Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of Shaolin Monks
72 Arts of Shaolin: (37) Skill of Eagle Wings
YING YI GONG
Skill of Eagle Wings | Brief Description
Excerpt from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >
Shaolin exercise “Skill of Eagle Wings” is aimed at strengthening the outer by exerting great efforts and nursing the force YANG in the body. The technique allows to develop the force of arms, strengthen elbows and joints, increase the force of fist and palm blows. If you acquire the technique, you will be able to beat off blows delivered by enemies both from close and far distance, with blunt and sharp, short and long weapons. If you wield the skill of “Eagle Wings”, you will be able to repel any attacks of enemies against you, whatever swiftly they will act...
< A full description of the training procedure is available in the book: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >
...Having perfected in the Shaolin skill of “Eagle Wings”, the man can use all possibilities of his body to push away enemy to three ZHANGs . To acquire this skill is as simple as to tear a sheet of paper. The efficiency of the method is tremendous. You can beat off enemy’ spears with your elbows, deliver blows of huge force at enemies, use “deadly arm” (SHA SHOW) more effectively, and stop (falling, rolling) stones. If you go on training this Shaolin technique for a long time, your arms and elbows will become stronger. Learning the technique is also beneficial for your lungs.
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
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