Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods Of 72 Arts Of Shaolin (Shaolin Kung Fu Online Library) Paperback – December 15, 2008

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.

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.

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.

This Book is so awesome.. If you love old Chinese martial arts movies and see these dudes doing all these magical things. This will show you how to do those Magical things... But takes YEARS to do them.... Knowledge is one thing... Being great at any of these trainings is a whole different thing...

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!

This certainly outlines the crazy training methods of shaolin monks, however it is hard to follow.You will need to get books by Yang Jwing Ming or other Qigong authors to "fill in the gaps" present in this text. There are no pictures and or diagrams to assist, and many of these exercises can be very dangerous.Enjoy as a read, but proceed with caution with MANY of the exercises.

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