[QUOTE=diego;957006They say you should do the meteor fists ten thousand times...what does this mean, like what happens to the students anatomy when you get to number 8,796?QUOTE]

"Ten thousand" in Chinese means "myriad," "uncountable," "a lot."

I'm not a physiologist or sports medicine guy. I don't know about any theories or studies that indicate optimum numbers of reps and training patterns for striking of the kind seen in weight training.

I do know that overtraining in our "fihng sau" arm-swinging/shoulder rotation drills can give you serious tendonitis. I got really good at it as a teenager. As the token roundeye in a class of ABCs, I tried to be the most flexible student in class since I was too long-limbed to match the other guys in quickness. About my mid-40s I regretted paying more attention to limb flexibility than core strength.

We were taught that 500 reps a day of each Hop Ga strike was optimum. I also like doing our Lo Hon set slowly with a pair of muhk yih pai.

Happy training.

John