I saw on a couple previous threads, people asking about the green dragon studios and some people mentioned the stone warrior stuff. My question is, how does this differ from a hard qigong thing like “golden bell” (I’ve only see Wing Lams) or from a Sanchin kata? I would be interested in getting a description of the types of movements to see if it’s worth ordering. Thanks
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My question is, how does this differ from a hard qigong thing like “golden bell” (I’ve only see Wing Lams) or from a Sanchin kata?
Sorry I don’t have time to make this answer more thourough.
First of all, Stone Warrior is basically a external, muscular enhancement program. It is designed to give you bigger, stronger muscles. The program is divided into 21 movements, each repeated a certain number of times. Basically you start with the first 3, and each week you add 3 more until you are at 21. Then you start adding reps until you are at all 21 movements for 36 reps. But, that will supposedly take you 90 minutes, so it’s quite time consuming, as well as TOUGH.
Wing Lam’s iron body is designed to make you more resistant to attacks. It’s not really going to make your muscles stronger or bigger. Granted, Green Dragon says the Stone Warrior will make you more resistant to attacks, but not in the same sense that Iron Body will.
One of the cool things about Stone Warrior is that all of the movements have direct fighting applications. This means that you are building power through the movements you might use in a fight. Actually, one of the 21 movements is internal, but the other 20 are external.
You’ve seen Wing Lam’s iron body you say, so I don’t need to go into detail of what it entails. Trust me, Stone Warrior is very hard, and all of the dynamic tension used has a lot of bad press by some people. It’s rather expensive, too. You might want to find a friend to split it with.
Stone Warrior is definately a unique program, however there are some problems with the copy I have on tape. If you decide to go ahead and get it post a message here so I can keep you from practicing it wrong. (Actually, I’ve mentioned the errors before, so a search of my name and stone warrior might bring them up).
Anyway, I hope this helped.
Iron