I have. I don't know about you guys, but crawling through a vagina was pretty uncomfortable for me personally. It's not easy to admit it, but I cried right after.
@@soldierx345not exactly. women have a higher pain tolerance. this comes from having a lot more dense nerve clusters that are sensitive to pain than men do. men have less dense clusters so it we actually feel less pain. that seems to for the most part even out.
You should do a colab with Ranton; he could probably answer every single question you have about Shaolin :D (He's a former Shaolin disciple, now streamer and video game reviewer)
Ranton studied at the "Fake Shaolin" center. When the Commies burned down the Temple (Quite recently in History), they banned the practice of all Martial arts for +60 years. The commies eventually rebuilt the Temple... but they could only find ONE remaining Monk. He was in his 80s, and was deemed unfit to teach. Most of the original monks had either fled the attack... (often fleeing to Taiwan) or they were captured and slaughtered. As such... a LOT of these Chinese Combat arts knowledge, was completely LOST / Destroyed. The CCP's Shaolin... its no longer ran for developing religious and hardcore fighting monks. The monks there, are fed a training program that focuses less on combat.. and more about "Performance" / Acrobatic Tricks. They then take the best of these guys, and put them on Tours all over the world, to make money from Shows and Demos. While they do have certain degree of skills... they are not even close to representing the True Shaolin combat capabilities. In fact, much of their training has Degraded drastically... such as them using modern kick bags... instead of wall mounted Sandbags. As such, Rantons opinions on any Combat Art, basically dog Sh*T.
Monks? Sure theyre amazing. Body control? Definitely cool. Random guys going through this? Absolutely fun. But the shocker, the thing that really amazed me, was Seth's pure determination, will, and adherence to growth through self inflicted avoidable pain, exhibited in his choice not to get yt premium.
The body hardening and conditioning really probably all works together. All the manual labor builds up that farmer strength. All the exercises and load builds bone density like it does in weightlifters. The striking probably both deadens nerves and trains out the reflex that gets you to hold back. After a few years of this you have some strong ass farm boy who can fearless blast through targets, push himself mentally and then you add technique. Put that guy against your average untrained, unconditioned couch potato and he's going to seem like another species.
The bone hardening is absolutely real and its the bodies adaptation to trauma by laying excess layers of bone when recovered. I've also done this forearm conditioning also and it definitely helps. Its like shin conditioning but for your arms.
@@Hybrid_Therapy i'm glad to hear this, i thought that elbow and forearm conditioning would not work at all even though i've been doing it for like 1 month now. 2 days a week i started off doing it on wooden planks and moved on to iron and lampposts and i feel like it's starting to hurt less and less and my forearms feel more dense
The point of the balloon is because the needle piercing the glass can be so clean that it's not visible for an audience to see, but a balloon pressed right up against the glass on the opposite side popping is a very visible effect of a needle passing through glass.
Good guess about the "weeding out" students with the gravel shoveling and stuff but it also has a strong basis in Zen Buddhism, which I am far more familiar with than Shaolin. I have gone to a "Shaolinn" monastery in China though and they did some shit in front of my eyes that I could barely believe the human body could take, it's partly WWE style stuff like having many spikes that distribute the penetration power of each, but still, I saw up close and I was legitimately afraid for their lives at certain points, like when one guy balanced on a spear that he had previously demonstrated could penetrate several objects easily
It's not so much weeding out as teaching the students to overcome their own minds. I see how that could be the same thing but it's an essential part of this type of martial arts.
I think modern day humanist minds (that we all nowadays possess to some level) try to come up with different reasoning while i think truth is much simpler. It's about humility, meekness and submission to your teacher on a deep, spiritual level. You basically admit your lower position compared to him, preparing yourself to learn from him as a blank paper, rather than established, self-sufficient, prideful even, person who knows best and picks and chooses what to learn and what to not.
The shovelling here is actually about mending the training area - which is seen as part of the maintenance of the monastery, which is what you do, when you stay there for a time. Also cleaning and cooking.
@@KlausBeckEwerhardy man verbindet wohl das Praktische mit dem Nützlichen? In einem anderen Video spricht ein bereits ausgebildeter Shaolin-Schüler von dem Klostervorsteher (Abt), der ein gutes Leben führt, selbst nur das Kloster verwaltet und die Tradition predigt wobei von den Schüler uneingeschränkter Gehorsam und die Aufgabe der eigenen Wünsche erwartet wird.
@@neuwalter7386 Das ist möglich. Das Kloster in Otterberg ist oft im Fernsehen und da werden die Aufgaben der Akolyten und Langzeitgäste gezeigt - etwas, was ich so aus traditionellen Kungfu-Retreats in Deutschland, Frankreich, Schottland und China auch erlebt habe. Im Plum Village scheint es so ähnlich zu sein. Es ist pragmatisch, unterstützt das Training UND stärkt das Gemeinschaftsempfinden. Habe ich 2009 und 2015 in Wudangshan auch so bei den Daoisten kennengelernt. Oder auf Kirchenfreizeiten. Die Lebensführung des Abts erscheint mir dabei eher unerheblich. Ch'an-Buddhismus ist halt im monastischen Bereich so, wie auch manche noch funktionierende christliche Klöster.
There is a tremendous amount of evidence that axial loading strengthens the bones and increases their density, It's most well studied in weight lifters so you're going to strengthen your bones over time by doing front Kicks and punches The kind of radial loading that people do with body conditioning doesn't seem to do anything good for the bones Feeling less pain It's likely neurological, not because your bones are actually any stronger from it
you build up scar tissue under the skin and calloused thicker skin that helps protect the bones. Doing push-ups on knuckles on concrete and gravel surfaces then lightly punching a concrete wall... gradually overtime hitting the wall harder and harder till you reach a point where you can punch a concrete wall full power and... only feel a dull unpleasant sensation... rather than a sharp pain (as you break your untrained/conditioned hand)... That's an application for conditioning... your opponent jumps aside, you punch something hard... and just keep going at him without missing a beat.
36 is a significant number in buddhism as it's a whole divisor of 108. Bit like how gojushiho is 54 and seipai is 18 (also divisors of 108). That's probably why, together with it being a good amount but not too crazy
When I got to visit the Temple back in 2002, when we entered the very first gate, before the temple proper, we had a monk off in the corner with a f'n 'wave-master' punching bag, practicing straight-up boxing, and through our interpreter/guide, the monks noted straight up that in the last temple massacre they lost a lot of the knowledge of application, and they had members specifically looking for 'applicability' in martial arts to apply to Shaolin.
Bones adapt (to a certain degree) to the stress they're facing regularly. Take people running barefoot, professionnal athletes etc..you can litteraly identify the activity a person practised over years just by looking at the way their skeleton is !
@@alexkozliayev9902 yes the microfracture explanation seems to be too simplistic, but there seems to be something real with bone conditioning translatable to martial arts. What could the explanations be?
@@alexharrisson5926 as far as i know running, jumping, weight lifting will increase bone mass and bone sturdiness. While athletes are young their body can recover from beating hard surfaces, but as they get older than thirty body start to recover more slowly and their bones may and up weaker than in a person who don't do such "conditioning"
I've said it before, Shaolin is good stuff, but the fighting techniques are nothing unusual. Most asian martial arts techniques oginate in Shaolin after all. It's all in the conditioning. And that requires a ton of time that most of us don't have. When I was seriously good, I didn't have a life. I met a girl, got a "real job" and had kids. I'm happier, but younger me was a lot tougher. It's also why most kung fu schools suck. Noone wants to go through that training. It's boring, it hurts, and the rewards are a while down the road.
I train Chow Gar Southern Mantis and conditioning is a major part of the style. We condition pretty much every part of the body, anywhere we attack on others we condition on ourselves, and at the highest levels testicle and penis retraction comes in. And it's real I've witnessed it. Crazy hard but awesome, brutal and practical.
I'm enjoying this very much as well and what he said about the boring stuff spending more time that's kind of similar to like going to the gym your body won't improve won't get bigger or healthier faster or whatever unless you spend more time in the gym doing whatever it is you're specifically doing if it's lifting weights or whatever
What you see in this video is not old Monastic kung fu. Chairman Mao re-wrote Chinese culture and history during the cultural revolution. He saw Buddhist traditions as a significant threat to communism. Monks and temples were actively targeted for persecution and destruction. What Mao could not destroy he corrupted. What we see as modern “Shaolin Kung Fu” today contains very little of the pre-communist monastic Kung Fu. In stead it is mainly Chinese opera and acrobatics. To find real “old monastic Kung Fu” the place to look is in the Chinese diaspora, in Taiwan, the USA, Hong Kong ,the UK, etc. Note I am not saying that “modern shaolin monks” do not know any old monastic Kung Fu, just that it is not taught and demonstrated publicly.
