HE PAN ZHANG

Rubbing Palms | Brief Description

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

Shaolin technique “Rubbing Palms”, sometimes called “Hand of Golden Dragon”, is the most effective among all known methods of the pugilistic art which are anyhow connected to “rubbing” movements. Training in this technique is also aimed at strengthening outer power of the body and rearing the YANG force in it.

The method of acquiring the technique “Rubbing Palms” is very and very simple. Take 30 bamboo chopsticks, best of all, square ones. Gather the sticks in one bundle and tie it up with a thin thread in several...

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

...The training method with metal chopsticks does not differ from that one with bamboo sticks. After two years when metal thumb-thick sticks are thinned to a thickness of small fingers and the length of the sticks increases as much as twice or more, it will mean that you have made every effort “during 1000 days” and it will be seen by naked eye. At that moment it will become clear that you have fully mastered this Shaolin skill. It is beyond any doubts now that you will be able to cope with any thing just by stretching an arm and touching it. You will be able to break something instantly, crumple any iron or stone thing. Nothing can resist you strongly, not to mention men of flesh and blood.

A great wizard from Jiangnan, the inventor of this exercise, described it in his book. He related that when somebody acquires this method, wood will seem to him as soft as vegetables. You will be able to break a bamboo into small pieces, fray a steel rope with your fingers. The only thing you need to do is to stretch your arm and touch a gate, and the most strongest bolts will be opened. There is still a vast number of methods of application of that skill. Surely, that technique can be effectively used for repelling an enemy’s attack.

They say even a steel pole can be ground off into a needle with a profound mastery in stock.