Tie a thick telephonebook to a tree with a backing to make your hits even when you punch through most of the book. The cover removed. Most of the book’s page below the rope line.
Walk up and down steps with just your hands and feet touching. Keep this up a while.
Kip-up with the goal of Kip-uping to a stand instead of a squat.
Wrap your hand/hand and forearm/hand to shoulder in metal wire spiraled around your relaxed arm. Secure it from the ens being loose. Perform forms/ techniques until the wire loosens/becomes unsecured at least some.
various simple but effective finger related exercises like such grabbing gong´s of white crane etc.
pole swinging
branch twisting
brick grabbing
two man pushing/lifting hand exercises
are you talking about forms of ‘kung’ like one finger kung, red sand palm, speed kung, head kung and the like which were and still are practised by shaolin monks and some others today, with the original aim of some sort of telecenesis.
stances
snake turns over
lohan sharpening the axe
dragon sharpens it’s claws
iron buddha
muscle tendon (ex)change
iron body
very few links on any of these. there’s a short video of a supposed “shaolin muscle tendon change” qigong. it’s nothing at all like what i’ve learned. looks like a crock to me.
it teaches you to use your upper body muscle groups against each other, how to tense your upper body in an extremely sudden manner to help with throws and deflecting/absorbing strikes.
Ryu, I got this from an article on shuai jiao coach Peter Chema:
Belt cracking-pull belt in opposite directions in various stances. Graduate to leather belts, then steel chains.
Rock/brick twisting-start with hands at your sides palm up. Move hands forward while rotating palms down as you bring arms to shoulder height. Inhale and hold arms for 3-5 sec. Reverse. Use various stances and heavier rocks.
3.Jug/vase grabbing-Place vase in front of you on the ground. First variation is to grab vase with the fingers around the rim. Lift up to shoulder height. Hold as long as possible. 3 sets of 8-10 reps( for rock twisting too). Second variation, place hand inside vase and spread fingers so they are against the edge of the vase. Lift and hold. Gradually, add water or sand to vase.
Bamboo/vine twisting-bundle 15-20 pieces of bamboo together. Twist while moving into a bow&arrow stance on each side of the body. Twist while standing on 1 leg.
5.Rock training-Tie a rock or weight to a piece of rope and the other end of the rope to a stick. Hold arms out in front about shoulder height. Start with the “weight” on the ground and twist your wrists forward to raise the weight to the stick. Reverse. 3 sets of 8-12 reps.
These drills are “traditional,trendy, and terrific.” Once you master these, you WILL be unstoppable!
Do a search for my posts on “Stone Warrior” Specifically, I think the best one is called something like “Stone warrior vs. Iron body” so read that one.
Originally posted by Shadowboxer
[B]Ryu, I got this from an article on shuai jiao coach Peter Chema:
Belt cracking-pull belt in opposite directions in various stances. Graduate to leather belts, then steel chains.
Rock/brick twisting-start with hands at your sides palm up. Move hands forward while rotating palms down as you bring arms to shoulder height. Inhale and hold arms for 3-5 sec. Reverse. Use various stances and heavier rocks.
3.Jug/vase grabbing-Place vase in front of you on the ground. First variation is to grab vase with the fingers around the rim. Lift up to shoulder height. Hold as long as possible. 3 sets of 8-10 reps( for rock twisting too). Second variation, place hand inside vase and spread fingers so they are against the edge of the vase. Lift and hold. Gradually, add water or sand to vase.
Bamboo/vine twisting-bundle 15-20 pieces of bamboo together. Twist while moving into a bow&arrow stance on each side of the body. Twist while standing on 1 leg.
5.Rock training-Tie a rock or weight to a piece of rope and the other end of the rope to a stick. Hold arms out in front about shoulder height. Start with the “weight” on the ground and twist your wrists forward to raise the weight to the stick. Reverse. 3 sets of 8-12 reps.
These drills are “traditional,trendy, and terrific.” Once you master these, you WILL be unstoppable! [/B]
the only one i’d use is the belt cracking…you can develop the other stuff with better exercises
panther leaps:
lay on the floor on your toes and the palms of your hands, like the starting push up position. using your palms and toes, hop forward, as far as you would like to go.
rock pole:
get a pole with concrete on one end, or a barbell with weights properly secure to one end.
you do various leg lifts and sweeping motions with it. it builds strength for sweeping and throwing.
There is also a double ended rock pole which is used for upper body training.
Originally posted by old jong
[B]Oups!..Sorry Ryu!
Some good exercices are: Work in a meat factory and use the carcass as punching bag.After work,you can always run after chicken (Not chicks!) Wrestling with a greasy pig will make you very strong!..
Bingo!..You have striking,cardio and wrestling! [/B]
Some would know panther leaps, as the first stage of Centipede Leap-same as description SevenStar gave except not as far as would like. As far as Can. Also, not only forwards but backwards after good success with forward. Then with success with back, left or right. Then with good success with that direction finally do in the other direction.
It has been referred to as an escape technique. It was to be done after Lying Tiger (a push-up done on the toes and stages of: hands, fists on nuckles, five finger tips as support, to be done removing pinky/little finger as support, to be done removing ring finger as support, to be done removing middle finger as support, to be done removing index finger as support). The motion of the push-up is down, forward; up, backward–eliptical. Do until tired. When can do comfortablly, weight is added to the back gradually to some extent I would hope. Weight up to 300 catties (Chinese measurement; I think a cattie is more than one pound). It seemed that at each stage when person could comfortablly perform the eliptical motion with just toes and palm/hand at 300 catties, person completed that stage and could go on to just toes and fists. When completed (with 300 cattie weight) person could go on to on fingertips (completeing each following stage with the 300 cattie weight)…One has completed the Sleeping/Crouching/ Lying Tiger after the eliptical motion is done on the toes and thumb tips with the 300 cattie weight on the back).
After the training of Lying Tiger one has formidable palm strikes, fist strikes, finger strikes. This training is a foundation for Centipede Leap because the arms and legs are stronger and there can be more distance achieved for better escaping.
If done out of order or just Centipede Leap, your skill is small if not feeble compared to training done with the foundation of Lying Tiger.
yeah, exactly what No_Know described. I just didn’t go into any extreme detail. we do the push ups exercises he refered to as lying tiger (iron buffalo or hindu pushup) also, but not with weights on our backs (or at least we haven’t yet) and not past the fingertips stage.
I thought a catty was like a couple ounces or something.
Dude, you know what I was thinking? Ok, say you get good at doing 5 finger pushups, and then you start taking fingers away. That means they would no longer get trained. So by the time you got up to like 2 finger (and thumb) pushups, your pinky and ring fingers would be weaker. Uh, yeah, that made sense, right?
Valid, but not sound. Rest is required for development to take. Plus you are not neceassarilly forbidden from doing any of the passed ways. Merely, to progress you must procede.
plum flower post training is great for strength training as well as the added benefit of balance, coordination and stepping skill.
the posts don’t need to be high, but you do need several of them to get a good variety of use out of them. 2 man plum flower post drills takes it to the next level as well.
