Iron Palm, Iron Claw, Two-Finger Zen, etc

[Sam]

Cool just read all this (ignored to initially for some reason).

New to conditioning my self - just got some sand in bucket at the moment; and a board with lots of sisal rope around it (dry coarse stuff) that i hit alot on the way to work.... working nicely!!

Fingertip pushups seems to be the way to go as well for me (in my limited experience), helping massively with my striking into more dense object.

Also conditioning on the knuckles - knuckle press ups on carpet / gravel twisting 90 degrees on the way up and down.... thats working as well.

[ncole_91]

Okay, so today during school, while walking down the halls, i could hit my kuckles on he walls. Ouch it hurts lol, they get all red for a bit. Hopefully it is worth it

Does anyone on MSN willing to talk to me and help me with conditioning my kucnkles and other part of the body?

[markusan]

Wonder if anyone reading this post has done this sort of training long term and had problems with joint calcification, arthritis etc?

[ninjanurse]

In my younger days, we pounded sand and lead shot in addition to makiwara's bound with rope. These days I have arthritis in my wrists so I don't pound much of anything!

[P.A.L]

this is a good practics for forarm tendons

both hand in palm hand strike position, open all the fingers and pull back all of them toward elbow make a 90 degree angle between fingers and forearm , stay for 10 sec , then relax and repeat, strong tendons is a key for throwing your hand effectively( yang hand, crane fingers, tiger claw,...)

[aefibird]

In my younger days, we pounded sand and lead shot in addition to makiwara's bound with rope. These days I have arthritis in my wrists so I don't pound much of anything!

That sounds like my Sensei. He did a lot of traditional conditioning training when he was younger (rope makiwara, sand pounding, forearm banging, kicking tree trunks and the like) but he now has arthritis in his hands and wrists. He's also starting with it in his feet.

[NinTai]

My instructor has also done conditioning for I would say 30 years.

The only problems he has are with his right shoulder, but that has more

to do with being shot there.

The key is to start SLOW. Gradually increase the intensity and duration

over a long period of time, like a year or 2. And please hit something

that gives. Unless your drunk i don't think you will be fighting with

any brick walls. Karate is about hitting the soft parts of them with

the hard parts of you.

Like anything else some people with develop problems and others will not.

Play safe.

[CapitalKarate]

A lot of those conditioning skills for your body (I said a lot, not all) were used because war/fighting was inevitable for most part. And so they strived to be the best they possibly would be. Today times are different, we aren't training for hand to hand combat in war like you would have been in the first millenia, so a lot of these techniques aren't needed for todays world. There are probably more important things we need to do with our hands that we couldn't do later in our lives if we damage them now.