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"Seventy-two precious arts are kept in a brocade bag, they may be kept being a great treasure. Eighteen turn out the essence of the famous treatises on pugilistic arts. Eighteen other arts describe in greater detail training methods with the use of special tools and training equipment. Wonderful types of attaining the flexibility of the breath-chi, exercises in obtaining hardness and lightness, clenching methods are written with all the blood of monks in magazines which might be kept like a treasure inside the brocade bag. One can seldom meet people that genuinely wish to do exercises with zeal: to turn into a real hero, one must often feel bitter taste of hard labour. " /Secret Shaolin Treatises for the Pugilistic Art/ It is fascinating to watch Loren for action and get acquainted with the way in which he works inside the medium of glass. Along the best way, he incorporated granite and metal to boost a number of the pieces. A few examples would be the palm tree fronds and leafy pineapple tops that happen to be made of painted and polished metal looking at the top stacked glass trunks. Then there's the lighthouse that sits over a granite base with rocky embellishments to offer a realistic touch on the outcropping.