Southern Mantis Weighted Arm Grinding

This is an exercise that is done to developed/condition the forearms in the southern mantis.

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• martial
• arts
• southern
• mantis
• wing
• chun
• mike
• sheng

[JookLumFist]

I'll post how I learned it, great job though. I place the bar then sink to gop chum which means plier sinking hands. The bar will sink to the base of your forearms, then it will roll back out as you uncoil with spitting thrust strike. check me out at jooklum fist (coming soon in a few days).

[shengchenfan]

@JookLumFist That will be great,maybe I can learn from that,I've seen this exercise done a few ways different from how it was shown to me.

[SmokingMantis]

Dude! That looks hardcore!

I was a big fan of doing weights, but my sifu has banned us from using them as he says it blocks Chi, and inhibits us from releasing our energy... Although he does say light weights for toning is OK. I do see some very practical applications for this. I might ask his opinion.

Cheers for sharing,

J.

[shengchenfan]

@SmokingMantis ,Actually weights helps the promotion of Chi,because the tendons are stronger and healthier plus there are alot of Gung fu style that utilizes the use of weight training look at Hung Ga.There is is thing called overuse too

[TheChiFlows]

@ronho2007-- Tell that bull to Bruce Lee and & my southernmantis sifu & they would have laughed in your face .I trained jook lum & hung gar both . And the most powerful martial artist always incorporate weight lifting into there training. If you don't your only limiting your potential power and striking ability . The old masters who tell you not to lift weight .Live in the past ...The most powerful Hung Gar man i ever knew was also a professional body builder .So your totally wrong

[ronho2007]

@TheChiFlows

It depends on what style you are learning.I exercise Chow Gar Tong Long and tendon development is more important than muscle development. It's an internal art which means hitting power comes from a combo of Chi and tendon, not external requiring muscle and movement.

[shengchenfan]

@shengchenfan Plus by all means yes practice Chi gung however you need balance,I'm just all muscle,a great deal of my stuff is influence by chi gung and structure.A lot of the weight bearing drills that I do is just of developing my structure on a much higher level.No disrespect towards your Sifu ,but every man has his own way.

[shengchenfan]

@streatyb01 actually i got this method from a chow gar friend of mine.

[streatyb01]

thats why we train with a partner thats what i got told anyway and sorry about the spelling only so much space to write something but still a great video to watch 

[streatyb01]

i study chow gar SPM & my sifu has sed 2 us not 2 use any weights in our training bcoz everything has chi trees, people, rocks etc but there is a frequency of chi if u will living beings have a high freq chi & none living things ave a low freq & a low freq chi can change a high freq to a low one but it cnt work the ova way round so a high cnt make a low high so by training with a low freq e.g weights your chi becums low freq an therefore you dnt get the correct strength or power

[Anandfulness]

@SmokingMantis; Weights are bad in the beginning because you don't need the extra muscle. You need to know the movement , then you can train with power, later with speed and even later you need to combine the right movement with the right power and speed.

Just basic powerexercises are enough for the first years in my opinion but just follow what your teacher says.