Question about a martial art style?

Question

my friend keeps telling me about this art that he studied (and mastered i guess) where the focus is to turn your body into a sort of sword where you attack Thh chops andspear handd type attacks.

i honestly doubt he knows much about martial arts due to a few things he talks about and says. for example he says he's been hit by a car 5-10 times and walked away without a scratch cause he devised aspeciall way to roll over the car.

but anyway i'm interested in this art because ur suppose to attack very hard points of the body with a spear hand attack (hand open and striking with the fingers (i always thought these strikes were for more vulnerable areas like the neck)) and i was wondering how they might strengthen there fingers, if this is even true. he called it bushido, but i looked it up and found out it was a code of honor, like chivalry.

so that leaves two options:

1. he made this up to try and seem cool but really has no idea what hes talking about. or maybe he still doesnt know what he's talking about, but it is a real art that he "adopted" to still seem cool, but couldn't remember the name so he improvised

2. i spelt it wrong

so i really would like to know if this is real. and if its real could some tell me the name and all the other juicy details thanks.

Answer 1

1. It is made up.

2. Maybe he meant Bullshido.

While there are spearhand attacks, it is hardly swordlike or better than a punch.

Mainly because you are counting on small joints to withstand the impact that large bones, and a lot of mass are putting behind it. While it has some application, most of it isn't practical. People will talk about spearhanding the throat or something..

Failing to realize that chance of successfully landing that are slim, and that they are more likely to encounter bone as a person defends it, and end up breaking their own fingers.

For Darwin's sake, I suggest you ask him to show you his car rolling trick, and then give a practical demonstration on some bricks of his art.

Seriously your buddy is full of c**p.

Answer 2

I think your friend is full of ape dung but there are training methods for strengthening the fingers. They're time consuming and possibly dangerous, but they're out there. There used to be an Okinawan master whose fingers were all the same length from years of jamming them into sand and rocks but I can't remember his name. Crane and Snake kung fu use a lot of finger strikes.

Answer 3

The car thing is possible, con artists have been doing it for years, but the car has to be doing less than 20 mph, stuntmen also do it at faster speeds but with boards down their back. If taught it, it would be theory incase you don't have time to get out of the way of the car, you wouldn't practice it, unless you have one of the stated professions.

I have seen the term Bushido used in britain where a school teaches a variety of Japanese arts. It is a kind of umberella term like MMA or cross traininng.

Answer 4

Bushido is the warrior's code. If your friend is saying he knows Bushido, that is not a fighting style. It sounds like he knows some type of pressure point fighting often referred to as Atemi, Dim Mak, Poison Hands, or Poison Touch.

Answer 5

Tell you what - here's a way to prove your pal is a fraud.  Tell him to stand in front of you and hit your palm as hard as he can with his fingertips.  Push forward just a little when he strikes.  This will NOT hurt your palm.

One of 2 things WILL happen:

1) you'll hurt his fingers because he hit you as hard as he could - no injury to you.

2) you'll laugh in his face because his strike is so weak that it couldn't break a cardboard box much less a human bone.

The car thing is just garbage.  If he's been hit 5 times by a car he's an idiot because he doesn't watch where he's going.  An idiot that doesn't notice a car coming clearly isn't able to gracefully roll off the car without injury.

So the plan is: first hurt his fingers with your palm.  Then tell him he's an idiot and tell him why.  Good luck!

Answer 6

Your friend is talking out of his a**. Yes spear hands are used quite frequently in Okinawin karate, but to condition to a level where you could use them against hard spots or bones would leave your fingers useless for anything once you got older.

Spear hands are used but they go to soft targets, like the armpit or throat, never to ahard surface. I like Tao J's answer on how to call him out.

Answer 7

I'm guess his eyes are brown because he's full of c**p.  Maybe his art is "Bull Sh*t-o?"

Tell him you want to set up a camera and drive at him in a car to capture his "special technique" for YouTube and see how fast he comes up with an excuse.

This is not to say that those techniques do not exist because they do.  But they take many years of training and conditioning and I seriously doubt your friend has done that.

Answer 8

snake style is a common style that uses the finger tips or spear hands. and they are more effective to soft spots and "hard to reach" spots that the fist just isn't good for.

strengthening your fingers is called fingertip conditioning. there are several ways of training this, and is usually done in stages.  things like finger tip pushups, and digging your fingers into soil, sand, dry peas, and some even use gravel.

trained correctly and using proper chinese liniment the fingers can become "hard as iron, soft as thread"

trained incorrectly one can be left with hand and finger injuries.