90-year-old Kung Fu Master Does Finger Stand

This video from National Geographic touches on the subject of Qi-Gong. Perhaps people can explain how a needle is thrown through glass?

http://www.fightauthority.com/watch.php?ytv=WAYa2tXkDBE

And this video shows a monk doing the "Two finger skill" which was passed down from the man above. This is from the Discovery Channel about 3 minutes in. A monk holds his feet, but that is the same as having them supported on a wall.

http://www.fightauthority.com/watch.php?ytv=WAYa2tXkDBE

I remember watching a man on the Ed Sullivan Show years ago stand upside down on one finger on a crystal ball. I believe his name was Unis. He wore a mysterious looking white glove which added to the drama. If anyone has any ifo on this guy please let me know.

Jim said:

"I remember watching a man on the Ed Sullivan Show years ago stand upside down on one finger on a crystal ball."

Assuming that this happened as you describe it, how long did the guy stand on his finger and how old did he appear to be?

Could the "mysterious looking white glove" have been a special apparatus which allowed him to appear to be standing on one finger?

Since this was demonstrated to newscasters at the 2008 Olympics, it's obviously possible.

MidNightCrimson said:

"why are you all so quick to disprove something you have never seen before?"

Well, you've convinced me, Crimson. In fact, because of your convincing logic, I'm going to reveal something I've been holding back.

I can fly. No, I don't mean in an airplane or if I'm attached to wires or something, I mean fly just like a bird.

You may be skeptical, but you should have an open mind. I mean, just because you've never seen a person fly, that doesn't mean that I can't, right?

You DO have an open mind, don't you? You aren't one of those closed-minded people like the ones who didn't think the Earth was round, right?

As we know, if someone makes a claim on the Internet, no matter how unlikely it may be, it MUST be true. Please tell me that you believe that I can fly. I wouldn't want to think that you were closed-minded.

K. Heres a new comment i found.
Since this was demonstrated to newscasters at the 2008 Olympics, it's obviously possible.
Posted by john in los angeles on Tue Aug 26, 2008 at 06:49 AM

did you watch the olympics?
still not convinced?
here's a video from youtube where a man does a handstand on an open floor with the index and middle finger of both his hands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBXFTiRo_14&feature=related
and its not fake
I accept your apology in advance for being WRONG, closed minded-douche, who doesn't go out much and doesn't see too many amazing things in his life

oh yea, AngryMedia Guy? I see you think that "Breaking" is a bunch of "smoke and mirrors"
a plank is a cheap piece of wood, wood that is not even and inch thick and has a large surface area can be easily broken.
Now concrete, heh thats a different story. On NatGeo they did this thing called fight science
the dude broke 7 concrete blocks with his elbow
the dude tried it before with a sledge hammer
a SLEDGE HAMMER!! guess what? no breaky

an yes some people in other cultures DO have knowledge we don't about certain things. Thats what happens when your not as commercialized and interdependent as America is
imagine 400 years ago people actually thought they knew everything about everything? Earth center of the universe? World being flat? people being evil primitives? cause they were different and new to them? man we have space shuttles, electron microscopes and holographic images for god'sake!!
don't be so quick to discount everything you don't understand at first
can you explain all the shit that happens around the Bermuda Triangle? didn't think so

fake or true? we might not know it, but one thing for sure...Cranky Media Guy is damn EMO..

damn..i never see anyone stand use 1 finger, as i never know anyone as EMO as Cranky Media Guy.

I'm familiar with the term "emo" but what does it mean in this context?

It means that you are incredibly "emo"tional.

In this context, it means you fall into that social class perfectly.

And where are the comments about the Olympic post and the concrete posts above? Where is the witty banter we o-so-crave from you?

Provoke.

As much as I would like to believe that that is possible and it may actually be possible to do, I highly doubt that he was able to do it at his age with all things considered even the person who tried to do a similar thing in the olympics ended up breaking his finger under the weight of his own body in the process.

this is possible and it was actually done. he visited the city of 10,000 Buddhas before he died and was witnessed there in person doing it. he taught two people that were disciples of Hsuen Hua (non shaolin tripikata Buddhist master.) how to practice to develop it. Rev. Heng Sure, and I don't remember the name of the other ; the two individuals are famous for bowing every three steps from a temple in long beach all the way to Ukiah (location of city of 10,000 Buddhas.) even if you cant trust a shaolin monk these days (understandable) you can trust monks that have nothing to lie about. they witnessed him doing it in person. they have a pretty spotless reputation.

