72. Rubbing Palms
HE PAN ZHANG
Brief
description*
*Excerpt
from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin
Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin. ISBN:
978-1440474170
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 ...
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... 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.
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