Warming Up for Kung Fu Iron Palm

Video Transcript

"Ladies and gentlemen, in this clip I'm going to show you how to train your Iron Palm. Okay. Now any other exercise you want to loosen your whole body. So first, I'm going to show you how, you need to jog for awhile. In Shaolin we usually jog about fifteen to twenty minutes before we doing any kind of exercise. Then we're going to stretch out. Okay. Arm swing is very important in practicing the Iron Palm. So you don't want your hands to be stiff so you want to loosen up your palm, your hands and your arms before practicing. So once, we do a hour swing. Okay. Totally rotate this for fifteen to twenty times or fifty times, depend on how long you can let, you can do it. And whatever you do to one side, do to the other. Okay. Okay. So this is the hour's arm swing. Now we're going to do the opposite. Inward Arm Swing. Okay. We're going to switch. Okay. That's one of the basics. Another one is we rotate our arms. So this is basically to loosen up the hands. And the other way. Okay. We want to shake all our hands. Okay. We want to do some Arm Swing to it in order to loosen up the whole body. So arm swing one, two, three, four, five. Okay. Switch. One, two, three, four, five. Okay. You also want to jog and loosen it up, stretching out the legs, okay. Okay stretching out the legs and do some basic stretching. Okay. Basic stretching. This is to loosen the legs and the arms to prepare for you to do the Iron Palm. And ladies and gentlemen, this is a preparation for the Iron Palm."