Geezel Pete. I forgot I even found this site.
chuan bo, you rock

Here is an explanation of how this works. Look carefully at his index finger and forearm. Note that it is a perfectly straight line - none of the joints in his finger bend, and the forearm is aligned with it. If you do this perfectly, you can support a great deal of stress on them. If you do it wrong you hurt yourself.

I find it funny that you are so in receptive if these things. If they were fake, why would people still practice them? So if it is magic why don't you fight this old man? Maybe you are ripped and shit, but it is not all about strength... And do you know how intense monks train??? One thing I know that they make jab there hand into a bag of gravel for hours a day, to increase the skins and bones resistence? Ever seen those guys balancing on lances?? I'm sure they are fake and that is why people buy tickets to see them.

fucking idiot.

"Shut the fuck up" seems to have confused personal attack with logic, reason and facts.

"I find it funny that you are so in receptive if these things."

???

"If they were fake, why would people still practice them?"

I think you just proved, using your peculiar "logic" that Criss Angel can really hover in thin air. I mean, if it's fake, why would he practice doing it?

"So if it is magic why don't you fight this old man?"

Sure, no problem. When can I expect you to send me a round-trip ticket to the Orient?

"One thing I know that they make jab there hand into a bag of gravel for hours a day, to increase the skins and bones resistence?"

And that will enable a VERY old man to balance his entire weight on one finger?

"Ever seen those guys balancing on lances?? I'm sure they are fake and that is why people buy tickets to see them."

So, the WWE is real? People buy tickets to their shows, which--again, according to YOUR "logic"--MUST mean that it's real.

"fucking idiot."

You can't provide any proof for the things you believe, so you engage in insults. Sad.

well excuse for my lack of words as i can find no more to describe you.

Well, I suppose you know all the magic trick in the world, no?
Tricks are fake yes, but according to you if you see it, its real. Well, so I believe you know EVERY trick in the book right? NOOOO. So I guess for you, you have to accept that magic is real...the ones you don't know anyways.

Also seriously, how could you compare WWE to martial arts, those guys eat roid bars and gain weight so they can look tough... Bruce lee could probably punch through them.

Oh ya,and 9/11 must be fake, I guess right? I mean it's not that hard to use movie tricks and Bush pay the news station to make some story up. Or am I real? Are we living in a virtuall world???? WHO AM I???
Well I guess you can't prove EVERYthing right?
So seriously, you cannot keep questioning facts.
Ex: 1+1=2
Why does 1+1 =2
because 1 apple +1 apple =2 apples
PRove it
okay 1 apple and 1 apple + 2 apples
HOw do you know that the other apple is not fake?
Because I jsut took it out of my pocket.
How do I know that it is nota trick..


That is Exactly how you sound right now..

You have less apparent familiarity with logic and reason than anyone I've run into in a LONG time.

Your new posting completely contradicts your previous one. Why am I not surprised by this?

I guess if these old monks told you they could fly, you'd be forced to believe it. After all, they jab their hands into bags of gravel. I mean, what MORE proof of ability to do the impossible could one ask for?

So, when should I expect the round-trip plane tickets to Asia so I can fight the old dude?

No it apppears that you have no sense of logic considering there is nothing relevant between hand traning and flying. Flying DEFIES physics. and these feats of human body DO not.

Okay let's go a bit off topic.
Is obama really black? I mean I never me him in person. Wait, if i did, how do I know that he's not reverse michael jackson. Yes, it MUST be some optical illusion. Oh oh wait, why don't you buy ME a ticket so I can believe that a black guy is president? Who cares about the news, I mean just because its on the news doesn't prove anything, so I guess it's all a hoax? You might as well put that on a hoax site.


You have nothing to say about my posts,so you have to say some random shit like that, oh and just in appreciation of you superb logic, I believe that Bruce lee can fly just beause he trains. Yes, he can definitely defy physic my training...

the last sentence is with training, but I'm sure you are smart enough to figure that out.


OFFTOPIC
Oh ya, btw Obama is white unless you prove me so.

You have to understand this "Guy" only responds to people with irrational banter, he loves it. Whenever someone posts on fact, he goes silent.

He does, however, make me laugh when people just through poorly worded jests and insults. He doesn't, however, give any kind of backing to his own facts.

I'm still awaiting the responses to the National Georgraphic Documentary, and the Olympic demonstrations. Surely it was all camera magic? National Geographic is known for it, right?

