TUI SHAN ZHANG

Exercise "Pushing a Mountain with Palm" | Brief Description

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

Shaolin method “Pushing a Mountain with Palm” belongs to “hard” exercises for external strengthening, as to its kind it the YANG and “hard” force. It is a special Shaolin exercise for the central part of a palm that trains the “ejection” of the force FA JIN and at the same time trains “sudden ejection” of the force CU JIN. Its efficiency lies in combination of methods of “hardness” and “softness”. If after successful acquisition of the exercise even a man of great physical strength like a bull attacks you, you can leave an imprint on his body with your palm, easily knock him down so that he may be tossed to several ZHANGs away only by pushing him with a hand. It is also possible to overwhelm the enemy by “loaning” his strength, direct an enemy’s attack to the void to prevent body damages. Whatever happens, you must not wound a man using the Shaolin technique of the “Deadly Hand”...

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

... Continue training as before and add one more stone, go on adding stones up to the weight of 300 JINs (150 kg). At that stage GONG FU reaches its aim. If you engage an enemy, you will only slightly push him with the palm and he will be tossed away to a few meters.

That Shaolin technique specializes in the use of the force JIN, therefore it does not damage a human body. After extending your mastery you can move a pile of several dozen stones lying on the support. You push one of the stones and the other stones are thrown away to several meters. Continue training and firmly go toward the aim. Although, besides training FA JIN, “ejection of force”, it is also necessary to extend mastery in XU JIN, “accumulation of force”. Only the exercise “ejection of force” will take 4 years of hard training at least. If you exercise “accumulation of force”, it will take 10 more years.

...If you after successful acquirement of that exercise encounter a lot of enemies, you will be able to solve this problem simply. So-called “ejection of force” and “sudden effort” are refined methods that can not be described with a brush and Indian ink, sensation should be a guide in training, successive acquirement of the skill is needed.