It baffles the mind to think of just how much training these young monks have undertaken to bring us the two hour show that we were presented with tonight. The acrobatic skills, strength, and flexibility we saw tonight seemed almost out of this world – such was the ease that the monks and even their trainees (who were only up to 10 years old) displayed as they went through their martial arts and other acts.

Apart from the usual battles/combats with fists, feet, spears, swords, wooden poles etc. the monks also gave us the brick breaking on heads, bowl-stuck-on-stomach used to hold a monk aloft (see pic), lying in mid-air on the tips of four spears, two monks lying on beds of nails and then breaking bricks on their stomaches, walking on blades with heavy buckets of water, and even the breaking of metal with the groin (yowch!) acts. Sandra was a bit skeptical with some of the acts and I guess to some extent what the monks did took advantage of physics but I still think it was all pretty genuine.

If you like your kung fu you will have a great time. Don’t try it at home.

Oh if you’re wondering about this picture to the left Sandra wanted me to post it because she was totally amazed by the dude’s hair so if you’re expecting to see him at the next Shaolin Monks show you see – don’t have huge expectations! 🙂