Iron Palm Part 8 By: Richard Clear | - Continued from Iron Palm Q&A With Sigung Richard Clear Part 7
One of the tests for this involves the use of a thick phone book. The receiving student holds the phone book over their belly and the striking student hits the phone book and their palm print has to appear on the receiving student's belly. Healing methods for many of the energetic strikes are included. Once you learn how you actually practice the strikes and healing energy and methods for these by practicing the Tai Chi ... Tags:silat, internal kungfu, Pentjak, Kuntao, self defense, iron palm
Iron Palm Part 7 By: Richard Clear | - Continued from Iron Palm Q&A With Sigung Richard Clear Part 6
Advanced methods include (but are not limited to) cotton palm, springy palm, fire hands (burning palm), Advanced No-distance hitting and universal energy palm. Also included are learning how to use a Yin palm to take energy out and the Yang palm to put negative energy in to someone. Also the delayed death touch and other advanced striking methods are in the advanced curriculum as well as more advanced methods of e ... Tags:silat, internal kungfu, Pentjak, Kuntao, self defense, iron palm
Iron Palm Part 6 By: Richard Clear | - Continued from Iron Palm Q&A With Sigung Richard Clear Part 5
At the next level students begin Lao Gung development. Also, students learn how to focus and condense Chi and energy flow. They train Internal Iron Palm and Poison Hand specifically as well as the Whip hand and fighting methods that generate strikes from the legs and spine out to the hands. Students also learn how to evade Iron Palm strikes while still landing their own hit(s) and how to internally and externally ... Tags:silat, internal kungfu, Pentjak, Kuntao, self defense, iron palm
Iron Palm Part 5 By: Richard Clear | - Continued from Iron Palm Q&A With Sigung Richard Clear Part 4
Over the years I lived there I was attacked on the street more than a dozen times including knife and gun assaults. Most of the time I did not have to hit people but when I did hit them they went down within the first second or two of contact. Usually due to what MMA stylists today call a Flash Knockout.
Q. Describe the curriculum for beginning, intermediate and advanced students.
Iron Palm Part 4 By: Richard Clear | - Continued from Iron Palm Q&A With Sigung Richard Clear Part 3
I immediately went and asked Tyrone about this. He simply smiled in a telling way and said Don't break, Just Keep Practicing. I then realized that he was teaching me vibrating palm and how to transmit the energy through objects without damaging the surface. I got really excited and we were in the process of tearing down an old little 3 room guest house that was sitting in our back yard. I began striking the tiles on t ... Tags:silat, kungfu, Pentjak, Kuntao, self defense, iron palm
Iron Palm Part 3 By: Richard Clear | - Continued from Iron Palm Q&A With Sigung Richard Clear Part 2
I started studying Dr Wu's system of Kung Fu in 1982 from one of Dr Wu's other senior students and then I began studying from Tyrone in 1984. As a result I began training Iron Palm in 1984. I was not really seeking out Iron Palm. I had not heard enough about it to actively seek it. Iron Palm and Dim Mak were simply a part of the Kung Fu training we received. Once I began training I was hooked on it for awhile and t ... Tags:silat, kungfu, Pentjak, Kuntao, self defense, iron palm
Iron Palm Part 2 By: Richard Clear | - Continued from Iron Palm Q&A With Sigung Richard Clear Part 1
Tyrone also began teaching me the Iron Palm methods that Lee referred to as the Indirect Method and the All round method and more advanced instruction and other Internal methods not taught in the book but most of which obviously came from Lee because it was a natural extension of what Lee offered in his book. I also found out that parts of the book are intentionally misleading or only taught in part to stop people ... Tags:silat, kungfu, Pentjak, Kuntao, self defense, iron palm
Open Hand Basics - Part 1 Of 2 By: Richard Clear | - The teet lung pai system taught at Clear's Silat Schools includes pentjak and kuntao silat, tai chi, and aspects of shaolin chuan kung-fu, hsing-I and paqua. Although these systems are diverse in both origin and substance, they share one key similarity - the open hand concept. This article will concentrate on the benefits of the open hand strike in general and five ways to strike in particular, as well as how they are utilized in specific styles.
Do not practice these techniques on other people. These techniques can cause serious injury and have a high potential to be lethal. Do not use these techniques unless it is to defend yourself in a serious life or death situation. Also, do not practice these techniques at full speed or power or with real intention on another human being or on any other living thing.
For example, a serious knock out hit to the jaw can shatter the jaw ... Tags:self defense, kungfu, silat
