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Title: Complete Iron Palm Training for Self-Defense
Author: H.C. Chao
Publisher: Book Publisher, Inc., 2001 Fourteenth Printing
Form: Paperback, 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 in, 116 pages

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Contents
Preface	iii
First Chapter: The Description if Iron Ore Palm	1
1. The Beginning of the Iron Ore Palm	1
2. Pugilism and Kung Training	3
3. Three Important Things to be Remembered In Kung Training	6
4. Kung Training Related to Medication	8
5. Kung Training and its influence on Age	10
Second Chapter: The Different Bracnhes, Training and Application of the Iron Ore Palm	11
1. The Different Branches of the Iron Ore Palm and their Training Method	11
2. The Training of the Iron Ore Palm in one hundred days	12
3. The Application of the Iron Ore Palm in Defense	27
3-1 The Use of the Slapping, Throwing, Cutting, Stamping and Dotting Methods	27
3-2 The Training in Hun Yuan Palm	47
3-3 Advice on the use of the Palm	52
3-4 Explanatory Notes with reference to the Secet Songs on the Use of the Iron Ore Palm	56
Third Chapter: The Training of Fingers, Fist, Forearm and Six Ridges	63
1. Finger Training	63
1-1 Thrusting	63
A. Thrusting Downward	63
B. Thrusting into the Left SIde	65
C. Thrusting into the Right Side	66
1-2 Grasping Practice	67
1-3 Lifting and Grasping	68
A. Right Hand	68
B. Left Hand	69
1-4 Finger Piercing Method	70
2. Fist Training	72
2-1 Forward Punching	72
2-2 Lateral Punching with Single Fist	73
2-3 Punching with Doiuble Fists	74
3. Training of the Forearm	75
3-1 Training the Forearm from the Left or Right Side	75
3-2 Training the Forearm from the Front Side	77
3-3 Forearm Rolling Method	78
A. Training in Standing Stance	78
B. Training in Horse Straddle Stance	79
4. Training in Six Ridges	79
4-1 Head Ridge	80
4-2 Brain Ridge	81
4-3 Shoulder Ridge	82
4-4 Hip Ridge	83
4-5 Knee Ridge	84
4-6 Double Elbows	85
Annex:	86
1. Additional Maneuvers of Slappling, Throwing, Cutting, Stamping and Dotting	86
I. The use of the Slapping Maneuver	86
II. The use of the Throwing Maneuver	86
III. The use of the Cutting Maneuver	92
IV. The use of the Stamping Maneuver	94
V. The use of the Dotting Maneuver	96
2. Questions ans Answers	108

PREFACE

A great variety of hand-to-hand fighting arts has been found in China since men first appeared there many thousands of years ago. It is reported in Chinese history that fighting arts were especialy flourishing in Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) and few men were without skill in fighting art during that time. It is recorded in history that 13 monks living in the Shaolin Temple located in the north west of Tong Feng Hsien of Ho Na provence came to the rescue of the emperor (Tang Tai Chung) and finaly assisted the emperor in routing the revolting groups including the big warlord Wnag She Tsung.

Their triumph in the battles made not only the fame of the Temple Shaolin very famous but also the Style of their pugilism very well known in China, which in latter time was called the Shaolin School.

Then it came to the year between AD 1101 and 1126 in Sung Dynasty when Master Chang Shan Feng made a study of many pugilist primarily from the Daoism religion and created a style of his own in pugilism called Tai Chi Chuan and so named Wu Tang School, Which gave much emphasis on the cultivation of the human mind and the promotion of health rather than the improvement of the fighting technique. Generaly speaking, this style belongs to the interior school. Then some other schools in addition to the mentioned two were established aftewards.

On the other hand, the Shaolin school paid more attention to the fighting technique than the maintaining of health and therefore, was put into the category of the exterior school, also a school of the hard pugilism.

Since then, various schools of the Chinese fighting arts have been so mutually developed and interrelated with each other that it seems not easy to distinguish one school from the other in later time. Generally speaking, the Chinese fighting arts consist of two exercises, the pugilism and the Kung. The later includes the internal type and the external type, which, in turn covers the hard type and the soft type. In order to become proficient in such art, one has to master the aforementioned two exercises. The pugilism is intended to train the prople to move and respond with flexibility and swiftness in a close hand-to-hand fighting., while the Kung is aimed to train the Chi (breath) internally and the strength and rigidity of the skin, muscles and bones externaly. Therefore, the pugilism is the skin of Kung and Kung is the founation of pugilism. The two are dependant on each other and it is not fitting to rely on one and give up on the other.

My friend General Yen has practiced various kinds of pugilism including Shaolin Chuan, Kien Kang Chuan, Yu Fei Chuan, Mei Hua Sword for forty years. He is also an expert in iron ore palm, which he has started practicing since childhood. In considering the fact that many western people have taken interest in the Chinese fighting art, he has requested me to translate his book in this connection with the purpose of orienting the western friends to learn the right way in acquiring the Chinese fighting art including the iron ore palm. Nevertheless, he has advised us not to use this fighting art indiscriminately because the art is a fighting art and it does not only inflict on other people but also commit the user to a criminal offense if put to use at one's discretion.

In view of the fact that the author has attributed the contents of this book from both his experience and the source of other schools, maybe there are some points concerning the principlesand methods used in this book not completely in agreement. If this occurs, we think that the variance in Chinese schools can be accounted for the minor difference found in this book.