Dude, somebody just called CMG "emo"... that's uncalled for, you "pilltop grinder"... how rude

" You have nothing to say about my posts,so you have to say some random shit like that, oh and just in appreciation of you superb logic, I believe that Bruce lee can fly just beause he trains. Yes, he can definitely defy physic my training..."

Well, you just can't argue with THAT, now can you? Of course, that has much to do with the fact that it's impossible to understand.

OK, here's how it works on Planet Earth. YOU are making a claim (that these guys can stand on one finger for a prolonged period of time). The burden of proof is on YOU. I realize that you'd like for me to fly to Asia and fight the old guy (which apparently in your mind would somehow validate...well, something) but I suspect even you realize that isn't going to happen.

Sorry, but I just do not believe that it's possible for a human to support the entire weight of their body on a single fingertip. Given how small the area of a fingertip is, the pressure per square inch would be very large.

Secondly, there's the matter of balance. Moving even slightly in any direction would bring gravity into play. (You DO believe in gravity, yes? Or do you think that "Chi" can overcome it or something like that?)

Thirdly, there's the matter that this particular guy is REALLY REALLY OLD. Yeah, yeah, I know, these guys punch bags of cement or whatever it is you say they do. He's still nearly a century old, if we believe what we're told.

It seems to me that too many people use the idea of the Asian culture supposedly being "more in touch with nature" or cosmic forces or whatever as an excuse to throw out fundamental realities in favor of believing in fantasies. Asians can no more break the known laws of physics than Occidentals can. Bruce Lee movies are NOT proof that adherents to ancient cultures are "magical."

As for Barack Obama's race, uh, has it not come to your attention that the President had a black father and a white mother? That means that he is as black as he is white. So, what point were you incompetently trying to make?

as I said I do not see how your comments refute mine, as i have explained. hmmm so explain to me about 9/11 and Obama (which is black and that is why 97% blacks voted for him, regardless of his heritage people see him as black)
so here something that you didn't tell me.
1. AGAIN, So how does flying link with physical training?
2. According to you logic, you really can't prove anything unless you see it yourself; SO therefore like I said, unless you know all the magic tricks in the world, you are claiming magics are real.
3. Your rebut against my obama analogy is pointless, you do not get the point of my argument,if I change it to "I refuse to believe that this man, Obama, is the president of the US"; it is still valid.
4. AGAIN, WHAT HE DID DOES NOT DEFY THE LAWS OF PHYICS.
5. About gravity, that is why he's leaning against a wall, as it would be extremely hard, but not impossible to do it without the wall.
6.Chi, is a Chinese word for energy.It is not fake, it is just another way for the Chinese to explain things. Just like how Chinese medicin use Ying and Yang to explain how the body works. Many diseases were cured with the Chinese doctrine.
7.And I'm not sure if you got my sarcasm, but now I am saying, I was sarcastic about my Bruce Lee analogy...
8.I would love to show you some Shaolin monks, but what good is it to me?
9. Who said he stood for prolonged period of time?

Same guy said:

"hmmm so explain to me about 9/11 and Obama (which is black and that is why 97% blacks voted for him, regardless of his heritage people see him as black)"

What the HELL are you talking about?

"According to you logic, you really can't prove anything unless you see it yourself; SO therefore like I said, unless you know all the magic tricks in the world, you are claiming magics are real."

Since I never said that you can't prove anything unless you see it yourself, your "point," whatever it is, is moot.

"About gravity, that is why he's leaning against a wall, as it would be extremely hard, but not impossible to do it without the wall."

You actually believe that someone, even a 90-YEAR-OLD MAN, can stand on one finger tip without support of any kind? Wow.

"Chi, is a Chinese word for energy."

If that's all there was to it, there would be no disagreement. That isn't all there is to it, though. There's all that "meridian" and "points" stuff which has to do with acupuncture, which is pseudo-science.

"I would love to show you some Shaolin monks, but what good is it to me?"

Well, if I actually did see them, I might be able to determine what trick they used to "balance" on one fingertip.

"Who said he stood for prolonged period of time?"

Point taken. Yes, the claim is NOT that he stood on his fingertip for a prolonged length of time, but I still don't buy the whole thing.

I presume you mean tranditional acupuncture? As if it's pseudo-science I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be an accredited program with medical schools all around the world:

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Acupuncture & Dry Needling is a therapeutic method used by specially trained physiotherapists to encourage natural healing, reduce or relieve pain and improve function of affected areas of the body. It involves the insertion of very fine needles through the skin and tissues at specific points on the body. There is no injection of any substance and the treatment itself causes minimal discomfort. Dry needling treatments may cause more discomfort if tight muscles are being released or if a muscle is being stimulated to increase strength. The soreness is temporary and improved muscle flexibility and strength is realized quickly. Physiotherapists who use needles must be on the acupuncture registry with the College of Physical Therapists of Alberta.


