Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of Shaolin Monks
72 Arts of Shaolin: (56) To Fly Up to the Ridge and to Walk on a Wall
FEI YAN ZOU
To Fly Up to the Ridge and to Walk on a Wall | Brief Description
Excerpt from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >
Shaolin skill of “To Fly Up to the Ridge and to Walk on a Wall” is also called “Eight Steps in the Horizontal Position” (HENG PAI BA BU). It is a soft Shaolin Gong Fu, it develops the internal power and belongs to one of kinds of “Light Body” exercises. The secret technique of that method was passed over only by monks of the Shaolin Monastery ...
< A full description of the training procedure is available in the book: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >
... The effort emerging at that time makes the body pass to the vertical position on the top of the wall. It concerns the left-side variant; if you first move the right arm, then the left one, it will be the right-side variant (see above). It will be the full success. You take off the small bags with iron shot and can move as easily and deftly as a monkey. It will be a trifle to climb walls and houses after that.
...However, at the beginning of training you are not very deftly, therefore you often fall, but don’t make a doubtful conclusion out of it. It is necessary to advance. The time for full success will come. In my childhood I trained myself, but then I spent a lot of time travelling and stopped training. I am very sorry about it. In a word, to acquire that kind of Shaolin Gong Fu, it is necessary to realize deeply its importance.
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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