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| Kung fu monks reject claims ninja beat them |
| 2007-08-31 |
| CHINA'S Shaolin Temple, the cradle of Chinese kung fu, is demanding an apology from an internet user who said its monks had once been beaten in unarmed combat by a Japanese ninja, Chinese media reported today. Shaolin Temple, in the northern province of Henan, became famous in the West as the training ground for Kwai Chang "Grasshopper" Caine in the 1970s Kung Fu TV series. Ninjas – professional assassins trained in martial arts – date back to medieval Japan. "The so-called defeat is purely fabricated, and we demand the Internet user to apologise to the whole nation for the wrongs he or she did," the Beijing News said, citing a notice announced by a lawyer for the Shaolin monks. Relations between Chinese and Japanese are sensitive at the best of times, with emotions still running high over Japan's invasion and occupation of parts of China in the first half of the 20th Century. The internet user, calling themselves "Five Minutes Every Day", said on an online forum last week that a Japanese ninja came to Shaolin, asked for a fight and many monks failed to beat him, the newspaper said. "The facts that the monks could not defeat a Japanese ninja showed that they were named as kung fu masters in vain," the internet user was quoted as saying in the post. The Shaolin temple "strongly condemned the horrible deeds" of the user, the newspaper said. "It is not only extremely irresponsible behaviour with respect to the Shaolin temple and its monks, but also to the whole martial art and Chinese nation," it quoted the monks as saying. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #9 I bet it happened in a mall... |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2007-08-31 17:10 |
| #8 reads like a poor knock off of a jackie chan movie. or something. all that is missing is about 30 minutes of 'Wax on, Wax off.' |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-08-31 14:33 |
| #7 I can hear the dubbed, poorly lipsynched English voiceover right now: "You dare attack the honor of Shaolin! We will settle this now..." and cue the awesome display of combat pyrotechnics! |
| Posted by: Don Vito Thomp7870 2007-08-31 13:37 |
| #6 lmao 5089 |
| Posted by: here now gone tomorrow 2007-08-31 11:18 |
| #5 Looks like the cookie monster ate my cookies. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-08-31 11:15 |
| #4 Ninjas are so 80's. |
| Posted by: Tyranysaurus Ulolung3074 2007-08-31 11:14 |
| #3 But everybody knows...only a ninja can kill a ninja! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-08-31 10:56 |
| #2 A blatant attempt by the Pirates to start a fight between Kung-fu and Ninjas. Divide and conquer. However, the Kung-fu vs. Bionic fight was never settled, either. So now with the reemergence of the Bionic people, the Kung-fu masters may be too busy to fight the Ninjas. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0880557/ |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-08-31 10:51 |
| #1 A blatant attempt by the Pirates to start a fight between Kung-fu and Ninjas. Divide and conquer. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-08-31 10:48 |