David Carridine to the set manager, "When the boy walked it, he tore it up". Set manager. "We put heavy gauge paper for you master of side step". They bow to each other respectfully.
@@butchkaminsky9470 Both yours and X.Y. versions potentially sound vaguely Scottish to me (but then I only got a C in Literature, way back when - spent too much time on Saturdays watching this)
It seems like in the movie that right after this scene that young Caine tried to tried to "sneak up" on Master Po (I suppose he thought that he had "arrived") As Caine got closer you can hear Master Po say........"Good afternoon, GRASSHOPPER" to this Caine heaved a sigh and shook his head. The look on his face.......PRICELESS!!!
I was never really a martial arts person even in my youth, unless you count my "red belt" in origami and a brief flirtation with ikebana, but I am so pleased to have found this - I used to recite it almost word for word (despite the paper cuts) - classic - when you can walk its length . . . you WILL have learnt . . . . #grasshopper - love it !
"A Shaolin priest can walk through walls. It is said, listen for him, he cannot be Heard." It took me a minute to get this. I was thinking about it too literally 😊
I used to imagine a comedy version of what was supposedly said about a Shaolin priest, with each line being followed by some kind of sound-effect or yell that implied the guy had been seen/heard/felt, etc. and a "crash!" to suggest he'd failed to walk through a wall. I would also have loved the rice paper to be replaced by squeaky floorboards. Walking across those without making a sound would have been a truer test of stealth.
I was a disciple of a... let's say, enlightenment group, and one of the exercises we took part in was a similar form of walking with mindfulness. You don't think that it is doing much for you, but then we stopped to have lunch. And I swear, the flavour of the food was so enhanced, I had these crazy thoughts that they (the cooks) had added extra flavouring to the food! But it was the exercise that heightened my awareness, in this case, of taste. This is a strategy of implementing enlightenment, the human senses have evolved with survival being important, when you 'niggle' at the human senses, strange things tend to happen.
Got to laugh at the follow on of this video after he realises his footsteps cannnot be heard he tries to sneak up on master po who says hello grasshopper at this level of development you do not need your 5 senses he felt it through his energy field through his chakras approaching him ☺
. . . when you can walk its length . . . and leave no trace . . . you will have learned - it is on RUclips somewhere - I just found it #loveit #classic #childhood - try to search on "Kung Fu opening credits" or something
The sad thing is when channels close comments, I will (personally) boycott them. The discussion section is the most interesting part. I like hearing others' thoughts and opinions. Any comments that are annoying/uninteresting/trolling etc..., I just skip.
@@cleekmaker00 For what it is worth, I think your comment is shadowbanned (or maybe mine is?). In response to your question: No I would not. As I say, I like seeing what people have to say and I simply ignore, or refute, when people leave trolling comments. I like seeing the wide array of comments and thoughts. It is as easy as anything for me to simply ignore ones that I find not worth noting.
I was looking for the scene in which someone talking with Caine said "It is said that a shaolin can walk through walls." To which he replied "It is not a shaolin who has said this."
for a monk that advocated for peace, he sure got into lots of fights and some deadly ones. Yet, I'm not a monk or Shaolin and hardly got into any fights.
Your phrase would imply that though you are touching his body, you cannot feel him, as if he were an apparition. "Felt, cannot be touched" implies that although you can 'feel' or sense his presence, power, he is too quick to be touched.
@@Skiier4life25 The ENTIRE saying refutes your interpretation as wrong. The first 2 parts refer to the concrete, basic senses of sight (eyes) and sound (ears). So "feeling" in this context refers to touching (skin), not "feeling" as in vague sensory perception or spirit. So it follows logically that if I touched a Shaolin priest with my hand or other body part (skin), I would not feel him.
I loved this show as a kid but it seems like a rather fanciful depiction of life in shaolin. For example did they walk on rice paper ? Or teach the monks to deliver babies?
It was thus, I farted silently...peacefully spreading my essence over a wide area, deftly, quietly. The aroma was the only clue to my presence.- Hung Jiao--
Such a shame the kung fu was fake .. I am glad the series was made with David .. but in a blue shy world Bruce would ALSO have been Caine ! (two parallel series .. just with different lead roles !)
