Iron Shin and Iron Forearm Training

[clam61]

What are your methods to condition your shins and forearms?

[Chazmek]

Using a regular wooden rolling pin and running it up and down along the surface of the part you want to condition; after doing this for 30 minutes every 4 days for a few months (applying Jow after each session) my shins and forearms don't bruise hardly at all and I can hit things alot harder without much pain.

[sanjuro_ronin]

What are your methods to condition your shins and forearms?

There are many ways, the "best" tend to mimic what you will be using your arms and shins for.
So striking mediums of increasing denser matter is the typical way.
Always use lots of Jow.
Arguably, Thai boxers and Kyokushin guys have the "hardest" shins and they just hit really heavy and hard punching bags, though some do take it a little further than that.
Rubber mallets are a good beginning, you never want to stike a medium harder than your bones.
Bamboo that is bundled and them wrapped to hold them together is good.
There are some long "iron body" bags you can get and fill them with sand to start and work your way to steel BB's as you whack yourself with them ( let gravity and momentum do the work).
You can imbed a post i n the ground, wrap it and strike it, gradually decreasing the amount of padding until you are hitting solid wood.
Just remember to use a very good Jow or you will pay for it.

[Xiao3 Meng4]

What are your methods to condition your shins and forearms?

Playing Soccer conditions my shins nicely. Grip exercises are useful for forearm conditioning too.

[Yoshiyahu]

You sound very knowledge very impressive...

There are many ways, the "best" tend to mimic what you will be using your arms and shins for.
So striking mediums of increasing denser matter is the typical way.
Always use lots of Jow.
Arguably, Thai boxers and Kyokushin guys have the "hardest" shins and they just hit really heavy and hard punching bags, though some do take it a little further than that.
Rubber mallets are a good beginning, you never want to stike a medium harder than your bones.
Bamboo that is bundled and them wrapped to hold them together is good.
There are some long "iron body" bags you can get and fill them with sand to start and work your way to steel BB's as you whack yourself with them ( let gravity and momentum do the work).
You can imbed a post i n the ground, wrap it and strike it, gradually decreasing the amount of padding until you are hitting solid wood.
Just remember to use a very good Jow or you will pay for it.

[clam61]

Arguably, Thai boxers and Kyokushin guys have the "hardest" shins

what a coincidence. kyokushin eh?

what styles did you study besides kyokushin again?

[Yoshiyahu]

clam what arts do you study?

what a coincidence. kyokushin eh?

what styles did you study besides kyokushin again?

[clam61]

sum nung wing chun

[sanjuro_ronin]

what a coincidence. kyokushin eh?

what styles did you study besides kyokushin again?

Of karate?
Just Kyokushin and Goju, which are "sister" arts and interrelated.

I have always liked hard fighting and traning and as such, you get attracted to certain systems that have that, kyokushin and MT in the sport world are examples.
Hung Kuen is a fine example in the TCMA world, as is SPM.
I have some experience in HK, very little in SPM though.

[clam61]

what about the others? seems like you have done a lot of different styles

[sanjuro_ronin]

what about the others? seems like you have done a lot of different styles

Not really, not for someone that has been in the MA for 30 years.
In terms fo Kung fu, besides HK there was Moy Yat WC.
JKD was part of the Kali training I did.
So, in terms of Kung fu:
Hung Kuen,
Moy Yat WC
Chen taiji
Non- CMA:
Boxing
MT
Judo
Kyokushin/Goju
TKD

Over 30 years, not that many at all.

[clam61]

hey where to get gravel for iron palm? if its the gravel you see at the hardware store for landscaping, i would think that it is too un-uniform and lots of poking edges would cause problems.

[sanjuro_ronin]

hey where to get gravel for iron palm? if its the gravel you see at the hardware store for landscaping, i would think that it is too un-uniform and lots of poking edges would cause problems.

Ever done IP before?
If are starting out and are not following a certain "tradition" and are open to "other" methods, I have a suggestion for you.

[clam61]

hi sanjuro

always welcome to suggestions

[sanjuro_ronin]

hi sanjuro

always welcome to suggestions

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulXzfJq3Dd0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1QWZmfBJME


and the man they all learned it from ( except the chinese guy with the mutant hand, LOL)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAveS-ODrLI


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