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"In all practices in the Seventy-two Arts to start with principle theory is studied and just then exercises are done. At first those who practice the arts train the softness of these sinews and bones and then try to make agile all their joints and articulations. Then they set into motion the primary breath ZONG LI, strengthen the internal organs FU, improve blood state, consolidate body strength, control the cinnabar field and concentrate energy inside, overcome their desires and requirements. The strength spreads about the four extremities and also the hundred joints and articulations, now a fighter is command of unlimited power and that he can move off a thousand jins. Your arm weighing only ten jins can move one thing weighing 10000 jins which has a stroke. Your arms can be a head, your legs certainly are a tail. Everything is permeated which has a single movement, one's body moves as being a dragon. Teachers said: “Shaolin exercises develop forces from the whole human organism, all joints and bones; you might be able to striking wonderful elements of your system. " There is one more saying: “The fist could be the source of all arts and the leg will be the base, the foundation with the fist. " Ordinary practice of pugilism includes 70 percent of leg training and thirty percent of fist training. If you acquire pugilism, you may use eighteen types of weapon. If you make use of all ruses of pugilism, you can fight ten thousand fighters. " /Secret Shaolin Treatises around the Pugilistic Art/ TRIVIA: By the age of six, Jackson had been working in a South Carolina textile mill like a clean-up boy. Twelve-hour days were not uncommon being a young teenager, and Joe received little in the form of formal education. Sadly, he never learned to learn or write, and in later years would loose time waiting for teammates to order off the menu after which order for himself by repeating something he'd heard. “We’re very proud of the way that the glass industry has come together to face the challenge of energy efficiency and decarbonisation - which will continue to define all manufacturing and markets for the coming decades.