Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of Shaolin Monks
72 Arts of Shaolin: (59) Ba Wang’s Elbow
BA WANG ZHOU
Ba Wang’s Elbow | Brief Description
Excerpt from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >
Shaolin exercise “Ba Wang’s elbow” belongs to “Hard” exercises aimed at external strengthening of the body. It is of YANG “Hard” kind. That method is one of Shaolin methods to strengthen and fortify the elbows. However, that exercise differs from the Shaolin exercise “Eagle Wings” (see par.#37) where the side surface of an elbow is used, as well as some parts of forearms and shoulders close to an elbow. “Ba Wang’s Elbow” is a special Shaolin exercise where an elbow tip is strengthened to deliver downward and backward blows. Those two exercises must not be confused...
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... Proceed to use stones with prominent ribs later and also fix them with clay and sand. Train yourself in the same way to be insensitive to pain when you do the exercise. Over time both elbows and both feet will become strong enough and will be like cast iron at last. They will become as sharp as a knife edge, a blow will become as strong as a blow of a big hammer and you yourself will receive no harm. In that case, if you strike at the enemy, you will break through his chest or squash his stomach. You have to spend 3 years from the beginning to the end of the exercise.
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
BOOKS: 72 ARTS OF SHAOLIN
