Yuan Chu Cai. - Mei Hua Zhuang. Poles of Plum Blossom. External and Internal training.

Poles of Plum Blossom. External (WAI GONG) and Internal (NEI GONG) Training. The book covers "external" (WAI GONG) and "internal" (NEI GONG) training methods practiced by traditional schools of the "Shaolin family" (SHAOLIN PAI). The following proverb has been passed down from generation to generation of people who were occupied in martial arts: "Strength can not overcome Style, Style can not overcome Mastery (GONG FU)." There is one more saying: "Style is the flesh of mastery, mastery (GONG FU) is the skeleton of style." All this stresses paramount importance of training in the "Internal Mastery" (GONG FU). Now many exercises presented in the book are almost lost and practiced by very few people. However, earlier they were an integral part of training in traditional schools of Chinese martial arts. Those and similar training methods allowed masters of the past to reach staggering results. Now their skills seem to us supernatural and unattainable. For instance, FEI YANG ZOU BI - "Flyi