Monk smashes iron bar over head

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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.

[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

[Legatus Legionis]

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

Well YEAH! if they beat you up. they would have taken you into heaven in one or two punches.

[Lotus Flower]

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!

[tigger]

that reporter is a condescending pig just quietly

[Lotus Flower]

that reporter is a condescending pig just quietly

I shouldn't think that worried the monks, they probably felt sorry for him

[III]

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.

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.

Edited December 14, 2007 by III

[crtDzyn]

that reporter is a condescending pig just quietly

Yep... it was quiet but thick

[Mia Camille]

that hurt me just watching that...