Clips of Conditioning/forging

[sanjuro_ronin]

I know that we have a few threads with some stuff, but I thought that ONE thread with clips that show various conditioning/forging methods and their results woudl be cool, plus I wanted to make one, so there :p

Iron Palm:

Theory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDqSr03dgp8

Results:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulXzfJq3Dd0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAveS-ODrLI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ddmSaYuhs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1QWZmfBJME

[sanjuro_ronin]

Iron arm:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97vhNcawux4


Uechi-ryu, that prides itself on its conditioning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWfXX5aQhjc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pant_xwqHMc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTKv4GzeI9E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlON-Yky7kQ

[sanjuro_ronin]

Iron "crotch":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyNmV2Y43ko

Kyokushin:
Breaking stones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOLxGve-LUg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA7-rLQ4jy8

beating up on banana trees:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJAR1vjgJAU

[sanjuro_ronin]

More shin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PftoPTZn0E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgPtCA3dPdw&feature=related

[diego]

I think I'ma retire in Japan...why does Okinawa have the Dragon body what is the cultural influence/symbolism?


arnold p[ointed out you can do all the breakdance/handstands you want you have to olympic pump if you wanna be the terminator:)
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/N/9/arnold_then_now.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2atiiVp-r8s/SVoRrUTFGAI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uNDH5RGGFb4/s400/arnold4.jpg

the workhorse metal and beef program

http://www.bodybuildingblog.co.uk/images/muscle-dog.jpg

http://media.photobucket.com/image/arnold%20bodybuilding%20pic%252527s/pushpinderbagga/arnold/arnol-gym-body-building-wallpape-5.jpg



kung fu body doesn't pump up so much but it's diferrent than gymnists frame, maybe kung fu has more yoga grace
http://www.trip-to-china.com/pics/quer_pics11.jpg

http://www.cacbc.org/Kung_Fu/images/Monk_on_Spoon.jpg

http://www.twin-dragon.com/twindragon.jpg

http://cdn-write.demandstudios.com/upload//8000/500/50/1/18551.jpg


http://www.hongkonghustle.com/wp-content/photos/Bruce_Lee_statue_TST.jpg


gymnists
http://www.vintage-views.com/MeyersKonversations/Vol8/Wood/images/0527565k6-Heilgymnastik.jpg


http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1569/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1569R-155033.jpg









one last

http://media.photobucket.com/image/kung%20fu%20bodybuilding%20pic%252527s/mrfortey/fawnia-mondey-female-bodybuilder.jpg

so we see a theme here and what it all has to do with jews in china in 700 AD ****s me....:)

You have bruce lee, yoga, ballet, pilates, arnold, jane fonda all packaged today in mma fads...so many different body types from so much human culture.

I'm studying what is human right now really getting into the history of art after studying anatomy for awhile...davinci is an idiot thought the intestines had something to do with chi..."
davlungs.gif (156874 bytes)Despite Leonardo's carefully drawn images of the anatomy of the lungs, as seen in the illustration here, he did not yet understand the relationship between form and function in any great detail. What he, like many early anatomists, had grasped was the lung's important role as an organ that worked cooperatively with closely allied organs and structures in the human body. What he understood, as the passage below suggests, is the mechanical process of breathing but not the actual mechanisms at work in creating a breath. "The gust of wind driven out of the lung in the generation of a large breath comes from the aid of the abdominal wall which compresses the intestines, and they elevate the diaphragm which compresses the lungs."

Renaissance anatomists stuck closely to a complexion theory of the lungs that also gave them a role in the psychology of the human body. Leonardo's contemporary, the physician Alessandro Benedetti, wrote in 1497 that the lungs controlled emotions such as anger by placating the passions " with the breath of the spirit from the hollow fistulae of the lungs. Thus anger, otherwise implacable, is easily calmed." Similarly, some anatomists endowed the lungs with powers of discernment that prevented them from accepting "bad air" into the human body. Just as the lungs could make "food" for the body, they could also prevent poisonous thoughts and substances from overwhelming it.

