doing hardening is it good?

[akio123]

i just want to ask for those martial artist doing hardening...is it good for body conditioning also to ur resistance when u do some hardening?

[Whispers]

Define hardening.

I do what I call "body conditioning" where I toughen up certain surfaces by striking them against hard substances. I mostly focus on y knuckles, elbows, forearms, shins, knife edge and ball of my foot. It's helped alot. When I really lay into a block I can sometimes bruis the other person's attacking limb and some people complain about having to hit my shin when I use it to block. I feel it's worthwhile. I'm also aware i'm a bit of an extremist.

[akio123]

thx for that info whispers now u showed to me that hardening is really worth it..

[kuk sool won]

yes good point whispers, i also harden when im about to get laid...

[Tom Yum]

i just want to ask for those martial artist doing hardening...is it good for body conditioning also to ur resistance when u do some hardening?

Honestly, you might want to get some qualified instruction on hardening the hands. Send a PM to Boarspear; he's a chinese arts instructor.

[Whispers]

Just curious, but what does everyone else do to condition their body? I have the traditional rope bound board, but I often just end up kicking the stone walls where I live.

[kuk sool won]

I try to provoke as many street fights as possible, try running into hard objects, fast.

[akio123]

kuk sool won that kind of martial arts is new to me but when i did some research on it and also videos it looks like hapkido...can u share some knowledege about your art?..thx

[kuk sool won]

'Kuk Sool Won is a systematic study of all of the traditional fighting systems, which together comprise the martial arts history of the Korean Peninusla. As such, Kuk Sool Won is very well organized and seeks to integrate and explore all aspects of the traditional Korean martial arts.'

It has no one particular concentration, like kick boxing has on striking, Judo with throwing or BJJ and ground work. It is a comprehension of all these martial defences combined meaning theoretically it has a superb base for a martial art. Kuk Sool Won does incorperate Hapkiko and Aikido and that is why it looked very similar in the most part of the videos you saw. Kuk Sool is highly suspect to how efficient your teachings are, as its currently experiencing massive growth its has lost its way a little bit, then again so has every other art that has experienced growth spurts so standards have varied from place to place. Its most probably easier to search for it on the internet, obviously kuk sools home page has some interesting information about Kuk Sool as a art, its progression and Grand Master.

To be honest i havent really the time to explain it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuk_Sool_Won is a good reference

[akio123]

i see but u have ur ideas about ur art nice sharing them to me....

[kuk sool won]

sorry? you want my opinions?

[akio123]

sure...share it

[akio123]

ahhh kuk sool won

kuk sool won check this video it has hardening but its tough....do u practice like this???...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzw5rcNo5q8

[kuk sool won]

nooooooope, we don't do that much hardening, you don't really need to do hardening around your abdominals, if you can anticipate your opponents attack before he reaches you (which happens most of the time as a reaction) then you naturally tense, the more situps jackknifes etc. you do then better protection you have. Hardening is only really useful to striking areas and areas with little or no muscle, partically around pressure points.

[Tom Yum]

'Kuk Sool Won is a systematic study of all of the traditional fighting systems, which together comprise the martial arts history of the Korean Peninusla. As such, Kuk Sool Won is very well organized and seeks to integrate and explore all aspects of the traditional Korean martial arts.'

To be honest i havent really the time to explain it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuk_Sool_Won is a good reference

You want to see one of the arts that Kuk Sool integrated long ago?

look up ship pal gi.

Notice how the hyungs change once you reach 1st dan black belt and higher? Especially the hand techniques?

This is some of the stuff that works.