Marriage and PregnancyIron Palm Part 5
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.
A. Today I teach primarily internal methods so the curriculum is based on what the students need to attain high quality internal methods and there are quite a few levels from beginner to very advanced. First, body relaxing, loosening, stretching, conditioning and Body Connection Ba Gua and Tai Chi exercises and a very specific method of Push Hands are taught to beginners. These are practiced and refined all the way through the program by even the most advanced students. Internal sensitivity training is began with the Push Hands but by the time the students are at an intermediate level it is expected that they can feel the internal energy movement within the Ba Gua exercises and Shaolin or Tai Chi sets also.
At the next level students are taught Whole Body Power, Heavy Hands and Body, Compression Hitting, a very powerful but basic series of 1 Hit/Touch Knockouts and Iron Body which includes Iron hand and forearm. Then students learn a fighting method for delivering multiple Iron Palm/Kilap Slaps very rapidly. Generally speaking they can throw 3 – 5 of these hits per second and train to sustain it for a minimum of several minutes at a time. It makes for an amazing offense and defense all in one. There is a little breaking of wood to make sure that development and ability are appropriately developing and students have to demonstrate a basic proficiency level before progressing.
To be continued in “Iron Palm Part 6”