How Different Martial Arts Do BAREKNUCKLE Impact Training

I'm Joined by ‪@KARATEbyJesse‬ and ‪@hard2hurt‬ and Oliver Enkamp as we discuss how often they do bareknuckle training and bag work! Tons of different traditional Karateka, Boxers, Street Fighters, Kickboxers and more do punch conditioning in different ways! Here we discuss.

[@KARATEbyJesse]

THAT TREE NEVER STOOD A CHANCE!! 🌳👊💥 Thanks for having me Seth-san, can’t wait for people to see our upcoming sparring video!! 😎

[@shaheed1798]

Your doing a sparring video?

[@nicolasrohr5430]

I can't wait to see that you both are 🐐

[@hiramcastillo9049]

😱 the hype got real

[@kbanghart]

I'm a real karateka, I graduated long ago from trees to simply punching my fist straight into buckets of gravel. It works great.

[@214warzone]

Great Video. I use the thinnest gloves possible (just for blister prevention). Do knuckle pushups on a marble bench. Punch a heavy bag and a Basketball with very thin gloves also..

[@hard2hurt]

I'm mad I missed you two in your gis and sneakers at the park lol

[@KARATEbyJesse]

Just two Karate Nerds deforesting the planet, one tree at a time 😂

[@zachariaravenheart]

@@KARATEbyJesse That's how I must explain what I'm doing when I punch a tree now XD

[@Dan_Hill43]

I thought only Tae Kwon Do, was allowed to wear their uniforms out in public🤣

[@leofriclac]

@@Dan_Hill43 To be honest, I don't generally wear my Dobok out in public because I don't want my ass kicked :D

[@dirgniflesuoh7950]

I miss the makiwara at my old dojo. Makiwara was the standard "cooldown" after class before stretching ...

[@camiloiribarren1450]

Jesse and Oliver have been traditionally trained and then gone to more modern ways. I’m loving this great crossover to cross train and understand different ways to do the same technique. Different condition ways and I love this!

[@KARATEbyJesse]

Makes me so happy to hear! 🙏

[@dirgniflesuoh7950]

And what pushups or wheelbarrow walk on the knuckles are good for, you really learn how to balance on your wrists.

[@camiloiribarren1450]

@Where's Walshy agreed. Makiwara is GREAT for conditioning punching, elbow and shuto techniques

[@KarateTVtraditional]

Coming up with a conclusion in the end ... with a topic like this...these different approaches... just shows how open minded and experienced these people are 🎉👍 Awesome Video

[@jituch1288]

Are karate TV vale bhaiya 😄❤

[@ananddarnal6702]

😮

[@blockmasterscott]

What a collaboration! Seriously, you guys made my day. As far as bare knuckle training goes, I’ve been doing it for over 30 years, and I have no arthritis is my hands. Like any physical activity, you just have to know how to do it right.

[@AK_UK_]

Which knuckles do you focus on?

[@Markuzsosa]

@@AK_UK_ all ten on ur dome

[@Markuzsosa]

@@AK_UK_ jkkkk

[@LaughingSeraphim]

This short dude who works near a store I service has calluses that are like two pennies stacked on his knuckles. I don't know how to think or feel about this... www.backinthegi.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/knuckl.jpg

[@DaleMallows]

So glad the Karate Avengers content is finally dropping!

[@SenseiSeth]

😂😂😂

[@wayoftheforesthand]

Look at you, the Gracies, the Machida's, and and now the greatest of all the martial arts family's the Enkamp's. You sir have arrived!!!!

[@KARATEbyJesse]

You forgot the Paul’s! 🥊😜🙌

[@Aj9Livess]

10:00 what a crew. You learn so much about them from their stances alone. The pro fighters, cool and confident in their skill. The humble, knowledgeable practitioner of traditional martial arts The upbeat, charasmatic instructor The Angry gnome 😂😂 Much love to all of you for this Collab, this is what martial arts KZbin needed, but didn't deserve 💪💪🤘

[@SirEmrik]

angry gnome stance is way more scary

[@andrewhudson3723]

I would totally train with that crew!

