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You can train these on your own...there are books on the subject. Iron fingers : use a bowl/box of sand at about knee height (has to be at belt level when you get down into semi/full horse stance) and finger strike (with all four fingers) the sand. You can add water to make the sand more compact. Once you get no pain from this you can move to small pebbles. Iron palm and iron fist. hit a hard surface (ie. wood) (again, while in horse stance) with your palm or your fist (watchout for proper fist/wriste alignement or you will just hurt yourself). You may start with a little padding on the hard surface at first. Iron forearms : Find a tree as wide as your waist (not necessary), get into horse stance and hit it with the outer and inner forarms lightly at first, then put more strenght as you get more resistant. When you'll be able to hit and make the leaves fall from the tree, you'll have pretty hard forearms. **** Be carefull, you do not want to hurt yourself and aggrave the condition doing this. Read/ask your sifu on tips, use rubbing lotions to ease the pain. If you are hurt beyound bruises (sprains, stiffness, etc) give it a break...you may have done something wrong while training.

As far as I know about dragon style...it incorporates all traditional shaolin anymals... Tiger's aggression, crane's grace, snake's visciousness, leopoard's speed, eagle's ...claws? I think it's just a state where you take all the animal's benefits into the same style.

What the hell was the write on when he/she wrote this...

Looking for some good readings on Martial Arts and Self-defense. Feel free to post your top 3 or whatever books on the subject to help anyone interested in reading on this. [Edit : scroll down!]

It is an southern internal style (taoist origins, kind of the equivalent of the northern tai chi). I thing the full name means "Fist of the 8 organigrams" or something. Concentrates on circular footwork... Can't say much more, A friend of mine bought a book on this but I only had the chance to scan quickly through it.

Bet they need to pay on all 42 sash tests....poor little fellas

It is just wrong...A 10yr old kid cannot possibly have the physical abilities to go through a BB test. Unless #1 they watered down the standarts or #2 he is training in a complete * style. Both ways it is just wrong.

Fencing would be sweet, if it wasn't for the fact that it is practived in a straight corridor...they can only go forward or backwards. Now put them in a circle! and now you are talking!

As long as your training is not completely based on tournament sparrings. IMHO

Of course, genitalias are sensitive for both sex!

It is pretty self evident how to strike with a kobutan (or pen), but I heard it could help for joint locks and stuff...how?

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Anyone have links or knows how to use a kubotan keyring? Just heard about this LEGAL self defense tool and I wanna know how it works before I get myself one.

Defend urself with a knife and you end up in jail.

Learn em both.

Well it is a fact that in general, women are more dextrous than men.

Sounds to me they are just too lazy to give the extra effort and become buddha...

Yet we would pretty much get owned by any other mammals ... I fear my poodle....

Isn't what you just said two more stereotypes? I know I don't feel the need to prove anything.

yeah well there is a max limit of options you can put in a poll.... I also left out 1000 bees, pheonix, scorpion, centipede and what not! hence, the "Other" option.

There are different types of canes in savate.

He also does 1 handed chin-ups, and several of them!

Your sleeping cosily in your bed, then suddenly WHAM! You get hit by a bô... "You should be more aware of your surroundings, young grass hopper!"

Every kind of metal music. Some rock, some techno...if I go in a club I won't mind hip-hop...