Conditioning the Hands Part I (Introduction)

[Hardball]

Bump Iron Palm Training

[47MartialMan]

How many here have been conditonong for 20 years or more?

[Tom Yum]

How many here have been conditonong for 20 years or more?

conditonong sounds like a helluva fillipino dish....jj

[crosstrainedwar]

47 MartialMan, I believe William cheung has been training since the 50's, so he must have been doing iron palm and using wooden dummies about as long. Wing Lam is in his 50's, so I am sure he has been doing iron palm around 40 years or so. I am sorry to hear of your story. Before you started conditioning your hands, did you make sure that neither your instructor nor any of you fellow students had disfigured hands? Did you contact other instructors in the same lineage to make sure that they did not have any problems with their hands? I have not conditioned my hands, but I have talked to people who have. Thanks in advance.

[BoarSpear]

How many here have been conditonong for 20 years or more?

i have almost 25 years of daily (3x) ironpalm training, seated and standing and standing moving variations.

[47MartialMan]

i have almost 25 years of daily (3x) ironpalm training, seated and standing and standing moving variations.

And what are you going to DO with this conditioning?

[BoarSpear]

And what are you going to DO with this conditioning?

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[BoarSpear]

What if you get dit da jow on your hand, forget to wash it off and get it on your privates?

Anyone?

It burns as little not as bad as tiger balm though

[kingoftheforest]

And what are you going to DO with this conditioning?

I have been training for 5 years and have performed 2 succesful coconut breaks in front of my instructor.

I did the breaks and have now gained complete confidence in my striking ability...I don't recommed breaks for everyone but I enjoy the fact that I know I can.

[jubaji]

I have been training for 5 years and have performed 2 succesful coconut breaks in front of my instructor.

I did the breaks and have now gained complete confidence in my striking ability...

That could be a problem.

[kingoftheforest]

That could be a problem.

Igth I politely ask how that could be a problem sir?

[kingoftheforest]

That could be a problem.

Might I politely ask how that could be a problem sir?

[jubaji]

Igth (?!) I politely ask how that could be a problem sir?

You have "complete confidence" in your striking ability because you broke a piece of fruit that was neither moving nor trying to hit you back? You don't see a few things missing there?

[kingoftheforest]

That's completley understandable response to my post, thank you for pointing that out.

You are correct hitting an unmoving nut or fruit as Jubaji has called it doesn't in itself prove anything. I have noticed that in regular speed striking I can generate that same power and from a short distance. Mind you I break the coconut from only a few inches away.

The actual process of hitting the bag of rocks or the nut is that it teaches you to generate that power from several angels.

[47MartialMan]

You have "complete confidence" in your striking ability because you broke a piece of fruit that was neither moving nor trying to hit you back? You don't see a few things missing there?

My point exactly.. In-animate objects do not move about and strike back.

Also, you have to concentrate and focus too long to perform the break

And, in the future, your hands will develop serious side effects.

These kind of conditioning methods were performed in a time that weapons werent readily available and hand-hand combat was common.

If you need such a method to develop confidence, then your confidence is mislead.