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Chinese monks show off their "mind over matter" skills, including smashing iron bars over their heads, and being bashed over the head with large hammers - all apparently without feeling any pain. Sky's Derek Tedder declines the offer to have a go himself. SEE Video ...

SHAOLIN KUNG FU MASTERS LIVE

The new show from Shaolin Wheel Of Life is coming to the Midlands this Autumn…

’The Ultimate Masters Of Kung Fu’ ( TIME OUT ) return to Birmingham with a brand new show. Featuring even more incredible feats of strength and skill, this show will leave the audience spellbound.

Twenty Shaolin Monks and five young trainees have travelled all the way from China’s fabled Shaolin Temple to demonstrate their martial arts expertise.

In a crescendo of Kung-Fu sequences they amaze us with their hypnotic and pain defying moves. The Shaolin Monks are lifted aloft on sharpened spears, break marble slabs with their heads, perform handstands on two finger tips, splinter wooden staves with their bodies, break bricks on their heads and fly through the air in a series of incredible backflips using heads not hands. The mind over matter skills have to be seen to be believed.

Think ‘KILL BILL’, think ‘CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON’, think ‘HERO’. Think again. This show is the Shaolin legend made real and is definitely NOT to be tried at home!

• ‘The Twenty men on stage are not like the rest of us’(THE SUNDAY TIMES)
• ‘Hair- raising brilliance’ (DAILY TELEGRAPH)
• ‘Jaw dropping (EVENING STANDARD)
• ‘Some feats appear magical, but each is the product of iron will’ (THE TIMES)
• ‘Awesome’ (THE SUNDAY TIMES)
  
  

The Shaolin Monks brilliant new show was filmed at London’s Peacock Theatre in front of an invited audience and released on DVD in December 2004. The live show premier’s at Birmingham’s Alexandra Theatre, prior to its West End Run in London in October and November.

Birmingham Alexandra Theatre Tickets

Friday 14th & Saturday 15th October

Box Office: 0870-607 7535

Ticket: £16.50 - £21.00