Is this the movie i'm thinking of?

I rented a movie on vhs back in 95 or so. I remember a goodly bit of the movie being training sequences that took place in a monastery. One exercise involved ringing a gigantic bell with a bamboo pole that was 15 or 20 feet long using only your thumb and forefinger. another one involved running through heavybags that may have been filled with rocks, headfirst.

there were many other sequences and exercises. i seem to remember the star or all of the candidates in training sitting before some sort of evaluation council at least once.

i believe that at the end the hero engages in the final fight using the techniques that he has learned. I could have sworn that it was called the Legend of Fung Suk Kwahn, but that has yielded no results. its not Jet Li's Legend. Nor is it Jackie Chan in the drunken master films.

I dont recall recognizing anyone in the film, but its been over a decade.