Yeah, that whole "Iron Palm is for intermediate/advanced students only" is totally bogus. If you are taught properly, and supervised the first few times you do it so that you are not hurting yourself serverely, this can only help you in the long run.
Looks like that school teaches escrima too. That in itself is iron palm training. Getting your fingers wacked with rattan sticks on two man drills is far worse than any iron palm traiining I've done so far.
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