| ntinued from Iron Palm Q&A With Sigung | | | | Q. How do you keep young or beginning students |
| Richard Clear Part 7 | | | | from doing permanent damage to their hands? |
| One of the tests for this involves the use of a | | | | A. Our training method described above is |
| thick phone book. The receiving student holds the | | | | designed specifically to avoid this from ever being |
| phone book over their belly and the striking | | | | a problem while giving the practitioner Internal Iron |
| student hits the phone book and their palm print | | | | Palm and energy skills that they can use for the |
| has to appear on the receiving student’s | | | | rest of their life. |
| belly. Healing methods for many of the energetic | | | | Q. How long does it take to master your |
| strikes are included. Once you learn how you | | | | system? |
| actually practice the strikes and healing energy | | | | A. Specific aspects and methods of training in |
| and methods for these by practicing the Tai Chi | | | | isolation can be mastered quite quickly. However, |
| set and Push Hands which makes it sound simpler | | | | the full curriculum requires many dedicated years |
| than it is because it is quite a bit to learn and it | | | | of training to complete. |
| takes a lot of work, patience and diligent practice | | | | Q. What kind of jow do you use and what is the |
| while you are being guided/advised by a | | | | history behind it? |
| competent teacher to get it right. | | | | A. Lee sold a personal family recipe liniment |
| Q. Do you do anything differently than other | | | | appropriately called Lee’s Liniment that |
| systems to teach their iron palm method? | | | | was advertised in many of his original books |
| A. I have not met anyone else in the United | | | | during the 1960’s and included in |
| States who trains their Iron Palm in the manner | | | | subsequent printings all the way up until at least |
| and progression I have described to you above. | | | | the 1980’s. |