Iron Palm/ Fist 鐵砂掌

[@MKBlackcollar]

I first read about Mr Houghton in Combat Magazine in the UK when Bey Logan was the editor and the author of the article. It mentioned that Mr Houghton went to Hong Kong to follow his dreams studying with Lau Kar Leung as he had a great love of kung fu. Later, I became a fan of Hong Kong cinema and saw Mr Houghton in many roles, including one of the Aces Go Places films with Cantopop legends Sam Hui and Leslie Cheung which also had an interview with Mr Houghton on a UK martial arts magazine. As a British Chinese, I think Mr Houghton has a better knowledge of Cantonese and Chinese culture than I do.

[@terence307]

Thanks for sharing Charlene. Sifu Houghton is legendary! 真功夫！！

[@mandag34]

This video was quite warm and kind of had a personal touch as well as being interesting. Thank you for sharing 😊

[@headphones1861]

You can't fake skills and dedication of this level. I salute you sir!

[@YamamotoKazuo]

He should also condition his left hand

[@johnchiang485]

@@YamamotoKazuo There's also other more softer ways to condition your hands. Like putting small green beans in a bags & striking it tenderly hundreds to thousands times a day. The method portrayed in this video will leads to fracturing or broken bones which will develop severe arthritis in the future.

[@Grandmastergav86]

@PaMuShin You understand the origins of Karate though, right?

[@aquaticlibrary]

A true master. So much respect for Sifu Houghton

[@jamesmoushegian3723]

你嘅洪拳好好！ 我四年學詠春拳。 我係美國人但係我要學廣東話同去香港。Love your videos!

[@fuannisa6418]

I like Chinese Kung Fu & Bruce Lee very much, but unfortunately I have no talent to learn, so it's happy to know many foreigners love Kung-fu! 👍 👍👍

[@colonylaser4860]

Damn.... that is no joke. I've hit iron pellet bags and even boulders training Buddha Palm in Hawaii similar to Iron palm, but I've always held back big time on the back of the hand like a chicken that I am. Just looking at Master Houghton to that degree freaked me out! I've seen some old school 60 or 70 year old traditional Okinawan karate ka who also trained their hands and fists to a scary level, but I must say you are way more hard core. My four thumbs are all up for you, Sir. Respect!

[@Moonlight426-k1w]

有見識過劈開石春~非常之厲害~但係又幾歲開始練習~每日都係咁劈舊石~劈到隻手啲骨質同埋表面感覺好粗鞋~同埋佢嘅手刀真係可以~劈開啤酒而係冇計界損手~每次練完都要浸藥酒~令到隻手快啲回復狀態~第二日又在練習每日起碼8至12個鐘😅😅

[@shingkam]

練拳不練功，到老一場空👍不愧係劉師傅傳人💪👍👍👍

[@kenpo_ucv]

Felicitaciones Cherlene y a tu padre. Somos practicantes de Hung Gar . Saludos desde Venezuela.

[@benjaminhermit6869]

OMG！I feel the pain by just watching the demonstration 😅師傅你真係好勁！🙂👍👍👍

[@The_Berzerker_]

It all starts with grains of sand....

[@chrispopsjunior8978]

Real kung fu from a true hung Kuen legend

[@stevesmith9364]

Wow he has hands of steel ! & Humble heart amazing balance.

[@7runner4]

Thanks for the video. Nice light-hearted demonstration of the traditional Iron Palm training. Also use lots of dit da jow!

[@mikeang80]

This is really long term training encompasses with high level of self discipline. Respect👍

[@gaoip1778]

Started noticing Charlene after she appeared in TVB's sports competition. I am very impressed with her humility and sportsmanship. All the best in your career and dreams👍🤗🙏

[@charlenehoughton7069]

Thank you so much 😊🙏🏻

[@gianfrancodresti1908]

@@charlenehoughton7069 hallo Miss Charlene ,Question, Mr.Houghton use Dit da Jow for iron palm? thank you

[@ShinobiShaman]

​@@charlenehoughton7069 So let me guess, you're half European, & that's your farther, right? I put the video on assuming I going to hear English, but nope. I've always been fond of Asian culture. I actually have all the equipment for iron body training. I just haven't started yet. I know one thing, I wouldn't want to be hit by your farther. I just found out recently, that a Chinese guy I've known for years at my local CVS, is a Hung Gar master, who's trained in that style for over 30 years. He's trained in iron body too. I'll check out more of your videos in the future. Good luck with your channel.

