Wu Shu Massage Through prolonged periods of arduous competition, this Category of Shaolin exercise equips and sustains performers. A useful precursor and preparation for the two Shaolin Secret Fighting Exercises or 'Kungs' considered next is such External (Wei Dan) Qigong. These represent a Soft-Hard continuum's extremes, selected examples of the Temple's 72 Consummate Secret Arts. Shaolin Kung Fu School teaches these principles.

'Self Hitting Arts'/ Pai Da Gong Revealing the truth underlying the Shaolin Maxim, this Kung's roots in External Qigong are developed in extreme terms: first learn the Arts of being struck,' Before practising the skill of striking others’. Extensively strengthening its whole exterior, the body's adaptive systems are drawn upon in structured fashions.

Iron Cloth Shirt/'Tie Shan Bu Gong Even to the extent of requiring a third, intermediate, Kung's advance mastery, this form of Iron Shirt Training however begins to approach the further boundaries of Shaolin India external body-conditioning. Using intense impact methods, now the emphasis is on training the Torso, front-and-rear, and both sides.

Iron Bullock Arts/'Tie Nui Gong Representing an intermediary 'bridge,' the two Kungs both, significantly, refer to 'Iron Bullock Arts'. Superiority to Pai Da Gong, detailed content analysis of all 3 reveals Iron Bullock Arts' but supporting its suitability for a bridging role, inferiority to Iron Cloth Shirt. This is perhaps on key abdominal strengthening exercises the emphasis that is laid.

Using approaches related to Shaolin 'Hard' External Yang/Gang Power Training methods of the 72 Kungs, this implies a certain path to be trodden or course to be followed in the pursuit of external body-conditioning success.

Tune Engine and Strengthen Chassis Together With the Shaolin Temple's much less well-known Secret methods for conditioning the body's interior (inside is the engine/hard-drive outside the chassis/gleaming sheath,) the aforementioned methods need contrasting. As opposed to the 'outside-in' approaches of the examples mentioned above, these include building the Iron Shirt from the 'inside-out'.

The course helps to strengthen the 5 Major 'muscular' Internal Organs: Spleen, Lungs, Kidneys, Liver and Heart. After getting strengthened, the organs work together in tandem, as a system. This indicates the way, Shaolin Internal Yin/Rou Internal Energy Training can improve the condition of the internal organs in the body.

In body-conditioning, these two dimensions (Internal/External) together represent Yin/Yang balance. Now becoming better known, the Yin aspects of this, neglected in the West compared to the East (whence all Kung Fu originates). The maxim highly instructive: 'When Yin and Yang are balanced the body knows optimum health' is popular.