Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of Shaolin Monks
72 Arts of Shaolin: (62) Technique of Horse Saddle
MA AN GONG
Technique of Horse Saddle | Brief Description
Excerpt from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >
Shaolin Technique of Horse Saddle (MA AN GONG) serves for strengthening the outer power of the body and rearing the YANG force in it. Although the training method of the technique is relatively “soft”, but you can not call the employment of that skill soft one, because when learning the Shaolin skill MA AN GONG is over, your fist will become like an iron big hammer. A practitioner will be able to break stones with a hand as well as literally break through a human body, separate it into two halves. He will be able not only to make holes in different hard things but also inflict severe wounds on enemies who attacked him. However, it is always necessary to refrain from delivering deadly blows to the utmost and employ that skill only in cases of absolute necessity...
< A full description of the training procedure is available in the book: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >
... If you master that training method with big stones, you will move stones weighing 100, 200 or 300 JINs (50, 100, and 150 kg respectively) from their place with ease. If you deliver blows each day during several years, you will make the heaviest stone “jump” from your blows.
When learning that Shaolin technique comes to the successful end, it can be employed to inflict wounds of different severity and break or split various things. It is often enough to use only one hand in order to make damages and wound people. In ancient times Kung Fu masters, when they taught people that skill, made special stress on training the left arm. But in our time people much oftener use rather the right arm than the left one, therefore one must try not to inflict pointless body damages and wounds on people.
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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