20. Sluice Shutter weighing 1000 JINs

QIAN JIN ZHA

Brief description*

*Excerpt from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin. ISBN: 978-1440474170

“Sluice Shutter weighing 1000 JINs” is a hard Shaolin exercise strengthening the outside, it belongs to the hard force of YANG. If you look at a man doing this exercise, you can realize at once that this exercise develops the force of both arms perfectly well by weight-lifting. Actually, thanks to that a (heavy) weight is lifted, all three levels of the body (arms, torso, and legs) are trained. Unlike to several exercises for palms and fingers and other kinds of Shaolin GONG FU which specialize in training certain body parts, all parts of the body are activated and work in coordination in this exercise...

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...A great number of people on the North (of China) train this exercise along with other kinds of GONG FU. Real strength of northerners is quite close to that one of aliens , therefore this exercise by its nature is the most suitable to them. However, after coming to the South of China, the exercise also became one of the most favorite and esteemed arts it is regarded as one of the best kinds of GONG FU. This exercise is one of the main exercises for training force in Shaolin.

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