Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of Shaolin Monks
72 Arts of Shaolin: (5) Ringing Round a Tree
BAO SHU GONG
Ringing Round a Tree | Brief Description
Excerpt from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >
The Shaolin exercise "Ringing Round a Tree" is also called "Maitreya" (Buddha of the future) - MILIE GONG. It is a hard external Shaolin exercise belonging to the YANG force, but at the same time it trains flows of the inner force and, therefore, belongs to internal training (NEI GONG). That exercise is easily done, force of arms during a lock is trained, chest and stomach muscles are also trained...< A full description of the training procedure is available in the book: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin >
...During the third year of training, it is necessary to continue training intensively, without stopping, in that case you will have force to uproot that tree. This is full success in the exercise; after it is possible to lift a weight of 250-350 kg (550-770 lbs), rounding it with both arms. If you, being in dangerous situation, clasp your enemy with both arms, you can easily inflict a heavy injury to him. There is such a saying among specialists in martial arts: "If you practice the Martial Art during your spare time, you will be able to defend your life in a dangerous situation. The highest technique will come to your subconscious and you will be able to defeat hundreds of enemies". Indeed, it is absolutely unreasonable not to believe those words. If there are doubts left, choose a small tree - peach-tree or jujube and simply train yourself during one hundred days without aspiration for obtaining certain results. Undoubtedly, you will get an excellent result.
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
