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Monk smashes iron bar over head
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Meet the monks who put mind over matter - this is definately not something you'll want to try at home.
Bill Hill


Isn't the science behind these mashal-art acts- that Bone is like Honeycomb..?

So, if you keep hitting it, over time..the honeycomb like structure is squashed down until it's as hard as stone.


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Legatus Legionis
definitely cool though.
Lotus Flower
Back in the mid 90s I saw the Shaolin Monks in London in an exhibition. They smashed iron bars over their heads, across their shins, wacked thick pieces of wood up into their privates and never flinched. It really had to be seen to be believed.

In this exhibition was a five year old who was in training, I am wondering if he is the same person that featured in the video in the original posting. I remember them saying when I saw the exhibition that it took a great many years of chi-gung training before they could even move on to the iron-bar stuff.

All I can say is I would not like to get on the wrong side of them laugh.gif
Legatus Legionis
QUOTE (Lotus Flower @ Dec 14 2007, 09:42 AM) *
Back in the mid 90s I saw the Shaolin Monks in London in an exhibition. They smashed iron bars over their heads, across their shins, wacked thick pieces of wood up into their privates and never flinched. It really had to be seen to be believed.

In this exhibition was a five year old who was in training, I am wondering if he is the same person that featured in the video in the original posting. I remember them saying when I saw the exhibition that it took a great many years of chi-gung training before they could even move on to the iron-bar stuff.

All I can say is I would not like to get on the wrong side of them laugh.gif


Well YEAH! if they beat you up. they would have taken you into heaven in one or two punches.
Lotus Flower
QUOTE (Legatus Legionis @ Dec 14 2007, 01:49 AM) *
Well YEAH! if they beat you up. they would have taken you into heaven in one or two punches.

They would probably breathe on me and I would have a cardiac! laugh.gif
tigger
that reporter is a condescending pig just quietly
Lotus Flower
QUOTE (tigger @ Dec 14 2007, 02:22 AM) *
that reporter is a condescending pig just quietly

I shouldn't think that worried the monks, they probably felt sorry for him laugh.gif
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QUOTE (Billy of the Hill @ Dec 14 2007, 02:07 AM) *
Isn't the science behind these mashal-art acts- that Bone is like Honeycomb..?

So, if you keep hitting it, over time..the honeycomb like structure is squashed down until it's as hard as stone.


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That's exactly right yes.

The martial art i attended, we had to roll these sticks over our shinbones all the time, to harden the bone slowly. Several years later you can break a baseballbat with your shinbone and hardly feel it.

We also had to run around outside in the snow, barefoot, bleeding from cuts and cold as hell. If you're persistant you can regulate when you want to recieve "pain signals" from the brain.
crtbud
QUOTE (tigger @ Dec 13 2007, 09:22 PM) *
that reporter is a condescending pig just quietly

Yep... it was quiet but thick
Mia Camille
that hurt me just watching that...
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