Hey, anyone there heard of training with trees, more specificly hitting trees to test/develop power?
How is it done anyway, is it barehand? How often is it done?
I was thinking of buying a heavy bag, but the tree option sounds more economic…
Any info would be apreciated, but no tree humping jokes please.
And, yes i was the one that rated it. Yes, i made the topic explosive like that just to get atention.
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Trees
There are many ways to train with tree’s. The leaves can be used as targets or like paper training Limbs can be used to condition. Evasion, Grapling, weaving. Trees are the firts wooden dummy/punching bag.
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Jacko Jackson
we use big logs of trees all the time. to hit kick, run with on your shoulders (u have to be 2 too make it)
~K~
“maybe not in combat.. but think of the chicks man, the chicks!” – someone on the subject of back-flips in combat –
oh I forgot, to conditioning of the hand.
we also lay with the edge in our solar plexus until we can hardly breath :rolleyes:
we use them for extra weights when doing sit-ups and leg raises.
~K~
“maybe not in combat.. but think of the chicks man, the chicks!” – someone on the subject of back-flips in combat –
Yes, I perform palm-heel strikes and shutos on a large tree in my back yard almost everyday. Cheap and accessible makiwara.
K. Mark Hoover
Do you guys use dit da jow after hiting the tree? Can it cause you internal damage to you or for the tree if you do it too much?
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Dude you guys gotta be joking. Hitting a tree is not a good idea.
But before you watch too many Van Damme movies, let me say this: do NOT Thai kick a tree unless you live in Thailand where they have banana trees. Banana trees have a soft rubber-like bark that won’t kill you if you kick it. Then when the bark falls off, they wrap it around their shins and keep kicking. Kicking a palm tree like Van Damme is stupid.
If you can’t afford a heavy bag, just get a wing chun wall bag. Oh yeah, you probably can’t kick that, but it works well for punches 
Iron
Van Dame sucks, i got this tree hiting thing from what i’ve heard thats what Xingyi and Bagua people do in China…
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yea, well just wait until the trees start hitting back, you guys wont feel so tough then will you?!?!?!
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Spinning Backfist
My bagua sifu would take a LARGE knife and shave the bark from a large portion of the tree before using it to practice palm strikes… In this training you always start off hitting ‘softly’ and GRADUALLY work your way up to hitting harder. some dit da jow couldn’t hurt either.
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