--

Or did you look this up via a hoax site, who are the authority on all things unknown?

http://www.bridgeport.edu/pages/2713.asp

http://www.csp.org.uk/director/members/groupsandnetworks/clinicalinterestandoccupationalgroups/complementarytherapygroups/acupuncture.cfm

or maybe this will be better because it is american, the Relative units for Physio degrees with acupuncture courses listed:

http://www.apta.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=19045&TEMPLATE;=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm

or this which shows another American university, with an article on the acupuncture training it gives to its medical staff:

http://psychiatry.medicine.dal.ca/department/July04_2.pdf

I could go on and on. Perhaps this will make you more open to other theories, besides your own.

"The Master of Science in Acupuncture program of the University of Breidgeport is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM), which is the recognized accrediting agency for the approval of programs preparing acupuncture and oriental medical practitioners."

So, this course is accredited by an outfit specifically set up to "accredit" "alternative medicine." This is like if some "accrediting" outfit owned by the Church of Scientology "accredited" a Scientology auditing course.

Believe it or not, sometimes, universities offer courses in fake stuff and quack medicine. Unfortunate but true.

For the CSP link, I refer you to my comment about Scientology.

A search for "acupuncture" on the APTA.org site seems to return only a piece about the director sending letters to newspapers in response to a news story which mentioned acupuncture and physical therapy. The purpose of the letter appears to be to promote the use of physical therapy, not acupuncture.

Your fourth link goes to a ten-page PDF of which ONE PARAGRAPH concerns a 40 hour workshop for health care professionals in acupuncture. It says "Addictions prevention and treatment services" was offering the course, but it doesn't say what the acupuncture was supposed to treat. Of course there is no indication whether the acupuncture had any effect at all on anything.

The hospital in question is in Nova Scotia, Canada, NOT the U.S., by the way, contrary to what you said.

You ought to take a look at the news story that APTA was responding to, by the way. It was about scientists actually TESTING "legitimate" acupuncture versus "fake" acupuncture. You might find it interesting.

sorry i fail to understand i word you said about my post.
"What the HELL are you talking about?"
wtf do you mea? I said perfectly well before that ummm obama is definitely NOT the president and 9/11 us just some scam, I mean comon, do you really believe that some retard smashed 2 planes into a bulding AND it was caught on tape? (I hope you get what i'm trying to say here.)



sorry I really don't have too much time to spend on this.

don't snip my post and respond them individually. read as a whole./

same guy said:

"sorry i fail to understand i word you said about my post.
'What the HELL are you talking about?'
wtf do you mea? I said perfectly well before that ummm obama is definitely NOT the president and 9/11 us just some scam"

No, HERE is what you ACTUALLY said:

"as I said I do not see how your comments refute mine, as i have explained. hmmm so explain to me about 9/11 and Obama (which is black and that is why 97% blacks voted for him, regardless of his heritage people see him as black)"

Besides being ungrammatical, it also makes no sense and has NOTHING to do with the subject...bt other than THAT, it's fine.

I love your "reasoning" that the fact that a large number of black people voted for Obama somehow "proves" that he's black. He is, as I pointed out, half black and half white because of his parentage.

By your "logic," Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy are/were black. After all, a large majority of black voters voted for them, right? So there you go. Where do people get off saying that Obama is our first black president?

By the way, when, prior to that comment I just quoted, did you say anything about 9/11--and what would THAT have had to do with the subject of this thread?

Now that I have a better insight into your reasoning skills, I understand why you think a man who is nearly a centenarian can stand on one finger.

GOD DAMIT DONT YOU READ

3. Your rebut against my obama analogy is pointless, you do not get the point of my argument,if I change it to "I refuse to believe that this man, Obama, is the president of the US"; it is still valid.

Since I never said that you can't prove anything unless you see it yourself, your "point," whatever it is, is moot.

you clearly said in previous posts stating that unless you see him performing it live in front of you without wire you will not believe. that is not gonna happen anyways because hes dead. But my point remains valid.READ SO YOU KNOW WHAT I'M REFREING TO.


