| The 72 Shaolin Secret Arts are methods of preparing | | | | 9. Exercise "Iron Shirt" (Tie Bu Shan Gong). |
| the body and the mind for action under extreme | | | | 10. Exercise "A Series of Blows" (Pai Da Gong). |
| conditions (first of all, in conditions of real-life | | | | 11. Exercise "Sweeping with an Iron Broom" (Tie Sao |
| hand-to-hand combat). If you train only hand-to-hand | | | | Zhou). |
| techniques and do not pay attention to special training, | | | | 12. Exercise "Hand - a Bamboo Leaf" (Zhu Ye Shou |
| you will never achieve the highest mastery and your | | | | Gong). |
| movements will lack the real force. "The fists are like | | | | 13. Exercise Jumping Centipede (WU GONG TIAO). |
| flowers, and the legs like embroidery needles", laugh | | | | 14. Raising a Weight of 1000 JINs (TIE QIAN JIN). |
| the old masters at such "techniques". The 72 Arts of | | | | 15. Celestial's Palm (XIAN REN ZHANG). |
| Shaolin are the foundation of the utmost mastery in all | | | | 16. Method of Hardness and Softness (GANG ROU |
| styles of Kung Fu. | | | | FA). |
| "Seventy-two precious arts are kept in a brocade bag, | | | | 17. Cinnabar Palm (ZHU SHA ZHANG). |
| they are kept like a great treasure. Eighteen of them | | | | 18. Exercise Lying Tiger (WO HU GONG). |
| are the essence of the famous treatises on pugilistic | | | | 19. Swimming and Diving Skill (QIU SHUI SHU). |
| arts. Eighteen other arts describe in detail training | | | | 20. Sluice Shutter weighing 1000 JINs (QIAN JIN ZHA). |
| methods with the use of special tools and training | | | | 21. Covering with a Gold Bell (JIN ZHONG ZHAO). |
| equipment. Wonderful methods of attaining the flexibility | | | | 22. Exercise Finger Lock (SUO ZHI GONG). |
| of the breath-chi, exercises in obtaining hardness and | | | | 23. Luohan's Exercise (LUOHAN GONG). |
| lightness, clenching methods are written with the blood | | | | 24. Lizard Climbs the Wall (BIHU YU QIANG SHU). |
| of monks in books that are kept like a treasure in the | | | | 25. The Art of Lash (BIAN JIN FA). |
| brocade bag. One can seldom meet those who really | | | | 26. Exercise "PIPA" (PIPA GONG). |
| want to do exercises with zeal: to become a real hero, | | | | 27. "The Pole of a Falling Star" (LIU XING ZHUANG). |
| one must often feel bitter taste of hard labour." | | | | 28. "Poles of Plum Bloom" (MEI HUA ZHUANG). |
| Secret Shaolin Treatises on the Pugilistic Art/ | | | | 29. The Art of Stone Padlock (SHI SUO GONG). |
| Seventy-two types of the Shaolin Arts represent an | | | | 30. "Skill of the Iron Arm" (TIE BI GONG). |
| example of personal experience of monks from the | | | | 31. "Fist like a Bullet" (DANZI QUAN). |
| Shaolin Monastery in the Songshan Mountains. This | | | | 32. Exercise "Soft Bones" (ROU GU GONG). |
| experience was obtained by hard exercises in combat | | | | 33. Exercise "Frog" (HAMA GONG). |
| arts during many epochs. The best samples of those | | | | 34. Exercise "Piercing the Curtain" (CHUAN LIAN |
| seventy-two arts are such effective methods as qi | | | | GONG). |
| gong (chi kung), breathing exercises chi, exercises to | | | | 35. The Force of Eagle's Claws (YING ZHAO LI). |
| obtain hardness ying gong and lightness qing gong, | | | | 36. Technique "Iron Bull" (TIE NIU GONG). |
| acupoint massage dian xue, clenching arts qin na (chin | | | | 37. Skill of Eagle Wings (YING YI GONG). |
| na), the art of setting dislocations and bones and | | | | 38. Arm of Sun Rays (YANG GUANG SHOU). |
| others. | | | | 39. Exercise for Groin (MEN DAN GONG). |
| "In all practices of the Seventy-two Arts at first the | | | | 40. Exercise "Iron Bag" (TIE DAI GONG). |