15:30 china banned the practice of non-demonstration martial arts for a couple centuries so yes, everything which survived was essentially adapted for "internal growth" and shows (which were VERY popular in XVIII and XIX centuries). It's very unfortunate but at least we have some surviving late Ming military manuals/treaties (which include some bullshit as well of course, that's not unique to China though, European manual of E. Pascha for example has what's essentially "show drills" too, and basically the whole XIX century english "quarterstaff" where you hold it in the middle is explicitly for conditioning reasons).
okay, first of all, even though i have some knowledge and use a bit of medical language, i am not a medical doctor myself. i've explained that bit quite a few time now so to get into it... i will be talking here about multiple types of conditioning such as bone conditioning and skin conditioning. first i'll talk abstractly about how you can cause a desired effect toward conditioning of a tissue, then i'll get into the practical side of it. to clarify what is conditioning, any form of conditioning has two main goals: to increase the resilience of the targeted tissue to externally caused injuries (impact, abrasion and so on), and to increase the tolerance to pain (from lower feeling of pain and/or higher psychological pain tolerance). to make the skin more resilient, the two methods are to expose it to abrasion and to place load onto that skin, it will first cause a thickening of the skin, then progressive calcification. skin calcification can cause numbness and even loss of tactile feeling in the part, so it is generally considered as undesirable in those days and ages even for very passionate practitioners. for knuckle you can do things as simple as hitting a makiwara board or sand bag bare handed, or doing knuckle pushups on an unpleasant surface. other body parts may require more creativity, but hitting repeatedly with medium strength a target that has a rough surface or directly rubbing the skin with coarse salt (like in some traditional methods) will lead to tougher skin. it is important to avoid rupturing the skin as it will slow or even alt progression of that conditioning, scar tissues are for the most part weaker than normal skin. abrasion of the skin until it gets blood red and small drops of blood are sipping through is okay, but anything further is inefficient. what's good about pain is that you can simply get psychologically used to it, so i'll sum up that aspect of pain management as "just do painful things and get used to it, duh..." when it comes to reducing the pain felt now, there's only one way, and it is to reduce the capability of the body part to feel. repetitive hitting with hard objects will progressively deaden the nerves. all sorts of traditional methods work, like bunching together small metal rods or sticks and gently wacking the body part. it will progressively lead to a reduced capability to feel pain in the tissues you are hitting. as an adverse effect it may lead to reduced feelings in that part altogether. and to finish it up, toughening bones can only ever be done through the marvelous principle called "wolf's law". the way the metabolism around the bones balance itself out and is influenced by external factor leads to bones changing shape and density to adapt to load they are continuously submitted to. anything that trains your skeletal muscle is loading your bones just as much, and by increasing the strength of your muscle it also increase their ability to pull on your bones, generating a secondary load on them. for those previous reasons, your bone toughness will always be proportional to your muscle strength. by standing up your toughen your femurs and other bones of your legs, that's as simple as that. if you often walk around while carrying heavy thing, you'll toughen all bones of your leg further. pushups toughen your arms, knuckle pushups by loading your weight in an otherwise unusual way on your hand toughen some of those bones too. a funny uncommon one: at high level, skiing toughen the shins because it involves leaning your weight against the hard shoes. but anyways, short version is: do weight training for your bones. any method that revolves around hitting thing is absolutely inefficient at increasing bone toughness because the load is reduced (since you are not hitting full force), and the continuity of the load is non-existent. applying radial force to a bone in such a way could progressively lead it to take a curved shape to adapt, like an arch directed toward those habitual impacts, but then just standing up on your legs would increase the load on the inside of the curve and decrease it on the outside because of the flexibility, leading, once again, because of wolf's law, to a stimulated growth inside of the curve and decreased growth outside of the curve, thus straightening the bone as if it was predestined to have this shape... now the big mistake that leads to many injuries is people doing traditional methods of conditioning, which, as i explained before, mostly target pain tolerance, without having increased the toughness of their tissues through other methods. resulting on being able to endure the pain of impacts that your tissues cannot resist. basically, an easy recipe for fast injuries. this part is purely my opinion based on my personal experience. pain tolerance is highly overrated, you don't need to be impervious to pain, you only need to be resistant enough. and honestly, it doesn't take much at all to not notice pain under pressure and injure yourself without feeling it. just training at high intensity is enough to realize, it's only afterward that you notice how you bumped or hurt yourself so many times. the exercises i personally use and recommend are: knuckle pushups, bare knuckle on a sandbag (with controlled strength to not injure the wrist), and of course the holly muscle training to load dem' bones. i see no issue either with makiwara board as long as it goes hand in hand with "loading those fucking bones".
The implication, and potentially a belief of the monks themselves, is that the needle travels through the glass to pop the balloon. Since slow mo was invented, I don't think anyone has video evidence of a needle passing cleanly through glass, and proceed forward to pop the balloon. In every case I've seen, the balloon gets popped by bits of glass coming from the window pane as it cracks. The needle is probably beefier than you're expecting.
These are just Show Demos. However, they often prove certain points. In this instance, the point is to develop enough acceleration, to be able to get that glass to react like that. Even with that same needle... a lot of others attempting the same feat, likely would fail. I once met a kid that learned how to throw a standard playing card... so fast, that it could penetrate a melon. I tried the same... and couldnt even get the card to move half as fast, nor a quarter of the distance. It requires a LOT of specific training, to get to that level of capability... and that is the main Point of these Demos. Showing the body is capable of things that are sort of "Super-Human" ... compared to the Average Joe... and even most of the top Elite Athletes. Of course, most of these Demos were designed to be Impressive and Mystical feats, to entice public Donations, to the Begging Monks of the Pre-Industrial Era of China. This practice was also done with many other arts... to try to get new students into their schools.
Hardening training is less about numbing or killing the nerves in your skin, it's more about 3 factors: 1. The more your central nervous system experiences a specific sort of pain or pain in a specific spot on your body, it starts toning down your pain reaction to it, so you feel it less painful 2. The raised amound of stress on your muscle, your ligaments, tendons and bone due to repeated impact will indeed cause your body to grow then stronger 3. It's a mixture of building mental fortitute and also pushing your commitement, kind of 'consumer satisfaction' or 'sunken cost'. If you decided to inflict pain on yourself, your barrier of 'nope, I'm out!' afterwards is raised significantly so it opens you mentally for harder, more intense training While 1. and 2. are very long term things (compared to sore muscle healing up and being stronger afterwards, tendons and ligaments take weeks of repeated stress to grow and bones even month but even just 'simple' strength training will indeed lead to your bones becoming thicker and denser over month and years), 3 is a very short term thing which will indeed raise how invested you are.
The only actual Bone Conditioning science is Wolff's law, which states that bones grow stronger and bigger when under a load, IE strength training, Deadening the nerves is also a real thing As for kicking your average banana tree, I would assume that as most of the documented fighters kicking trees are kind of skinny, that the resistance of the tree against their kicks also makes them a bit stronger overall, which is why it was popularized as "bone conditioning" (my own theory) Just do your Squats, Presses and Pulls. IMO
You can also look into Ranton. He was a shaolin monk for 3 years, and in most of these videos that are marketed as "shaolin monks", they are infact not shaolin monks, they would be smaller school and disciplines from around the area who model themselves after the shaolin temple.
Read an humorous article about such schools and it stated that calling them "rowdy" would be understatement. Especially with relations with other schools which tended to be quite hot. As in local taxi driver hands out baseball bats when students of different schools meet. Just to make it more interesting. Also said that training is real tough.
11:46 I'm not the first person in the comments to mention this but yes, your body does adapt to repeated conditioning. Anybody who's exercised and experienced the plateau effect knows that. But that's about muscular microfractures. Bone microfractures are different. Essentially, it's you deadening your sensitivity to pain by destroying your pain receptors. You can't feel the pain? Then you can go harder. And that definitely affects you mentally.
There is actually a scientific way for bones to get not bigger but denser with small fractures, It's called "wolf's law" if i recall. does this training help do that? I don't know to me it looks like it would kill the nerves of the skin and maybe cause some internal bruising rather than strengthen the bones. But hey, I'm no expert.
Being wrist locked thousands of times causes micro fractures in the joint. Growing more bone in repair ( not beneficial). My radial bone is 5 mm longer than it should be and now causes issues.the micro fractures thing is real, but it is not always a goodthing
You missed the point with the glass. The point of that exercise is to throw the needle through the glass WITHOUT breaking the glass. To throw it so perfectly straight that it creates a teeny tiny hole in the glass before popping the balloon
@@AztecUnshaven Ranton also has legitimate training, he lived and trained at the temple and was a full time, Shaolin Monk before beginning on youtube. You are right to say he is not a master because he also says this, but he also has legitimate training.
@@dashofdinosaur He spent most of his time doing modern wushu routines. Very different from old Shaolin combative methods or the Shaolin Sanda program. By contrast, Shi Heng Yi has a wealth of experience with several real Shaolin boxing teachers that live outside the Temple, as well as cross training in Yang Taijiquan with Adam Mizner.
@AztecUnshaven Ranton can still provide legitimate insight into the practices of the temple and their programs, but you're also correct that he would not be considered an expert. The point is that it would be a fun collaboration between two martial arts content creators. No need to take it so seriously
Much of Shaolin is made up from old stories and Chinese circus it is in large part tourist oriented with a dose of entertainment. There is little or no continuity or hardcore fight sessions as is the case with many Chinese martial arts.
The microfractures thing is totally true, there's a named medical principle for it (Wolff's Law.) I've heard some traditional practitioners claim not to believe this, and say they think it's only for deadening the nerves, and I think that these martial artists need to spend more time hitting rocks. There are a couple karate practitioners I've trained with who had fingers like rail spikes. One of them, several of his students attested to having witnessed a time when a student tried to attack by surprise, and he reflexively responded with a spearhand that tore the guy's pectoral muscles, and EMTs had to cut the guy's shirt off. You don't get that from just deadening your nerves. Body conditioning can make a *huge* difference in a fight, but a lot of martial arts don't encourage that level of investment, because you could also just buy a knife on day one.
Micro fractures would be bad, but the regular impact will cause the body to grow denser bone and muscle tissue as well as deafening the nerves and adjusting the mind to pain itself (like building tolerance). If you're going to start this kind of conditioning, listen to your body. Only go as hard as you feel comfortable, the tolerance for the pain will increase on it's own and you will be able to go harder at a later date. If you try to go too hard too fast you can injure yourself and this is definitely not the goal. And the conditioning doesn't last forever. Don't think you can take a break and come back to the same level, it is highly likely that you will sustain undesirable damage.
First, also; I like that you're trying new martial arts, and watching others do them, as both a project and for your own personal growth! So many martial artists get pigeon holed into one thing and miss the beauty of what the wide variety of the world can give them. The advice the Shaolin practitioner gave is great and is a mindset more people need to keep in mind.
Calcification, my dear Sensei, is quite the remarkable phenomenon indeed. It involves the accumulation of calcium within our precious body tissues, leading to a most intriguing consequence - the fortification of said tissues. Imagine this: when the delicate dance of damage and healing befalls our bones, not only do they mend, but they emerge even mightier at the very site of fracture. Quite the marvelous orchestration of nature's handiwork, wouldn't you agree?
I thought Shaolin was taken to China from India by a man named Batuo(Buddhabhadra in Sanskrit) and then a local king had created a monastery after he passed in his honor?
