August 11, 2006

sifu

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Chec­king out the web­site of my old Kung Fu school in New York, The USA Shao­lin Tem­ple, I hap­pily came across “The Love Edit”, a 10-minute film about my sifu, Shi Yan Ming.
[Hint:] My favo­rite part of the film wasn’t his Kung Fu [which is quite inc­re­di­ble to watch, espe­cially live], but the Tai Chi demo he did at the very end of the film. AMAZING stuff.
I was tal­king to Wolf on the phone the other day, who runs the Vienna chap­ter of the school. Wolf told me that Sifu has a new book out, “The Shao­lin Wor­kout”, which I’ve now just orde­red on Ama­zon. I can’t wait to read it.
If you live in New York, and are loo­king to get in shape, I’d seriously recom­mend paying the school a visit. It’s at 678 Broad­way, about a block north of Blee­ker Street. It cer­tainly wor­ked for me.
My friend, Dave Mac­Ken­zie and I are seriously con­si­de­ring paying the Aus­trian school a visit for a cou­ple of weeks this win­ter, just to lose some pounds and clear the mind a wee bit– the last few years have been pretty event­ful for us both, and a phy­si­cal reboot is nee­ded. Watch this space.
Ami­tabhah!
[Bonus Link:] Some old video clips of Sifu in the media.

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