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Photo credit: Copyright Dan DeLong/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
I should start with a disclosure: That’s not me. Not even years ago.
In 2006, photographer Dan DeLong and I dropped by the University of Washington to watch some visiting Shaolin-trained monks give a martial arts demonstration.
They impressed a huge crowd by soaring through the air, twirling, bouncing and kicking. In short, good, amazing stuff.
It probably helped that most of the monks were either in their teens or twenties. But their training and discipline were evident.
The above photograph has never been shown publicly, at least to my knowledge. The next day’s print edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer had limited space and featured the image after the jump.
