Phillip Starr Iron Palm Training Manual – PDF DOWNLOAD

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Phillip Starr Iron Palm Training Manual – PDF DOWNLOAD

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Phillip Starr Iron Palm Training Manual – PDF DOWNLOAD

Language : English
Pages : 130
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Phillip Starr Iron Palm Training Manual – PDF DOWNLOAD

Title Page 5
Copyright 6
Dedication 8
Acknowledgments 9
Preface 10
A Beginning: The First Hundred Days 11
1: What Is the Iron Palm? 12
The Authentic Iron Palm 12
Getting Ready 14
2: The First Hundred Days (Part One) 21
Let’s Hit It! 21
Get Corny! 24
The Silent Teacher 26
3: The First Hundred Days (Part Two) 31
The Weighted Rod 31
The Rolling Stick 34
Put a Sock in It! 36
Auxiliary Exercises 37
4: Developing Slapping Power 41
Put in Some Elbow Grease! 41
Stick It Out! 43
Strike Like a Human Tiger 45
The Thrust 47
5: Going Back to Your Roots 49
Riding the Horse 49
The Bow-and-Arrow Stance 50
6: Basic Body Actions 53
The Body Action of “Down” 53
The Body Action of “Rotation” 55
Reverse Rotation 56
7: Brewing Your Own Medicine 59
Making Your Own Iron Palm Medicine 59
Applying the Medicine 60
8: Basic Long-Breath Qigong Exercise 61
9: The Microcosmic Orbit Breathing Exercise 64
Beginning the Practice 65
Getting the Point 66
The Microcosmic Orbit Breath 69
10: Standing Qigong Practice 72
Push to the Front 72
Push to the Sides 74
Push Palms Down 75
On the Path: The Second Hundred Days 77
11: The Second Hundred Days 78
Changing the Bag 78
A Bucketful of … 79
Thy Rod and Thy Stick 80
Auxiliary Exercises 80
12: Whip It 83
13: Preliminary Tests 90
A Couple of Times Around the Block 90
The Brick 93
Knock on Wood 94
14: The Macrocosmic Orbit Breath 97
Stage 1 97
Stage 2 98
Stage 3100
Practice with the Postures101
The Final Phase103
15: The Final Frontier104
16: Advanced Assessments109
Strike the Hard Through the Soft109
Strike the Soft Through the Hard109
17: Myth Busting112
18: Instructions for Building a Striking Post114
What You’ll Need114
Constructing the Base114
The Post115
Making a Pad115
Conclusion117
About The Author118
Also By119
About North Atlantic Books120

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Phillip Starr Iron Palm Training Manual – PDF DOWNLOAD

Preface:

• More moons than I can count have passed since I undertook training in the Iron Palm under my teacher, the late sifu W. C. Chen. He had learned the art from his shaolinquan teacher, whose surname was Hou. In those days (1965), Iron Palm was virtually unknown in the West.
• When the first martial arts magazines came into existence, they made no mention of this arcane art. It was discovered in the West many years later, probably due to the numerous gong-fu B movies that inspired so many American youngsters.
• Even so, much of the information that was disseminated by the celluloid heroes of those days and the up-and-coming martial arts media was grossly incorrect. But nobody knew any better, and many young martial arts devotees threw themselves into what they thought was genuine Iron Palm training.
• And they paid for it with their hard-earned cash as well as numerous injuries, some of which were permanent.
• Today, there are a few teachers of the genuine Iron Palm, but their numbers are quite small; even many Chinese martial arts enthusiasts were taken in by the popular martial arts films of yesteryear, and they began training in what they erroneously believed was Iron Palm.
• One of my students suggested that I write a book on the subject. What I know about the subject is what I learned from my teacher, Master W. C. Chen. This book is a presentation of that material.

G.B 04/04/25