YING ZHAO LI

The Force of Eagle’s Claws | Brief Description

Excerpt from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >

Another name of the Shaolin exercise “The Force of Eagle’s Claws” is “The Skill of Dragon’s Claws” – LONG ZHAO GONG. That is nothing else but the skill of grips. The user of this method can cause unbearable pain to his enemy by gripping him with a hand. The method is a combination of the “soft” and “hard” GONG FU, hardness and flexibility, a union of YIN and YANG...

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...By training, such a level of mastership can be achieved that if, for example a bird is flying by and you stretch out your hand and make a prehensile movement, the bird falls down as if killed by an arrow. One more example: a horse stands at an distance of a few ZHANGs from you and you make an arm movement as if you wish to lead it away, it will follow you as if you have reins in your hand. The same happens with people. If the “softness” YIN is not trained to perfection and only YANG has been mastered to the highest point of mastership, you can also inflict an injury to your enemy which is not precarious to his life. However, if you stop training half-way, you can get finger crookedness and that illness is not curable. Yang Bang Hou, the uncle of the prominent Pekinese specialist in TAYJI QUAN Yang Cheng Fu, had the use of this GONG FU to perfection. He could make a flying-by bird to perch on his hand: the bird flaps with its wings, but can not fly up.