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That's just a fricken hard punch. Mike Tyson breaking his hand through the glove on some guy's nose. But he was a monster, I'd imagine breaking a hand on someone's face with a boxing glove is kind of rare.

"Shi Heng Che Featherweight Registered: Jul 2003 Location: Posts: 82 Status: Offline Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote Fa Jing is common to several Chinese martial arts both in internal and external family. The Taiji Fa Jing strike is famous because of its immense power over a short distance. Long fist boxing is well known for its long range Fa Jing power. Fa Jing in Chinese means to radiate strength. The actual meaning is explosive power. The movement is different in different styles but for Shaolin LuoHan Chuan a Fa Jing strike is achieve by moving the body forward with left hip forward and both arms back and then shifting right hip forward left hip back and arms go forward as you step to generate a whiplike motion for a sharp penetrating strike. Breathing correctly is the most important part of this technique." So this is inaccurate?

Man, I already got to ask a monk these questions. Fa Jing isn't a strike, but shaolin monks use a certain posture and movement to attain fa jing, hence my "fa jing" strike simplization. What kind of chinese do you speak Drunken Monkey?

Easier said that done, cymry. I had a 260 lb guy just jump on me once(I weigh about 135.) There's no freaking way I could get up, I just barely pulled guard. Eventually I choked him out with a triangle.

Not to mention the fact that grappling arts are the most destructive arts available to learn. Against an opponent not trained to grapple, there's a good chance you could break at least two of his limbs in 90 seconds.

Er, Fa Jing is the name of the strike. Jing and Jeng are the same thing, phonetic spelling changing on whether you're cantonese or mandarin.

Breakdancer is correct. The shaolin "Fa Jing" strike is performed in a manner corresponding with the article. Jing is very basically translated as "moving energy."

What I meant was, even when your arm is fully extended, if you could get 100% of the muscle fibers in your bicep to contract(or try to contract I should say,) could you keep your elbow from going poppy poppy?

Anyone who has seen his early day fights knows what I'm talking about. Speed, power and skill. WHAT HAPPENED?

I don't have exact numbers but UFC fighters are horribly under paid. Pride FC(Japan) is where the money is. Bob Sapp made 3 million this year.

So...The unbendable arm is actually a complete or near complete contraction of the tricep? Why couldn't the bicep have the same function?

Then maybe steroids are the great qualizer between then and now. Yes yes, we all know that 90% of the Pride fighters are on roids. Pride doesn't even test them from what I hear.

...what?

I didn't say it accounted for every practitioner on the planet, but doesn't it seem convenient that every decent kung fu practitioner on the planet has nothing to prove? The only kung fu person I've seen kick butt is Asia from the b*llshido forums....Good ole 250 lbs of solid muscle tree stump legs asia. As others have said before, "He could make the macarena work in a fight."

I have taken part in many. Never did I learn how to use my skills in an alive situation. How hard is it to get some closed face plexiglass headgear, neck pads, some NHB gloves and start going to town on eachother?

That's fine and dandy Treebranch. I just don't get it. You'd think a practitioner of one of these arts somewhere in the world would take the opportunity to capitalize on theit abilities in events like Pride FC (Japan,) where there is literally millions to be made if you have the skills. It doesn't even have to be in a big event, it can be in their own freaking school for what I care--All I want to see is a kung fu guy beating someone up for once.

Well hell, how can I put a an MA that hasn't proved itself in the top 5?

Seems to me like you're overestimating the average black belt... Anyways, yeah, we all get steamed sometimes. But we just have to remember, if we go around beating up everyone who shows us a disrespectful attitud, we're going to go to jail. Kekekekeke. I tend to believe in Karma, it all goes around in a circle, what goes around comes around. Edit: oops, forgot the most important part. MartialArts will build your self esteem massively. Sometimes to the point where ego gets in the way. If you want to beat someone up for showing a little disrespectful attitude, then you're already pushing it.

Could you explain the unbending arm to me in scientific terms? The aikido guy I asked about it told me to imagine my arm was a long, unbendable iron pole...When I asked for an explanation he just told me some stuff about ki which didn't really help...

...That pretty much sums it up for fighting efficiency, eh?

So the arm would indeed break?

1:Submission Wrestling 2:BJJ 3:Muay Thai 4:Judo 5:Tae Kwon Do (Oops!)

In the first UFC there were no rules, you were just fined a certain amount of money for certain attacks. And...Well...All the kung fu guys still got beaten up.

After reading another post in this section, I think omeone who can actually do the unbendable arm should try this experiment and see if their arm breaks(or at least if it hurts.) I could never do the unbendable arm or else I would have tried it already.

I was going to post, but, uh, Jerry said everything I wanted to. Psychoassassin, making claims that ki fireballs are real with no tangible evidence at hand doesn't do much for your credibility. The least you could do is tell us where to find it.