Название: Authentic Iron Palm: The Complete Training Manual Автор: Phillip Starr
Издательство: Blue Snake Books
Год: 2020
Страниц: 112
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.1 MB
A comprehensive guide to Iron Palm—an advanced training course for developing a strong striking hand and delivering powerful blows.
Iron Palm is a set of martial art conditioning skills—dating back to the Shaolin Temple of fifth-century China—whose purpose is to strengthen the hand while empowering the fighter to strike with force and precision. Training is focused and incremental, requiring the guidance of an experienced master. In Authentic Iron Palm, author, instructor, and five-time US National Chinese martial arts Champion Phillip Starr provides the definitive guide to Iron Palm. He meticulously outlines the three sequential steps of training: hardening limbs, developing technique, and engaging Qigong for coordinating breath and mind. The end result is a more powerful and precise strike that can impact the target's viscera (with no trace on the outer body).
The Iron Palm is one of the most misunderstood facets of contemporary Chinese martial arts. Many enthusiasts who are eager to develop this special skill believe that it primarily involves toughening the hands and developing thick callouses on them. This is both true and untrue. Many contemporary Iron Palm devotees demonstrate their prowess by striking and breaking a variety of solid, strong objects such as bricks, concrete slabs, and even coconuts. While such exhibitions are impressive, they are not automatically indicative of high-level proficiency in this unique art. The Iron Palm is not, by itself, representative of any particular style of Chinese martial arts; it can be, and often is, utilized by practitioners of all forms of gong-fu, including the so-called “internal” schools.
Lavishly illustrated with more than 200 images, this book is ideal for experienced practitioners of gong-fu, karate, and taekwondo.
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