June 2008 Archives

box of shawKungfuology staffer Andy Best recently happened upon a boxed set of 90 Shaw movies in his local store. Follow this feature as Andy 'live-blogs' one a week. Spoiler alert!

 

And we're off. There's 90 movies in this set but glancing at the box I see some strange titles and repeats too. This blog will be as much about the China DVD experience as the movies themselves. As you might be able to catch in the photo, there's about 7 movies per disc. At one a week it's going to take me nearly two years (with holidays). Jia you!

So the first disc is in my machine, it's a typical Shanghai rainy Sunday and I'm ready to go. I must confess, my wife went into the set before to watch a favourite of hers One-armed Swordsman and it had a choice of original soundtracks and English titles too so I'm quite optimistic about the whole project ...

 

Kungfuology went down to Zhong Shan Park in Shanghai to see if you really can wander into a park in China and find a Kung Fu teacher. It seems you can. In this two part vidcast, we meet 71 year old teacher Pu Rujie and his student Shaun Hogan. Despite Pu Laoshi's advanced years and Shaun's hip replacement they still get down to the park and train every single day - putting kungfuology's training ethic to shame.

Pu Laoshi is a famed coach and judge for Shanghai's Chang Ning district but now teaches strictly traditional in his retirement years: Shaolin Cha Quan and the traditional Chinese weapons.

Contact editor(at)kungfuology(dot)com for more details.

Kungfuology went down to Zhong Shan Park in Shanghai to see if you really can wander into a park in China and find a Kung Fu teacher. It seems you can. In this two part vidcast, we meet 71 year old teacher Pu Rujie and his student Shaun Hogan. Despite Pu Laoshi's advanced years and Shaun's hip replacement they still get down to the park and train every single day - putting kungfuology's training ethic to shame.

Pu Laoshi is a famed coach and judge for Shanghai's Chang Ning district but now teaches strictly traditional in his retirement years: Shaolin Cha Quan and the traditional Chinese weapons.

Contact editor(at)kungfuology(dot)com for more details.

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