The 72 Secret Arts of Shaolin are methods of preparing the body and mind for action in extreme conditions (first of all, in real-life hand-to-hand combat conditions). If you train only melee techniques and do not pay attention to special training, you will never achieve the greatest mastery and your movements will lack real strength. “The cuffs are like flowers and the legs like embroidery needles,” laugh the old masters at such “techniques.” The 72 arts of Shaolin are the basis of maximum mastery in all styles of Kung Fu.

“Seventy-two precious arts are kept in a brocade bag, they are kept as a great treasure. Eighteen of them are the essence of the famous treatises on pugilistic arts. Another eighteen arts describe in detail methods of training with the use of special tools and training equipment. The wonderful methods to achieve flexibility of the chi of breath, the exercises to obtain hardness and lightness, the methods of squeezing are written with the blood of the monks in books that are treasured in the bag of brocade. I really want to exercise with zeal: to become a true hero, you often have to feel the bitter taste of hard work. ” / Secret Shaolin Treatises on Boxing Art /

Seventy-two types of Shaolin Arts represent an example of the personal experience of the monks of the Shaolin Monastery in the Songshan Mountains. This experience was gained through arduous exercises in combat arts over many ages. The best samples of those seventy-two arts are such effective methods as qi gong (chi kung), chi breathing exercises, exercises to obtain ying gong hardness and lightness qing gong, dian xue acupuncture point massage, qin na squeeze arts. (chin na), the art of placing dislocations and bones and others.

“In all the practices of the Seventy-two Arts at the beginning the basic theory is studied and only then the exercises are done. At first those who practice the arts train the softness of their tendons and bones and try to streamline all their joints and joints. Then they put into motion the main breath ZONG LI, strengthen the internal organs FU, improve the blood state, consolidate the strength of the body, control the cinnabar field and concentrate energy in it, exceed your desires and requirements. One hundred joints and joints, now a fighter is in command of unlimited power and can move a thousand jins. Your arm that weighs only ten jins can move a thing that weighs ten thousand jins in one stroke. Your arms are a head, your legs are a tail. Everything is permeated with a single movement, the body moves like a dragon. The masters said: “Shaolin exercises develop the forces of the entire human organism, all joints and bones; you are able to strike with all parts of your body.” There is one more saying: “The fist is the source of all arts and the leg is the base, the root of the fist.” The ordinary practice of boxing consists of seventy percent leg training and thirty percent fist training. If you acquire boxing, you can use eighteen types of weapons. If you use all the tricks of boxing, you can fight against ten thousand fighters. “/ Shaolin’s secret treatises on the art of boxing /

72 secret arts of the monks of the Shaolin monastery:

1. “Diamond Finger” Method (Yi Zhi Jingang Fa).

2. Exercise “Twin Lock” (Shuang Suo Gong).

3. Exercise “Striking with the foot” (Zu She Gong).

4. Exercise “Pull out a nail” (Bo Ding Gong).

5. Exercise “Sounding around a tree” (Bao Shu Gong)

6. Four-part exercise (Si Duan Gong).

7. Exercise “Chan Meditation with one finger” (Yi Zhi Chan Gong).

8. Exercise “Iron Head” (Tie Tou Gong).

9. Exercise “Iron Shirt” (Tie Bu Shan Gong).

10. Exercise “A series of blows” (Pai Da Gong).

11. Exercise “Sweeping with an iron broom” (Tie Sao Zhou).

12. Exercise “Hand – a bamboo leaf” (Zhu Ye Shou Gong).

13. Centipede jump drill (WU GONG TIAO).

14. Increase a weight of 1000 JIN (TIE QIAN JIN).

15. Palm of Celestial (XIAN REN ZHANG).

16. Hardness and softness method (GANG ROU FA).

17. Cinnabar palm tree (ZHU SHA ZHANG).

18. Exercise Tiger lying down (WO HU GONG).

19. Swimming and diving skills (QIU SHUI SHU).

20. Gate shutter weighing 1000 JIN (QIAN JIN ZHA).

21. Cover with a golden bell (JIN ZHONG ZHAO).

22. Finger lock exercise (SUO ZHI GONG).

23. Luohan Exercise (LUOHAN GONG).

24. Lizard climbs the wall (BIHU YU QIANG SHU).

25. The art of eyelashes (BIAN JIN FA).

26. Exercise “PIPA” (PIPA GONG).

27. “The pole of a shooting star” (LIU XING ZHUANG).

28. “Poles of Plum Bloom” (MEI HUA ZHUANG).

29. The art of the stone padlock (SHI SUO GONG).

30. “Ability of the Iron Arm” (TIE BI GONG).

31. “Fist like a bullet” (DANZI QUAN).

32. Exercise “Soft Bones” (ROU GU GONG).

33. Exercise “Frog” (HAMA GONG).

34. Exercise “Piercing the curtain” (CHUAN LIAN GONG).

35. The strength of the claws of the eagle (YING ZHAO LI).

36. “Iron Bull” technique (TIE NIU GONG).

37. Eagle Wings Skill (YING YI GONG).

38. Arm of the rays of the sun (YANG GUANG SHOU).

39. Exercise for the groin (MEN DAN GONG).

40. Exercise “Iron Bag” (TIE DAI GONG).

41. Method that reveals the truth (JIE DI GONG).

42. Tortoise Back Skill (GUI BEI GONG).

43. Skillful jumping ability (CUAN ZONG SHU).

44. Ability of the light body (JIN SHEN SHU).

45. Exercise “Iron knees” (TIE XI GONG).

46. ​​Jumping Technique (TIAO YAO FA).

47. Iron Sand Palm (TIE SHA ZHANG).

48. Pulling a silk thread (YI XIAN CHUAN).

49. Drawing method in YIN (XI YIN GONG).

50. “Rub and Push” Technique (MO CHA SHU).

51. Exercise “Pile of stones” (SHI ZHU GONG).

52. Skill “Neither spears nor swords can hurt” (QIANG DAO BU RU FA).

53. Gong Fu “Flight” (FEI XING GONG).

54. Hand of Five Poisons (WU DU SHOU).

55. Water Separation Skill (FEN SHUI GONG).

56. Fly to the crest and walk on a wall (FEI YAN ZOU).

57. Somersault Skill (FAN TENG SHU).

58. Cypress post (BAI SHU ZHUANG).

59. Ba Wang’s Elbow (BA WANG ZHOU).

60. Exercise “Pinching a flower” (NIAN HUA GONG).

61. Exercise “Pushing a mountain with the palm” (TUI SHAN ZHANG).

62. Saddle Technique (MA AN GONG).

63. Nephrite Belt Skill (YU DAI GONG).

64. YIN Fist Method (YIN QUAN GONG).

65. Skill of sandbags (SHA BAO GONG).

66. Skill “Drill through stones” (DIEN SHI GONG).

67. Skill “Take out a mountain” (BO SHAN GONG).

68. Claws of Mantis (TANGLANG ZHAO).

69. “Bag” of skills (BU DAI GONG).

70. Palm of Guan Yin (GUAN YIN ZHANG).

71. Skill “Raising a Pot” (SHANG GUAN GONG).

72. Rub the palms together (HE PAN ZHANG).