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52. Skill "Neither Lances nor Broadswords Can Wound"
QIANG DAO BU RU FA
Brief
description*
*Excerpt
from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin
Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin. ISBN:
978-1440474170
Skill “Neither Lances
nor Broadswords Can Wound” is a “soft” SHAOLIN GONG FU,
has the “outer” power, belongs to the force YIN and at
the same time YANG as to its essence and spirit confined
in it. That method seems to be somewhat enigmatic and
mysterious. But in reality, it is simply one of training
methods in a “soft” GONG FU. Sometimes, for instance,
such words can be heard: “I can engage with empty hands
a mob armed with the sword DAO and halberd JI and they
can not even wound me”. Usually listeners of those words
think it to be absolutely absurd. However, people who
acquired that kind of GONG FU to perfection really can
do so.
Training in that
Shaolin skill is quite difficult. More over, few people
have that skill now, that method is practically lost.
The purport of the method is in dodging and avoiding. It
is necessary to start from training the skill “Soft
Bones” (see par.#32) which includes such exercises as
“flexible legs”, “flexible waist” and so on. Besides, it
is necessary to train your eyes for distance estimation.
Training body, arms, and eyes is the most important
principle in Martial Arts. It is possible to enter a
“forest” of swords and lances and leave it without being
wounded only thanks to an eye skill. Otherwise, it is
difficult to confront such a situation. First steps in
training eye sight have been already described in the
exercise “Luohan’s skill” (see par.#23). Later, it is
necessary to train oneself in counting immovable
objects. For example, you sit in a room, look in the
window and count bricks in the wall of the opposite
house. Or, you can count number of tiles on the roof in
each row. Try to cast a quick glance and say the exact
number, it is not so simple. You can make piles of tiles
or other objects with a height of several CHIs and count
them. If you can exactly count in a short time, you can
go further ...
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... Now, even
if a few dozens of armed people attack you alone, all
the same you will not be wounded. However, it takes not
less than 10 years of hard work to improve your mastery
to such a level. It is useful to have that skill, as you
will not be afraid of meeting bad people. In case you
can easily to take away weapon from your enemy. That
kind of GONG FU was passed over only at the Shaolin
Temple. At the present time very few people learn it and
that skill is almost lost. That causes a deep regret.
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