"My favorite stream is the monk stream," said popular US influencer IShowSpeed during a recent livestream on YouTube about his China tour. He was referring to his kung fu training in Dengfeng, Central ...

Translating a Chinese tradition for American students requires that a Shaolin kung fu master learn the art of positive encouragement. "The American teacher mostly says, 'You are very good already, but ...

Martial arts and meditation practitioners in Atlanta don’t have to take the 7,500-mile journey to the Shaolin Temple in China to get a taste of authentic Shaolin culture and its ancient teachings.

The 13th Zhengzhou International Shaolin Wushu Festival kicked off in Dengfeng, the birthplace of kung fu, in Zhengzhou, a city in central China's Henan province, on October 19. This year's event ...

Martial arts master Li Liangui, an expert in suogugong, or body shrinking kung fu, takes a deep breath and dislocates the bones in his arm before stretching it in a way that he insists is more painful ...

Dengfeng, a small and quiet city in Henan province that is home to the Shaolin Temple, has been busy with the arrival of high school students from the United States who want to learn kung fu. As part ...

Masoula thinks the temple has successfully struck the right balance commercially and culturally. "They get people in to make money to maintain the culture and the history here, the martial arts itself ...

Meet Shifu Kanishka Sharma: the first Indian to ever train at the Shaolin Temple. Watching ‘The 36th Chamber of Shaolin’ changed Kanishka Sharma’s life. Introduced to the film by his driver, he was so ...