Shi De Yang of the Shaolin Temple in China gave an instructional workshop and demonstrated martial arts techniques to eighty-six participants at the Shaolin Martial Arts Canada facility in Aurora last weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Grand Master Tim Wakefield, \u201cSix schools of martial arts from Long Island, New York; Montreal, Quebec; Brampton, Scarborough, Mississauga, and Aurora attended the event.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is significant for the participants\u2014for the first time in Aurora, we had the opportunity to host a monk from the Shaolin Temple in China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shifu Tim, who is the Director of Shaolin Martial Arts on Mary Street, explained that \u201cShi De Yang is the 31st<\/sup> generation Shaolin \u201cMaster of Masters\u201d and is a forty-year veteran of Chinese Gong-Fu.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Through an interpreter, the amiable and charismatic Shi De Yang applauded Shifu Tim\u2019s efforts to gather the six martial arts clubs in Aurora: \u201cTim did a very good job organizing the event. I am very pleased with the support and hospitality we have received.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The engaging and receptive Martial Arts Monk complimented the local club\u2019s competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFirst of all, they are very eager and they all showed how energetic they are. The future is very bright and I am very happy about it.\u201d The 55-year-old Grand Master, who was very much at ease with media questions, discussed the essence of Martial Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is a culture. This is the most important thing. Their interest is the spark that will be felt for generations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shifu Max Rendinella, who hails from Montreal and whose Martial Arts Club co-sponsored the event, made the travel arrangements for the Grand Master and has made a pilgrimage to the Shaolin Temple in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was excited to facilitate the Grand Master\u2019s visit. It\u2019s very important for Martial Arts clubs in Aurora and all over Ontario to have events like these. It\u2019s the Grand Master\u2019s first visit to the GTA to teach and to visit Shifu Tim\u2019s school, as well. The Shaolin Temple is the mecca of the traditional martial arts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Jim Stewart<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shi De Yang of the Shaolin Temple in China gave an instructional workshop and demonstrated martial arts techniques to eighty-six participants at the Shaolin Martial Arts Canada facility in Aurora last weekend. According to Grand Master Tim Wakefield, \u201cSix schools of martial arts from Long Island, New York; Montreal, Quebec; Brampton, Scarborough, Mississauga, and Aurora […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024-11-21-03.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35436,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35433\/revisions\/35436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}