Does anyone know karate and know how to toughen their knuckles without breaking them?? Only experts...?

Answer 1

Pinto beans. Get a bucket of beans and thrust your hand into it toughing your fingers. Make a bean bag and slam your hand palm side up into it then palm side down. Then using your fist punch down into the bag. Work on these moves day after day and you should have no trouble breaking boards with your fingers, palm or fist.

Answer 2

The cheapest method is sand.

Get a large bag or bucket of sand and start of slowly punching it (with gloves) after a month, remove the gloves but still don't punch it any harder. Then slowly build up the intensity of the punch. The grittyness will slowly start to create calysts on the knuckles. After a while, the calysts will break away leaving a tougher skin below it.

The problem with toughening your knuckles is that if you don't keep it up, they will get soft again very easily. So don't overdo it and go nice and slow.

Answer 3

These are dangerous water you are treading. If you go about this the wrong way you can have serious hand damage in your future. I would try to find someone who knows iron-hand or iron-fist, but only learn from them if they are truly qualified. There is more to it then just punching a board. Besides how tough do your knuckles need to be? Do you plan on fighting the forest or a mountain. Remember hard targets with soft hand strikes, and soft targets with hard hand strikes.

Answer 4

The easiest way is knuckle push ups u might want to wrap your wrists until your wrist strengthen and it may sound crazy but punching random objects throughout the day helped me not too hard just enough to feel it and only use the first to knuckles to punch dont want to break your hand

Answer 5

By doing it enough times so the pain does not bother them and their knuckles and skin toughen up over time.

Answer 6

Boker Magnum has a good idea with the board. I used to use one myself. Another idea that stems from my Chinese martial arts training is "scooping" sand from a deep pot to toughen the skin and hands, and gradually moving up from there to small rocks, iron pellets, and then into larger rocks. You'll tear up your hands, but toughen them up in the process. If you can, I recommend using dit dat jou first if available.
Good luck!

Answer 7

There was once a young man that lived in a small providence in china. He always wanted to train with the monk outside of town. One day he finally gathered a few of his things and told his family that he was going the monetary to train. He arrived and accept him they did. The head master sat him in front of a vat of water and told him to slap it all day. So there is the young man slapping water all day every day. A year later he returned to his town to see it has been over ran with Japanese. The man returned home to see his family, when at dinner the door was kicked in. Japanese soldiers surrounded them. This upset the man so much that he screamed and yelled at the soldiers and slapped the solid oak table they were eating at and broke it in two. Get it??

Answer 8

you want to be careful, my husband who is a black belt and owner/instructor of a dojo, has arthritis in both hands from trying to toughen the knuckles

Answer 9

A makawari board. Punch into it many times, but very lightly, after a period of time( your instructor should actually be approached with this question) you can increase the force you use for your punch's.

Answer 10

Hmmmmm that's a touch question. I guess just start out soft and go easy on trying to punch a block of cement