30.
Skill of the Iron Arm
TIE BI GONG
Brief
description*
*Excerpt
from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin
Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin. ISBN:
978-1440474170
Shaolin skill of the
"Iron Arm" serves for strengthening both the “inner” and
the “outer” as well as for the development of the force
YANG. It is designed for training arms. The method of
acquirement of this skill is very simple and presents no
difficulties from the technical point of view. It is
necessary to train oneself at the initial stage in the
following manner: you has to strike at poles indoors
with your arms, both with the outer and back side of an
arm....
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... After the
acquirement of the technique your arms will become as
strong as iron. It will be able to hit a man so that his
bones will be broken and the internal organs will be
severely injured. It will be easy to protect oneself
with this arms from enemy’s blows delivered with sword,
knife or stick. Furthermore, with this arms you can push
away, move and break various things. It will be possible
to “break open the gate” with one arm, without waiting
for a moment when you will be defeated.
This Shaolin
technique is very useful and it will take relatively
little time to learn it. Its essentials can be learnt
within a year and mastered to perfection within three
years. During a whole year the perfection of this
technique can be matched with learning other methods of
Shaolin Martial Art. In the process of acquiring this
method learners strengthen both the “inner” and the
“outer”. If you consolidate and repeat this technique
during one year, your arms will obtain constant
hardness, it will be possible to break with them not
only a thin tree, but also a thick one, and arm blows
will become of abrupt, chopping character.
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