Moderate/minor skin abrasions and bruises. Is it best to temporarily stop training until the injuries heal?
Thanks
Moderate/minor skin abrasions and bruises. Is it best to temporarily stop training until the injuries heal?
Thanks
Bruises are commonplace, that is what the jow is for (bruise wise) BUT cuts and abrasions you have to be careful as getting some types of Jow into your blood can be dangerous and typical IP Jow is the type that you do NOT want getting into your blood.
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Hi, new here. First post. If jow is potentially dangerous. Is it even needed for iron palm training?
I've read some say yes and some say now. I have James Sinclaires Wing Chun videos. And he said even brandy is usable. Something about jow is primarily used to dry the skin. Ive read others say it is for circulation. Ive read one guy say Absorbine is about the same as jow.
So, jow or no jow for Iron Palm training?
Jow is crucial and not just ANY Jow but jow designed for iron Palm training.
I have experimented with and without Jow and, even though this is anecdotal of course, the difference were quite noticeable:
With IP JOW:
Healing / recovery was faster
Deformation/swelling was not noticeable
Sensitivity was not compromised
Circulation increased.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
Crucial may be a bit more strong of a word than I'd use. But beneficial, yes. Highly recommended, yes.
Physiologically, the effects on the body aren't unique to IP training, its just more focusing on that result. How were you parameterizing your results? Maybe a couple more here could attempt to reproduce it if interested. If I can convince about 10 of you then I'll run some stats in a couple years and see if I can't work a publication. I'll give yall co-authorship, of course
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Thank you very much fellows. Appreciated. Thanks for the links.
I used crucial because, well, without it your progress will be hampered. It will go slower and you could damage your hands.
With Jow I never had to take any time off because of bruising or pain.
With Jow my hands don't look banged up and whatnot.
Its not that you can't do IP without it, you most certainly can BUT your progress will be slower and you will lose time due to bruising and your hands will be more "marked".
Now, I had done old school karate conditioning for years before I started IP and my hands showed it BUT after a couple of years of IP and using the jow, my hands became far better.
Sure there are some tell tale signs still but nothing like it was before.
I have noticed that the people that use the same type of Jow that I use, their hands are also pretty good (Chicoine's students come to mind), we don't have the "swollen" or "deformed" look that some IP people have.
I believe that has to do with the Jow.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
Sanjuro, do you follow Chicoines IP methods? If so, did you train with him, or one of his students? Or , through his IP video?