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Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of Shaolin Monks

72 Arts of Shaolin: (20) Sluice Shutter weighing 1000 JINs

QIAN JIN ZHA

Sluice Shutter weighing 1000 JINs | Brief Description 

Excerpt from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >
“Sluice Shutter weighing 1000 JINs” is a hard Shaolin exercise strengthening the outside, it belongs to the hard force of YANG. If you look at a man doing this exercise, you can realize at once that this exercise develops the force of both arms perfectly well by weight-lifting. Actually, thanks to that a (heavy) weight is lifted, all three levels of the body (arms, torso, and legs) are trained. Unlike to several exercises for palms and fingers and other kinds of Shaolin GONG FU which specialize in training certain body parts, all parts of the body are activated and work in coordination in this exercise...
<  A full description of the training procedure is available in the book: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >

...A great number of people on the North (of China) train this exercise along with other kinds of Shaolin Gong Fu. Real strength of northerners is quite close to that one of aliens, therefore this exercise by its nature is the most suitable to them. However, after coming to the South of China, the exercise also became one of the most favorite and esteemed arts it is regarded as one of the best kinds of GONG FU. This exercise is one of the main exercises for training force in Shaolin.

72 Arts of Shaolin: (20) Sluice Shutter weighing 1000 JINs

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

About 72 SECRET ARTS OF MONKS FROM THE SHAOLIN MONASTERY

    Main Secret of the Shaolin Training in the Authentic Shaolin Book

    Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin Heritage:Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin (Tanjin, China, 1934)