subject: Mad Monkey Kung Fu and a Seriously Hard Punch! [print this page] Mad Monkey Kung Fu and a Seriously Hard Punch!
Back in the seventies there was this really slick movie called Mad Monkey Kung Fu, and it was a hoot. Ninjas twirling out of trees, the hero gets his fists busted up and then pounds them in iron pellets so he can have a serious hard punch, beats the villain, and the horse rides off into the sunset.
But, there was a training drill in that movie that impressed me. You hit a wall with your spear hand, then, without pulling back the hand, just going forward, you strike it with your second set of knuckles, then, without pulling back, just going forward, you strike the wall with your fist.
Bang! Bang! Bang! And the theory is that somebody might be able to toughen up their body for the first spear, maybe even the second half punch, but by the third strike...his macrocosmic orbit is going to give way and you gots yourself a case of serious dead meat!
Hah!
Now, I started practicing this stupid movie martial arts drill. I hit the walls and started denting them, so I set up punching board, or used a kicking bag, and kept going. And, the odd thing...it started to actually work!
No. I didn't do the triple strike and kill a thug, but my fists started getting tougher without all the knuckle juice that dim mak people try to get you to buy.
And, I used to tell my kids that they could go out to the movies if they could knuckle bust' me. I extended a fist, and they would hit it with their little knuckles, and if I didn't want the kids to go out...grin. My fists just kept getting tougher and tougher, and I ended up with the hardest punch, too. Man, it was a blast.
