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60.
Exercise
"Pinching a Flower"
NIAN HUA GONG
Brief
description*
*Excerpt
from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin
Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin. ISBN:
978-1440474170
Shaolin exercise
“Pinching a flower” belongs to “soft” exercises for
“external” strengthening. It is the YIN “soft” force as
to its kind. It is one of Shaolin exercises which
specialize in strengthening finger tips, small parts in
human extremities. Their strength is not comparable with
that one of a fist or a palm, that’s why they need
training. It takes a lot of time and it is difficult to
get success. But if your have strong spirit and train
yourself for a long time without intervals, one of the
days will bring you success. If after successful
acquirement of the exercise you strike the enemy with
your fingers, you can inflict a severe wound to him and
if you strike with force, you can kill him. That
exercise has direct resemblance to such exercises from
the section “Deadly Hand” as “Saddle” (MA AN GONG,
par.#62) and “Palm of GUANYIN” (GUANYIN ZHANG, par.#70) ...
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... After
successful acquirement of that Shaolin Gong Fu it is of
no importance how hard is a thing: you take it with
fingers and break at once, nothing to say about blood
vessels and muscles of (my or another man’s) body.
People often use fingers in everyday life and make
various movements with them. When you reach perfection
in that exercise, you can, accidentally and unwillingly,
cause a body damage to a man or to some thing.
Therefore, if a man exercises that kind of Shaolin Gong
Fu, it is necessary to use the left arm, do not use the
right one. Other people and I use the left arm and
comparatively few people use the right arm trying to do
the least harm. One must be very careful in training and
life. Those who are far from moral perfection and have
not reached the sharpness of mind must not set their
arms going and wounds people. It is strictly prohibited
by any Martial Arts school. It is possible to wound a
man thoughtlessly, therefore, one needs to be extremely
careful. For that reason respectful masters of Martial
Arts taught people the techniques of “Deadly Hand” with
reluctance, and they themselves trained only their left
hand. The trainee who deeply learnt that technique must
consolidate his will-power and always be exceptionally
careful.
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