[@bonejo4]

Coolest dad ever! Speaks great Cantonese 👍

[@erichwebb8312]

Thank you for the share sister 🌹 You are very talented and gorgeous , your teaching/demos are always something like treasures . In deed your blessed to have parents to inspire you . That is interesting peek at iron palm training ..... I’m sure there is family formula of dit-da-jow for that as well . Indeed your blessed .... be safe gorgeous and be keep well always sister

[@kenh2o]

Holy, that's scary yet awesome! I feel pain on my hands just watching the video!

[@ronaldlee7566]

This is also the same concept training of Goju Ryu Karate. Hats off to Sifu Mark Houghton and his daughter Ms. Charlene.

[@jimmyshe2346]

慈恩你爸爸真的了不起，祈望佢可以傳授和教導中國功夫的精髓給後輩，👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏 Mark師父他是有一代宗師的風範✌️✌️✌️👍👍👍 氣度不凡👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏

[@Alex_x86]

I love the wushu / kung-fu spirit in your videos.

[@danyu5208]

definition of Badass indeed! Awesome content!

[@jamesli2353]

Very lucky to have such a great Kung Fu master father🤗

[@DrMARDOC]

What an amazing family! What if a TV series about them and their Kong Fu was ever made like along the lines of the American Munsters andAddams Family? But with Hong Kong flavor and Art?

[@MikeS24-v4s]

That's real Gung fu!!! Salute you both. Charlene I actually saw you grow up on youtube. :)

[@anthonymiu489]

Glad to see your dad is doing well! I grew up watching him in movies

[@BoozewithNick]

Holy shit. Speechless. I’ve never seen (literally) that level of Iron Palm.

[@AngkorianWarrior777]

This video was legendary i looking for something like this, thank you

[@bazman32]

hitting kettle bells with your hand?! Seriously I would not mess with Mark Houghton!

[@xwhEdward]

really love the vibe and homey feeling of this video. Thanks for sharing!

[@troutstalker4744]

A huge huge respect to sifu houghton.

[@tomcourteney-hoare1421]

Mark Houghton is a legend.I had the combat magazine he was in.Hung gar is an awesome system

[@liuoscar9820]

I still remember i saw a old man at early 80s doing this in 九龍公園

[@xmenken1]

A great teacher of Hung Gar Kuen. He trains pretty hard.

[@h8tingit]

"..... but daddy.... I wanted to drink the coconut milk!" 😢

[@tom4303]

remember this man from so many hong kong action movies in the 80s and 90s. so cool still see him around and healthy.

[@laurencepak8851]

i love the 攪笑氣氛 + 功夫 what a winning combo

[@XinAnsard]

Thanks a lot, we need more videos like this Charlene !!!

[@LimYongPeng5566]

Mark 哥,佩服你对功夫坚持不懈,真是五体投地！

[@thkun33]

希望Charlene 唔駛練成咁，雖然我好佩服呢位師傅🙏🙏👍👍

[@Pmz604]

How can you not give a like, its hard work and effort invested first.

[@DanGerman-]

Great video. Even better bonding! 🙏

[@kkkk4546]

多年前在電視看到您，除了欣賞您的功夫之外，也覺得您的顏值亦相當高，長髮的您更是漂亮迷人喔

[@蕭嘉蓮]

我亦是住在同村，非常仰慕何麥師傅！👍🙏

[@donkeykong516]

You know it’s real iron palm when the dudes right palm is twice size of left palm

[@candidob8683]

With all respect to Master Houghton, I would much rather train in Iron Palm in such a way that my hand would look normal. Much like this kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4S8poKolN-Zj9k

[@gerrekurquidez3044]

