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Old 08-14-2001, 11:26 AM   #5
Istaron
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Join Date: June 16, 2001
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Jusst wait til you et ToB, tethyr has a shitload of them

Though, I would like to object on the title of this thread "Dragon vs Shaoilin."
You can't really call the monk a "shaolin", since shaolin are just a religon, or perhaps a way of living. Though, in china, there are temples with shaolin-monks, who has learnt martial arts, as Wing Chun and Wushu (I think) to protect their temples from looters, that were common during the 1000-century or so.

Also, to give you a little lesson in such things, there are no martial art called "kung fu".
There is a chinese term "gong fu", wich means "fullfillnes" or so. A masterfisher, or a good gituarrist have gong fu in their arts.
Then, china started to produce their martial art-movies, whose fighters had "gong fu" in their techniqes.
Then, when some chinese talked about gong fu with english-speaking person, it sounded very much like they said "kung fu-movie"... and THATS how people began to think there was a martial art called kung fu!

Thank you for the time

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