A very common misconception is that Iron Palm training is used mainly to toughen the hands. While the hands do become more conditioned, and that is important, another reason for Iron Palm training is to get you used to using your entire body behind each strike, practicing staying rooted while you strike, and focusing your entire body behind each strike. And it helps you to become better at controlling your breathing. Kinda like a master carpenter being able to drive a nail into a board with one strike after doing it for a long time.
6:35 Very cool but I'd like to see the back-hand strike used the same way when blocking. Instead of blocking, attack the arm. Even better to double strike arm and head at the same time
He is not blocking. His Interception, is an Attack to the OPs arm. He is impacting.. mostly with the Wristbone, and some of the side of the hand. That is much more potent than a backhand... because the wristbone comes to a point... where as the backhand, is mostly a flat surface hit. The pointed bone, causes much more impact damages to the attackers limb.
@@johndough8115 There's absolutely no reason to use the triquetrum bone or the tip of the ulna and it will never be more potent than a hammer-fist. I'm well aware of these techniques having studied wing-chun and southern mantis. Ginger-fist and ridge-hand can both hit harder, satisfy the physics of force/area while being cushioned by the whole hand instead of a trying to dislocate a floating bone in the wrist or chipping the point of the ulna for the sake of style points. Even striking with the back of the wrist using a crane fist is better. Same with striking the eye and neck. Just use a phoenix-eye fist.
@@MarkConway73 Ive also studied Wing Chun. In fact, Ive had 3 Different teachers, each form a few different lineages. I can tell you, that what you are saying is not correct. A finger strike, can dive deeper into the tissue, because of its narrower shape... compared to a Fist. The same is true, when you impact tissue with the pointed part of your wristbone. It penetrates deeper than a "HammerFist" can...and is more akin to create a pressure-point effect.. in addition to the standard damages. Additionally, what he is doing, is basically a ridge hand. Its just that if you want to do more damage, you angle it so that the wristbone impacts first, for better effect. Not too long ago, I was doing a demo with an MMA fighter. As he launched a punch, I dropped my arm vertically down into a Jut Sao. I only used about 10 to 15% of the potentials that I was capable of delivering on it. It not only stopped his attack cold.. but Nearly shattered his own wristbone / forearm area. Before the end of an hour, it has swollen up nearly double in size, and he was in severe pains for many days to follow. That said... a lot of Wing Chun practitioners, have never developed Fajing (Short range, explosive power).. so you might not even understand such potentials. Chipping the Wristbone?! For one thing.. the wristbone is one of the hardest bones. For another... You SHOULD have conditioned it well on the Sandbag... just like every other handshape. Hitting a persons limbs, is not like hitting solid Steel, either. This is Not about "Style" points. Its about effective combat. The same exact bone, is used for a Palm Strike.. but using the front face of it, rather than the bottom, or bottom point. One should not be impacting a palmstrike, with the whole hand. You angle the wristbone to impact first, preventing the fingers from acting as shock absorbers, and delivering a more potent strike. The position and type of Interception he is using, is far more appropriate, than using a Crane hand. The crane hand does not have the same vertical coverage... and is more likely to end up either missing, or slipping off the OPs limb. In WC, you dont, for example.. try to Punch the OPs incoming arm. Instead, you use wide coverage techs, such as Tan Sau, Gan Sau, Bong Sau...etc.. to Sweep the space in front of you... until contact is Made. Pak Sau is one of the few times you use a smaller hand tech to make contact with a limb... but even that is far different than a the small fist sized punch, or Cranes neck. The Crane neck, is often used at close ranges. Often delivered from the Fuk Sau position. If its ever used to strike the OPs arm... its usually only because the arm is fairly Static at the time... such as them trying to hold you.. at close ranges. "Same with striking the eye and neck. Just use a phoenix-eye fist" - Why would I hit the eye or neck with the Pheonix eye, when I could use Biu Gee ?! The finger strike has much more Reach. And IMO, tends to be much stronger. The fingers can also penetrate much deeper into the neck (or other areas) tissue... where as the shorter and fatter single knuckle, can only go so far. The Pheonix knuckle, would be better for when you might not have the time to go from a closed fist.. into a precision pressure point strike area. For times when you are starting to be grappled, and cant get enough distance for a fingerstrike. Often, for when you want more of a twisting or sidewards strike, such as twisting it towards the OPs ribcage, at very close range. It tends to be the "let me go" strike, when you are starting to be grappled (or when your arms are static, being wrapped up in a Chi-Sau like stand-off)... due to its Point which hurts more than a standard wide fist attack.
@@johndough8115 You're typing way too much. if you want coverage, you wouldn't use your wrist, you'd use ginger-fist, but not the type in WC, that looks like panther fist. the one in southern mantis is more gnarled and has greater coverage to catch their fist...and damage their wrist. We used sandbags, iron poles and each other; one person hammer downwards, the other palm-striking. We used liniment oil too. so I happen to know something about conditioning. I'm well aware of fa-jin. (not fa-fing) Took a while due to my decades of Karate habits, but it can even work with phoenix-eye, another reason not to use the wrist. 1 less range of motion to whip with. Use the wrist as the chain, not the ball. Physics. "The same exact bone, is used for a Palm Strike.. but using the front face of it" No it's not. The palm strike uses the Lunate bone, not the ulna. This is the second time I've told you this. Go study the skeleton. You claim to be a martial artist and don't know anatomy. Trying to say the knifehand is a palmstrike won't work here. Different part of the hand, different technique. If you're going to biu gee, just biu gee and end the fight. Why do you want to try and "block". Yes. If you are waiting for the opponent to attack, you're defending. Just strike. Get inside them. fingers in their eyes, double fishhook their mouth apart, whatever. (don't do this, mayhem is illegal) Single knuckle strikes harder than biu gee and penetrates deeper. Go punch trees with both techniques, see which one allows you to punch harder. Biu gee has range but leaves fingers exposed. Feel free to fight with your fingers open though. I just hope you don't come across anyone good at chin-na. "The fingers can also penetrate much deeper into the neck (or other areas) tissue" Then use eagle claw. Biu gee doesn't even need to penetrate. Don't you have 50 mosquito punches to fire off? "and is more likely to end up either missing, or slipping off the OPs limb" So rather than use an area 3 times the size, you prefer to use a tiny part of your wrist at the exact moment against your opponents hand. Congratulations, you played yourself. "In WC, you dont, for example.. try to Punch the OPs incoming arm. Instead, you use wide coverage techs, such as Tan Sau, Gan Sau, Bong Sau...etc.. to Sweep the space in front of you... until contact is Made." Welcome to my first comment where I said those techniques are useless. No need to block and redirect. Destroy their arms instead. I actually said use both hands. hammer their arms and jaw at the same time. WC practitioners love to "protect their centre" Now stop clout-chasing on a 2 year old comment. He blocked and he even said the word "uke", even if it was an offensive block. Let it go. This back and forward can go on forever. I'm not going to entertain someone who's not even man enough to use their real account. Not even going to read your reply. Go fook sau yourself.
It's better using chi/inner power for palm styles. In fact the palm are more efective and flexiable to hit and defend. Palm styles are like water,cloud and bambo ( iam using an analogy).
