Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods Of 72 Arts Of Shaolin (Shaolin Kung Fu Online Library)

I had my doubts but what a great read. This IS NOT a forms book. It contains information about internal and external body conditioning, equipment contruction, goals of the training and many other great things.The explainations are clear and easy to understand and it explains how the elements of training progress and work together. Basically the stuff you don't learn in a class outside of a Shaolin Temple. I have been training in the Shaolin Arts for a while now and have been looking to learn about contitioning methods, this was a great resource! The explainations are clear and easy to understand. Enjoy!

Jin Jing Zhong's, "72 Arts of Shaolin," is an amazing compilation of training and conditioning techniques. It preserves much of the ancient Shaolin training knowledge that would otherwise have been lost after the Communist Revolution. I have added many of the techniques to my own training regimen, and I only wish that I had found this book when I was younger! Most of the practices are safe but highly taxing and require a 100% committment in order to achieve success. Others require special apparatus or setups, but none are insurmountable. I quickly discovered a few favorite exercises that I try to practice every day, and I am sure that any student reading this work will fall in love with some of them as well. A few of the exercises suggest training with "dead lead," and as far as I know, there is no way to train safely with lead. I would recommend using some of the other non-toxic heavy metal substitutes for those exercises that are readily available today. This book is truly wonderful, and contains much of the true spirit of Shaolin. I'll need to buy another one soon to replace my own dog-eared copy! Good luck-Erik.

This book is easy to review. I absolutly loved the book! The history, the information, i loved every bit of this book right down to the warnings about training in the methods through the book. Because you can do yourself great harm later in life by training in these methods. The reason is that many of the methods use special salutions and medicine that is not given in the book and even so there is a real risk there for artrithis, croked fingers( there is actually a picture of this in the book) and so on. All serious collectors and martial artists should have this book even for no other reason then that it will open your mind to get new ideas and that it is great fun to read!

Good book to read to see how the old way of trainning used to be. I'd have a real hard time trying to do some of the things in this book these days. Bought it for the collection.

The book gets you back at the beginning of the 20th century, when kung-fu was for real martial purposes and when you didn't train for fun. There is a short introduction plus a highlight on the different exercices you should do every day (qi-gong), then there is 2 to 5 pages for each training method. They are mostly "hard" (and hardcore!) training, such as trying to pull nails from a plank or beating yourself with hammers, plus also training methods for speed and flexibility. There are a couple of exercices which are extremely difficult, if not impossible, such as running on walls or hitting yourself in the groin. Lots of good info though for those who want to push themselves in their kung fu training

Any martial arts whose serious about martial arts on a whole or specializing in shaolin martial arts,this book is an essential tool to have in there library. I live in the Caribbean and although they aren't many competent Shaolin practitioner here, this book helps to fill in some of the gaps of not having a competent practitioner. Although a book could never replace a competent practitioner, this book does a good job of get the training points across pretty good for the most part in regards to training the fundamentals of shaolin martial arts. In all its one of the best training books I've come across so far and the price isn't bad for the wealth of knowledge in this book.

I find this book very informative. The background,and history of the shaolin is very indebth.

Very detailed explanation of the training the monks did long ago and some still till this day. If you want to take your training to the next level without going to the temple yourself I would recommend but please be careful when trying some of these out. I don't want nobody getting hurt. Follow instructions carefully.

Best book on basics and forms of traditional way of learning lohan hands to use and practice...

This book is a "must read" for any classic kung fu practitioner, or for that matter, any martial artist. Giving training methods that can be used by the student of any style, this book helps demystify many of the skills and practises of old, and hopefully will encourage people to preserve these old traditions into the future. I'd like to take the opportunity to ask Amazon and/or the publishers to bring out Yuan Chu Cai's "Poles Of Plum Blossom" for us in the UK, and how about some classic books and/or dvd's on Pak Mei (White Eyebrow) style kung fu please ?!

das original dieses buchs ist 1934 erschienen - in einer zeit, die noch nicht von süsslichen new-age-theorien verpestet war. damals gab es auch noch nicht die pseudo-shaolin-kungfu-schulen rund um das kloster, in denen naive touristen abgezockt werden. es ist mit unterstützung des damaligen shaolin-abtes miao xing erschienen. deshalb kann man davon ausgehen, dass es echtes material enthält. das buch beschreibt äussere methoden zur entwicklung von kraft (li) und innere methoden zur entwicklung von energíe (qi). der autor betont, dass es wichtig ist, beide ebenen ausgewogen zu entwickeln. hier unterscheidet sich shaolin von vielen taiji-schulen, die nur die weiche ebene entwickeln wollen. ein beispiel für die 72 künste ist die technik "sonnenstrahlenhand" yang guang shou (gekürzt): stell dich im reiterstand einen meter vor eine brennende kerze, sammle energie im unterbauch und schlag mit der faust in richtung flamme, ohne sie zu berühren. mach das bis die kerze abgebrannt ist, einmal morgens, einmal abends. es ist wichtig, keinen tag auszulassen. wenn die kerze von diesen schlägen ausgeht, ist die erste stufe erreicht. danach vergrössert man den abstand auf 8 schritte. wenn es auch hier klappt, ist das ziel erreicht. dann kann man einen mann auf 2 oder 3 schritte abstand verletzten, ohne seinen körper zu berühren. (heute spricht man bei kontaklosen techniken von leerer kraft (kong jing) - mehr dazu bei paul dong: empty force). das buch stammt aus einer zeit, als kampfkunstlehrer noch kompromisslose ansprüche an ihre schüler stellten. bei einer bestimmten übung besteht die erste ebene darin, dass man lernt, 2 stunden im reiterstand zu stehen. der autor gibt auch manchmal an, wie lange es dauert, um eine übung zu meistern. das sind oft 3 jahre (bei täglichem training), es können aber auch 10 oder 15 sein. er betont, dass ausdauer die wichtigste eigenschaft für erfolg mit den 72 künsten ist. weitere, wenn auch nicht so gute bücher aus dieser reihe sind: -lian gong mi jue: secret methods of aquiring external and internal mastery, 1930 -dian xue (dim mak): skill of acting on acupoints, 1934

Bought as a gift for my son. He is really enjoying this book. He said he was surprised that It was even available as it is an older book.

L'ho preso con genuino interesse verso questo mondo, molte delle pratiche suggerite sembrano comunque inutili o addirittura estremamente dannose.