It has come to my attention that you ignore people's facts or things that you cannot rebuke, so you pick things that other people say that you can argue about, which in most cases are retarded and once that point is rebuked by another person you change the subject by arguing another point that person said. From now on, I will list everything that you said nothing about. and they are only from my post by the way.
And I'm not going to explain everything I say, so read.
copied and pasted from previous posts.
1. AGAIN, So how does flying link with physical training?
2.Your rebut against my obama analogy is pointless, you do not get the point of my argument,if I change it to "I refuse to believe that this man, Obama, is the president of the US"; it is still valid.
3. AGAIN, WHAT HE DID DOES NOT DEFY THE LAWS OF PHYICS.
4.Also seriously, how could you compare WWE to martial arts, those guys eat roid bars and gain weight so they can look tough... Bruce lee could probably punch through them.


there are probably way more, but I think it is a waste of time for me to explain things to you as you do not accept most things from the internet, which is the only real way of communication between you and me.


GOD, its like talking to caveman who can speak english, i certainly do hope someone else will open you mind..

peace out.

Same guy said:

"Your rebut against my obama analogy is pointless, you do not get the point of my argument,if I change it to "I refuse to believe that this man, Obama, is the president of the US"; it is still valid."

But what you originally said was:

"hmmm so explain to me about 9/11 and Obama (which is black and that is why 97% blacks voted for him, regardless of his heritage people see him as black)"

I don't read minds, so I don't know what you MEANT to say. I can only respond to what you ACTUALLY say and in that case, it was nonsense.

Let's cut to the chase here. Although you refuse to believe that the duly-elected Barack Obama is the president of the United States (which is completely irrelevant to the topic under discussion here), you DO believe that a 90-year-old man can STAND ON ONE FINGER WITHOUT ASSISTANCE. Fascinating.

"you clearly said in previous posts stating that unless you see him performing it live in front of you without wire you will not believe."

No, I never said that, but I DID say that IF I saw him do it in front of me, I would probably be able to figure out the trick involved.

"GOD, its like talking to caveman who can speak english, i certainly do hope someone else will open you mind."

Yeah, I'M clearly the one who has problems with the English language here.

I'll respond to your other points later today. I have to run a few errands right now.

"1. AGAIN, So how does flying link with physical training?"

I believe my comment about flying was in the context of you seeming to believe in whatever you WANT to believe in even when there is no evidence to support it. It was sarcastic.

"2.Your rebut against my obama analogy is pointless, you do not get the point of my argument,if I change it to "I refuse to believe that this man, Obama, is the president of the US"; it is still valid."

Addressed previously. Your silly opinions on the legality of Presiden't Obama's election are irrelevant to this discussion.

"3. AGAIN, WHAT HE DID DOES NOT DEFY THE LAWS OF PHYICS."

You may actually have a point here. I probably misspoke by saying that. I still maintain, however, that the surface area of a fingertip is so small that the pressure of the man's whole body on it would be more than he could endure. Also, remember that virtually everyone who reaches the age of 90 has some evidence of arthritis. Oh, I'm sure there's some "explanation" of how the Chinese, using their magical "chi," don't get arthritis. Uh, no.

"4.Also seriously, how could you compare WWE to martial arts, those guys eat roid bars and gain weight so they can look tough... Bruce lee could probably punch through them."

Um, once again, I was employing the linguistic device known as "sarcasm." You seem to be unfamiliar with it, oddly enough.

Bruce Lee, by the way, while he certainly had studied martial arts, was also a performer and could not actually do many of the stunts he was depicted as doing in real life...you know, just like wrestlers.

Okay to conclude everybodies thoughts, this is a VIDEO of a man doing "finger stand". You can never prove anything with the video, because it can easily manipulated. However, the same goes for the contrary, you CANNOT prove that it is not true. In fact, we'll never know if anything is real as a matter of fact (see skepticism). BUt that is where our common sense comes in. This feat, accomplished by an old man, may defy our common sense, but who is to say that they are always correct? There has been numerous videos of UFOs for example, sure we can't explain them, but we can't discredit them either (that's why they are a mystery).

Unless under controlled environments, we cannot conclude anything from the video, thus making ALL of your (by that I mean everybody) points "moot".

I do however believe that a lot of video should be removed from this site UNLESS they are proven to be hoaxes (by that I mean carefully designed experiments, not just arguing over what you see on the internet.)

this is real. Monk Haiteng died in 1989 as the last monk able to perform this skill. (its common for any monk to be able to do this with 2 fingers but monk Hai was the last to be able to with only 1)

if u want to check out more he is also referred to as monk Hai teng

sry... monk Hai Tank *

Lol said:

"Okay to conclude everybodies thoughts, this is a VIDEO of a man doing "finger stand". You can never prove anything with the video, because it can easily manipulated. However, the same goes for the contrary, you CANNOT prove that it is not true."

