Hi doc,
I found your website today and I saw a post you made about shaolin 72 arts. This one:
I have a copy of this book and I want to start with the excercise:
Suspending a Gold Coin (XIUAN JIN QIAN)
However I am not sure if I understand it correctly. I hope you can help me with some questions about this excercise:
- How big should the coin be?
- How thick should the string be?
- What does it mean to push away the coin? Is it forward/back or left/right?
Thanks for reading I hope you know the answers.
Greetings,
xxxx
I found your website today and I saw a post you made about shaolin 72 arts. This one:
I have a copy of this book and I want to start with the excercise:
Suspending a Gold Coin (XIUAN JIN QIAN)
However I am not sure if I understand it correctly. I hope you can help me with some questions about this excercise:
- How big should the coin be?
- How thick should the string be?
- What does it mean to push away the coin? Is it forward/back or left/right?
Thanks for reading I hope you know the answers.
Greetings,
xxxx
But one would assume that it would depend upon the type of coin used at the time. A good website to learn about old Chinese currency, and what was used during what years, is here:
As for the string, and which way it swings, the only time I was concerned about these things was back when I was dating. One had to be careful in Thailand.
I have a curiosity, and a suspicion, about any and all of this stuff however. I will reiterate what I said way back then:
For the almost two years that I've spent at Shaolin, and all the other time I've had monks with me at my house, quite frankly I've never heard anyone discuss this seventy two art stuff. I've seen some of it, buried in various places in the Ji Ben Gong and forms training. But taught, as one might think something famous like this would be taught as in a curriculum, well, you just don't see it. Again, Shaolin "traditions" not exactly being clearly identified and taught at Shaolin.
I never saw this hanging coin training, nor have I ever heard it mentioned. That's not to say that it never happened. I just never saw it.
Maybe there are some other members out there that have more experiences with it. This should be interesting....
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