hand conditioning

[lgm]

Does anybody think that filling up a bucket with sand or beans and then using it for bunches and finger tip strikes is a good idea?Why or why not?Also has anybody done this and what were your results?

Unless you make a living hitting people and killing people or breaking objects for gainful demonstrations with your bare hands, this hard method of hand conditioning is ill-advised. It can de-sensitize your hands and fingers to preclude very fine motor activities that you may need in your employment. It could also lead to hand and finger deformation as well as early onset of arthritic and other bone and skin disorders.

If you are training in karate for sport or street defense, you don't need such extreme forms of hand conditioning that the old Samurai warriors and ninjas of feudal Japan needed to do to excel in their killing art.

Gene

[Goju_boi]

Does anybody think that filling up a bucket with sand or beans and then using it for bunches and finger tip strikes is a good idea?Why or why not?Also has anybody done this and what were your results?

Unless you make a living hitting people and killing people or breaking objects for gainful demonstrations with your bare hands, this hard method of hand conditioning is ill-advised. It can de-sensitize your hands and fingers to preclude very fine motor activities that you may need in your employment. It could also lead to hand and finger deformation as well as early onset of arthritic and other bone and skin disorders.

If you are training in karate for sport or street defense, you don't need such extreme forms of hand conditioning that the old Samurai warriors and ninjas of feudal Japan needed to do to excel in their killing art.

Gene

so what about the people that have made their hands able to break boards with punches,palm strikes,fingertip strikes,knife hand strikes.and so forth.

[lgm]

Unless you make a living hitting people and killing people or breaking objects for gainful demonstrations with your bare hands, this hard method of hand conditioning is ill-advised. It can de-sensitize your hands and fingers to preclude very fine motor activities that you may need in your employment. It could also lead to hand and finger deformation as well as early onset of arthritic and other bone and skin disorders.

If you are training in karate for sport or street defense, you don't need such extreme forms of hand conditioning that the old Samurai warriors and ninjas of feudal Japan needed to do to excel in their killing art.

Gene

so what about the people that have made their hands able to break boards with punches,palm strikes,fingertip strikes,knife hand strikes.and so forth.

If your ambition is to demonstrate breaking boards, blocks or tiles for fame, entertainment or gainful employment, perhaps you may risk damaging your hands which will preclude efficiency at fine motor activities or could lead to possible early arthritis at a later age as trade off. That's your decision.

[Goju_boi]

lol ok I get your point.

[JKDkid2]

nah i dun wear gloves playin handball

[Goju_boi]

nah i dun wear gloves playin handball

oh ok,then you must have iron palms or something.because those cathes even hit hard with gloves.

[roguewolftamer]

then what would yall suggest would be the BEST way to toughen up your hands without damaging them in any way (and i dont mean like toughen them up as tough as concrete)

[AndrewGreen]

Don't.

Why on earth would you want to?

[roguewolftamer]

never know, seeing as how im not learning Iron Palm i dont know much about that EXCEPT that you can hit a bag of mung beans to fortify your hand for Iron Palm stuff

as far as i know that's what you can do, but im not learning it right now so i dont know everything about it

[lgm]

never know, seeing as how im not learning Iron Palm i dont know much about that EXCEPT that you can hit a bag of mung beans to fortify your hand for Iron Palm stuff

as far as i know that's what you can do, but im not learning it right now so i dont know everything about it

Here's some unsolicited advice. Hardening your hand into iron palm to hit like concrete is only logical and useful if you can hit someone moving with it. When you fight, your target will probably be constantly in motion and you know how hard it is to hit a moving, thinking target, especially when he is also trained in fighting. People with iron palm and fist can break planks, tiles, blocks or even stones, but these things don't hit back and they are not moving when you hit them. Your iron palm is totally useless if you can't hit your opponent.

So, practice fighting on your feet first and try to hit your practice partner through diligent and repetitive sparring, ranging from non-contact to full contact. After you have reached a level of certified mastery and efficiency in hitting a moving human target who is also trying to hit you, then spend the rest of your free time to hardening your hands like concrete, as in iron palm, if your profession is to kill people with it.