iron hand cross training, good or bad?

[sultanpro]

do any of you guys/gals cross train to improve your mantis skills?? The reason i ask is that my school offers iron hand training on the weekends,
and i was thinking about joining, but im not sure.
Does any one train in iron hand kung fu, please
give me some info.
thanks skard

[This message was edited by SkarbroMantis on 10-04-01 at 10:52 AM.]

[EARTH DRAGON]

I think you should definatly take advantage of any kind of training that will enhance your abilities. Iron palm can improve your internal concentration along with many understandings of chi flow and proper excecution of striking techniques. I warn you that iron training takes discipline and hard work it has to be done on a daily basis and takes up to a year of proper application to start to become effective, so if you cant put the time into it I suggest you dont start, but if ou have the time and will go for it!

http://www.kungfuUSA.net

[sultanpro]

earth, question for you: do all systems of iron hand training have forms?? i know about the external training, but as i spoke to the teacher and he informed me, that there are also 3 forms that go along with the training, is that true?? and what are the names of the forms??

thanks
skard

[EARTH DRAGON]

I am not totally sure, every style if different so its hard to generalize iron palm styles all together. Thats like saying how many forms does kung fu have!

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[sultanpro]

thanks, i get what your saying, i think i'll just check it out and see how it goes from there.

skard