Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of Shaolin Monks
72 Arts of Shaolin: (55) Skill of Water Separation
FEN SHUI GONG
Skill of Water Separation | Brief Description
Excerpt from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >
FEN SHUI GONG is a “hard” Shaolin GONG FU, has external power, belongs to the YANG category. There are the following sections in Shaolin Martial Art: “Methods of Sweeping off Obstacles” (PAI SHAN SHI) and “Palm Separating Water” (FEN SHUI ZHANG). Shaolin Skill of Water Separation is the very origin of those Shaolin GONG FU. The strength of that GONG FU is concentrated in both arms, palms are of auxiliary significance. ...
At the first training stage, it is necessary to take bamboo, a little more than ten sticks and fix them at the upper and lower part with an iron chain...
< A full description of the training procedure is available in the book: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >
... Then, build a sand wall or use a clay wall in your village. Put your hands into the wall and spread them to sides. If even now you can easily spread your hands and bring them together, it means you have attained perfection and the training is a full success. The effect of combination of hard and soft GONF FU occurs. Even attacked by a large group of people, you raise your hand - it looks like a mountain moving or a tsunami rising. Each whom your hand touches will fall down.
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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