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Thank you Mr. I Hate Ashida Kim. I couldn't have put it better myself.

Like I said. These are more efficient and safer ways of building grip strength and the "striking conditioning" for the fingers is a crock.

Oh and those who tout tcm as any sort of legitimate...

Which can be done safely and more easily in other ways. When you can deadlift, row, press and clean a decent amout your grip strength will be good enough anyway and you'll be stronger than most.

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Well really the only thing you should aim at with fingers is the eyes. Any other tergets are pretty pointless to hit with the fingers (throat included). The problem is that mostly it's taught to...

I have actually. More than one. They should've spent more time training how to hit someone and less worrying about how tough their hands were. You can get as much conditioning as you need from...

Iron palm is a waste. There are far better things to spend time on.