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19. Swimming and
Diving Skill
QIU SHUI SHU
Brief
description*
*Excerpt
from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin
Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin. ISBN:
978-1440474170
Such techniques as
“Diving into Waves”, “Walking on the Bottom of a Water
Pool”, “GONG FU of Eight Parts” are called “Swimming
Skill”. Earlier people called it “fitness to water
environment”, but today they say: “swimming technique”.
This skill belongs to the inner Shaolin GONG FU and is
based on the inner force (energy). It is in very close
connection with every-day life of people. Not only those
who learn Martial Arts, but all the people have to learn
it. For instance, you swim in a boat and suddenly the
wind has risen and roughness has appeared, your boat can
overturn. If you can swim, you save your life, if you
can’t, you can perish. The ability to swim is especially
important for those who knock about the world. If a man
really wants to learn swimming very well, he must train
himself hard and persistently. There are some people who
can swim well, but they train themselves according to
European techniques. They do not know that we also have
our own excellent techniques. Some pages in novels about
Middle Ages knights describe how heroes show their
swimming skill...
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...Using this
description as a guide, one can master all kinds of
swimming techniques. But mind and heart are needed to
comprehend all these and in order to comprehend it you
need practice, it is not enough just to read. One has to
train oneself and everything will be all right.
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