Higaonna Sensei Rock Hand Conditioning demo.MOV

[beaver6969lv]

SENSEI MORIO HIGAONNA IS THE MAN!!!

[FLOMOSAPIAN]

@beaver6969lv he is KING of the Rock

[Funkensteinlives]

ooouuucchhh.......

[vsallbutme]

i do the same thing to my wife lol

[vietdude1979]

@vsallbutme Well, we got something in common except it's my girlfriend. Three times a week in bed!

[computermaster]

It is possible to have arms hard as rock and can actually break rock/concrete if you train iron arm continuosly with dit da jow for about 3 years without missing a day.

[Sevv9220]

How lightly should one strike it? If you could give a percentage...

[Consciouslivingbiz]

Interesting, but he is hitting at the rock and not through it, that is the difference between karate hand conditioning and Chinese iron palm. You can see the hard rigidness in his body, where as real iron palm requires you to be relax in order to transfer power. Don't get me wrong I would not want to get hit by one of his punches, but none the less real iron palm is much stronger. Just learn to relax and you real see significant increase in power.

[daswerdasss]

@Consciouslivingbiz true i agree but hitting a hard rock with an unconditioned hand will just simply break your hand. That is the main purpose of karate hand conditioning. Are you currently practicing any arts?

[Consciouslivingbiz]

@daswerdasss Yes you are diffidently right, hitting a rock like that with out training, or even the human body as far as that goes, means you will get hurt. Yes I practice several different arts and several different kinds of iron palms and iron shirts. I mean no disrespect towards this Sensei you can see his power and I think he his very accomplished at what he does, I just want people to set there aims higher. We as humans are capable of amazing things

[Specter1957]

@Consciouslivingbiz just aheads up for all watching this, Higaona Sensei has been training for greater than fifty years, what he is showing is a small part of his daily work out.....this is the warm up.

I am not a member of Higaonas Ryu Ha, I train in Shorin Ryu, not Goju Ryu. and my early days of Martial Arts was in Hun Gune Chinese boxing (1965)

[Consciouslivingbiz]

@Specter1957 Yes we all can see that he is very accomplished at what he does. There is a old saying out there it's not the style but the actual person that determines who wins the fight, and I know if you look at it from the outside this may sound true, but it's not, far from it. I can take even the most uncoordinated person and with in a year have him or her be a world champion,m beating 20, 30, even 50 year veterans with ease.

[Specter1957]

@Consciouslivingbiz you make some interesting claims.....how you can take a novice and in one year make them a champion......I'm going to have to let fly with the B.S. Flag on this one.....listened to your speach concerning meditation, The only way a person can excel in the Martial Arts is in continuos training, your claim of being able to turn any one into a trained fighter that can handle persons that have been training 20,30 even fifty years....the burden of proof is on you

[Consciouslivingbiz]

@Specter1957 ok I know my claims seem out of this world and made by somebody trying to prove a point right, but sometimes what you hear is the truth that you haven't been exposed to yet. I will tell you a story from my past to prove my point. It was in my younger days when I was just started to learn martial arts, I had the pleasure of training under the most unbelievable martial artist he is a true genius in the field yet you probably never heard of him his name is James Eddings.

[Consciouslivingbiz]

@Specter1957 Well at the time I was very young and I had been training under him for about 6 months. The training was in private and so I could only compare myself to him, which felt like I had not made any improvement because that is just how advance he is. He says to me "Joel you are now one of the best in Charlotte ". I said " What do you mean I don't think so" I felt this way because this whole time we where working on foot work reaction time training and so on, no fancy techniques at all.

[Consciouslivingbiz]

@Specter1957 He says " ok we are going to enter a contest" this was a tough man and at the time I was under age but he new the person running it and could get me in. Now you have to understand we had not even spared and now I found myself in the ring facing grown men twice my age with 2 of them owning their own dojo. Yes these where so called masters that had been training for 10, 20 years. And as you can guess I found myself in the middle of the ring with my hand being raised the champion.

[Consciouslivingbiz]

@Specter1957 So as you can see I have nothing to prove. I have already walked those foot steps, I know what I say is true from experience. Rather you believe me or not, I don't really care that is your choice. I just made a observation on a youtube video post. You can go on thinking you know everything and you will continue to not make any improvements, I know that is where your at because that is the road block most martial artist run into and I can tell you been training for years

[Specter1957]

@Consciouslivingbiz interesting come back you made, I too have been there and done that....I have to drop for now, I have a class to teach at the MoI,

[Consciouslivingbiz]

@Specter1957 it's not the style and it's not the person, but the actual training. What training is the most effective at developing the skill that is desire. This man hits rocks to develop the hardness of his hands, I hit steel to develop the hardness and the power of my strikes meaning I relax totally in my strikes and allow my energy to penetrate the object trust me there is a big difference. To the untrained eye it looks the same, but to the train eye you can see the power

[ratchadapalazzo]

and then they invented the gun......

[tallset2]

This is asking for arthritis.

Do it the Chinese way.

[Draconic]

@tallset2 wat's the chinese way?

[KaratesDisciple]

can you imagine the force of his fist hitting your body. that conditioning is amazing not only is he making his hands pure resilent but his wrists aswell and we all know wrsits are weak.

[thechaosofpeace]

I love the part where he hits the rock.

[cinecasero]

es el mejor del mundo lejos...... un orgullo pertenecer a la I.OG.K.F...increible!!! domo agigato sensie! Morio Higaonna

[DangerousDan2]

Sorry about that last comment, was just in a bad mood, and that whole shakey thing with the camera got on my nerves. Man, that's amazing to have Higaonna Sensei as your teacher. I was always impressed with his Power and Conditioning. I do alot of hard conditioning myself, but I haven't achived anywhere near the conditioning Higaonna has

[talon115]

The man just kille a rock!