Iron Shoe training

[GeneChing]

Certainly Iron Crotch would fit under this category, but we have a thread devoted exclusively to that (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39311). I'm going to start collating these here.


Kung Fu king’s steel shoe challenge (http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C04%5C16%5Cstory_16-4-2008_pg9_9)

A Chinese martial arts expert pushed a truck full of adults 15 metres while wearing a pair of steel shoes twice his own weight.

Lai Yingying, 47, of Quanzhou city, performed his stunt in front of the shoe factory where he works as a security guard.

The factory supplied the truck which, with nine adults sitting in it, weighed more than three tonnes.

Lai wrapped his feet in gauze first, then locked them into the 162kg shoes, more than double his weight of 75kg. With onlookers cheering him on, Lai gritted his teeth and managed to push the truck for 15 metres in the heavy shoes.

[Lucas]

I hope after that extraordinary feat, not to mention the free advertising it will give, they gave his security salary a bump up.

[GeneChing]

Here's another iron shoe story worth retelling.


Chinese Iron Man Flaunts His Iron Shoes (http://www.weirdasianews.com/2013/12/30/chinese-iron-man-flaunts-iron-shoes/)
Posted on December 30, 2013

Forget the treadmills and the leg curls. This Chinese senior takes his workout session away from the gym and into the streets near his home, walking with a pair of 882-pound iron shoes as his ticket to good health.
http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.weirdasianews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/500x296x0011Ironshoes1-500x296.jpg.pagespeed.ic.mPotwbzwru.jpg

Every morning, Mr. Fuxing Zhang takes a 15-meter walk around his neighborhood in Hebei Province, China. He claims that the exercise has cured not only his back problems, but also his hemorrhoids. The strength to carry the enormous weight, he says, comes from his internal organs — a belief adapted from the martial art known as qigong.

Surprisingly, it didn’t take long for his neighbors to get their hands on their own shoes, but of course, theirs weigh only a fraction of those worn by Zhang, who also recently planned to add 50 kilos more to his footwear by next spring.

Although these unusual workouts have not yet been tested for safety and their intended health benefits, perhaps the only upside that Mr. Zhang is sure to reap is that the shoes are definitely anti-theft, given their enormous weight.

So during lazy days, when dragging yourself to the gym is a little too much for you, you may want to sport these shoes instead.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi2HplhFO3Y

[Pete]

lol interesting training...slightly different to ankle weights :p

another interesting thing :

8007

hmm only this website? :eek:

[David Jamieson]

That's magnificent and all, but hey, a dumb idea is a dumb idea.
What he feels works for him is NOT gonna work for everyone.
Tying crap to yourself isn't always the way to go either. You're a human being after all.
No attachments required. :p