johnwang wrote:I try not to depend on theory and I try not to assume. I use my fist, palm edge to hit on heavy bag. I don't use the back of my hook hand to do that. If I have never used the back of my hook hand to knock down any opponent, I won't count it as my "door guarding" move.
We trained so that anything hit was damaged with any part of the hand...
I have knots on the back of my hands from hitting things....the first one from accidentally being blocked by an elbow which I followed up with training to insure that it would not be a weakness. As you mention nothing should be left to theory....very much agree with this line of thought.
Even after all these yrs I still have calluses on the first joint after the fist knuckle on all fingers from training long ago. This was trained as raking
type of strike...typically used with what we called an over hand.
"Going through another door one would enter into the main training room with a large Army duffel bag filled with sand hanging by a chain. The bag must have weighed three hundred pounds and was hard as a rock.
Touching it I wondered what one would do with such a bag the canvas was very course and as I would find out very unforgiving if one hit off center. Blood stains left by those who had, later I would add my own…
https://journeytoemptiness.com/2017/06/23/mike-staples/In mantis there are equally hard types of training as with any CMA that is used for fighting . Whether this is healthy in the long run is debatable,
something I sometimes wonder about now...
The training a little different back then was designed to weed out those who couldn't get it or make it through it.
The objective was different not based so much on a health aspect.