[QUOTE=JamesC;1100333]Gah, that stuff makes me cringe every time I see it! :eek:
Seriously, you’ve got to have some big balls to even want to train that.[/QUOTE]
I assume you’ve seen the clips on Youtube of Shinjo-sensei?
Hmm, i’m not sure if I have or not.
I’ll look it up when I get home. Homeland Security blocks youtube. :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=JamesC;1100341]Hmm, i’m not sure if I have or not.
I’ll look it up when I get home. Homeland Security blocks youtube. :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
You’ll love it and cringe all at the same time 
Shinjo Sensei uechi ryu breaking.
There are a few clips of him on it and he is quite the specimen.
He breaks board with toe kicks, with finger tips, with thumb joint, with wrist, breaks bats with shins and with forearms, etc.
Wait, is it the dude they showed on Human Weapon?
[QUOTE=JamesC;1100348]Wait, is it the dude they showed on Human Weapon?[/QUOTE]
Could be, never saw that show.
Yeah, it’s him. I found a site I could watch it from.
Uggh. Tough as nails.
[QUOTE=JamesC;1100356]Yeah, it’s him. I found a site I could watch it from.
Uggh. Tough as nails.[/QUOTE]
He is, a freak really and NOT typical even in uechi ryu.
I used to do the conditioning with the the bat for the toe
after a while i said screw this and stopped lol:D
[QUOTE=goju;1100365]I used to do the conditioning with the the bat for the toe
after a while i said screw this and stopped lol:D[/QUOTE]
Yeah, just wear some shoes, lol
[QUOTE=gabe911;1100172]i took kung fu only for a couple months i believe when i was a teenager and they taught me “toe-kicks.” ive always wondered how are these kicks supposed to work? wont one hurt one’s feet/toes by kicking with the the toes/top of the feet? also won’t one hurt one’s feet using crescent kicks?[/QUOTE]
Chou Jiao specializes in the Toe kick.
You can see halfway through the video that they are really kicking with the ball of their foot.
As for Cresent kicks, you can kick with the heel…
Any kick that required me to condition the part of the foot that made impact was quickly tossed aside. I consider it to be less than favorable. The outside edge of the foot and the heel can take a lot of impact and not hurt. A toe kick would work ok if you didn’t kick something bony or real hard. And of course unless you were fighting in a ring you would be wearing shoes of some sort.
When I was a kid, it was pretty common to glue a single edged razor blade into the front, outside edge of the shoe. You could glue it in deep enough that you had only 1/8 to 1/4 inch of blade exposed. That 1/8 inch could mean the difference in a charge of criminal assault and murder. If a gang approached you, and if they were standing or walking close together, you pretty much had a fight on your hands. But if they were keeping a distance between themselves, you were in for serious cutting. They didn’t usually try to kill you, but would try to hamstring you with a foot sweep.
[QUOTE=Lee Chiang Po;1100423]Any kick that required me to condition the part of the foot that made impact was quickly tossed aside. I consider it to be less than favorable. The outside edge of the foot and the heel can take a lot of impact and not hurt. A toe kick would work ok if you didn’t kick something bony or real hard. And of course unless you were fighting in a ring you would be wearing shoes of some sort.
When I was a kid, it was pretty common to glue a single edged razor blade into the front, outside edge of the shoe. You could glue it in deep enough that you had only 1/8 to 1/4 inch of blade exposed. That 1/8 inch could mean the difference in a charge of criminal assault and murder. If a gang approached you, and if they were standing or walking close together, you pretty much had a fight on your hands. But if they were keeping a distance between themselves, you were in for serious cutting. They didn’t usually try to kill you, but would try to hamstring you with a foot sweep.[/QUOTE]
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