The more careful anatomical studies of the human body conducted by Renaissance anatomists yielded a more precise physical description of the lungs. Whereas Master Nicolaus had described the human lung as having seven lobes, early sixteenth-century anatomists reduced that number to five. They noted that the sponginess of the lungs facilitated breathing, though the nature of breathing was still described much as Galen had done: "so that they may more easily draw the spirit into themselves," was how Andreas de Laguna put it in 1535. Yet only a few decades later, we can begin to see emerging doubts about the kind of spirit flowing through the lungs. "This air is not a pure element but an airy body and thus can nourish," wrote Vesalius' contemporary Niccolo Massa in 1559, "although Galen, that great philosopher, thought he understood it in another sense, for air prepared in the lung itself nourishes or restores the spirit."

Writing from an entirely different philosophical tradition, the German mystic and medical reformer Paracelsus made the study of lung diseases at the beginning of the sixteenth century a case study in understanding how disease might be localized to a specific organ rather than a general imbalance of the body. In his On the Miner's Sickness, he identified lung-related ailments, especially silicosis, as a direct product of working in the mines. Such research further emphasized the importance of the lungs to the overall health of the body.

By the early seventeenth century, the new anatomy of the lung was in place. William Harvey concurredhooklung.gif (88260 bytes) with his Renaissance predecessors on the five-lobe structure of the lungs. Yet he took their views several steps further in describing the significance of the lungs. Having already established a new physiology of the body in his On the Circulation of the Blood (1628), Harvey had a different understanding of the relationship between arteries and veins -- no longer separate circulatory systems within the body but a unified system. As a result, he had a question: what makes arterial blood different from venous blood? In his famous work, Harvey had described in great detail pulmonary transit in the lungs. As a result, he had the following to say about the lungs in his Lectures on the Whole of Anatomy (1653):

"Pre-eminence [of the lung]: nothing is especially so necessary neither sensation nor aliment. Life and respiration are complementary. There is nothing living which does not breathe nor anything which breathing which does not live."

This insight was followed by a strong critique of Galen, who had argued that the liver was the first and most important organ of the body. Harvey concluded the opposite: "The lungs make the spirits and indicate the nourishment wherefore more worthy than the liver if honor is judged by benefit." Instead he drew inspiration from Aristotle in arguing that spirit was not a product of air but of blood, and the lungs were therefore indicative of a person's temperament. Bold people have hot lungs, timid people have cold lungs. While creating a new physiology that gave greater importance to the lungs, Harvey was nonetheless deeply indebted to older traditions of thought. As a practicing physician, he also recognized that healthy lungs were essentially to the overall health of the body. In anticipation of more modern attitudes towards this organ, he wrote that exercise was important to the maintenance of this organ. He still, of course, had no idea about oxygen, nor even knew this word.

QUESTIONS: WHY MIGHT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE HEART AND THE LUNGS HAVE BEEN AN OBSTACLE IN FULLY UNDERSTANDING THEIR FUNCTION? WHAT TEMPERAMENTAL PROPERTIES DID PHYSICIANS ASCRIBE TO THE LUNGS?

Back to The History of the Body main page"

http://www.stanford.edu/class/history13/earlysciencelab/body/lungspages/lung.html"

Antiquity is based on man's fascination with discovering fire...once we developed electricity we threw out god...something funny to me the hippies in the new age movement always said the yogi masters had internal science thousands of years ago with astral travel and all that hoopla.

I have this idea now that we have computers we have destroyed the superstitious animal fight or flight mind so our cultural symbolism has changed to open our species up to a point to leave the earth and plan space travel.

before we looked at god as a father and son or a child playing with a toy, but now we have ideas like programming and split-screen so soon i beleive our scientists will figure out what the hell john lennon was talking about with the whole "Yellow Submarine!?"

I don't know man is a trip, I'm reading Gilgamesh right now and notice it has the flood, the serpent another myths, it even has a flip on the treebird lord of the rings tale but in gilgamesh he hates on the tree boss...