I can give u an answer, by hitting or getting hit constantly, the skin that took the hit becomes sstimulated and starts to build up as counter measure against blunt trauma, so it becomes more thick. Its also a mental preparation yes and finally and most important, it somewhat kills your nerve cells at that area
Jesse trained under Shi Heng Yi and noticed how different the mechanics of Chinese martial arts, shaolin specifically, is compared to karate. Their conditioning training is absolutely brutal but definitely helps them develop their bodies to have what’s called the iron shirt. Also, I attended a shaolin demonstration in Switzerland when I was 9-10 yrs old at the United Nations
I trained Kali & JKD for 6 yrs and conditioned my shins knees and elbows with the Kali sticks, I train jiu jitsu now and when shin hits shin I definitely feel it less than other guy….thx for another fun video…👍🤓🫶🏻
Important, bone hardening is not real. There is not a single piece of evidence that supports that hitting things makes your bones stronger. What really happens is that you can create internal injuries and these heal and create scar tissue, which is why you sometimes see people that do traditional bone hardening have bigger knuckles but the bone structure of the hand remains the same and more often than not fractures on hands for fighters happen on the middle of the palm on the las two metacarpals, so basically you wasted your time doing iron palm drills. Also bones do not heal stronger after a fracture, this is a common misconception, it actually tends to become weaker, people think it makes bones stronger because like i said before there is internal scar tissue that occurs but that scar tissue goes away eventually. Sometimes people trying to sound smarter will talk about osteoclast and osteoblast which are cells that eat away the bone and create new bone to try and explain why microfractures heal stronger but just by logic osteoblast would have to work double shifts to heal the microfracture and the damage of osteoclast so obviously wouldn't be able to keep up and you just end with weaker bones, so no a doctor will never say that microfractures make bones stronger. However you can make bones stronger and thats through strength training, osteoporosis research shows that the condition happens when osteoclast outnumbers osteoblast but strength training has been shown to increase the number of osteoblast cells and reduce the natural decline of these cells through age. Unfortunately getting stronger bones is only possible until your late 20, once you hit 30 you can only slow down the natural deterioration of your bones. Because sensei seth has a lifetime experience in martial art he obviously has bone density higher than average. Exercises proven to strengthen bones include strength training like weights and calisthenics, running moderate distances (marathon runners tend to have bone density lower than average), sprinting and plyometrics, all things that martial artists happen to do a lot of. People might say that thais hit bags a lot for conditioning and is like they also run a ton and since very young, ofcourse they will have strong shins. Ofcourse you need to hit things as a martial artist but thats to work on your technique and combos, if you want stronger bones you need to hit the weights harder. A couple of traditional kung fu exercises that are actually great for your hand bone density is gripping jars and catching bags, one is a strength exercise and the other is almost a plyometric exercise for your grip.
No sir. You can lift weights all you want, but if you ever meet someone like Sifu Buck Sam Kong or Pan Qingfu, you'd understand that Iron Palm and forearm/knuckle conditioning is a way different thing than just strength training.
@@Eri587 There's ample evidence of Pan Qingfu's acts vs Triad members. He worked with police "SWAT" equivalents and was known as the Gangbuster of China. Massively dense hands and fists. Absolutely not the same as just "weight training".
The 36 chambers also alludes to the meridians and pressure points in your body. Allegedly, if the "touch-of-death" were real, there are 36 spots in the body that it can be applied to. I understand that pressure points aren't that impressive but a lot of it was also translation issues. If someone calls your groin "one of the chambers of death" you could laugh out loud, but if they use the old "Monkey Steals the Peach" move, it's not gonna sound funny anymore.
"Touch of Death" (Dim Mak) is a phrase that Outsiders (non martial artists) likely came up with... When witnessing a short range, relaxed, Finger Strike. To the outsider... from a distance.. it just looked like a Touch. Also... while many people know the positions to hit (including many Fraudsters), you NEED a special kind of power delivery method called "Fajin" in order to be able to do enough internal damages, for this to actually function / work. Fajin basically translates to "Explosive Power". The ability to deliver your full body mass energy... into something like a 16 th of a Second time-frame. Such a skill is not intuitive nor easy to develop... and most think its Fantasy, so do not even attempt it (nor seek out how to do it). I developed Masterclass levels of Fajin... and Ive used it to KO fighters... only ever using about 15% of what I was capable of Delivering (via a short range, 6 inch, Vertical fist to their foreheads). I never DARED to use Fajin with a finger strike... as its just too dangerous, even at minimal levels of output (But I DID condition my fingers well, to be capable of using it.. IF I was ever attacked for real). You see, the finger having much less surface area than the Fist, can dive much deeper into the OPs tissues (before the skin becomes too tight to allow anything deeper). A Fajin strike with a fist is easily lethal enough.. but the finger strike takes it to a whole other level... The fingerstrikes are used (instead of fist) because they have a longer reach.. and can pinpoint a very specific target point. These are often heavy bloodflow areas, and or where areas of Nerve bundles are located. The effects can be anything from a Temporary numbing (unable to move for a few seconds), to the tissues being so Enraged that they greatly swell up... and cause bloodlow circulation issues. Of course, if you use full potentials... then you can actually Rupture blood carrying vessels, and or organs. Sometimes you hit multiple points in rapid succession... to compound the circulation issues... making it a much quicker lethal end... rather than a longer and more drawn out... situation. Or course, there are also nerve points which can cause all sort of issues with overloading the brains senses... which can cause irregular heart beats, possible heart stopping, knockouts, having trouble breathing, and much more.
Translation issues indeed. Like the vibrating palm, it doesn't mean to vibrate one's palm, it just means that energy transfers from the palm...hence being called a vibration. Nothing mystical about it, just energy transfer. Edit* what you call Fajin I was told was Jing, the explosive transfer of energy. No matter what the move, whether it's a kick or a grapple, commit to the motion and explode with energy, that is the Jing I was taught in Traditional Chinese Martial Arts.
@@volentipugnum4045 Ive heard Fajin also be called "Fajing". Whatever the case, its highly concentrated vibrational energy. If you watch Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang of Chen family Tai Chi do a "Fajin" demonstration... you will notice that when he "Expresses" (in the air)... that his entire body shakes violently. Even after his issue, his legs are still seem shaking from the excess vibrational energy release. But yes, you are correct. Nothing Mystical about it. All physical events... just very specialized attributes + a very different Delivery mechanism. Its somewhat similar to a Guitar. When you pluck the strings... they Vibrate. Or if you quickly pulled a cable taught. Instead, you are doing the same thing.. but with your muscles and tissues... at a very precise timing, and with very specially developed attributes... causing a massive full body mass vibrational effect.
I trained in Shaolin, specifically Hua Quan. I can answer some questions. A lot of the time, they theatrics are for training only, the idea is to go to the most extreme place with any technique because if you can do it flawless at its most extreme version, you can do the practical version in a blink. So for example, a bicycle kick, or double front kick, you would train to jump, and kick as high as humanly possible while keeping form. And than you would learn to channel that into the practical version which is a very rapid, double front kick, where your shoulders shouldn't budge from their original position, with both kicks, impacting while the other is planted for maximum force.
Shi has also some nice TED talks and been on German television a bit. I like his work a lot eventhough I am nowadays in the Wudang-corner. But I always enjoy mixing in some Shaolin, karate or something else from time to time. By the way, I'm not sure that the pain to be achieved by the cupboard door is the same as the pain from the fasces, but I could be mistaken. Could be like the difference of being hit with arnies or a shinai perhaps?
What most people know as Zen Buddhism originated from Shaolin where it is referred to as Chan Buddhism. What makes Chan Buddhism unique from other Buddhist denominations/sects is it's influenced by Taoism, which is an inherently Chinese religion. Multiples of three are important in Taoism due to their cosmological beliefs relating to the Genesis of the universe where "The one became two, the two became three, and the three became the 10,000 things" (10,000 in Chinese tradition is a number that represents infinity essentially). Idk if there're any further significance involved with the number 36 but that's what I've learned from my studies thus far. I've read stuff about 36 Tian (heavens) and the number 3 and 6 being used to represent yin and yang, but I think those are more effect than cause.
10:58 comment. 36... Right,, not making fun...there are a few particular reps 18, 24(it happens), 36!! ( yeh! buddy!!), and 200... Yes just skip 100 there are none, if you're not doing 36.. Her doing 200.-Ernie Moore Jr. I' m looking at this for your sincere it makes sense to you...long time consuming stuff might get shorter numbers.-Ernie Moore Jr. Well-Spring fist and "Leg in the Sky" are both 200's...but its two hundred Each! side. war is hitting something stone or brick hard from a flexibility building stable stance good horses riding (feet parallel please thighs almost ground parallel that the target....-Ernie Moore Jr. L I t S seems to be a willful lifting of the leg front and up and forced controlled lowering. -Ernie Moore Jr.
Bro, just fistbump a hotshot/tough guy; if he looks back, sometimes he just says it, he'll say with his eyes, "damn, you got a hard fist" and that removes the question of whether or not you can trust yourself when you say this stuff makes your bones harder. You can also hear the reverse of this happening to astronauts who spend too much time in space; not only do their muscles atrophy and need physical therapy to walk on earth again, but they also have weaker bones cause they're not being regularly conditioned by having weight on them. It may or may not be micro-fractures specifically, but biology designed us to adapt to whatever we do, and if that requires harder bones, it'll happen. Or our bones will break cause we started at 10 instead of 1.
You probably know of karate kata that are related to 36 - Sanseiru (translates roughly to 36 hands), Sepai (18 hands), Suparimpei (108 hands) all relate to the number 108 which other have pointed out is significant in Buddhism.
36 Chambers of Shaolin is a great movie. You should watch it Seth. You ask whether 36 is a coincidental number. No it´s not. I bet the number 36 has something to do with the 36 skills of the ninja. In the movie a student gets so disappointed when they talk about the 36 chambers, and he later discovers that there isn´t any 36th chamber. Then the desire to create the 36th chamber grows in him.
