Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of Shaolin Monks
72 Arts of Shaolin: (65) Skill of Sand Bags
SHA BAO GONG
Skill of Sand Bags | Brief Description
Excerpt from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >
Shaolin “Skill of Sand Bags” is aimed at strengthening the “external” power of the body and serves for rearing the YANG force in it. It also develops flexibility and mobility of the body. Thanks to this exercise the YANG force, adroitness and dexterity develop so much that it allows to defeat people easily.
Before starting to train yourself, dig into the ground four wooden poles and put four more wooden beams on the top. Fix bags with sand to each beam on the right, on the left, in front and in back. The weight of each bag should be about five or six JINs (about 2.5 – 3 kg). The bags must be tied to the beams with strong cord and hang loosely so that they can swing to sides freely. The bags must be at a height of man’s shoulders...
< A full description of the training procedure is available in the book: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >
...If you find yourself encircled by a swarm of enemies and no man beside you who could shield you with his body, you can break out of the encirclement by striking practically with every part of your body as if you are encircled with a great lot of sand bags. In the past “Skill of Sand Bags” was one of simplest techniques that was learnt at the Shaolin Monastery. It is one of the most ancient Shaolin techniques preserved till our days.
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
