NEW YORK, July 14 reported that

According to Agence France-Presse reported that in the birthplace of Shaolin kung fu to China after the All-Star center Shaquille O’Neal said he hoped that this martial art to the basketball court.

“When I was a child, I read a lot of Shaolin martial arts performances,” O’Neal Monday when the tour told a Shaolin Temple in Henan, China’s domestic sports media.

“I have always wanted to know, Shaolin kung fu is really a fake. But now I finally know – played on TV to those Chinese martial arts, but they are true.” Big four championships shark filled with emotion .

“When I got home when I will learn this, and hope to be able to use the time to play basketball.”

O’Neal recently moved to the Cleveland Cavaliers, James, next season he will join the Cleveland Cavaliers. O’Neal had previously been to China several times, and the number of copies in China, signed a sponsorship deal.

For the Chinese people are familiar with the 37-year-old “big sharks” O’Neal the past few years has been practicing martial arts in the offseason. In Monday’s interview that he had received Shaolin abbot, and watched several members of the Shaolin monks perform kung fu.

“I really snake in China is very interested in boxing.” O’Neal said, “When I retired, I hope I can come back on the Shaolin Temple to learn a whole year, just not enough time for this tour.”

Chinese television camera cuts to the surrounding audience, where the imitation of O’Neill’s hand snake out of boxing action, prompting laughter around the audience.

When asked whether he would meet Cleveland’s cold – because there than in the past 17 years he was the effectiveness of any one of the cities will be required in cold, O’Neill replied: “I will adapt to the weather kind of ghost.”

“In China you call me big shark, and now you can call me a polar bear, and I would like a polar bear, and as the fight against extreme cold.”