That's true. So what? See, the way things work is that if you make an extraordinary claim, the burden of proof is on YOU. Would you like me to show you how the other way around is unfeasible? Sure, no problem. Here goes.

I say there are flying monkeys on the dark side of the moon. OK, prove me wrong. Remember, your proof has to be completely irrefutable or I'll just reject it. Good luck.

See the problem yet? If you claim that a 90-year-old man can balance on one finger, the burden of proof is on you. So far, I haven't seen the slightest proof of it.

This feat performed by Monk Tank is 100% true. I think he was the only person who could do this. Simply great and outstanding.

Sunil Wanjare, Pune
Crystal Institute

There has to be a line course, if you tell me that you can jump to the moon with ease, of course I'm not going to believe that.

I do not think what we see here disobeys any biological or physical law, it is simply an act (or a hoax) of extraordinary feat. I suppose you can compare to when the contortionists fit themselves in a small box. You would of course claim, OMG...But that does not mean that it is false, just as the earth still revolves around the sun no matter what those people believed in the medieval times. Could Galileo show them definitive proof of how Earth revolved? Of course not, every single error would be scrutinized and exploited.

But going back to my early point, how do you prove that it's fake? Just because I can't prove it's true, does not mean that it is not true, just as the Earth will always spin even though I can't prove it (with my knowledge). Thus I still hold my ground that this video should be removed, unless PROVEN to be false.

that was some real thing you all are dumass don't know a thing about martial arts i am also a martial artist and practicing light qi gong for a year and now i can perform two finger push ups and i have heard about the guy hai tank who is in the video that he can do that when he was young fifty years back and many wittiness say that he can still do that and the video was made he was 93 .i heard about him in many finger stand videos and he is not holding some thing in his hand he is channelizing his chi and a last thing he is the only one to do that and he is not going to apply for world record because he is a monk .

I would much like a LOGICAL response to this. Ihave been reading about comments like flying.Obviously This is quite illogical because humans don't have wings.If i went to China and gave a monk a video about 9/11 Would they think it's real? And i guess japan didn't think the atom bomb was real right? Like people believe that robots can't be real right?WRONG! Anyone hear about the SALEM WITCH TRIALS? I'm pretty the girls that accused those people died and were witches?Am I right? But this is other shit right now. This is the 21st century. There are cars not horses. we got skyscrapers not little house made out of sticks and mud. Fuck we got robots!Robots people! I am a 14 year old kid in america and i definitly know what most americans are like especially the old ones. Ignorant. These shao-lin trained since hey were little kids.hardening there bodies.What the fuck were u doing when u were 10. oh right you were in school fucking around and talking!I believe anything can happen in the future especially some old on one finger!

This is Monk Hai Tank, of the revered Shaolin Temple, he is known for being a master in the ancient art of kung-fu. Being able to do a hand stand on one finger against a wall means that a master is at the peak of his training and has complete mastery over the skill. This isn't fake, he actually exists and can do this in his old age, because the training of the Shaolin is a way of life. It doesn't end just because you get old.

This thread has been going on for years and in all that time, the "proof" of an ancient man being able to stand on one finger is "You can't prove that he can't do it." Wow, that's all you have?

Again, here's how it works in the Real World: If you make an extraordinary claim, YOU have to provide the proof. Period. If I claim that I can fly under my own power, I have to prove it. You do NOT have to prove that I can't. Get it?

Simply repeating over and over the same old crap about how people in the East can do amazing things because...well, because of something or other that Westerners cannot understand is NOT proof. No matter how many times you repeat it or how many times you rephrase it. Throwing around terms like "Chi" or "Shaolin" isn't proof of anything either. Sorry. You have to do better than that.

Look up the American monk Heng Sure in berkely California. He is a disciple of Hsuen Hua who was the founder of the city of ten thousand Buddhas is ukia California. Heng Sure had the opportunity to meet Hai Tank before his passing when Hai Tank visited Hsuen Hua in ukia california, he can tell you about his experience with the old monk. Heng Sure is not a martial arts fanatic and has no bias for or against shaolin so you can have an honest whiteness. Other than that there is no way to verify the credibility of the feat performed in the video because the old monk is no longer with us, amitabha. I can say that Heng Sure is a man of solid integrity and a reliable witness. To be honest, if you hang around in the right circles, seeing an old man stand on one finger isn't that big of a surprise.