Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of Shaolin Monks
72 Arts of Shaolin: (14) Raising a Weight of 1000 JINs
TIE QIAN JIN GONG
Raising a Weight of 1000 JINs | Brief Description
Excerpt from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >
The Shaolin exercise “Raising a Weight of 1000 JINs” is a hard and external exercise that increases force. It belongs to the hard kind of force YANG. This exercise is also called “Water Chestnut” (SHI BO QI, BI QI) . This kind of Shaolin GONG FU trains the force of grip with thumb, middle, and forefinger (so called the force of a “pinch”, or “pinching force”) and increases the force of arms in a “supporting” effort. It bears certain similarity with the exercise “Eagle’s Claws” (YING ZHAO) and “Pulling out a Mountain” (BO SHAN). The difference is in that in this case force is applied by the inner surfaces of the third phalanges of fingers instead of finger tips. Fighters in the South China widely used this exercise...
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...It is necessary to advance in training gradually and step by step. You can attain the ability to hold a tool weighing 50-60 JINs (25-30 kg or 55-66 lbs) with three fingers for a long time. When one succeeds in holding the tool by weight for more than one hour, the skill will reach its peak. If you catch your enemy, you will be able to inflict a severe wound on him, if you catch a wooden board with three fingers, you will be able to press a hole through it.
72 ARTS OF SHAOLIN | Brief Descriptions
(1) Diamond Finger - (2) Twin Lock - (3) Striking with Foot (4) Pulling out Nails - (5) Ringing Round a Tree - (6 ) Four-Part Exercise - (7) One Finger of Chan Meditation - (8) Iron Head - (9) Iron Shirt - (10) A Series of Blows - (11) Sweeping with an Iron Broom - (12) Hand - a Bamboo Leaf (13) Jumping Centipede - (14) Raising a Weight of 1000 JINs - (15) Celestial’s Palm - (16) Method of Hardness and Softness - (17) Cinnabar Palm - (18) Lying Tiger - (19) Swimming and Diving Skill - (20) Sluice Shutter weighing 1000 JINs - (21) Covering with a Gold Bell - (22) Finger Lock - (23) Luohan’s Exercise - (24) Lizard Climbs the Wall - (25) The Art of Lash - (26) PIPA - (27) The Pole of a Falling Star - (28) Poles of Plum Bloom - (29) The Art of Stone Padlock - (30) Skill of the Iron Arm - (31) Fist like a Bullet - (32) Soft Bones - (33) Frog - (34) Piercing the Curtain - (35) The Force of Eagle’s Claws - (36) Iron Bull - (37) Skill of Eagle Wings - (38) Hand of Sun Rays - (39) Exercise for Groin - (40) Iron Bag - (41) Method that Reveals the Truth - (42) Skill of Tortoise Back - (43) Skill of Deft Jumps - (44) Skill of Light Body - (45) Iron Knees - (46) Technique of Jumps - (47) Palm of Iron Sand - (48) Pulling a Silk Thread - (49) Method of drawing in YIN - (50) Rubbing and Thrusts - (51) Stone Pile - (52) Neither Lances nor Broadswords Can Wound - (53) Gong Fu Flight - (54) Hand of Five Poisons - (55) Skill of Water Separation - (56) To Fly Up to the Ridge and to Walk on a Wall - (57) Skill of Somersaulting - (58) Pole of Cypress - (59) Ba Wang’s Elbow - (60) Pinching a Flower - (61) Pushing a Mountain with Palm - (62) Technique of Horse Saddle - (63) Skill of Nephrite Belt - (64) YIN Fist Method - (65) Skill of Sand Bags - (66) Piercing Through Stones - (67) Pulling Out a Mountain - (68) Claws of Mantis - (69) Gong Fu Bag - (70) Palm of Guan Yin - (71) Raising a Pot - (72) Rubbing Palms