Remember this as if it was yesterday - but it must be 47 years ago - thank you!!
May you see 47 more.
David Carridine to the set manager, "When the boy walked it, he tore it up". Set manager. "We put heavy gauge paper for you master of side step". They bow to each other respectfully.
A wonderful show! Wish they would bring that kind of programming back.
I learned a lot from watching the show "Kung Fu"! David Carradine will be missed! RIP Grasshopper!
'Be as still water, or a gentle breeze, and wherever you go, take away nothing as you leave."
R. S. “Be therefore like the prow of a boat. It cleaves the water, yet leaves in its wake, water unbroken”.
Better than a fart in the wind.
@@butchkaminsky9470 Both yours and X.Y. versions potentially sound vaguely Scottish to me (but then I only got a C in Literature, way back when - spent too much time on Saturdays watching this)
That's the bow of a ship, cut the water and leaves nothing in its wake.
X.Y., simply beautiful 😉
R.I.P GRASSHOPPER 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
First time rice paper, seconded time wallpaper lol. One of the sadly missed TV greats. Brings back a lot of good memories. Thanks for sharing.
God I love that mind music
It seems like in the movie that right after this scene that young Caine tried to tried to "sneak up" on Master Po (I suppose he thought that he had "arrived") As Caine got closer you can hear Master Po say........"Good afternoon, GRASSHOPPER" to this Caine heaved a sigh and shook his head. The look on his face.......PRICELESS!!!
I was never really a martial arts person even in my youth, unless you count my "red belt" in origami and a brief flirtation with ikebana, but I am so pleased to have found this - I used to recite it almost word for word (despite the paper cuts) - classic - when you can walk its length . . . you WILL have learnt . . . . #grasshopper - love it !
Thanks. I've been hearing this speech in my head since the show came on.
1:21 awesome job Grasshopper 😊☺️☺️ The Olympic gold medal for rice paper walking goes to Kwai Chang Caine 🥇
"A Shaolin priest can walk through walls. It is said, listen for him, he cannot be Heard."
It took me a minute to get this. I was thinking about it too literally 😊
I used to imagine a comedy version of what was supposedly said about a Shaolin priest, with each line being followed by some kind of sound-effect or yell that implied the guy had been seen/heard/felt, etc. and a "crash!" to suggest he'd failed to walk through a wall. I would also have loved the rice paper to be replaced by squeaky floorboards. Walking across those without making a sound would have been a truer test of stealth.
I was a disciple of a... let's say, enlightenment group,
and one of the exercises we took part in was a similar form of walking with mindfulness.
You don't think that it is doing much for you, but then we stopped to have lunch.
And I swear, the flavour of the food was so enhanced, I had these crazy thoughts that they (the cooks) had added extra flavouring to the food!
But it was the exercise that heightened my awareness, in this case, of taste.
This is a strategy of implementing enlightenment, the human senses have evolved with survival being important, when you 'niggle' at the human senses, strange things tend to happen.
Got to laugh at the follow on of this video after he realises his footsteps cannnot be heard he tries to sneak up on master po who says hello grasshopper at this level of development you do not need your 5 senses he felt it through his energy field through his chakras approaching him ☺
And after this he tries to sneak up on master po sitting by a waterfall 😃 very funny
1:19 that look on his face like ; hell yeah bitches I'm a badass now !
I walk through walls all the time. they invented a handy device called a "door".:)
Or just the doorway by itself. It can also be accomplished by the use of an axe or hammer and chisel-even explosives.
Jason Bean It is time for you to leave the temple...
LMAO 😂
Good work Grasshopper - you have learned !
@@tenhirankei I see the subtleties of martial arts, deep religious thinking and punctuation have not passed you by, Grasshopper ! ;-))
I learned how to walk through walls from Ol' David Carradine and Kung Fu. 🦹
Wait it is missing the most important part.
Fragile as the wings of a dragonfly, clinging as the cocoon of the silk worm, this rice paper is the test.