[@Protagonaut]

Boxing main here. Agree with the first sentiment, if you have any legit power you should limit how often you throw with minimal protection. Personally trained bare knuckle quite alot on the bag (only ever try leather, if you have a fabric bag please please save your knuckle skin the trouble and dont bother) Imo it's important to do similar to what encamp said on a tree vs a heavy bag bare knuckle, and even intentionally tap your hand at awkward angles to strain hte little muscles holding your wrist together so that in the moment of impact those small muscles that otherwise never get any isolation work will be able to sustain the force of impact. As stated in the video, alignment helps alot but I believe in working out the muscles that keep everything aligned more than anything else when it comes to wrist health specifically.

[@Han-nk3io]

Punching frabic bag doesnt make me pain but its scrape my fist alot. So that that is a no.leather bag however makes my leg sore as hell after kicking.Punching not so much.

[@TGPDrunknHick]

@@Han-nk3io out of curiosity would that not help prevent cutting? constantling scraped skin hardens and callouses. would that not mean hitting a sharper angle would be less likely to cut your knuckles open. even say on a tooth?

[@Han-nk3io]

@@TGPDrunknHick No if you want fist conditioning might as well doung knucles push ups and wrap your hands punching bags.Because in real contact your skin will be scraped anyway,it doesnt hurt but i dont want a bloody fist after working out and side not punching bare knucle is very dangerous when your wrist is fatique i notice that my wrist easily get misalightment when punching after weight lift session.

[@Docinaplane]

This is interesting to me because back in the day when I started, we never wore any hand protection at all. I would hit stuff. We had the makiwara, but I hit lots of things. My first two knuckles are still quite prominent.

[@bencebuda4599]

Right? I never use any gloves while doing bagwork or hitting (well, more lightly, of course) the wall and other hard stuff. No problems so far, big first two knuckles and obviously no one likes if I hit them 😂 It also makes me having a better hand position than some guys using Seiken-protectors ALL the time.

[@Docinaplane]

@@bencebuda4599 Absolutely! Maybe it's been luck, but I've hit a lot of hard targets, including people and haven't hurt my hands yet. Well, not counting the time I punched a cement wall by mistake (it had a thin sheet over it). Yeah, my hand was a balloon lol for a week, but I didn't break anything.

[@cahallo5964]

@@Docinaplane it's not luck, I've been hitting hard stuff since forever and I've only ever hurt my hand playing football

[@RoyalFizzbin]

We would leave blood on the makiwara (only the rope covered one) in my dojo. The leather one never made us bloody.

[@NIRUPAM112]

We karatekas when ever hear the word Okinawa . Immidiately it pop up in our mind = birth place of Karate . This is what unites us all karatekas around the world . Oss 🥋

[@Markperna1]

Man, another great video. You keep pumping them out. I’m 100% for this. I’ve been training since 1977 and the most I use when hitting pads or a bag are those old school leather bag gloves and then only so I don’t scrape my knuckles up. You are forced to hit with proper alignment. I’m also a professional jazz bassist and I’ve never had hand or wrist problems so I must be doing something right.

[@irontusk5691]

Jesse is awesome. Glad he's getting to make some crossover content with you guys. 👍👍

[@robsobi]

I'm really enjoying these, for lack of a better word, crossover videos. Let everyone know if you all decide to do a seminar together. It would be really cool to meet all of you.

[@GBlues1]

It depends on why you’re training. If you’re training for sport, then wrapping yourself wrists and hand is good. If you’re training for self-defense, it’s not good, you won’t have that protection if you ever need to use what you’ve learned. Wraps keep everything aligned. Wrist, hand all tight. In the real world outside of the dojo, or a sport, you have to take 27 bones, and the wrist and make it as stiff as you can. If you haven’t practiced without wraps, good chance your wrist will buckle. The wraps are like many things in life. They give a false sense of doing it correctly. It’s a good training aid to help you know what it’s supposed to feel like but, without doing it without the wraps you aren’t strengthening the muscles and tendons needed to do it without them. That’s my .02 cents. What’s your end goal, and then train for that.

