The requirements are expressed in a form of sayings:
1. To be as graceful as a cat
This rule says that in a fight one should make light, easy and graceful movements like the cat does.
2. To be as aggressive as the tiger
The tiger personifies courage and aggressiveness. The meaning of this saying is that in the face of your enemy you should overrun his courage. Advance harshly, retreat without any confusion, estimate the real situation and than heavily punch with a sharp rush to the enemy.
3. To step like a dragon
The dragon in China is a symbol of strength and power, so steps should be strong, powerful and resolute. If steps are not resolute, something wrong will be with fists. A non-confident step means a slipshod fist. Thus, steps must be strong and confident. The step follows the movement of the body. When one step is over, the movement of the body is over, too.
4. To act like a lightning stroke
One must be quick as a lightning stroke and instantly response to any changes. Punch in the fight should look like flash of lightning. You should punch so quickly as not to feel the striking moment. If your punch went home, you should not feel it.
5.To shout like thunder
In the fight the most powerful strikes are delivered with a shout to help more powerful
"effort-jin" emission.
6. To move like a gust of wind
One must move vehemently like a violent gust of wind. If you started fighting with a frontal attack, use your force on the left and on the right to follow the principle
"The fist is visible, the strike is invisible" and
"If you do not see your hand striking the enemy, you will never see this
enemy."
Secrets
of
Southern
Shaolin
Lam
Sai Wing
(1860-1943)
"Since my young years till now, for
50 years, I have been learning from Masters.
I am happy that I have earned the love of my tutors who passed on me the Shaolin Mastery…"
7. To stay like a nail
One must stay on a foot like a driven nail.
8. To be as heavy as a mountain
One should maintain stances like a mountain that can not be moved off. One should train in "mabu" ("rider") stance and
"polestanding" stance. Those two exercises are the most important methods to train strong feet and to regulate your breathing.
9. To be as light as goose down
However, at the same time you must move around quickly and lightly and instantly response to enemy's actions like goose down moves with the lightest whiff of the wind.
10. To be soft as cotton wool
Before full exposure of rigidity and its realization at a striking moment one must rear internal slackness and vivifying void.
11. As hard as iron
With the help of some methods of physical conditioning body, arms and legs of the fighter must become as hard as iron and in the contact with the enemy affect him like metal
objects.
The
book was written in 1934 with blessing and direct participation of
the Abbot of the Shaolin Monastery Reverend Miao Xing nicknamed
"Golden Arhat"
Jin
Jing Zhong:
"We
collected all we had seen and heard, we gathered ancient
manuscripts given to us by our tutors to compile the present
edition".
"72
Arts are perfect exercises. First of all, it is necessary to
assimilate the hornbook of mastership. Apt moment, apt time,
apt mystery... Strictly observe instructions, and you will be able
to become as perfect as the Dragon"
Authentic
Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin.
(Tanjin,
1934) .
For
the first time the book describes full training methods in
all 72 Shaolin Arts. Being until recently for outsiders
the most secret part of training of Shaolin monks, which
made them invulnerable in fight, 72 Shaolin Arts at the
present time become available to all who are ready to
practice them persistently and with an open heart. Training
methods described in the book allow to develop
supernatural abilities, far beyond abilities of an
ordinary man...
