I’m looking for something I’ve seen a couple of my Sifus use. Its a bunch of thin pieces of wood/bamboo tied together that’s about 2 feet long and a few inches round. It’s purpose is to beat against the body for hardening the skin, toughening the body, and massage. Any body know what I’m talking about or where to get it?
fanzi
sure, why dont you take a bunch of thin pieces of wood/bamboo that are two feet long tie them together.
We don’t carry the bamboo for that reason.
The bamboo kind is fairly easy to make yourself. We carry the metal kind, which is harder to make. See the Long Life Health Bar
hey
I got mine from the local gardening center, I think even Home Depot or Lowes carries it as well. They use it mainly to support seedlings like tomatoe plants.
They also have plastice rods as well but for traditional purposes I kept with the bamboo.
We use a small bundle of 6 rods for iron body conditioning while a much bigger and longer bundle is used for grip training with a partner.
Never tried it but saw a qigong individual in shenzen using thin bamboo to train his students throats for the sword/spear bending tricks.
:eek:
Is that a metal tonfa? :eek:
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It’s a tonfa! It’s a massage tool! It’s a dantian training device! It’s a moxabustion burner! If James Bond was a martial artist, this would be his tool.
Last year, John Brown did an article on using this like a tonfa (although CMA calls it a ‘crutch’) - see the Crutch of Sun Bin in our Mar Apr 2004 issue.
shhhh, don’t tell anyone…but before you spend too much money, go buy a box of coat hangers. (preferably not the one’s used to free red 5 from the womb 
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bind about 15 or so of them together.
use in teh same manner as the bundled boosticks.
G~ you can’t fool me, that thing is an out and out sex toy.
Body Hardening Ying Qigong
Amitoufo
You do have another option as well depending on the part of the body you are trying to harden and condition. You can buy in China town the throw away chopsticks. You can take a handfull of these and tape them together with adhesive tape. The cloth type..Then use this to do some of teh hardening that the longer bamboo sticks do. We used this method in North China academy where it was difficult to find supplies to make certain training items with.
In Addition you can also use small hand help bags that are made with very hard dried beans and herbs inside to condition the body. You can use any good strong material and you can find small hard dired beans in any grocery store. I have attached a picture that show Shi Xing Ming do some exercises to harden his body. He does this with his head aswell getting ready to perform YingQigong.
His web site is www.shaolintemplekungfu.uk.com if you have questions you can email him at shaolinmonk_gongfu@hotmail.com