It always kills me to hear "Modern" martial artists Spew such utter Ignorance about Traditional Conditioning. ESPECIALLY those that have train in Muay Thai.. where they kick each other in the Legs, with heavy forces, constantly. Its not the Heavy bag that is getting you that level of ability and density. Its all of those Bone to Bone clashes. Your "BIT" where you hit a flat board says it all, about your awareness of the Physics involved. Hitting a small round diameter object, is going to be much more impactful than hitting a flat board.. as the smaller diameter impact a very specific small area... concentrating the forces. Where as the wider surface helps to Disperse / Spread the impact forces through the entire arm. Its not as concentrated... and so the results would be far less effective.. .especially if your arms ends up hitting at off-angles with each impact. The Monks hand-pressure bone smoothing.. is kinda weak... and probably not Authentic. I use a standard kitchen Rolling Pin, to roll my Shins smooth. The reason for rolling the bones smooth... is that when you clash with someones leg... the HIGHEST parts of your bones would get most of the impact forces... and that would be MUCH more painful, and likely do more impact damages to yourself. As such, you want your bones to be as smooth as possible. With the Rolling pin, you can apply enough pressure to crush down some of the smaller bone bumps, that were often results of you falling into something... or being kicked in the legs... creating an uneven surface. It also helps to stimulate tissue and bone density, as well as increase circulation. For my arms, the dummy is decent... but since I didnt have one at home... I used a 4" diameter metal pipe, and "Impact Grinded" all sides of my arms. I also made a custom free-handing sandbag from a pantleg, of a pair of Jeans. It was wrapped tightly in Duct tape, and had Zero "Give". The lightest of taps of your shins against it, was like kicking a solid Rock. Anyway... Its funny that the same people whom are impressed with Muay Thai shin conditioning... will make fun of full Iron Body conditioning. You, yourself... have felt a Wing Chun teachers arms... that felt like Hardwood... and he was being "Nice" using very little force, and causing you to reel away in pain from some light Taps of those Iron Arms. And I doubt that he is doing the full Iron conditioning routines... just merely all of his typical bone to bone interactions with others. Of course, Iron Body conditioning, is not just about conditioning the fist. It also develops soft tissue areas, like the Throat. For one of my Demos... I chop my own throat about 7 times in a row... as Fast and as Hard as possible. I do not choke, nor is there any bruising. This is critical to combat... in which a heavy chop could crush your windpipe. Yes, there are changes in Bone density... but also, in the Tissues that protect.. and ultimately strengthen the bones that they surround. Much like how your "Wrapped Wrists", help to prevent them from breaking... and even when they do end up breaking... the tight wrap will act like a Cast... allowing the fighter to keep fighting within too much issue. If you broke your bone in a real barefist fight... and didnt have such wrap on... you would likely be in some serious trouble. Ive head that other than the possible use of canvas Sandbags... Some of the original Monks used to hit large paper books, mounted to a flat rock wall. The paper allows a minimum amount of absorption, before it becomes hard as wood... as all of that impact force gets put back into your own body... challenging your entire structure.. from Fist to Feet. No heavy bag training can even come close to comparing with Proper wall mounted Sandbag training. Finally... realize that durring the Commie takeover of China... the REAL Shaolin Temple was Burned down. Many of the monks either Fled, or were Executed. When the commies released their +60 ban on the practice of any Combat arts... They rebuilt the Temple, mostly as a Tourist Attraction. A way to get more Foreign money. However, when they went to staff the Temple... they only found ONE remaining Monk. He was over 80 yrs old, and was deemed unfit to teach. So, most of what is being taught there, was cobbled together from various sources / arts. Likely full of holes, misinterpretations, and even intentional corruptions. You are far more likely to find Authentic Shaolin outside of China... as many of the Monks likely fled into Taiwan, and later... places like USA. Of course, now you have these Fake Monks... coming to the US, to teach their Fake Shaolin methods. Many of them likely not even knowing that they learned a fake version of the original art.
My first mma gym had a wingchun instructor, and we did that partner forearm conditioning. As for the lawnmower, idk if they can either, but in theory, even though the machine is doing the cutting, the person still has to push/pull/guide it in the direction required, and they can have a rough vibration that can tire muscles over extended periods. The main issue would be maintenance and gasoline. But if its easily accessible for tourists, im sure a mechanic can keep it maintained.
12:00. The idea follows the principle of wollf's law and also acts as means to slowly increase pain tolerance on these limbs. Though, lifting heavy things and hitting things hard will increase bone density (wolff's law) much more. Body conditioning is really better on places where you can disperse a force across a larger area, IE the shin should be conditioned as kicking heavy bags will distribute the force across the hips and muscular legs.
Genuinely the most painful thing I've ever experienced, which I'm not sure a lot of people have but if you know, you know is a Dental Abscess. Literally cripplingly painful
Wolff's law, per Google if you want to know under what name to make medical queries: "This effect is called Wolff's Law. It states that our bones become thicker and stronger over time to resist forces placed upon them and thinner and weaker if there are no forces to act against. This principle is important for preventing injuries. A thicker bone is harder to break." Imagine how an archer's skeleton is changed... That said, there are probably some techniques that are more "abusive" than necessary, though that's totally subjective to the practitioner and the culture. You also need a balanced approach to modern life with iron bone training; you wouldn't want to be permanently crippled with a really good club hand that is useless for anything that requires dexterity. It also has to be constantly maintained; if you stop, your bones get weak again.
Monks are allowed to use tools, just generally not own them outside of small hand tools. This depend sheavily on Buddhist sect, and besides the Shaolin Monestary is not your normal religious focus monestary, even as far as Chan (Chinese Zen) goes. At least afaik - Watch some of Ranton's vids for that context but yeah.
11:13 Just like with weights. You can choose to not lift heavy weights and only lift comfortable weight in order to avoid sourness. It's the same principle that you have to apply to your bones. You have to stress them enough to cause hyper compensation and growth but not overdo it and cause inflammation of the periosteum. Bone augmentation is good, inflamations - bad. It's good for your health in general. Stimulates blood circulation within bone marrow. And since bone marrow is where the blood cells are generated breathing is very important to fill these blood cells with oxygen. Hence the practice of qi gong they're doing. Chinese martial arts are briliant.
About the bones growing stronger because of stress (not even micro fractures but any kind of mechanical force applied), it's kind of the opposite of what happens to astronauts on the ISS. Still wb ones talked about skin conditioning being the really important part.
Nobody can diss Shi Heng Yi. No matter what youtuber that react, interviews him, or visit him, everyone get something positive and cool out if it. And i find that refreshing. I would almost be sure that if it was any other from harf2hurt, Andrew Tate, to chael sonnen.. nobody would feel like it was a waste of their time. Thanks for the video Seth. 🙏👊
People underestimate tf out of showlin monk training but it is absolutely brutal but exremely beneficial and in my opinion this training mixxed with effective martial arts like maui thai kickboxxing wrestling bjj and judo and someone would be a absolute unit just unbreakable and an extremely well rounded fighter with insane body control and endurance
Real Shaolin King Fu teaches you how to condition your body and to ignore extreme levels of stress, pain and exhaustion. If you train 4 to 6 hours a day at least 6 days a week you will notice your endurance, strength and skill level increase more quickly. It takes dedication, it's not a sport, it's lifetime commitment to better yourself.
Bro give your editor a raise for that basketball edit alone 😂🔥
Zack?
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Personally I liked the Metal Gear edit at the beginning
HE'S ON FIRE!!
The hunger games edit was outta pocket 😂
Childbirth, Seth. You've never experienced the pain of childbirth.
YES! Good one
@@senseisethreactsa solid nut shot is more painful then birthing, most of us guys have experienced that.
I have. I don't know about you guys, but crawling through a vagina was pretty uncomfortable for me personally. It's not easy to admit it, but I cried right after.
@@soldierx345 except that it's not, unless a testicle gets ruptured. We don't have an equivalent.
@@soldierx345not exactly. women have a higher pain tolerance. this comes from having a lot more dense nerve clusters that are sensitive to pain than men do. men have less dense clusters so it we actually feel less pain. that seems to for the most part even out.
"are monks allowed to use lawnmowers?!" I think you have confused monks with the amish lmao
You should do a colab with Ranton; he could probably answer every single question you have about Shaolin :D
(He's a former Shaolin disciple, now streamer and video game reviewer)
Ranton studied at the "Fake Shaolin" center. When the Commies burned down the Temple (Quite recently in History), they banned the practice of all Martial arts for +60 years. The commies eventually rebuilt the Temple... but they could only find ONE remaining Monk. He was in his 80s, and was deemed unfit to teach. Most of the original monks had either fled the attack... (often fleeing to Taiwan) or they were captured and slaughtered. As such... a LOT of these Chinese Combat arts knowledge, was completely LOST / Destroyed.
The CCP's Shaolin... its no longer ran for developing religious and hardcore fighting monks. The monks there, are fed a training program that focuses less on combat.. and more about "Performance" / Acrobatic Tricks. They then take the best of these guys, and put them on Tours all over the world, to make money from Shows and Demos. While they do have certain degree of skills... they are not even close to representing the True Shaolin combat capabilities. In fact, much of their training has Degraded drastically... such as them using modern kick bags... instead of wall mounted Sandbags.
As such, Rantons opinions on any Combat Art, basically dog Sh*T.
The level of crack energy those 2 could give off together would be glorious
Yes, please do!
I agree to this
Meh
a lady came up to me and asked me if monks use email. I said "of course they do! they just cant have any attachments."
Monks? Sure theyre amazing.
Body control? Definitely cool.
Random guys going through this? Absolutely fun.
But the shocker, the thing that really amazed me, was Seth's pure determination, will, and adherence to growth through self inflicted avoidable pain, exhibited in his choice not to get yt premium.
Real talk
That is the truly painful experience
Gold!!! absolute gold!! 😅
The body hardening and conditioning really probably all works together. All the manual labor builds up that farmer strength. All the exercises and load builds bone density like it does in weightlifters. The striking probably both deadens nerves and trains out the reflex that gets you to hold back. After a few years of this you have some strong ass farm boy who can fearless blast through targets, push himself mentally and then you add technique. Put that guy against your average untrained, unconditioned couch potato and he's going to seem like another species.
