How to Train Iron Spear Hand Kung Fu

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Aiming to expand your Kung Fu training? Iron Spear Iron Body Training is a facet of Shaolin Kung Fu where the practitioner trains their body so they're able to give or sustain heavy blows without serious injury to various parts of their body. Read on to learn how to train your finger-tip strikes to increase power.

Steps

Familiarize yourself with 5 Step Chi Kung breathing.

It would be beneficial to have a good quality Dit Da Jow ointment. This can help with preparation and healing.

Channel Chi/strength into your hands.

This is a good way to prepare your hands. Once you can activate your hand chi you train it 5 days from 7 for 20 weeks (100 times). Use the Dit Da Jow (DDJ) before and after each exercise. If you are successful every time in activating your hands without fail, you can continue to the next step.

Prepare a bowl, pot, or another round container.

It needs to be twice the depth of and 4 times the width of your hand. Fill the bowl with boiling water. Pour it into the container first then start your 5 step breathing preparations. When your hands are ready; execute 100 Snake Head Finger Strikes (50 each hand) 5 days from 7 for 20 weeks without fail or error before progressing onto the next level.

Replace the water in the container with fine white sand.

Prepare yourself again with the DDJ and Five Step breathing (FSB). Ensure that your fingernail length is less than your fingers else you will force sand in under your fingernails and it will be very painful. Your are not yet ready for this.

Push your hands through the sand.

Push until all 4 fingers are fully in the sand. Again, practice this until you can do this 100 times, 50 with each hand in one practice session. Now, start increasing the speed of your pushing gradually until it is striking speed. Take this slowly as this is the make or break phase. You may also wish to supplement this with 100 Push-ups first on your fist then on three middle fingers of each hand. At no time should you break skin! Always stop if your hand is damaged and start from the beginning all over again!

Replace the fine sand grains with coarse sand granules.

Repeat as before and continue your Push-up on three fingers. If you can do 100 push-ups on both hands 5 days from 7 DO NOT proceed to the next level. Again, if you can work the coarse sand as easily as with he find sand, at striking speed proceed.