[@SenseiSeth]

Yes, you did do a good job of saying what we said at the end of the video 😂🙏

[@GBlues1]

@@SenseiSeth and in less than 20 minutes no less….🤷‍♂️😂

[@Zippos_And_Doom_Is_All_I_Need]

Facts

[@hunggarguy]

Dit da jow, it helps a lot. I think it’s definitely a progressive time consuming process. I did the whole knuckle push-ups thing in high school lol. 😂. I use to hit the bag and the wooden dummy with wraps. After years of hitting the palm bag ✋ I like to do it all 100% bare knuckles but that doesn’t mean ever so often it doesn’t hurt. If you’re conditioning everyday you have to listen to your body. If you get an injury you need medicine and time to heal. Being an athlete is a process of damage repair damage repair and it’s no different with a martial artist.🥋 Great videos 📹😂 Sensei Seth.

[@jillurmalik1]

Damn someone gotta protect Oliver

[@SenseiSeth]

He’s staying with us now, away from the bad karate man

[@sunte91]

@@SenseiSeth the poor guy 😢

[@davidriddell5573]

In a way I feel they're both essential, but the alignment you learn from Makiwara training is more fundamental, in my opinion. For example, my left hand has an extra long middle metacarpal. So my middle knuckle sticks out, and takes the full force of my punch, alone, if I punch perfectly straight. Makiwara training forced to me correct for that weird asymmetry. It makes you pay attention to what's unique in your own body and learn to make technique your own.

[@Leo.23232]

well, that is also the strongest knuckle and you are focussing all the force on a smaller point if you do hit with just that, so it also can make you do more damage

[@davidriddell5573]

@@Leo.23232 depending on the surface you are striking, yes. If you're hitting soft tissue that's fine. If you're hitting bone, there is the potential to drive that knuckle back into your hand and break your metacarpal. I speak from 1st hand experience on this subject.

[@Leo.23232]

@@davidriddell5573 it also depends on how hard you are hitting, i disagree with it being better for soft tissue, it wont really make much difference either way, only thing i can think of it doing more damage to is like muscles but i dont think thats a very good target for a punch normally, if you hit the body its more about how far your whole fist is digging in than a knuckle is. although i could be wrong on this thats just my intuition, havnt seen this tested i think its better for hitting the face which is a hard target, just dont hit full power, you will be doing a lot of cutting damage with much less effort, and you wont break your knuckles that way when it comes to bare knuckle fighting, you can do a lot of damage without needing to use all your power

[@Mike.Paroah]

It's like watching the avengers of martial arts, looking forward to see more collabs with all of you

[@INDAMOMENTFilms]

Oh boiii the courageous icy Mike is back! Looking forward to see mike joking/messing around with sensei Seth like always 😂😂❤️ the bromance

[@simonyu8838]

"It depends" is the answer to almost every question in martial arts and fighting

[@Shambley1]

Awesome. I love a icy Mike and Seth combo. One day I'm going to get off my lazy ass and drive the 15 min to Raleigh and have Seth teach me how to fancy kick.

[@ryanbarclay7939]

Seth is in Raleigh?! Well now I should probably go, might help me lose the 50 lbs lol

[@SenseiSeth]

15 minutes?!

[@kawliga9890]

Seriously man agreed. I'm about 2 hours from him and sadly couldn't signup for the seminar due to work.

[@Dan_Hill43]

I thought I saw the tree striking seen in Best of the Best 😂. Really love all you guys got me training again. Another great video.

[@BurridgeMartialArts604]

Absolutely loving these collabs lately!

[@bushcraftmyway]

nice vid! as a martial artist (not a fighter), I do train exclusively bareknuckle - and I advise my students (also not fighters) to do the same. however, there is a crucial aspect of this: progression. it takes a long time to go from non-contact to full power. not doing it gradually leads to accidents - and maybe that's a big part of bareknuckle punching being regarded as a "no-no" by many.

[@IronBodyMartialArts]

Looks like you guys had fun. Good bunch of guys . It would be great to be there with you all..

[@inigomartinez8243]

I dont think I have learned anything or gotten any conclusion but I felt somehow attached to the conversation and ended up watching the whole video. I dont mind this lecture videos once in a while,

[@TheWillToFight]

I’ve got a MAKIWARA at my MMA gym and people always ask me what the hell it is lol

[@lsdustyrhodes]

I've been training for twenty-seven years, and teaching for over two decades. I'm 71. I do makiwara regularly. Gloves and wraps are good for boxing, because you're hitting someone's skull hundreds of times in the course of a match. You will break bones in your hand without that protection. They're pointless if you're training for self-defense, and you'd better have prepared your hands for that eventuality. Bare-knuckle training on heavy bags, makiwara, and other firm targets is essential. Listen to @Jesse Enkamp at 3:40, for he sums it up well. You not only need to develop the proper mechanics - kinesthetics - but also, through repetition literally over years, to develop hand conditioning. Bones and connective tissues will toughen over time with repeated application. Makiwara gives you both: feedback (proper hand and joint alignment) and firm resistance. Over time, you can execute dozens, even hundreds, of strikes during a training session. It can be a form of active meditation. And, yes, I strike 100% (but I wouldn't do it on a tree... traditional makiwara still gives a bit). Sorry, @hard2hurt, but I disagree. If you start gradually, and develop proper form, you can train without injury.

[@mattstuw]

Love love love the collaboration videos! I'm so glad you all could get together.

[@themartialartsmermaid]

This was fantastic! So much talent and wisdom in one place! You're spoiling us.

[@Berengier817]

Ramsey Dewey, Icy Mike, Jesse, sensei Seth and Stephen Thompson need to do a video seminar together.

[@jorel80]

Kung fu nerd here! We do this in Wing chun as well, with a tightly packed sand bag mounted to a wall, called a "Sau Bau". Some WC mook jong (wooden training dummies) are wrapped with rope and used the same way. Same idea as makiwara basically, conditioning hand/knuckle resistance and your body structure to absorb the returning force. It's meant to be a fine tuning, technical excercise, not full power, but increasing power incrementally so you can hit harder bareknuckle and have less chance of injuring yourself. I especially like what Jesse said about bone stacking and joint alignment. Great stuff guys!

[@sumboy6183]

Loved the editing bro n the acting from Mike ofc. Keep improving playa

[@jayve4433]

Aw man, this is an awesome video, seeing you there with Mike, Jesse, and his brother at the same time, imagine if you also had there together with y’all Ramsey, Rokas, Wonderboy, Mr. Dan, Endo,

[@Soontobesensei]

My favorite video by far! All of the best martial arts youtubers on the internet all joined together in one video! I love this!

[@nightshade7240]

When I was more heavily into martial arts we would practice alignment on hessian filled with steel ball bearings. It was hard enough to condition, soft enough to protect and had enough movement in the structure of the ball bearings that you were not hitting a completely solid object because people are not completely solid. Most places you can hit on the body have give to impact. Even when you hit the head there is give, either from movement or structure.

[@sirseigan]

"Stack our bones and align our joints" - so beautifully put! 🙂

[@pilystation]

Great video, I just found you guys last week and I'm loving it, Mike is so funny and Jesse (when not on his channel) reminds me of my martial arts teachers (sensei or coach whatever you wanna call them)

[@EvolveNowYoga]

Those crossover videos are really cool! Keep them coming💪

[@metrolinamartialarts]

"It depends" is a Ryan Hoover statement. All the channels are blending together

[@MartialCoachJF]

What a nice meeting of modern Warriors 💪💪I do sparring and hard bag with gloves, the rest is conditioning (makiwara and knucle pushups)🥋🤗

[@nov199128]

Jesus Jesse lol. When he hit the tree. 😬 No hesitation, no wincing in pain, just full on sent it. Damn. 😂

[@snieves4]

That little series of 1-2, uppercut by the smaller guy…impressive technique.

[@w4rf4c39]

"...because I wanted some super-smart, expertise, knowledge... Mike can you stand over there? " Lmao I'm dead.

[@webherring]

Wing chun wallbag.. . I hang a bag of rice on the wall and use gel hand wraps without the wrist support. You can practice structural alignment AND go full power. Some back and forth footwork is possible but not side to side. DIY maize bag: put an 8 lb sand-filled mini medicine ball in a reusable shopping bag and hang it from the ceiling. I hit it bareknuckle or with gel wraps and can add a little more footwork. 50-80% power.