Like in dragonball with goku and krillin with roshi.
The bone hardening is absolutely real and its the bodies adaptation to trauma by laying excess layers of bone when recovered.
I've also done this forearm conditioning also and it definitely helps. Its like shin conditioning but for your arms.
@@Hybrid_Therapy i'm glad to hear this, i thought that elbow and forearm conditioning would not work at all even though i've been doing it for like 1 month now. 2 days a week i started off doing it on wooden planks and moved on to iron and lampposts and i feel like it's starting to hurt less and less and my forearms feel more dense
The point of the balloon is because the needle piercing the glass can be so clean that it's not visible for an audience to see, but a balloon pressed right up against the glass on the opposite side popping is a very visible effect of a needle passing through glass.
Good guess about the "weeding out" students with the gravel shoveling and stuff but it also has a strong basis in Zen Buddhism, which I am far more familiar with than Shaolin. I have gone to a "Shaolinn" monastery in China though and they did some shit in front of my eyes that I could barely believe the human body could take, it's partly WWE style stuff like having many spikes that distribute the penetration power of each, but still, I saw up close and I was legitimately afraid for their lives at certain points, like when one guy balanced on a spear that he had previously demonstrated could penetrate several objects easily
It's not so much weeding out as teaching the students to overcome their own minds. I see how that could be the same thing but it's an essential part of this type of martial arts.
I think modern day humanist minds (that we all nowadays possess to some level) try to come up with different reasoning while i think truth is much simpler. It's about humility, meekness and submission to your teacher on a deep, spiritual level. You basically admit your lower position compared to him, preparing yourself to learn from him as a blank paper, rather than established, self-sufficient, prideful even, person who knows best and picks and chooses what to learn and what to not.
The shovelling here is actually about mending the training area - which is seen as part of the maintenance of the monastery, which is what you do, when you stay there for a time. Also cleaning and cooking.
@@KlausBeckEwerhardy man verbindet wohl das Praktische mit dem Nützlichen? In einem anderen Video spricht ein bereits ausgebildeter Shaolin-Schüler von dem Klostervorsteher (Abt), der ein gutes Leben führt, selbst nur das Kloster verwaltet und die Tradition predigt wobei von den Schüler uneingeschränkter Gehorsam und die Aufgabe der eigenen Wünsche erwartet wird.
@@neuwalter7386 Das ist möglich. Das Kloster in Otterberg ist oft im Fernsehen und da werden die Aufgaben der Akolyten und Langzeitgäste gezeigt - etwas, was ich so aus traditionellen Kungfu-Retreats in Deutschland, Frankreich, Schottland und China auch erlebt habe. Im Plum Village scheint es so ähnlich zu sein. Es ist pragmatisch, unterstützt das Training UND stärkt das Gemeinschaftsempfinden. Habe ich 2009 und 2015 in Wudangshan auch so bei den Daoisten kennengelernt. Oder auf Kirchenfreizeiten.
Die Lebensführung des Abts erscheint mir dabei eher unerheblich. Ch'an-Buddhismus ist halt im monastischen Bereich so, wie auch manche noch funktionierende christliche Klöster.
Yes, you're right Seth, the 36 Chambers goes way deeper than just the movie. It was also a great album
From what I hear, the Shaolin and the Wu Tang could be dangerous...
Yes, I agree, Shaolin Shadowboxing, and Wu Tang sword style, and yes, he let him try his Wu Tang style...
Tiger style
En-garde, I'll let you try my wutang style
There is a tremendous amount of evidence that axial loading strengthens the bones and increases their density, It's most well studied in weight lifters so you're going to strengthen your bones over time by doing front Kicks and punches
The kind of radial loading that people do with body conditioning doesn't seem to do anything good for the bones
Feeling less pain It's likely neurological, not because your bones are actually any stronger from it
you build up scar tissue under the skin and calloused thicker skin that helps protect the bones.
Doing push-ups on knuckles on concrete and gravel surfaces then lightly punching a concrete wall... gradually overtime hitting the wall harder and harder till you reach a point where you can punch a concrete wall full power and... only feel a dull unpleasant sensation... rather than a sharp pain (as you break your untrained/conditioned hand)...
That's an application for conditioning... your opponent jumps aside, you punch something hard... and just keep going at him without missing a beat.
... not neurological... physiological.😊
36 is a significant number in buddhism as it's a whole divisor of 108. Bit like how gojushiho is 54 and seipai is 18 (also divisors of 108). That's probably why, together with it being a good amount but not too crazy
This is the answer.
When I got to visit the Temple back in 2002, when we entered the very first gate, before the temple proper, we had a monk off in the corner with a f'n 'wave-master' punching bag, practicing straight-up boxing, and through our interpreter/guide, the monks noted straight up that in the last temple massacre they lost a lot of the knowledge of application, and they had members specifically looking for 'applicability' in martial arts to apply to Shaolin.
Bones adapt (to a certain degree) to the stress they're facing regularly. Take people running barefoot, professionnal athletes etc..you can litteraly identify the activity a person practised over years just by looking at the way their skeleton is !
But not through microfractures! Those make bones weaker
@@alexkozliayev9902 yes the microfracture explanation seems to be too simplistic, but there seems to be something real with bone conditioning translatable to martial arts. What could the explanations be?
This is how I've learned...stress stimulates calcium absorption making the bones denser. I'm not from a medical background though.
@@alexharrisson5926 as far as i know running, jumping, weight lifting will increase bone mass and bone sturdiness. While athletes are young their body can recover from beating hard surfaces, but as they get older than thirty body start to recover more slowly and their bones may and up weaker than in a person who don't do such "conditioning"
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I've said it before, Shaolin is good stuff, but the fighting techniques are nothing unusual. Most asian martial arts techniques oginate in Shaolin after all. It's all in the conditioning. And that requires a ton of time that most of us don't have. When I was seriously good, I didn't have a life. I met a girl, got a "real job" and had kids. I'm happier, but younger me was a lot tougher.
It's also why most kung fu schools suck. Noone wants to go through that training. It's boring, it hurts, and the rewards are a while down the road.
I'm mad I watch you beat your wood while singing Black Betty.
I train Chow Gar Southern Mantis and conditioning is a major part of the style. We condition pretty much every part of the body, anywhere we attack on others we condition on ourselves, and at the highest levels testicle and penis retraction comes in. And it's real I've witnessed it. Crazy hard but awesome, brutal and practical.
Shout out to all the other Alpha Chads that are already subscribed
I'm enjoying this very much as well and what he said about the boring stuff spending more time that's kind of similar to like going to the gym your body won't improve won't get bigger or healthier faster or whatever unless you spend more time in the gym doing whatever it is you're specifically doing if it's lifting weights or whatever
What you see in this video is not old Monastic kung fu. Chairman Mao re-wrote Chinese culture and history during the cultural revolution. He saw Buddhist traditions as a significant threat to communism. Monks and temples were actively targeted for persecution and destruction. What Mao could not destroy he corrupted. What we see as modern “Shaolin Kung Fu” today contains very little of the pre-communist monastic Kung Fu. In stead it is mainly Chinese opera and acrobatics.
To find real “old monastic Kung Fu” the place to look is in the Chinese diaspora, in Taiwan, the USA, Hong Kong ,the UK, etc.
Note I am not saying that “modern shaolin monks” do not know any old monastic Kung Fu, just that it is not taught and demonstrated publicly.
Sensei have you ever heard of 52 blocks boxing or jailhouse Rock Boxing want to know your thoughts or Icy Mikes thoughts
That'd be a sick vid
15:30 china banned the practice of non-demonstration martial arts for a couple centuries so yes, everything which survived was essentially adapted for "internal growth" and shows (which were VERY popular in XVIII and XIX centuries). It's very unfortunate but at least we have some surviving late Ming military manuals/treaties (which include some bullshit as well of course, that's not unique to China though, European manual of E. Pascha for example has what's essentially "show drills" too, and basically the whole XIX century english "quarterstaff" where you hold it in the middle is explicitly for conditioning reasons).
Even Sensei Seth doesn't subscribe to TH-cam premium.
To me its like if you dont have the patience to shovel some gravel life is going to hit you that much harder.
You need to collaborate with Ranton
Yes. I was about to comment the same thing, haha
Ranton has spared Shi Heng Yi so far as his training was also more external and "showy" Kung Fu.
And... we would love to see Sensei Seth visit the Shaolin Temple in Europe and train under Master Shi Heng Yi right guys? 😊
Yes, that would be the day, when I finally get my lazy bones there too 😊
Sensei Seth I think you should go train with that master. I think it will change your life.
You should hit up rayton and do a video. You could even give him a heads up on what to expect for season two of ultimate self defense championship
Would love seeing you and Mike do this.
