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Did you know that PDX, Beaverton technically, has both a new Parkour studio in Beaverton (http://www.revolutionparkour.com/) and a Shaolin Temple (http://www.shaolintemple.org/training.htm)? Well now you do.
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I have no experience with either so if anyone has I’d love to hear about it.

As a note about Shaolin, that is really just a place – what the monks “were” were Ch’an Buddhists, and Ch’an Buddhism is more commonly known as Zen Buddhism. All of the stories in the Rinzai Zen Mumonkan (http://c-pan.net/zen-mumonkan.html) are in China. This too little known connection enriches both Zen and Shaolin and their current.

http://maps.google.de/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=de&om=1&msa=0&msid=108461239144680584019.00000112996828e5725a9&z=6

I think it is great that, just as Americans do kendo and Asian martial arts, here we have Japanese fighting in plate-mail. Avalon an Japanese offshoot of the SCA.
The sword freeing itself from historical and ethnic boundaries will lead to a functional art (at least that’s what Mu Ryu wants).
http://avalon.tsukaeru.jp/index_en.htm/