Favorite Lien Gung and Isolated Techniques

[TenTigers]

ok, so taking off from the other thread, we agreed that a training regimen of lien gung and isolated techniques form an excellent foundation, and also help more seasoned practitioners break through plateaus. So let's share our favorite ones:

Lien Gung drills:
I just bought a set of mok yee pai, and considering Hop Ga looks at this as being one of their most important training methods for developing the long arm punches, it is going to be one of my main drills.

Jars-not just holding, but bending and flexing the wrist foward and back while gripping-with just the tips of the fingers, not simply by gripping with the last digit. Also try it with turning your wrist so your hand is sideways(like a Northern Eagle claw)and raising and lowering it with just your wrist.

Bamboo Dividing-holding your arms inside of two vertically held rattaan staves-palms down, and rotating them foward and outward, while turning them slowly over to palm down. Also do this on the outside of the staves, bringing your bridge inward.

Belt-Cracking Drills-stolen from Shuai Jiao-really develop the short power and the grip.

Separate Techniques:
Bow stance,ping choy, shifting into Side Horse, yat ji choy.

Side Horse Gwa Choy, shifting into Bow Stance, Ping Choy.

Side horse Kiu Sau(but stepping with the rear foot from 6:00 to 5:00 to do so) and then shifting into bow stance for the ping choy. This helps teach angling footwork, rather than a retreating step.

The section in GGFFK going foward, after the Unicorn and horse section.
I like the rising and falling, foward and back movement. I also practice it, not going foward and back, but foward, and foward.
(The cut and chin ji sao section especially)

[Asmo]

Cool idea TT

My favourites:

lin gung

-Pushups on the knuckles, elbow touching ribs all the way.
-In Sei ping ma punches while holding weights (and on the heavy bag)
-saam sing (although I do it with an iron tube, much like sharif sifu once showed on a youtube vid)
-static horse for 10 minutes (today was 1st time able to hold it for the whole 10 minutes, wheehaaa. took me 3/4 year)
- gung gee fook fu kuen, hold each posture for 3 breaths. Occasionally with rings too.

techniques

-my infamous 6 ging exercises. They are 6 totally different drills. Doing each 10x slow, then 10x fast. (might up a new video some day with the ones I do now, they keep changing)
-Franky's bagform (with wrist weights its a nice endurance training as well)
-the heart of fuhok (tiger, crane & long arms)
-fook fu kuen

My daily session consists on the stuff above. Like mentioned in the other thread the lin gung power is mixed. One day the legs, the next the arms, etc.
Once a week I go to the school where I lead a small sparring class. Thats now silent for the summer however (blah).
Then I go out a few times a week with my son to the woods, the park, etc and I bring weapons etc and go do forms. Only then I do the whole of GGFFK and FHSYK fast too.
In time I'd love to get back to iron palm again as well. Got in huge probs with my neighbors so this has to wait until we live in some other place (no plans to move right now...).

[PM]

lin gung

- claws: finger pushups ("iron ox ploughs the field")
- kiu sau: da saam sing, pulling the rattan ring
- fists: sandbag
- palms: iron palm (recently very intensivelly)
- kicks: not training them much recently
- general strenghtening: pull-ups/pull-ups with weights, one leg squats, kettlebells (swing, clean and press, snatch), gymnastic rings, sap ying kyun/tit sin kyun

saan sik

- jin cheui, ping cheui, jin cheui
- palm up, jin cheui down
- lin waan chau da cheui/gaap muk cheui
- po paai sau
- palm up, stomp kick
- palm up, fu mei geuk to the knee/waist

[Asmo]

What's lin waan chau da cheui/gaap muk cheui PM?

[PM]

fuk fu kyun, 1st section (14th sesction of gjffk), block and strike, just after the keui leun bou/wu dip jeung sequence

[Frank Bolte]

[Asmo]