@@candidob8683 Unless genetics intervenes, if your hands dont look like this, you're doing something very wrong. I doubt it unless you did iron palm and red sand palm training way less than you should. This is the result of strtching/tearing skin and muscles, fracturing bones and stretching tendons nearly 5-6 days a week in hard Qigong practice and than both red sand palm and iron palm training(plus putting dit dat how before and after training, and doing soft Qigong, and taijiquan, than baguazhang, than internal long and short boxing/fist forms, xinyiquan(five animals boxing), 18 animal forms, than the external long and short boxing/fist forms, added with weapons if you passed your first 2 years of short and long forms basic training. Not in proper order but not really allowed to tell what the schduling or actual process is beginning to end, just allowed say what we're training in). You need to let go of aesthetics and cares of others opinions. In gongfu's real definition, there are neither shortcuts or anything pretty. Just function and structure.

[@desperatechihuahua7035]

@@gerrekurquidez3044 Hello, I'm impressed from all your knowledge on the subject. Is it cool If I can ask you some questions? I want to start Iron palm.

[@gerrekurquidez3044]

@@desperatechihuahua7035 Sure

[@YangShuLin]

@@candidob8683 他没有洗手的药方，也就是药功，练多了手会废掉

[@tweetalig]

Awesome video Mark!

[@williamsmith8790]

You can tell he’s been over there a long time.

[@the_monkey_bar]

Just like Hell Boys hand ! Well done Mark 👊

[@winddragonmma]

I love Hung Ga Kuen. Tough style, but very dangerous if you know how to use it.

[@wp8639]

4:05 Your dad is amazing! I don't think there will be any one that can mess with him or you.

[@destroybetrayerhunter5247]

I like the way he smokes cigar! Same as me!

[@dodgesportsman772]

James Lacy taught me that iron palm technique... RIP Master Lacy

[@fletchkeilman2205]

Excellent video! Hope you are both well. Charlene...any plans to fight again? I've been out of the loop for a bit and always enjoyed seeing you compete. Big fan of your dad as well. Hopefully one day I can smoke a cigar with him. Glad to see your channel growing. Again. Hope you and yours are doing well and staying safe. Cheers to you both!

[@samuellee9095]

確實是練家子，除了看過他年輕時的武打演出，看knuckle condition 就知道是吃過夜粥。剛柔流東恩納盛男/極真會館許多空手道家的手部條件也是如此。"沙煲咁大個拳頭"，我想意即如此。

[@candidob8683]

Fun family video! :)

[@ronchung4426]

Amazing! Great video.

[@htbeh3305]

这位洋人师父的洪拳水平高 讚👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Very good skill

[@NoobatRacing]

if only we get to see Sir Mark and her daugter in an epic action kungfu but old style cinema movie again !

[@lancehobbs8012]

Short hair actually suits her , so pretty, reminds me girl from Chunking Express. "California sOouull !"

[@cheangshukee]

Master , Thank you very much for the sharing. You are Super. 💪💪💪

[@josearrayan2346]

Fenomenal charlene!!!!tu papa .

[@Way827]

I met him in a pub in Hong Kong back in 2004. Very interesting man. :)

[@markdonovan1540]

He's the real deal. His bones have fused together across the knuckles due to tens of thousands of hours of practice. I've heard of people who train like this, but I've never met any. It's an extreme form of training, not for the feint hearted. I'm amazed he can still hold a tea cup so delicately without breaking it!

[@k14michael]

He didn’t show you the secret after the training on video. They dip their hands in dit da jow medicine to preserve its function. Otherwise their hands would become stiff with arthritis. This is what happened to some of the Japanese karate people because they weren’t told this secret!

[@chucai]

thank you for sharing the video ..

[@etenor]

wonderfull true master and thank you very thank you thank you one thousand thank you for show the true training never show ..i do the training iron palm since thirty years, and never i knew what was the real training ..kiss

[@miguelromero1067]

Exelente Blessings very Excellent video ... I wanna see more videos like that

[@可步林]

練鬆不練緊.加油💪👏👏👏😃

[@bonifaceonyekaba8849]

He has Chinese Opera mime characters now in his acting. Lol. Brilliant

[@SUF-py4ix]

Wish you would put English subtitles on too. Cheers

[@LunaticReason]

Your dad is pretty badass I was listening to his interview with Bryon Jacobs on his channel and was like wow.