36 chambers Wu TANGG!!!
okay, first of all, even though i have some knowledge and use a bit of medical language, i am not a medical doctor myself.
i've explained that bit quite a few time now so to get into it...
i will be talking here about multiple types of conditioning such as bone conditioning and skin conditioning. first i'll talk abstractly about how you can cause a desired effect toward conditioning of a tissue, then i'll get into the practical side of it.
to clarify what is conditioning, any form of conditioning has two main goals: to increase the resilience of the targeted tissue to externally caused injuries (impact, abrasion and so on), and to increase the tolerance to pain (from lower feeling of pain and/or higher psychological pain tolerance).
to make the skin more resilient, the two methods are to expose it to abrasion and to place load onto that skin, it will first cause a thickening of the skin, then progressive calcification. skin calcification can cause numbness and even loss of tactile feeling in the part, so it is generally considered as undesirable in those days and ages even for very passionate practitioners. for knuckle you can do things as simple as hitting a makiwara board or sand bag bare handed, or doing knuckle pushups on an unpleasant surface. other body parts may require more creativity, but hitting repeatedly with medium strength a target that has a rough surface or directly rubbing the skin with coarse salt (like in some traditional methods) will lead to tougher skin. it is important to avoid rupturing the skin as it will slow or even alt progression of that conditioning, scar tissues are for the most part weaker than normal skin. abrasion of the skin until it gets blood red and small drops of blood are sipping through is okay, but anything further is inefficient.
what's good about pain is that you can simply get psychologically used to it, so i'll sum up that aspect of pain management as "just do painful things and get used to it, duh..."
when it comes to reducing the pain felt now, there's only one way, and it is to reduce the capability of the body part to feel. repetitive hitting with hard objects will progressively deaden the nerves. all sorts of traditional methods work, like bunching together small metal rods or sticks and gently wacking the body part. it will progressively lead to a reduced capability to feel pain in the tissues you are hitting. as an adverse effect it may lead to reduced feelings in that part altogether.
and to finish it up, toughening bones can only ever be done through the marvelous principle called "wolf's law". the way the metabolism around the bones balance itself out and is influenced by external factor leads to bones changing shape and density to adapt to load they are continuously submitted to. anything that trains your skeletal muscle is loading your bones just as much, and by increasing the strength of your muscle it also increase their ability to pull on your bones, generating a secondary load on them. for those previous reasons, your bone toughness will always be proportional to your muscle strength. by standing up your toughen your femurs and other bones of your legs, that's as simple as that. if you often walk around while carrying heavy thing, you'll toughen all bones of your leg further. pushups toughen your arms, knuckle pushups by loading your weight in an otherwise unusual way on your hand toughen some of those bones too. a funny uncommon one: at high level, skiing toughen the shins because it involves leaning your weight against the hard shoes. but anyways, short version is: do weight training for your bones. any method that revolves around hitting thing is absolutely inefficient at increasing bone toughness because the load is reduced (since you are not hitting full force), and the continuity of the load is non-existent. applying radial force to a bone in such a way could progressively lead it to take a curved shape to adapt, like an arch directed toward those habitual impacts, but then just standing up on your legs would increase the load on the inside of the curve and decrease it on the outside because of the flexibility, leading, once again, because of wolf's law, to a stimulated growth inside of the curve and decreased growth outside of the curve, thus straightening the bone as if it was predestined to have this shape...
now the big mistake that leads to many injuries is people doing traditional methods of conditioning, which, as i explained before, mostly target pain tolerance, without having increased the toughness of their tissues through other methods. resulting on being able to endure the pain of impacts that your tissues cannot resist. basically, an easy recipe for fast injuries.
this part is purely my opinion based on my personal experience. pain tolerance is highly overrated, you don't need to be impervious to pain, you only need to be resistant enough. and honestly, it doesn't take much at all to not notice pain under pressure and injure yourself without feeling it. just training at high intensity is enough to realize, it's only afterward that you notice how you bumped or hurt yourself so many times.
the exercises i personally use and recommend are: knuckle pushups, bare knuckle on a sandbag (with controlled strength to not injure the wrist), and of course the holly muscle training to load dem' bones. i see no issue either with makiwara board as long as it goes hand in hand with "loading those fucking bones".
The implication, and potentially a belief of the monks themselves, is that the needle travels through the glass to pop the balloon. Since slow mo was invented, I don't think anyone has video evidence of a needle passing cleanly through glass, and proceed forward to pop the balloon. In every case I've seen, the balloon gets popped by bits of glass coming from the window pane as it cracks. The needle is probably beefier than you're expecting.
These are just Show Demos. However, they often prove certain points. In this instance, the point is to develop enough acceleration, to be able to get that glass to react like that. Even with that same needle... a lot of others attempting the same feat, likely would fail. I once met a kid that learned how to throw a standard playing card... so fast, that it could penetrate a melon. I tried the same... and couldnt even get the card to move half as fast, nor a quarter of the distance. It requires a LOT of specific training, to get to that level of capability... and that is the main Point of these Demos. Showing the body is capable of things that are sort of "Super-Human" ... compared to the Average Joe... and even most of the top Elite Athletes.
Of course, most of these Demos were designed to be Impressive and Mystical feats, to entice public Donations, to the Begging Monks of the Pre-Industrial Era of China. This practice was also done with many other arts... to try to get new students into their schools.
The headbutt at the end was a pain the likes of which I have never felt before in my life...
Monks are allowed to use lawn mowers but only 36 times a year
Hardening training is less about numbing or killing the nerves in your skin, it's more about 3 factors:
1. The more your central nervous system experiences a specific sort of pain or pain in a specific spot on your body, it starts toning down your pain reaction to it, so you feel it less painful
2. The raised amound of stress on your muscle, your ligaments, tendons and bone due to repeated impact will indeed cause your body to grow then stronger
3. It's a mixture of building mental fortitute and also pushing your commitement, kind of 'consumer satisfaction' or 'sunken cost'. If you decided to inflict pain on yourself, your barrier of 'nope, I'm out!' afterwards is raised significantly so it opens you mentally for harder, more intense training
While 1. and 2. are very long term things (compared to sore muscle healing up and being stronger afterwards, tendons and ligaments take weeks of repeated stress to grow and bones even month but even just 'simple' strength training will indeed lead to your bones becoming thicker and denser over month and years), 3 is a very short term thing which will indeed raise how invested you are.
The only actual Bone Conditioning science is Wolff's law, which states that bones grow stronger and bigger when under a load, IE strength training, Deadening the nerves is also a real thing
As for kicking your average banana tree, I would assume that as most of the documented fighters kicking trees are kind of skinny, that the resistance of the tree against their kicks also makes them a bit stronger overall, which is why it was popularized as "bone conditioning" (my own theory)
Just do your Squats, Presses and Pulls. IMO
You can also look into Ranton. He was a shaolin monk for 3 years, and in most of these videos that are marketed as "shaolin monks", they are infact not shaolin monks, they would be smaller school and disciplines from around the area who model themselves after the shaolin temple.
Read an humorous article about such schools and it stated that calling them "rowdy" would be understatement. Especially with relations with other schools which tended to be quite hot. As in local taxi driver hands out baseball bats when students of different schools meet. Just to make it more interesting. Also said that training is real tough.
11:46 I'm not the first person in the comments to mention this but yes, your body does adapt to repeated conditioning. Anybody who's exercised and experienced the plateau effect knows that. But that's about muscular microfractures. Bone microfractures are different. Essentially, it's you deadening your sensitivity to pain by destroying your pain receptors. You can't feel the pain? Then you can go harder. And that definitely affects you mentally.
There is actually a scientific way for bones to get not bigger but denser with small fractures, It's called "wolf's law" if i recall. does this training help do that? I don't know to me it looks like it would kill the nerves of the skin and maybe cause some internal bruising rather than strengthen the bones. But hey, I'm no expert.
Being wrist locked thousands of times causes micro fractures in the joint. Growing more bone in repair ( not beneficial). My radial bone is 5 mm longer than it should be and now causes issues.the micro fractures thing is real, but it is not always a goodthing
Dude they are Shaolin, your confusing them with the Amish. They can't use lawn mowers.
Honestly thought the basketball was real at first. Jesus!
You missed the point with the glass. The point of that exercise is to throw the needle through the glass WITHOUT breaking the glass. To throw it so perfectly straight that it creates a teeny tiny hole in the glass before popping the balloon
re the 36 reference, everything in chinese martial arts and Chinese medicine is based on the numbers 3,6,9 and multiples there of.
Imagine if David Goggins did conditioning of shins or something, bro would turn into steel
Ranton about to go totally nuts
Ranton is not an expert, he's a youtuber. Shi Heng Yi has actual legitimate training.
@@AztecUnshaven Ranton also has legitimate training, he lived and trained at the temple and was a full time, Shaolin Monk before beginning on youtube.
You are right to say he is not a master because he also says this, but he also has legitimate training.
Ranton had legitimate contemporary wushu training.
@@dashofdinosaur He spent most of his time doing modern wushu routines. Very different from old Shaolin combative methods or the Shaolin Sanda program.
By contrast, Shi Heng Yi has a wealth of experience with several real Shaolin boxing teachers that live outside the Temple, as well as cross training in Yang Taijiquan with Adam Mizner.
@AztecUnshaven Ranton can still provide legitimate insight into the practices of the temple and their programs, but you're also correct that he would not be considered an expert. The point is that it would be a fun collaboration between two martial arts content creators. No need to take it so seriously
To be honest, if you just going to crack jokes, it's less than alluring video.
I will pay $100 dollars for every man who tries balls kicking
Dammit Sensei😆had me thinkin ya had mad hoops for a sec
Much of Shaolin is made up from old stories and Chinese circus it is in large part tourist oriented with a dose of entertainment. There is little or no continuity or hardcore fight sessions as is the case with many Chinese martial arts.
Maybe Wu-Tang clan enter the 36 chambers? lol, j/k
The microfractures thing is totally true, there's a named medical principle for it (Wolff's Law.) I've heard some traditional practitioners claim not to believe this, and say they think it's only for deadening the nerves, and I think that these martial artists need to spend more time hitting rocks.
There are a couple karate practitioners I've trained with who had fingers like rail spikes. One of them, several of his students attested to having witnessed a time when a student tried to attack by surprise, and he reflexively responded with a spearhand that tore the guy's pectoral muscles, and EMTs had to cut the guy's shirt off. You don't get that from just deadening your nerves. Body conditioning can make a *huge* difference in a fight, but a lot of martial arts don't encourage that level of investment, because you could also just buy a knife on day one.
@@JoshuaRockyLizardi did you read his comment?
Seth, you could ask Jesse (the karate nerd), he was there and had done a video.
Micro fractures would be bad, but the regular impact will cause the body to grow denser bone and muscle tissue as well as deafening the nerves and adjusting the mind to pain itself (like building tolerance).
If you're going to start this kind of conditioning, listen to your body. Only go as hard as you feel comfortable, the tolerance for the pain will increase on it's own and you will be able to go harder at a later date. If you try to go too hard too fast you can injure yourself and this is definitely not the goal. And the conditioning doesn't last forever. Don't think you can take a break and come back to the same level, it is highly likely that you will sustain undesirable damage.
