Shifu Shi Yan Ming is a Shaolin warrior monk and founder of USA Shaolin Temple. He defected from China and escaped to New York in 1992, in part because he didn't agree with the monastery's strictures.

SHI YAN MING: We walk 10 blocks, we don’t feel tired, that’s chi. If we walk five blocks and your legs feel heavy like 1,000 pounds, you cannot move forward, there’s no chi.

Though Shi Yan Ming is a world-renowned kung fu master, he was lucky to survive a poverty-stricken childhood as a peasant in China. He was born in 1964 in Henan Province, the heart-center of the ...

Shifu Shi Yan Ming is a Shaolin warrior monk and founder of USA Shaolin Temple. He defected from China and escaped to New York in 1992, in part because he didn't agree with the monastery's strictures.

Two siblings died of starvation prior to Shi Yan Ming’s birth, and he was a very sickly child. Fearing the same fate might befall him, his parents brought Shi Yan Ming to the door of a 1,500 ...

Shifu Shi Yan Ming is a Shaolin warrior monk and founder of USA Shaolin Temple. He defected from China and escaped to New York in 1992, in part because he didn't agree with the monastery's strictures.

Though Shi Yan Ming is a world-renowned kung fu master, he was lucky to survive a poverty-stricken childhood as a peasant in China. He was born in 1964 in Henan Province, the heart-center of the ...