![]() One's a cook (Chan Lung), who teaches him movements based on kitchen activities, such as kneading dough. In the course of the film he meets three consecutive teachers and learns a different style from each. It stars Meng Yuan Man as a young well-to-do student who defies his grandfather and goes off in search of kung fu teachers. Wilson Tong is better as the villain of the piece, although the real stand out is popular starlet Lily Li, whose own brand of 'female kung fu' is the highlight of the movie.ĭAGGERS EIGHT (1980) tells a rather simple kung fu tale with some clever scenes and a light touch, but is ultimately too slight to rank among the more memorable martial arts films. His fighting is passable but he doesn't really light up the screen in the way that other martial artists do. I'm unfamiliar with Meng Yuan Man as an actor and fighter but he seems very wooden when required to act and emote. It's an oddly random story and the execution of this rather cheap tale doesn't really get the juices flowing either. The only problem is that a rival master is going around killing each of those masters in turn and of course is coming for Man himself, so he has to find out why before he himself is killed. The film features in Meng Yuan Man a young upstanding hero whose sole desire is to learn various martial arts techniques at the hands of various masters, including a cook, an acrobat, and a tailor. Anyone can practice Shaolin Kung Fu.DAGGERS 8 is a singularly underwhelming kung fu feature that was made by the delightfully-named Honest Films Company in Hong Kong. Several branches of the Shaolin Temple worldwide. There is a yearly Shaolin Cultural Festival. If you want to contribute, please email Popular Culture POPULAR CULTURE (If you are interested in having your organisation listed, please contact us at HISTORICAL PLACES Organisations & Historical Places ORGANISATIONS See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil. If you want to contribute, please email Rules / Rulesets RULES / RULESETS If you want to contribute, please email WEIGHT CLASSES If you want to contribute, please email RANKS & GRADING If you want to contribute, please email TRAINING “A practitioner needs to steer clear of all the possibilities which are to lure him/her to an evil practice and to strive to do anything that is beneficial to others” TECHNIQUES Eliminate suffering and achieve wisdom – enlightenment. Shaolin is having the ability to fight without the desire to. From the Shaolin Temple itself, come tales that are told from the trees with holes born from finger conditioning, and indented concrete floors from stance training. ![]() It is now portrayed in movies and stage shows. The Abbot Shi Yongxin made it his mission to restore the Shaolin temple to save these traditions and make Shaolin accessible to the world. From these sequences, they cultivated immense internal and external energies or Shaolin Kung Fu. He discovered the Buddhist monks who resided there were weak from meditation, and so devised a strength and conditioning sequence. It is said that a man, Boddhidharma came from India to a monastery in China in 464 AD. Translated today it can also mean ‘little forest’. ![]()
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