You need to collab with Ranton. He will tell you about ins and outs of shaolin
Seth, the balloon is on the other side of the glass so when it pops, you can tell the glass broke even though it’s clear and hard to see.
First, also;
I like that you're trying new martial arts, and watching others do them, as both a project and for your own personal growth! So many martial artists get pigeon holed into one thing and miss the beauty of what the wide variety of the world can give them. The advice the Shaolin practitioner gave is great and is a mindset more people need to keep in mind.
I got an ad when you got the sponsorship break, and when I came back you were doing your own coupon code break
sensei seth x ranton collab one day... dream like
What the hell is ecolinguist doing there lmao
Calcification, my dear Sensei, is quite the remarkable phenomenon indeed. It involves the accumulation of calcium within our precious body tissues, leading to a most intriguing consequence - the fortification of said tissues. Imagine this: when the delicate dance of damage and healing befalls our bones, not only do they mend, but they emerge even mightier at the very site of fracture. Quite the marvelous orchestration of nature's handiwork, wouldn't you agree?
I thought Shaolin was taken to China from India by a man named Batuo(Buddhabhadra in Sanskrit) and then a local king had created a monastery after he passed in his honor?
Yeah, I've read or heard similar. That's basically how Buddhism came to China, too. That was also the birthplace of zen Buddhism in China.
I'm not sure if you've ever had a kidney stone or abscessed tooth but those can hurt on a tier that is indescribable. I've had both, for the record.
I can give u an answer, by hitting or getting hit constantly, the skin that took the hit becomes sstimulated and starts to build up as counter measure against blunt trauma, so it becomes more thick. Its also a mental preparation yes and finally and most important, it somewhat kills your nerve cells at that area
Jesse trained under Shi Heng Yi and noticed how different the mechanics of Chinese martial arts, shaolin specifically, is compared to karate. Their conditioning training is absolutely brutal but definitely helps them develop their bodies to have what’s called the iron shirt.
Also, I attended a shaolin demonstration in Switzerland when I was 9-10 yrs old at the United Nations
How does seth not have youtube premium?
I trained Kali & JKD for 6 yrs and conditioned my shins knees and elbows with the Kali sticks, I train jiu jitsu now and when shin hits shin I definitely feel it less than other guy….thx for another fun video…👍🤓🫶🏻
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Important, bone hardening is not real.
There is not a single piece of evidence that supports that hitting things makes your bones stronger.
What really happens is that you can create internal injuries and these heal and create scar tissue, which is why you sometimes see people that do traditional bone hardening have bigger knuckles but the bone structure of the hand remains the same and more often than not fractures on hands for fighters happen on the middle of the palm on the las two metacarpals, so basically you wasted your time doing iron palm drills.
Also bones do not heal stronger after a fracture, this is a common misconception, it actually tends to become weaker, people think it makes bones stronger because like i said before there is internal scar tissue that occurs but that scar tissue goes away eventually.
Sometimes people trying to sound smarter will talk about osteoclast and osteoblast which are cells that eat away the bone and create new bone to try and explain why microfractures heal stronger but just by logic osteoblast would have to work double shifts to heal the microfracture and the damage of osteoclast so obviously wouldn't be able to keep up and you just end with weaker bones, so no a doctor will never say that microfractures make bones stronger.
However you can make bones stronger and thats through strength training, osteoporosis research shows that the condition happens when osteoclast outnumbers osteoblast but strength training has been shown to increase the number of osteoblast cells and reduce the natural decline of these cells through age.
Unfortunately getting stronger bones is only possible until your late 20, once you hit 30 you can only slow down the natural deterioration of your bones.
Because sensei seth has a lifetime experience in martial art he obviously has bone density higher than average.
Exercises proven to strengthen bones include strength training like weights and calisthenics, running moderate distances (marathon runners tend to have bone density lower than average), sprinting and plyometrics, all things that martial artists happen to do a lot of.
People might say that thais hit bags a lot for conditioning and is like they also run a ton and since very young, ofcourse they will have strong shins.
Ofcourse you need to hit things as a martial artist but thats to work on your technique and combos, if you want stronger bones you need to hit the weights harder.
A couple of traditional kung fu exercises that are actually great for your hand bone density is gripping jars and catching bags, one is a strength exercise and the other is almost a plyometric exercise for your grip.
No sir. You can lift weights all you want, but if you ever meet someone like Sifu Buck Sam Kong or Pan Qingfu, you'd understand that Iron Palm and forearm/knuckle conditioning is a way different thing than just strength training.
@@AztecUnshaven sorry i don't take anecdotes as evidence.
@@AztecUnshaven sorry i don't take anecdotes as evidence.
@@Eri587 There's ample evidence of Pan Qingfu's acts vs Triad members. He worked with police "SWAT" equivalents and was known as the Gangbuster of China. Massively dense hands and fists. Absolutely not the same as just "weight training".
*citation needed*
I'd be curious to see what Ranton has to say about this video. You two should do a collab!
Monks can totally use lawn mowers, lol. Good question.
You mentioned the "downstairs mixup" clearly an "ol greg" Boosh reference. I love that!
The 36 chambers also alludes to the meridians and pressure points in your body. Allegedly, if the "touch-of-death" were real, there are 36 spots in the body that it can be applied to. I understand that pressure points aren't that impressive but a lot of it was also translation issues. If someone calls your groin "one of the chambers of death" you could laugh out loud, but if they use the old "Monkey Steals the Peach" move, it's not gonna sound funny anymore.
"Touch of Death" (Dim Mak) is a phrase that Outsiders (non martial artists) likely came up with... When witnessing a short range, relaxed, Finger Strike. To the outsider... from a distance.. it just looked like a Touch. Also... while many people know the positions to hit (including many Fraudsters), you NEED a special kind of power delivery method called "Fajin" in order to be able to do enough internal damages, for this to actually function / work. Fajin basically translates to "Explosive Power". The ability to deliver your full body mass energy... into something like a 16 th of a Second time-frame. Such a skill is not intuitive nor easy to develop... and most think its Fantasy, so do not even attempt it (nor seek out how to do it).
I developed Masterclass levels of Fajin... and Ive used it to KO fighters... only ever using about 15% of what I was capable of Delivering (via a short range, 6 inch, Vertical fist to their foreheads). I never DARED to use Fajin with a finger strike... as its just too dangerous, even at minimal levels of output (But I DID condition my fingers well, to be capable of using it.. IF I was ever attacked for real). You see, the finger having much less surface area than the Fist, can dive much deeper into the OPs tissues (before the skin becomes too tight to allow anything deeper). A Fajin strike with a fist is easily lethal enough.. but the finger strike takes it to a whole other level...
The fingerstrikes are used (instead of fist) because they have a longer reach.. and can pinpoint a very specific target point. These are often heavy bloodflow areas, and or where areas of Nerve bundles are located. The effects can be anything from a Temporary numbing (unable to move for a few seconds), to the tissues being so Enraged that they greatly swell up... and cause bloodlow circulation issues. Of course, if you use full potentials... then you can actually Rupture blood carrying vessels, and or organs. Sometimes you hit multiple points in rapid succession... to compound the circulation issues... making it a much quicker lethal end... rather than a longer and more drawn out... situation. Or course, there are also nerve points which can cause all sort of issues with overloading the brains senses... which can cause irregular heart beats, possible heart stopping, knockouts, having trouble breathing, and much more.
Translation issues indeed. Like the vibrating palm, it doesn't mean to vibrate one's palm, it just means that energy transfers from the palm...hence being called a vibration. Nothing mystical about it, just energy transfer. Edit* what you call Fajin I was told was Jing, the explosive transfer of energy. No matter what the move, whether it's a kick or a grapple, commit to the motion and explode with energy, that is the Jing I was taught in Traditional Chinese Martial Arts.
@@volentipugnum4045 Ive heard Fajin also be called "Fajing". Whatever the case, its highly concentrated vibrational energy.
If you watch Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang of Chen family Tai Chi do a "Fajin" demonstration... you will notice that when he "Expresses" (in the air)... that his entire body shakes violently. Even after his issue, his legs are still seem shaking from the excess vibrational energy release.
But yes, you are correct. Nothing Mystical about it. All physical events... just very specialized attributes + a very different Delivery mechanism.
Its somewhat similar to a Guitar. When you pluck the strings... they Vibrate. Or if you quickly pulled a cable taught. Instead, you are doing the same thing.. but with your muscles and tissues... at a very precise timing, and with very specially developed attributes... causing a massive full body mass vibrational effect.
I trained in Shaolin, specifically Hua Quan. I can answer some questions.
A lot of the time, they theatrics are for training only, the idea is to go to the most extreme place with any technique because if you can do it flawless at its most extreme version, you can do the practical version in a blink. So for example, a bicycle kick, or double front kick, you would train to jump, and kick as high as humanly possible while keeping form. And than you would learn to channel that into the practical version which is a very rapid, double front kick, where your shoulders shouldn't budge from their original position, with both kicks, impacting while the other is planted for maximum force.
Shi has also some nice TED talks and been on German television a bit. I like his work a lot eventhough I am nowadays in the Wudang-corner. But I always enjoy mixing in some Shaolin, karate or something else from time to time.
By the way, I'm not sure that the pain to be achieved by the cupboard door is the same as the pain from the fasces, but I could be mistaken. Could be like the difference of being hit with arnies or a shinai perhaps?
What most people know as Zen Buddhism originated from Shaolin where it is referred to as Chan Buddhism. What makes Chan Buddhism unique from other Buddhist denominations/sects is it's influenced by Taoism, which is an inherently Chinese religion. Multiples of three are important in Taoism due to their cosmological beliefs relating to the Genesis of the universe where "The one became two, the two became three, and the three became the 10,000 things" (10,000 in Chinese tradition is a number that represents infinity essentially). Idk if there're any further significance involved with the number 36 but that's what I've learned from my studies thus far. I've read stuff about 36 Tian (heavens) and the number 3 and 6 being used to represent yin and yang, but I think those are more effect than cause.
