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Iron Shirt is a form of hard style martial art exercise for protecting the human body from impacts in a fight. Some martial arts are based on the idea that a correctly trained body can withstand more damage than one that is untrained. Iron Shirt is said to be a series of exercises using many post stances, herbs, qigong and body movements to cause the body's natural energy (qi) to reinforce its structural strength. Practitioners believe that directing energy to parts of the body can reinforce these parts of the body to take blows against them. In the Shaolin version of Iron Shirt, the practitioner would do things such as laying on a stump or supporting tablets of granite on the chest with the goal of toughening the body.

1 Famous Practitioners
2 References
3 Sources
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Famous Practitioners

According to 13th generation lineage Tai He ("Great Harmony") Wudangquan Master Fan Ke Ping (范克平), Zhou Tong, the archery teacher of General Yue Fei, practiced the Hǔ Xiào Jīn Zhōng Zhào (虎啸金钟罩 – “Tiger Shouting Golden Bell Exercise"), Tie Bu Shan ("Five Phoenix Iron Shirt Work") and the Wu Feng Qi Ming Gui Xi Su ("Five Phoenix Combined Shouting Tortoise Resting Method"). Zhou Tong supposedly learned these skills from an “unknown master” and passed it along. During the Ming Dynasty, Daoist Priest Deng Kun Lun (邓坤伦) learned the set and published a book called Dà Sòng Quān Nèi Dì Yī Gāo Shǒu Zhōu Tóng Zhēn Chuán Hǔ Xiào Jīn Zhōng Zhào Fú Qì Liàn Xíng Mì Shù (大宋圈内第一高手周侗真传虎啸金钟罩服气炼形秘术 - “Great Song Circle Internal Sequence First Master Zhou Tong True Line Tiger Shouting Golden Bell Exercise Build Secret Technique”) in 1426.^[1]^[2]

There is a VCD series about this set of body-hardening exercises.^[3]

[edit] References

^ Page 13 (Chinese only)
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^ Wu Dang TAI HE Style Boxing The names of Zhou Tong and Deng Kun Lun have been “Americanized”, meaning the surnames go last and the given names go first (Example: Zhou Tong = Tong Zhou).