he sure spends 100%of his life acting like one. His techniques are no techniques. Those simple punches are all you need if you are fast enough. His kicks are even faster. While I’m at it wushu is the name of what we all do,in China(duh) Kung fu is the description of when its practiced. I can’t beleive nobody on this site knows that.
When I went to the tournament in baltimore the last couple of years I couldn’t beleive how low a level of kung fu that is practiced in the states. Its laughable. If any of you are good at kung fu and work hard when they train I would like to meet in the new york area to share ideas. This is not a challenge but if you saw even what I can do(basics that you all make fun of) most of you would be impressed. I hope i didn’t **** anyone off too bad but this bashing has got to stop. Some of you should be training as much as you post on this forum.
Amitabha
Some precisions: most of us know the difference between gong fu and wushu, if we don’t use wushu it’s because PRC dubs its show derivation of TCMA that way an it’s already hard enough to be clear…OK, we could use wu gong, or quan fa, or whatever suitable term but gong fu has now spread to design TCMA so we use it because everyone understands what we mean even if it is not a suitable term.
And Shi Yan Ming is surely not invincible…how do I know? Because no one is…aside from that, some persons are subject to controversy in here, even names like Yang Jwing Ming or Adam Hsu do not receive 100% of votes…so try not to take it to personally
Phoenix
I don’t take it personally, I find it funny.
P.S. he is invincible!!! 