I second that raise for the editor that was PIFF🔥🔥🔥🔥
10:58 comment. 36... Right,, not making fun...there are a few particular reps 18, 24(it happens), 36!! ( yeh! buddy!!), and 200... Yes just skip 100 there are none, if you're not doing 36.. Her doing 200.-Ernie Moore Jr.
I' m looking at this for your sincere it makes sense to you...long time consuming stuff might get shorter numbers.-Ernie Moore Jr.
Well-Spring fist and "Leg in the Sky" are both 200's...but its two hundred Each! side. war is hitting something stone or brick hard from a flexibility building stable stance good horses riding (feet parallel please thighs almost ground parallel that the target....-Ernie Moore Jr.
L I t S seems to be a willful lifting of the leg front and up and forced controlled lowering. -Ernie Moore Jr.
Bro, just fistbump a hotshot/tough guy; if he looks back, sometimes he just says it, he'll say with his eyes, "damn, you got a hard fist" and that removes the question of whether or not you can trust yourself when you say this stuff makes your bones harder.
You can also hear the reverse of this happening to astronauts who spend too much time in space; not only do their muscles atrophy and need physical therapy to walk on earth again, but they also have weaker bones cause they're not being regularly conditioned by having weight on them.
It may or may not be micro-fractures specifically, but biology designed us to adapt to whatever we do, and if that requires harder bones, it'll happen. Or our bones will break cause we started at 10 instead of 1.
You probably know of karate kata that are related to 36 - Sanseiru (translates roughly to 36 hands), Sepai (18 hands), Suparimpei (108 hands) all relate to the number 108 which other have pointed out is significant in Buddhism.
36 Chambers of Shaolin is a great movie. You should watch it Seth. You ask whether 36 is a coincidental number. No it´s not. I bet the number 36 has something to do with the 36 skills of the ninja. In the movie a student gets so disappointed when they talk about the 36 chambers, and he later discovers that there isn´t any 36th chamber. Then the desire to create the 36th chamber grows in him.
It always kills me to hear "Modern" martial artists Spew such utter Ignorance about Traditional Conditioning. ESPECIALLY those that have train in Muay Thai.. where they kick each other in the Legs, with heavy forces, constantly. Its not the Heavy bag that is getting you that level of ability and density. Its all of those Bone to Bone clashes. Your "BIT" where you hit a flat board says it all, about your awareness of the Physics involved. Hitting a small round diameter object, is going to be much more impactful than hitting a flat board.. as the smaller diameter impact a very specific small area... concentrating the forces. Where as the wider surface helps to Disperse / Spread the impact forces through the entire arm. Its not as concentrated... and so the results would be far less effective.. .especially if your arms ends up hitting at off-angles with each impact.
The Monks hand-pressure bone smoothing.. is kinda weak... and probably not Authentic. I use a standard kitchen Rolling Pin, to roll my Shins smooth. The reason for rolling the bones smooth... is that when you clash with someones leg... the HIGHEST parts of your bones would get most of the impact forces... and that would be MUCH more painful, and likely do more impact damages to yourself. As such, you want your bones to be as smooth as possible. With the Rolling pin, you can apply enough pressure to crush down some of the smaller bone bumps, that were often results of you falling into something... or being kicked in the legs... creating an uneven surface. It also helps to stimulate tissue and bone density, as well as increase circulation.
For my arms, the dummy is decent... but since I didnt have one at home... I used a 4" diameter metal pipe, and "Impact Grinded" all sides of my arms. I also made a custom free-handing sandbag from a pantleg, of a pair of Jeans. It was wrapped tightly in Duct tape, and had Zero "Give". The lightest of taps of your shins against it, was like kicking a solid Rock.
Anyway... Its funny that the same people whom are impressed with Muay Thai shin conditioning... will make fun of full Iron Body conditioning. You, yourself... have felt a Wing Chun teachers arms... that felt like Hardwood... and he was being "Nice" using very little force, and causing you to reel away in pain from some light Taps of those Iron Arms. And I doubt that he is doing the full Iron conditioning routines... just merely all of his typical bone to bone interactions with others.
Of course, Iron Body conditioning, is not just about conditioning the fist. It also develops soft tissue areas, like the Throat. For one of my Demos... I chop my own throat about 7 times in a row... as Fast and as Hard as possible. I do not choke, nor is there any bruising. This is critical to combat... in which a heavy chop could crush your windpipe. Yes, there are changes in Bone density... but also, in the Tissues that protect.. and ultimately strengthen the bones that they surround. Much like how your "Wrapped Wrists", help to prevent them from breaking... and even when they do end up breaking... the tight wrap will act like a Cast... allowing the fighter to keep fighting within too much issue. If you broke your bone in a real barefist fight... and didnt have such wrap on... you would likely be in some serious trouble.
Ive head that other than the possible use of canvas Sandbags... Some of the original Monks used to hit large paper books, mounted to a flat rock wall. The paper allows a minimum amount of absorption, before it becomes hard as wood... as all of that impact force gets put back into your own body... challenging your entire structure.. from Fist to Feet. No heavy bag training can even come close to comparing with Proper wall mounted Sandbag training.
Finally... realize that durring the Commie takeover of China... the REAL Shaolin Temple was Burned down. Many of the monks either Fled, or were Executed. When the commies released their +60 ban on the practice of any Combat arts... They rebuilt the Temple, mostly as a Tourist Attraction. A way to get more Foreign money. However, when they went to staff the Temple... they only found ONE remaining Monk. He was over 80 yrs old, and was deemed unfit to teach. So, most of what is being taught there, was cobbled together from various sources / arts. Likely full of holes, misinterpretations, and even intentional corruptions. You are far more likely to find Authentic Shaolin outside of China... as many of the Monks likely fled into Taiwan, and later... places like USA. Of course, now you have these Fake Monks... coming to the US, to teach their Fake Shaolin methods. Many of them likely not even knowing that they learned a fake version of the original art.
@YesTheory seems like a channel based on "Type II Fun" - something that isn't fun while it's happening, but is in retrospect.
My first mma gym had a wingchun instructor, and we did that partner forearm conditioning.
As for the lawnmower, idk if they can either, but in theory, even though the machine is doing the cutting, the person still has to push/pull/guide it in the direction required, and they can have a rough vibration that can tire muscles over extended periods. The main issue would be maintenance and gasoline. But if its easily accessible for tourists, im sure a mechanic can keep it maintained.
12:00. The idea follows the principle of wollf's law and also acts as means to slowly increase pain tolerance on these limbs. Though, lifting heavy things and hitting things hard will increase bone density (wolff's law) much more. Body conditioning is really better on places where you can disperse a force across a larger area, IE the shin should be conditioned as kicking heavy bags will distribute the force across the hips and muscular legs.
Genuinely the most painful thing I've ever experienced, which I'm not sure a lot of people have but if you know, you know is a Dental Abscess. Literally cripplingly painful
I've listened to a few speeches and conversations with Shi Heng Yi, and they're all informative and inspirational
In the daoist philosophy, 36 is the ultimate Yin number (from yin and yang) while 81 is the ultimate Yang number.
Wolff's law, per Google if you want to know under what name to make medical queries:
"This effect is called Wolff's Law. It states that our bones become thicker and stronger over time to resist forces placed upon them and thinner and weaker if there are no forces to act against. This principle is important for preventing injuries. A thicker bone is harder to break."
Imagine how an archer's skeleton is changed... That said, there are probably some techniques that are more "abusive" than necessary, though that's totally subjective to the practitioner and the culture. You also need a balanced approach to modern life with iron bone training; you wouldn't want to be permanently crippled with a really good club hand that is useless for anything that requires dexterity. It also has to be constantly maintained; if you stop, your bones get weak again.
Monks are allowed to use tools, just generally not own them outside of small hand tools. This depend sheavily on Buddhist sect, and besides the Shaolin Monestary is not your normal religious focus monestary, even as far as Chan (Chinese Zen) goes. At least afaik - Watch some of Ranton's vids for that context but yeah.
11:13 Just like with weights. You can choose to not lift heavy weights and only lift comfortable weight in order to avoid sourness. It's the same principle that you have to apply to your bones. You have to stress them enough to cause hyper compensation and growth but not overdo it and cause inflammation of the periosteum. Bone augmentation is good, inflamations - bad. It's good for your health in general. Stimulates blood circulation within bone marrow. And since bone marrow is where the blood cells are generated breathing is very important to fill these blood cells with oxygen. Hence the practice of qi gong they're doing. Chinese martial arts are briliant.
36 is a very important number in numerology and Chinese beliefs in it I'm told. Multiples of 3,6,9 etc
About the bones growing stronger because of stress (not even micro fractures but any kind of mechanical force applied), it's kind of the opposite of what happens to astronauts on the ISS.
Still wb ones talked about skin conditioning being the really important part.
Nobody can diss Shi Heng Yi. No matter what youtuber that react, interviews him, or visit him, everyone get something positive and cool out if it. And i find that refreshing.
I would almost be sure that if it was any other from harf2hurt, Andrew Tate, to chael sonnen.. nobody would feel like it was a waste of their time.
Thanks for the video Seth. 🙏👊
Hayabusa is expensive, I wish I got your discount before I bought mine lol
Not nerves, not micro fractures. Tis fear that conditioning removes. not mental fear, subconscious fear that resides in the body itself.
If there's one thing that can be taken from Kung Fu is that the conditioning in insane
People underestimate tf out of showlin monk training but it is absolutely brutal but exremely beneficial and in my opinion this training mixxed with effective martial arts like maui thai kickboxxing wrestling bjj and judo and someone would be a absolute unit just unbreakable and an extremely well rounded fighter with insane body control and endurance
If you wanna delve more into Shaolin you GOTTA do a colab with Ranton man! DEW IT!
Real Shaolin King Fu teaches you how to condition your body and to ignore extreme levels of stress, pain and exhaustion. If you train 4 to 6 hours a day at least 6 days a week you will notice your endurance, strength and skill level increase more quickly. It takes dedication, it's not a sport, it's lifetime commitment to better yourself.