The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
~ Mark Twain
Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.
~ Joe Lewis
A warrior may choose pacifism; others are condemned to it.
~ Author unknown
"You don't feel lonely.Because you have a lively monkey"
"Ninja can HURT the Spartan, but the Spartan can KILL the Ninja"
Unless you post videos of you breaking, it never happened.
I also would like to see what you are breaking as well as your structure.
No jumping up and coming down on the bricks, no excessive body drop, no palm heeling through it. Those are external breaks.
be well, train hard
Mouth Boxers have not the testicular nor the spinal fortitude to be known.
Hence they hide rather than be known as adults.
"The true meaning of a given movement in a form is not its application, but rather the unlimited potential of the mind to provide muscular and skeletal support for that movement." Gregory Fong
Yes, you can break things buts its physical and not internal.
After you have been training for a few years and learn to relax and move more energy through your structure you are going to be able to hit harder with much less movement.
Again, talking about things is great but without video it never happened.
Mouth Boxers have not the testicular nor the spinal fortitude to be known.
Hence they hide rather than be known as adults.
Do not attempt it without a qualified instructor. Books and videos are great for studying up on the arts but do not replace a qualified instructor. Mantak Chia has some great books on the subject.
Dale is right, Chinses Iron Palm is internal. There are also external variations, but over all correct training in Iron Palm is an internal endeavorer.
He has even verbally explained the differences.
Those that are the most sucessful are also the biggest failures. The difference between them and the rest of the failures is they keep getting up over and over again, until they finally succeed.
For the Women:
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I say if its internal.......
then just set your hand down on the brick
then without moving break the brick.
that would be internal in my opinion
Last edited by Kemo Martin; 11-06-2007 at 09:23 AM.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
well, YOU just go ahead and believe Dale then.
I'm trying to help stop wushu ignorance.
for me all that talk of super internal strength is just a bunch of K.R.A.P.
Stupid Secret Masters BS
move more energy through your structure?
sounds mysterious doesn't it
he was talking about this reply
there is no secret, nothing special
I think the type technique Dale demonstrates is too stationary to be of any effect.
I'd like to see a break while dancing around that would have better energy flow with the rhythm and beat................................ that would be internal
Internal and External is pretty much the difference between a "relaxed" break and a "muscled" break.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !