I'm so tired of the bowl-stuck-to-the-belly schtick. It's cool when some little kid does it and they can pick him up out of a back bend, but the whole pull-the-line-of-people-trying-to-pull-the-bowl-off-the-monk is pretty tired. That's an easy one. There's no purchase on the bottom of the bowl, so the whole line of pulling people just wind up breaking the fingernails of the poor sap in the front.

After seeing the mass demo at the The First World Traditional Wushu Festival in 2004, well, that was hard for any Shaolin show to top. Literally armies of choreographed demonstrations. I've heard the demo wasn't as big this year and that most of the energy went into the opening ceremonies at the new auditorium. That show was supposed to be fabulous.