. . . when you can walk its length . . . and leave no trace . . . you will have learned - it is on RUclips somewhere - I just found it #loveit #classic #childhood - try to search on "Kung Fu opening credits" or something
The Grasshopper channel wimped out and closed comments. He was tired of reading comments about how Bruce Lee should have gotten the role lol
The sad thing is when channels close comments, I will (personally) boycott them. The discussion section is the most interesting part. I like hearing others' thoughts and opinions. Any comments that are annoying/uninteresting/trolling etc..., I just skip.
@@nicomeklrowing5935 He grew weary of reading all of the bigoted, racist comments from dimwitted people, so ha closed them down.
Wouldn't you?
@@cleekmaker00 For what it is worth, I think your comment is shadowbanned (or maybe mine is?). In response to your question: No I would not. As I say, I like seeing what people have to say and I simply ignore, or refute, when people leave trolling comments. I like seeing the wide array of comments and thoughts. It is as easy as anything for me to simply ignore ones that I find not worth noting.
I was looking for the scene in which someone talking with Caine said "It is said that a shaolin can walk through walls." To which he replied "It is not a shaolin who has said this."
It is from Kung Fu: The Movie, in which Caine meets his son, played by Brandon Lee
I have not seen this since the 70s. This scene has haunted my mind all my life...
for a monk that advocated for peace, he sure got into lots of fights and some deadly ones. Yet, I'm not a monk or Shaolin and hardly got into any fights.
No one ever said committing to do the right thing was easy.
When he left,when he took,the stones out of his hand,or when he surpassed the rice paper!???...
Yeah
Master Po is it my heart? Is that the paper on the floor?
Kung Fu...my favorite ninja show. Until they had an actual ninja show called The Master with Lee Van Cleef.
As a kid, I loved that show... and then it was gone :(
young caine picked the wrong day to rub molasses on his feet
NO! It's "TOUCHED, HE CANNOT BE FELT!" Saying "felt, he cannot be touched" is nonsensical!
Your phrase would imply that though you are touching his body, you cannot feel him, as if he were an apparition. "Felt, cannot be touched" implies that although you can 'feel' or sense his presence, power, he is too quick to be touched.
its a poem
@@dannymiller3648 it is referring to spirit. The Tao Te Ching or the book of the way.
@@Skiier4life25 The ENTIRE saying refutes your interpretation as wrong. The first 2 parts refer to the concrete, basic senses of sight (eyes) and sound (ears). So "feeling" in this context refers to touching (skin), not "feeling" as in vague sensory perception or spirit. So it follows logically that if I touched a Shaolin priest with my hand or other body part (skin), I would not feel him.
S'funny - I thought that, too !
You did not finish the lesson!
If you have sweaty you will fail.
Lolwut
In slow motion
I loved this show as a kid but it seems like a rather fanciful depiction of life in shaolin. For example did they walk on rice paper ? Or teach the monks to deliver babies?
Or make them pick up a cauldron full of burning coal with their forearms, before being allowed to be called "master"?
I can walk through walls - if it has an alcove.
It was not with ears that I detected you but with nose.....
It was thus, I farted silently...peacefully spreading my essence over a wide area, deftly, quietly. The aroma was the only clue to my presence.- Hung Jiao--
who's watching this in 2021?
No-one (DOH!!!)
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If you think they mean physically your sadly mistaken
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Such a shame the kung fu was fake ..
I am glad the series was made with David ..
but in a blue shy world Bruce would ALSO have been Caine !
(two parallel series .. just with different lead roles !)
Acting=fake.
sparring is fake it could still have been less fake
I don't think Bruce would have played the character of the priest very well. No knock on Mr. Lee, it just wasn't his style.
Ade Fegan: Ah, you did not realise that almost everything in life is fake, grasshoppa? Ha, welcome to the world of illusion!
fake, everyone knows they dont speak english
Ecce Porfirium: I didn't, so no, everyone doesn't know that. Beware blanket generalisations, grasshopper! lol
@@kenhutley971 and the series wouldn't have gone down so well in the UK in the 70s . . .. #artisticlicence