| basic theory is studied and only then exercises are | | | | 41. Method that Reveals the Truth (JIE DI GONG). |
| done. At first those who practice the arts train the | | | | 42. Skill of Tortoise Back (GUI BEI GONG). |
| softness of their sinews and bones and try to make | | | | 43. Skill of Deft Jumps (CUAN ZONG SHU). |
| agile all their joints and articulations. Then they set into | | | | 44. Skill of Light Body (JIN SHEN SHU). |
| motion the main breath ZONG LI, strengthen the | | | | 45. Exercise "Iron Knees" (TIE XI GONG). |
| internal organs FU, improve blood state, consolidate | | | | 46. Technique of Jumps (TIAO YAO FA). |
| body strength, control the cinnabar field and | | | | 47. Palm of Iron Sand (TIE SHA ZHANG). |
| concentrate energy in it, overcome their desires and | | | | 48. Pulling a Silk Thread (YI XIAN CHUAN). |
| requirements. The strength spreads on the four | | | | 49. Method of drawing in YIN (XI YIN GONG). |
| extremities and the hundred joints and articulations, | | | | 50. Technique of "Rubbing and Thrusts" (MO CHA |
| now a fighter is in command of unlimited power and he | | | | SHU). |
| can move off one thousand jins. Your arm weighing | | | | 51. Exercise "Stone Pile" (SHI ZHU GONG). |
| only ten jins can move a thing weighing ten thousand | | | | 52. Skill "Neither Lances nor Broadswords Can |
| jins with a stroke. Your arms are a head, your legs are | | | | Wound" (QIANG DAO BU RU FA). |
| a tail. Everything is permeated with a single movement, | | | | 53. Gong Fu "Flight" (FEI XING GONG). |
| the body moves like a dragon. Teachers said: "Shaolin | | | | 54. Hand of Five Poisons (WU DU SHOU). |
| exercises develop forces of the whole human | | | | 55. Skill of Water Separation (FEN SHUI GONG). |
| organism, all joints and bones; you are capable of | | | | 56. To Fly Up to the Ridge and to Walk on a Wall (FEI |
| striking with all parts of your body." There is one more | | | | YAN ZOU). |
| saying: "The fist is the source of all arts and the leg is | | | | 57. Skill of Somersaulting (FAN TENG SHU). |
| the base, the root of the fist." Ordinary practice of | | | | 58. Pole of Cypress (BAI SHU ZHUANG). |
| pugilism consists of seventy percent of leg training and | | | | 59. Ba Wang's Elbow (BA WANG ZHOU). |
| thirty percent of fist training. If you acquire pugilism, you | | | | 60. Exercise "Pinching a Flower" (NIAN HUA GONG). |
| can use eighteen types of weapon. If you resort to all | | | | 61. Exercise "Pushing a Mountain with Palm" (TUI |
| ruses of pugilism, you can fight against ten thousand | | | | SHAN ZHANG). |
| fighters." /Secret Shaolin Treatises on the Pugilistic Art/ | | | | 62. Technique of Horse Saddle (MA AN GONG). |
| 72 Secret Arts of Monks from the Shaolin Monastery: | | | | 63. Skill of Nephrite Belt (YU DAI GONG). |
| 1. Method "Diamond Finger" (Yi Zhi Jingang Fa). | | | | 64. YIN Fist Method (YIN QUAN GONG). |
| 2. Exercise "Twin Lock" (Shuang Suo Gong). | | | | 65. Skill of Sand Bags (SHA BAO GONG). |
| 3. Exercise "Striking with Foot" (Zu She Gong). | | | | 66. Skill "Piercing Through Stones" (DIEN SHI GONG). |
| 4. Exercise "Pulling out a Nail" (Bo Ding Gong). | | | | 67. Skill "Pulling Out a Mountain" (BO SHAN GONG). |
| 5. Exercise "Ringing Round a Tree" (Bao Shu Gong) | | | | 68. Claws of Mantis (TANGLANG ZHAO). |
| 6. Four-Part exercise (Si Duan Gong). | | | | 69. Skill "Bag" (BU DAI GONG). |
| 7. Exercise "One Finger of Chan Meditation" (Yi Zhi | | | | 70. Palm of Guan Yin (GUAN YIN ZHANG). |
| Chan Gong). | | | | 71. Skill "Raising a Pot" (SHANG GUAN GONG). |
| 8. Exercise "Iron Head"(Tie Tou Gong). | | | | 72. Rubbing Palms (HE PAN ZHANG). |