JIE DI GONG

Method that Reveals the Truth | Brief Description

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

SHAOLIN JIE DI GONG is designed to give hardness to the outer parameters of the body and rear the force YANG in the body, it also allows to consolidate the energy QI inside a human body. The method of learning this art entails great difficulties. It will be very hard for the trainee at initial stages, the probability for the internal organs to be damaged is very high and it is hardly to avoid damages. When learning the skill, one must not proceed quickly from one stage to another.

Those who learn the SHAOLIN JIE DI GONG skill must acquire the so-called Shaolin technique of “Eighteen somersaults” (DI SHIBA GUN) and the technique of falling on the ground (DI TANG GONG FU) to perfection. Besides the above mentioned, the trainees must also acquire other Shaolin methods of falls and jumps, for instance, such as the somersault JIAN HU JI SHI . Those methods can be grouped into: forward somersaults, backward somersaults, leftward somersaults, rightward somersaults, and others. Among them are “arrow somersault” (JIAN PAN), “fall on the back” (BEI DIE), “running jump and somersault” (ZHI DIE), “fall with the face up” (YANG DIE), “fall prone” (FU DIE) and other methods...

<  A full description of the training procedure is available in the book: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >

...At first those exercises will be done relatively slowly and they can hurt. The trainee will do somersaults deftly and swiftly over time and he will be able to acquire the skill of “eighteen somersaults” at an eyewink. Besides “Eighteen somersaults”, SHAOLIN JIE DI GONG includes 64 other kinds. If you earnestly learn the above techniques from the start, the way to success will not be easy. Those who started to acquire somersaults since early childhood and made great efforts to reach perfection in that skill spent a lot of time to learn and master SHAOLIN JIE DI GONG. Great masters who have mastered SHAOLIN JIE DI GONG to perfection can do uncountable number of somersaults rightward and leftward, forward and backward, standing up and falling again and again, that’s why their QI becomes fresher with every day. Those exercises result in skin, bones, and muscles to become stronger.