As part of the "Hong Kong International Kung Fu Festival 2009" Avenue of Stars hosted a Kung Fu Carnival. Was suppose to be "international", but sometimes the HK tourism bureau likes to overuse that word a bit.
Still, we could feel the spirit of Bruce Lee looking down at us…
and that of a few other Kung Fu film stars…
Which is ironic, because the festival was all about restoring Kung Fu to its real message of self-control, self-defense and general spirit of harmony instead of that of flying Kung Fu masters beating the shit out of poor helpless bad guys.
You just got to love the Bruce Lee quotes on the website –
"Using no way as the way, using no limitation as limitation"
"All kind of knowledge, eventually becomes self-knowledge"
Honestly, there wasn’t much there, aside from some basic martial arts demonstrations with explanations in Cantonese accented Mandarin.
So I moved on to observe the local folks absorbing the spirit of Bruce Lee…