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9. Exercise
"Iron Shirt"
TIE BU SHAN GONG
Brief
description*
*Excerpt
from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin
Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin. ISBN:
978-1440474170
The exercise Iron
Shirt is hard Shaolin GONG FU for the development of
the external force. If you combine this exercise with
training the internal power by means of TONG JIA GONG
( The art of a child , or Children s exercises ; a
complex of 16 exercises for teaching children develops
flexibility, equilibrium, control of breath, steadiness,
and speed), you can attain the same result as in GONG FU
Covering with Gold Bell . However, it is not easy to
reach success, that s why the people in command of this
GONG FU can be seldom found...
<...>
...It is
necessary mobilize the internal energy QI during
training, concentrate attention and direct force to the
spot at which you deliver a blow. It will take another
three years...
...you will be able
to mobilize internal energy QI and concentrate the force
Li, your body will become as hard as iron or stone. A
punch or a blow with a solid object will not do you
harm. But all the same, blows with a heavy weapon should
be avoided.
Some of Shaolin monks are able to use this GONG FU. Once
my tutor, esteemed master Wang, gave a stage performance
in Peking. I was only ten years old at that time. I,
moved by curiosity and forgetting about decency, took a
short pike and delivered a stabbing blow at his stomach
with all force. But at the same moment I was thrown off
and fell flat on my back. I stood up, surprised and
ravished: master Wang instantly had concentrated his
internal energy QI for defense, and my attack failed..
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