Created in the 5 c. AD, shaolin monastery is the starting point of Chinese martial arts and has been exported to Japan together with Zen buddhism.
I just added a video on my pages from the performance we attended at Shaolin monastery. Later in this thread I will add the pages with the temple and pagodas forest.
Please be patient while the movie is loading

Elena, i have tried to view this movie twice, there is nothing there my dear. you remember the song 'everybody was kung fu fighting, those kicks were fast as lightning.? well at any rate, there was no one kung fu fighting i waited 'patiently' as instructed and still nothing happened..perhaps i was waiting 'wrong'?

I tease you, but really i get a 'cannot display webpage' when i go to it from my blog, and only a title page via drawspace.let me know when all is squared away

mine says I need to download a plug in and then it can't find a suitable one.

That's what I get as well.

This is very strange, guys because the page was verified,it works and downloads immediately.

no luck for me either

This is what I get. When I try to download the plugin, it says no plugin available!

Click to view attachment

I just got a black screen under the title - was it night time?

Norma you need to wait for the black screen to upload the video.It takes a while. For those of you who cannot find pluggins, real sorry. I use real player. Right now I want to convert AVI format to SWF flash but cannot find a converter that is free or free of bugs.

ok, folks, it's a trial version and it ...works.

Very energetic aren't they? I've been watching this for 5 hours now, and they;re still going!

Steve, to be frank, I wasn't impressed with the show which lasted 1 hour.Many of the moves are also done in gymnastics and I used to do some of them when in school(up to 18 y.old)
Some other stuff was with breaking glass with a string, breaking metal on the head, etc.The show was rather commercial oriented, I prefer something serious without music or talk.Also the monks looked brain washed and one dimension, the ability to fight.I think they can do this without asking people to volunteer and be asked to imitate the monks which ends up in laughter and boos from the audience and then they sell you the pictures taken while you were tumbling on the floor.Anyway not in my taste.

I think it's a shame. The mystery is devalued by this kind if circus performance.

Got the video ok this time, but wish I hadn't bothered - don't want to sound ungrateful, Elena, but I really didn't enjoy it much.

It's ok Norma. I fully agree with you.The trip to the monstery wasn't worth for that part only.