[@khronicaltv6523]

I love how fucking wholesome the this youtube fith community is.

[@Jumanji1st]

I really like all that colaborations of you guys. Not only is it great fun to watch, but it is also very informative. keep it up guys :D

[@rjwrightrw30]

Very good. I never used gloves for bag work. I figured it would cover bad habits & technique. And the part of doing twice as much on your no dominant side...YES! Absolutely! Developing power is important, but proper technique should be first.

[@IceWyte]

I can't handle the fact my 4 favorite people on the internet are all in one place.

[@Thesavagesouls]

"I'm kinda getting old" lmao that relatable

[@CoASoFi]

These crossovers are fucking epic!

[@rickmcdaniel6784]

Cool to Jesse demonstrate makiwara training. I'm an old Kyokushinkai. We had a makiwara board at the dojo. it was made by using 3 pcs. of 2 x 6. They were cemented into the ground like a fence post. The one in the back only stuck up about 18", the middle one about 36" and the one in the front was about 72" tall. This allowed it to flex a little as you hit or kicked it. The stiking pad was made with rope. We puched and kicked it to condition our hands and feet. Jesse explained it perfectly.

[@Gyrodyssey]

Fantastic Video Sensei Seth

[@Blake-gh8xl]

Love the duets!

[@nickarnold1622]

Digging the totally authentic asian lofi music in the background

[@vernshein5430]

As a young teenager in the 70's we did a little hand conditioning in kyokushin but our instructors who had been young men in the 50's mostly had strongly conditioned hands and YEARS of daily makiwara training. When they hit us their blows had a much greater effect on us than those of our peers. Much of that was their technique and conditioned hands, wrists, elbows etc. Their alignment and focus, honed by the makiwara training was clearly different to ours. Some of them could even break boards with spearhand (nukite) strikes. Something that none of my peer group would even think to attempt. There was a price to this as many of them were developing or already had arthritis in the hands and wrists.

[@Esodum]

Dude, i spent most of quarentine doing bag work for kick and punches. When things started going back to normal i jumped straight on an amateur competition and by the end of the day my right ankle and shoulder were a mess: i had unlearned how to hit a real person and how you can't reeeally go hard

[@fabriziocolucci3041]

Loving these collaborations!

[@andrewhudson3723]

Jesse is awesome. So is his brother.

[@trailstories_srb]

Priceless!

[@aksharchotoo3458]

I love how everyone is talking about bags and then Jesse is like I'm about to Okinawa your ass

[@aidy7961]

HI, what a breath of fresh air your channel is. I have been studying Martial arts since the early 1980’s, (yep I am very old) never Karate though. I am so sick of the bull, that is everyone claiming only they have ‘the right way’, or the best martial arts style, and they are super elite warriors! (Obviously this is rubbish as the style I study is the best otherwise I would study a different style. 😎😎 I am joking ). Anyway back to my point, it is so refreshing to see your channel and the mixing of different ‘Dojo’s/Styles’, instructors and viewpoints. It is also nice to see that you all seem to have fun, in an educational way, obviously the best environment to learn and teach. Well done I appreciate you all, never stop being a student and always keep learning . 👍👍👍👍

[@psychedashell]

Twenty years quite happily doing knockdown karate, bareknuckle pushups and hitting blocks perfectly fine. One month with a jackhammer and my wrists got swollen, pins and needles and jammed at the joint.

[@imstupid880]

If you want to know how to punch bare-handed, look to bare-knuckle boxing. In pugilism, the main punches were vertical fists and palm-up fists using the bottom three knuckles, and they avoided hitting the head. These were men who had to fight with no round limits, and multiple times a week, so if anyone knows what they're doing it's them. The palm-down fist with top two knuckles aiming for the face only came around after boxing gloves were added to the ruleset, which were not meant to protect the opponent or make it easier to guard, but to-surprise!-protect the knuckles.

[@themartialmemoir3075]

My favorite answer when I have students ask me how is the correct way to do *insert technique here* I respond with "it depends"

[@zsolthorvath495]

I usually hit bareknuckle the bag in the last two round. But interesting: I started the full-contact kickboxing after 30 years karate (shotokan and kyokushin). The bareknuckle bagwork never injury to my joints an hand bones, but I suffered several long and painful injury in gloves in the first years.

[@devs.4254]

yo I'm glad you got a better camera bro.

[@thomasturner4253]

Love u guys having Jesse on I don't practice karate but love his videos I do however practice martial. arts Ur videos are always informative Thumbs up 👍

[@M-gb6np]

I like your Max power American Kenpo for like breaking chest plate in American streets🏁🇲🇽

[@deadlyicecream1]

i trained karate when i was younger, they had a 2 pieces wood board, that was seperated by around 5cm. 1 for attachment, and the other rapped in rope, and acted as a spring when you punch it. so you hit it, and let the hand be exstended, and just had the board clapping on your hand

[@steveperks7054]

I. Love. All. Of. You. Edit: This is the best Christmas Crossover Event this year! Now I just need to go see the new Spiderman and I'm set for the year....

[@jasontaylor4765]

By far one of my favourite videos, awesome job guys and have a great new year.

[@Leon-R2D2]

True and awesome collaboration guys do more together, i like this forum-ish style🤙🏼☀❤

[@MadScientist512]

As a bullied teen with no training I just hit walls until I could really lay into a brick wall, figuring that if I had to fight I should at least be able to do damage without hurting myself, just whished I'd also gotten into body-building earlier, 'cause I easily bulked up with muscle to the point where former bullies from high school were suddenly respectful because they were scared of big old me, then I wouldn't have had a problem in the first place.

[@MrWayne1701]

In 40+ years of martial arts training, truer words were never spoken to me than, "it depends"...

[@Yham02]

Best collab

[@MetalSnake6199]

I've been knuckle conditioning for a little more than 3 years. My advice is to not strike at full power because it will take longer for bones to be usable (there are osteoblast vs osteoclast; one adds & one takes bone density) Strike 45% at most til your hands almost feel sore, as to not damage the blood vessels in your hand. And give them a day to rest.

[@rrteppo]

I also think that 100% power you should be able to fracture your hand. I can see getting up to 80% power and not breaking something, but my full strength punch could break someone else's bone, so it should be doing similar damage to my own. The force isn't in the same direction so it's a little different, but still.

[@luisarturoorduna2098]

the way i see it, it applies to most things in life: learn to do it with the minimun, then learn to do it with the add ons... i mean, learn to hit with your bare hands and get rid of fear of pain, then use padding for protection and power, learn to shoot the bow by instinct, then learn to use the sights, learn to shoot with iron sights, then use optics or electronic pointers... that way you can allways go back to basics when high tech is not availiable.

[@alphamorion4314]

I remember, back in the days of practice, during some sparring sessions I would punch with very little "force" (maybe around 10%/15%), but trying to really focus on the micro-technique explained by Jesse of the punch. It kinda surprised me how big of a difference it makes to the impact. I was somewhat used to try body shots (around the liver and lower ribcage), and when hitting without that much of a structure, maybe even with the surface of all knuckles, it really did nothing much; but with a somewhat 'decent' structure and somewhat decent focus on the two big knuckles, those same hits (and the same force applied) really made a couple of sparring partners struggle to stay on their feet.

[@edwardjames6023]

I love Jesse's punches

[@martialartsunlimited01]

I really liked the rules statement

[@tk5800thesecond]

id love to see a creator clash between all these martial artists

[@shiraz2475]

We always use bare knuckles for pad drills or bag work. When Hanchi Cerberano held his Seminar my knuckles were raw for 2 weeks. Just toughed it out and ignored the fact my flesh was probably stuck to the bag! 😢

[@bat0s4i]

The way i did is pretty standart... Light bag, heavy bag, tires, soft wood, hard wood for everything: knuckles, elbows, knees, shins. I think everybody in muay thai does like that.

[@BigSlanko]

Use those old school bag mitts like Dewey was chatting about a while back. Works great.

[@franktower9006]

I'm in my 50s now and I can can promise you this - if you do enough of that, it will give you all kinds of joint problems. Been there, done that. Tendinitis, athritis, arthrosis - pick one.

