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35. The Force of Eagle’s Claws
YING ZHAO LI
Brief
description*
*Excerpt
from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin
Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin. ISBN:
978-1440474170
Another name of the
Shaolin exercise “The Force of Eagle’s Claws” is “The
Skill of Dragon’s Claws” – LONG ZHAO GONG. That is
nothing else but the skill of grips. The user of this
method can cause unbearable pain to his enemy by
gripping him with a hand. The method is a combination of
the “soft” and “hard” GONG FU, hardness and flexibility,
a union of YIN and YANG....
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... By
training, such a level of mastership can be achieved
that if, for example a bird is flying by and you stretch
out your hand and make a prehensile movement, the bird
falls down as if killed by an arrow. One more example: a
horse stands at an distance of a few ZHANGs from you and
you make an arm movement as if you wish to lead it away,
it will follow you as if you have reins in your hand.
The same happens with people. If the “softness” YIN is
not trained to perfection and only YANG has been
mastered to the highest point of mastership, you can
also inflict an injury to your enemy which is not
precarious to his life. However, if you stop training
half-way, you can get finger crookedness and that
illness is not curable. Yang Bang Hou, the uncle of the
prominent Pekinese specialist in TAYJI QUAN Yang Cheng
Fu, had the use of this GONG FU to perfection. He could
make a flying-by bird to perch on his hand: the bird
flaps with its wings, but can not fly up.
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