March 30th 2006, Shenzhen Satellite Television together with the Shaolin Temple, declared the official start of the First "Chinese K-STAR" Global TV Contest. After a half-year process of searching and eliminating over 100,000 applicants from six contest divisions in China (Shenzhen, Zhengzhou, Shengyang, Chengdu, Shanghai, and Beijing) and six overseas contest divisions (North America, Germany, Russia, Italy, France and Australia) the top 3 contest division winners would emerge to compete in the World Final Competition.

The 2006 K-STAR Martial arts TV competition would be the first and largest contest on such a global scale ever produced by China. It's aim, to search for potential Kungfu stars globally to find a new spokesperson of Chinese Kungfu for new generations.

In September of 2006, 36 Kungfu practitioners from abroad would arrive in Shenzhen and began a tour of China's cities and media stations to give performances and face eliminations.

The contest would begin after two-weeks of closed door training at the birthplace of the martial arts... The 1,500 year old Shaolin Temple

(This is Part One of Shaolin Seclusion before competition, recorded from an episode of K-STAR)