What do you guy do at your school? No, not red sand palm, jade tree, gecko crawling or any of the other things shown in the Kung Fu History, Philosohy and technique book, (someone had a post asking about those) but things like kung lek demonstrated in his article, arm boxing, stance training, etc…
We do pole training, ring training, iron palm, sand conditioning. And 10 min under water hold form.
10 min under water? can you go into detail on that one?
Well There is a large pool/ tank of water. there are two little latch things in the bottom. The process is you swim to the bottom and insert your feet in to the latches so you dont float to the top. Then you practice forms and punches. This helps with breathing, strength, and endurance.
Usually i just jog the freeway, with Mac’s and 18Wheelers Strapped to my scrot’s.
Depends how my stomach feels when I get up Though!.
Peace
we do alot of stance training, with a pole across the legs, lion dance footwork first, with deep stances, then lion dance-amazing for stamina, waist, hips, shoulders, power generation. sam-sing dar-arm conditioning, all reaction drills are extracted from the forms, as well as fighting applications-extracted totally from the sets.(we actually USE our gung-fu when we fight, not kickboxing) Eight pieces of Brocade in the warm-ups, chi-gung, meditation.
My traditional training methods are so secret and traditional that I can’t tell you about them.
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IronFist
Rock on TenTigers! What Chinese discipline are you associated with? I relate with the lion dance leg work, and totally agree with your fighting approach. It`s nice to here tradition in CMA.
cool. Keep em coming
For Strength training.
I strap either weights on and work my Forms, you want them to move a bit(similar to using rings, etc).
Or hold weights while doing the Form.
Lots of standing, single movement drills, and Qi-Gong exercises.
For weapon training I user Weapons that are about twice the weight of the actual weapon
And most important of al:
Practice all forms at half the normal speed, with and without additional weights.
Peace.
When we train in class, generally we just do a lot of chi sau, theoretical and practical work… but the training we do in our own time tends to be a LOT of Siu Lim Tao practise. Generally anything form 1/2 an hour plus, which is darn hard work
Also i’m trying to work on the basics of turning and stepping, juen ma, huen ma, biu ma… I also do things like SLT standing on one leg etc. to build up my root.
Qigong wise i just train hard qigong as i’ve been taught. Right now 2 bricks and a handy wall or tree trunk are my only training aids
That builds us enough tendon and muscle strength, so don’t need to do anything else… i also do some horse stance and zhan zhuang training as well as soft qigong whenever i can ![]()
david
We also have two jump off a 2 story rock and land in a perfect ding bo stance.
Yu Shan-'c’mon, can’t ya tell? Horse stance, Lion Dance, Forearm conditioning, hei-gung? Can it be anything BUT Hung-Ga??!!!
Good answer friend! ![]()
We do horse stance training, I Chin Ching, Burning Buddha Palm, and Da Sum Sing, and other stance and chi kung work.
Burining Budha Palm? What’s that?
We do all kinds of different conditioning exercises at my school. These exerciese include , but are not limited to, the following : 2 man drills where you hit forearms/shins , Sand drills, strikes into the wall , balance drills on a wooden beam (sometimes done as a two man drill, while striking arms).
In other words theres a lot of conditioning out there.
Geez Dragontounge2, you ought to be in a Special Ops. program.
Our folks are expected to “pre-stretch” before class. We then stretch as a class together, this is a work out in itself. Remember, I`m in Tennessee. We then condition the arms (numerous two person hand drills) on to kicking drills(same as mentioned before) then single side Mantis drills. Followed by the two person to the Mantis drills. On to Mantis fighting theory ( more drills) yet put into real fighting (as done in Asia) Then forms work (single side) repetition,repetition,repetition! Then the two person to the forms. Note: Exercises pulled out of the forms, and two person exercises also practiced. End of evening is more conditioning. Combination of arms and legs, mostly leg against leg. This is an ordinary class, sometimes we spice it up!
Keo-kin
We do Keo-kin, KamehA-mehA wave, this is only for the Saiyans though.
reemul, kameha-meha , wasn’t he a Hawaiin king?
Otherwise, training methods I learned from Kung fu study that are considered “traditional” or “old style” are Ring training, Iron Palm, Nei Gong (Internal strength exercises of Shaolin), Chi Kung (Qigong-breath work-specifically relating to shaolin), static stance training, box stepping, forms, calesthenics and two man drills such as star blocking, push hands (tai chi style and tiger style), Listening energy exercises, meditation and a few more. I also use a steel upright pole for star blocking training when I am without a partner. Weapons such as sword sets or heavy long weapon sets are quite the workout as well.
There is also heavy bag work, speed bag work and other more traditional western methods associated with pugilistic arts.
There is a terrific variety of exercises found in Kung Fu style training that would appear quite bizarre to a regular workout type of person. “Playing with the pearl” is one that gets heads turning in the corner park. ![]()
peace