[@LunaticReason]

On a side note I’m ethnically Chinese but my language skills are pretty limited because I never really learned much as a kid. Was watching your video and I could understand about 75 percent of what was being said. So that actually made me pretty happy lol

[@jl1876]

holy cow, he must have sledge hammer fists literally, not gonna mess around with this guy for sure, thanks for the warning video lol

[@hcfwlcm]

正！請到何麥爸爸拍片，好耐無見何麥先生！

[@josephjperkins973]

While i'm a karate man myself...i'm sure there's things here i can learn

[@chincheefei5867]

Please share the 练功洗手药方！thank you very much

[@etenor]

is it possible to make only part of the hand for specialization..example that the palm or that the fist or that the cutting edge .. thank you so much

[@SoldierDrew]

The answer is yes. But you mustn't train like this without soaking the hands in dit di jow medicine before and after training lest you suffer arthritis and bursitis from this kind of training.

[@ridchymenard9303]

In my country in Canada i want to praticing martial arts that my dream and i know a lot of chinese style and animals forms i Will train hard To do it you are my idol Charlene 😊😊😊✌🏿✌🏿

[@takwong7016]

繼續拍多的好片👍👍加油👍👍

[@TitanIsMadness]

I have a question regarding the iron palm. Are there any problems or drawbacks with it? Is there a problem in flexibility and motor skills? Tendon pain? Health problems?

[@brokeheartwolf3733]

Just found you. Cool channel🙏🙏🙏🦄☯️

[@escorpionhung]

Pero esas técnica de endurecimiento es mas parecida a las técnicas Japonesas en el Karate. Donde esta el entrenamiento de Chi kung marcial?

[@howtahhung]

do we need any medicated plaster or herbal medicine to soak the wounds after hitting th kettlebell or rock?

[@Viv8ldi]

What can I do when i have swellings?

[@kinngeorge6737]

☺️🙏🏻 多謝賜教

[@destroybetrayerhunter5247]

Her reaction so cute!

[@yang5159]

Gu yu cheong, incredible iron palm through internal energy

[@pwyu2545]

何師傅，勁！

[@hea2745]

有腹肌，好正😍

[@JohnHWChong]

讚👍👍very good! Kungfu Master.

[@kcyung1387]

練鐵沙掌要泡葯，唔係硬練，小心倒傷自己

[@Ken12467]

自傷其身，根本佢隻手傷咗自己都唔知，隻手無晒感覺。

[@k14michael]

I don’t understand why he can spent so much time training to such a high level but wasted his health on smoking?

[@SoldierDrew]

Hand rolled premium Cigars don't have the chemical toxins soaked into them as cigarettes or gas station cigars do. Also, you're never meant to inhale cigars. Premium Cigars are meant for enjoying flavor & aroma. The smoke and the rolled leaf is tasted but never inhaled. Used in moderation, premium hand rolled Cigars are not unhealthy and possess medicinal value. Cigarettes and gas station cigars are poisonous for they're soaked in all manner of poison chemicals and they're inhaled by their users, thus destroying the lungs, throat, teeth, causing high b.p., causing arterial damage and cancers.

[@WashingMykale]

真係拳頭大過沙煲。謝謝表演，可以分享一下是每天練每樣的還是輪流連？有什麽保養法？

[@baar2006]

何麦~小时候看过他演的电影~😁

[@MrMike1668]

Simply amazing.

[@wupotung]

Wa, good kongfu I really! Look alike traditional Chinese master. It's amazing for west people can do that. 👍👍👍

[@Freeman-xm7ug]

Is this in Hong kong

[@mrb6142]

A truly excellent video. Thanks for uploading!!

[@ridchymenard9303]

That is The famous technique Iron Palm a powerful technique Wow 🤩🤩🤩

[@martinchan168]

Wa 😮 it hurts by just watching it. 厲害 好粵語 also

[@hkman3299]

是劉家良的 高徒👍👍👍

[@IronBodyMartialArts]

Excellent