Seventy-two skills of Buddhism, also known as Shaolin Seventy-two Arts, are divided into thirty-six hard skills and thirty-six soft skills.

Specifically, there are: iron arm skills, platoon skills, iron broom skills, foot shooting skills, kicking gold bell jar skills, copper sand palm (bamboo hand), snake (Scolope jump), kiln lifting, arhat skills, steel toe skills, level 4 skills, iron cloth shirt skills, double lock skills, cupping skills, stone lock skills, iron ball bags, kiln gates, whip strength. Swing palm, crouching tiger, pulling mountain, golden dragon hand, pushing mountain palm, kicking tree, talons, cutting magic sword, Kong Xuan fist, Jinsha palm (friction skill), iron sand palm, flying skill, gun and knife invasion, chasing sand palm with five poisons (five poisonous hands), climbing over eaves, penetrating first line, jumping vertical skill, golden shovel finger and so on. Pipa skills, soft bones skills, gecko left-handed skills, door fork skills, tumbling skills, bag-making skills, frog skills, thousand layers of paper skills, pinball skills, finger-locking skills, wind-chasing skills, soft and mysterious skills.