Shaolin temple, Shaolin warriors and Shaolin history

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Compactness is a feature of the Shaolin school. The moves and tricks of this school are short, simple and succinct as well as versatile. While fighting, Shaolin boxers would advance and retreat straight forwardly. They need only a small space to execute their style of fist fight which is des-cribed as ¡¯fighting along a single straight line¡¯. Shaolin Quart is powerful and speedy with rhythmic rising and falling of body movements. It stresses hardness of actions and blows but it also advocates softness in support of the hardness. The motto of the Shaolin fist fight says ¡¯hardness first and softness second¡¯. When jabbing or palming, the arm is required to be neither bent nor straight, in an attempt to blend external and internal forces.