everything wrote:Supposedly Shaolin monks learned yoga from Bodhidharma, and their exercises helped them develop their martial arts. This story at face value seems a little far fetched. Many animals (such as cats) stretch, spar, and fight. But they didn't learn to do it in that order. Humans and primates didn't learn stretching before they learned fighting. Humans are much better with tools and planning, though, so the more our brains developed, the more we could systematically work on anything (such as war and war arts). I have no idea if this is a tangent or on your original topic.
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