56. To Fly Up to the Ridge and to Walk on a Wall
FEI YAN ZOU
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 “To
Fly Up to the Ridge and to Walk on a Wall” is also
called “Eight Steps in the Horizontal Position” (HENG
PAI BA BU). It is a soft Shaolin Gong Fu, it develops
the internal power and belongs to one of kinds of “Light
Body” exercises. The secret technique of that method was
passed over only by monks of the Shaolin Monastery ...
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... The effort
emerging at that time makes the body pass to the
vertical position on the top of the wall. It concerns
the left-side variant; if you first move the right arm,
then the left one, it will be the right-side variant
(see above). It will be the full success. You take off
the small bags with iron shot and can move as easily and
deftly as a monkey. It will be a trifle to climb walls
and houses after that.
However,
at the beginning of training you are not very deftly,
therefore you often fall, but don’t make a doubtful
conclusion out of it. It is necessary to advance. The
time for full success will come. In my childhood I
trained myself, but then I spent a lot of time
travelling and stopped training. I am very sorry about
it. In a word, to acquire that kind of Gong Fu, it is
necessary to realize deeply its importance.
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