Martial arts skills of Zhang Sixuan In 2024 she won the Shaolin Kung Fu competition, she was 9 years old. Look at the pain in her eyes. Give her a childhood! Reminds me of Michael Jackson. You just know she and a thousand children who didn’t make it were beaten every day for failing to nail perfection. Most of those schools in places like Shaolin are basically unregulated mills that prey on poor rural parents. They promise discipline and a future, but children just get beaten, starved, and worked to the bone for years while the owners pocket the tuition money. It is modern child labor disguised as tradition.