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Manufacturer: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780787212421
ISBN: 0787212423
Label: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 106
Publication Date: 1995-05
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Studio: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
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Summary: Great book, great info, pick it up!
Comment: Rare and fascinating glimpse into the Shao-Lin Temple through a unique and authentic lineage! Well written with great pictures and diagrams! The book is very simple and very humble with an amazing amount of high-level chi kung!
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Summary: "A set of lies agreed upon."
Comment: Napoleon Bonaparte said it best when he said that history is but a set of lies agreed upon. The "truth" about Grandmaster Sin The' is unimportant. It has no bearing on the possibilities or capabilities of the man. If you want proof of Grandmaster Sin's validity, don't read the book. go to him and earnestly challenge the man. I'm sure if you press him, or attack him, you will not say anything negative about him again. His book is clear and well written. His art is clear and well developed, no matter what his means. Shaolin is not a sport, you don't train to get good at it like you train for a sport. Shaolin is a way of life, and of preservation through destruction.
Read the book, and assess it for what it is worth. Ask yourself this, if Shaolin was, under Master Sin The', totally fraduelent, but totally devistating, would that not make the system all the more amazing? The truth is objective. Martial arts are argued like religions anymore. If you aren't apart of the group, then your claims are outrageous or superficial and impossible, etc. Well, I can only say one thing to the many claims to the accuracy of Sin The's book:
Which would be worse, an art that has a true and very reliable history that is more fulfilling than the one you are currently practicing. Or a totally fake one that is still better? No one outside of Shaolin can convince a shaolin practitioner that it is bad, so what does that say? The best proof is in the hands of the students. A student can be horrible and it effects shaolin exponentially, but it is really the student who sucks. Jus tlike in any art, there are those who struggle. But I have never heard of any of Grandmaster Sin's Senior Masters, nor the Grandmaster himself having ever been defeated by another style or martial artist. So maybe thats the sting, that maybe a 'fake' art is actually better than a 'real' one. Real or not? If it can hit you, then it is pretty damn real.
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Summary: Secrets Revealed
Comment: As a student of Shao-Lin Do (under Sifu Jason Knapp of Parkersburg, WV) and having attended several seminars wherein Grandmaster The has spoken, I was shocked to see how much of our secretive art was revealed in these pages. Although it's true you could not learn the Way of Shao-Lin from this book, it certainly contains a good bit of the truths within our system. The book is a must have for any student of the Grandmaster and would definitely serve as an attractive teaser for anyone even remotely interested. I think it is a great enhancement to any student of the martial arts' personal library, right up there with Bruce Lee's The Tao of Jeet Kune Do, even moreso.
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Summary: Wake up, PLEASE!!!
Comment: Who CARES if the chi gong techniques are authentic? Do you know HOW MANY MASTERS learn chinese Chi gong techniques and incorporate it into their systems!? Do you know how many self-proclaimed black belts and masters teach traditional karate and mask it with some Shaolin principles and techniques here and there nowdays!? My old Shaolin school also made such claims. It was VERY powerful fighting system and VERY physically demanding, it had some powerful chi gong excercises and breathing techniques that were "Secret" and not taught till the later stages. But guess what it was all a hoax! it wasn't even real Shaolin! But I guarantee you the system is more powerful than Shaolin-Do's is. The funny thing is the audacity of this man, he must be mentally ill and seriously misguided for some of the claims he makes, and he is SO disillusioned that he believes his own lies, and such devotion to lies makes a herd of ignorant americans follow him. Any real Shaolin practicioner knows that his system is fake, and only incorporates a very few power Shaolin techniques. But if it works for you, COOL!
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Summary: Haha , this reminds me of...
Comment: My old "Shaolin" School. Although this man is much worse than 'The. I had a teacher who claimed to know the "secrets" of Shaolin and taught a VERY powerful system of martial arts. Basically all it was was Kemp/Karate mixed with Shaolin principles and theory. Funny thing was he charged 150 a month plus a 2 year contract. There are also sales like people who "sell" you the classes. Once your in there he professes he is the "only grandmaster of WujiQuan (which doesn't even exist)" and says its the grandfather of all internal arts. He lists what his training consists of and you can tell he just combined a bunch of chinese martial arts into one system. He also says alot of nonsense of the history of Shaolin etc. Anyways this man is now perhaps the most sucessful Shaolin instructor in Dallas. He has alot of knowledge and is an amazing fighter. But what he teaches is not Shaolin and he is in fact a [...]. I have read the book and listened to his responses and forums and what not, Sin Kwan The is NOT a shaolin grandmaster, and what he teaches is not traditional Shaolin. He knows his stuff, he knows what he's learned, but whatever was transmitted to him was not in fact Shaolin Kunng fu, rather a decendant of Okinawan Karate which was based on Shaolin Kung fu. Believe what you want, I have seen it before, it is easy to enthrall the ignorant american masses to believe this book or master, is authentic.
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