Omar von Muller – Jumpy, Skidboot

This video was made by dog trainer Omar von Muller.

Meet Jumpy, the Cattle dog with the most amazing routine ever. He can do the trick that gave ‘The Amazing Skidboot‘ the title of world’s smartest dog.

Omar von Muller is one of the most respected and successful animal trainers in the country. He is the trainer of Uggie, a Jack Russell terrier famous for his roles in Water for Elephants and The Artist. Widely known for the incredible performances of his dogs, his training skills are legendary in the motion picture and television industries.

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Shaolin Monk Training

Shaolin Monk Training

Shaolin Monk Training

Award winning photographer Tomasz Gudzowaty provides a rare inside look at the martial arts training of Shaolin Monks in his fantastic photo essay “Shaolin Temple“.

In the seventies, the martial art of Kung Fu became a pop-culture phenomenon due to the cult TV series of the same name. The show’s main character, a fugitive monk from the Shaolin monastery, finds himself in the western world. From that time forward, Kung Fu and Shaolin have been associated with that media icon of a warrior-monk of extraordinary ability. But for the Buddhists, Shaolin remains a cradle of one of the most significant forms of the religion called Chan; a discipline that values spiritual self-improvement through meditation over prayers and ceremonies. Introduced in the 5th century AD by the Indian monk Bodhidharma, the principles of contemplation and martial arts, present in the daily life of monks, are regarded as a remedy for physical weakness and indolence. Despite the vicissitudes of history, the monastic tradition survived until Mao’s Cultural Revolution, when the Shaolin temple was officially closed. But the formal organization, with a prior as leader, remained untouched, and in the eighties the temple was re-opened as a training center and tourist attraction. Students of karate, judo, and tai box often refuse to recognize Kung Fu as a martial art due to its theatricality and testing of one’s own resistance instead of the opponent’s. In a way, this is true. Training in Kung Fu is mostly done without an opponent, as it was never meant to kill, and the poetic names of the moves implies that it is more of meditation than a fight. However, the only difference between breaking a clay jug and smashing a human skull with one’s bare hands is consciousness of will.

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