[@glenngolding6375]

Did many years doing push-ups on knuckles training in the dojo in Australia Zen Do Ki karate do.

[@BionicBurke]

It's not because the bones are any weaker or smaller in the ring and pinky fingers that it is dangerous. It is the angle at which they connect to the wrist. The index and middle knuckles are fairly in line with the rest of your bones in the arm. They can take compression force more than the bending force you get from the angle of how the ring and pinky bones align.

[@RamboRichardson]

I didn't say every day, but I prefer bare knuckle or thin gloves just to avoid bleeding. I still train with boxing gloves too for the practice and feel of them. I can bare knuckle Weekly though or thin glove (wrap) it Daily, but recovery is always good.

[@mattingle4286]

In my opinion, the best method of bare knuckle training for practicing proper technique for punching is the use of the Makiwara, so I will have to align with Jesse Enkamp on this subject. I have done martial arts training in the past, and I have been trained in striking using the Makiwara. The Makiwara teaches a person to practice striking while at the same time focusing on proper technique and alignment of the strike itself, so that the practitioner does injure themselves while training. Like Jesse said in the video, the trainer should start off slow and steady, focusing on just technique alone, then steadily increasing the intensity of the strike force until they are comfortable with what they have accomplished. After training for a while with the Makiwara, the trainee will start focusing on generating power with their strikes. The Makiwara teaches how to strike while using our entire mass; putting every ounce of power and weight into the strike so that it is devastating to the opponent. The Makiwara would be a very good tool to use and practice in any type of training environment when it comes to martial arts. The modern day style of of the Makiwara is a 5' to 6' long wooden board that's mounted vertically with the floor or in the ground (if outdoors). It has a thickness of approximately 2 inches and is wrapped around in 550 cord or a rope for the striking surface. It should have flexibility when it is struck.

[@oskardavis7318]

This video is really interesting 👍

[@GypsyLad]

i used to do knuckle conditioning by hitting walls not full on but enough to bruise it because there was an old thing people used to believe in where you bruise or fracture the bone and it grows back harder or gets harder and it would be good control for the back lash from hitting something solid (like if you hit a skull)

[@estuart76]

I commented on hard2hurts channel ages ago about knuckle conditioning. He disagreed 😂 I can show you tough hands!... And yes... Even the small knuckles.

[@buckanderson3520]

Impact training your knuckles deadens the nerves so that it doesn't hurt when you bruise them. Note that I say bruise not break. I used to hit my bag all the time bruising my knuckles and it didn't bother me so I could keep doing it without any pain. In fact it kinda felt good to me in a masochistic kind of way. You can actually strengthen the bone by hitting hard objects but it's a trade off between not breaking your bones now and the arthritis you will have later.

[@blackbird-25]

Jesse is right when he says that makiwara training is about the connection and correct stacking of the bones. Knuckle conditioning is a by product of this. There is a circular relationship the more you train on the makiwara the harder you can hit it so the better your technique so the harder you can hit it.... A makiwara is flexible, it's a long wooden spring so the more your punch penetrates the more reflective force you have to learn to deal with. If you hit the makiwara too hard, too soon, too often you will damage your hands, it could take decades for this damage to manifest itself. It hurts so suck it up. When teaching any hard conditioning I always say that the day it stops hurting is the day you've fucked up badly. Juniors or minors are not permitted ANY hard conditioning, their bones are still soft and unformed. Golden rule, never hit anything hard, hard. So a belt around a tree will just damage your hands. By not having a spring like target you are missing the majority of the point of makiwara training.

[@johnnysticks772]

Ya got him! 😊nice one 👊

[@johnnysticks772]

"Birthplace of karate"

[@weaponman3872]

I did karate for years as well as boxing , did lots of conditioning and i saw my knuckles hardening and it was pretty cool until I got mad and punched a oak tree as hard as I could and shattered my middle and ring finger bones in my hand behind the knuckles , my hand is ok after that but I would not want to punch a skull full force with that hand . But I started conditioning my index knuckle and now it is huge and hard and I know how to punch with just it and it’s awesome !!!!

[@RavenburnX]

This is a great collaboration, excellent… Osu Shinobu

[@maxwax7958]

Time to make my day better thank you 🙏.