I would bet (with no actual evidence) that grappling styles are more likely to use the slap. Based on my experience the slap is more of a way to just get your hands on the opponent in a way that you can get a grip to perform a lock/throw. In a striking style, you want to hurt them as much as possible with it, or have it move them to a compromising position.
If any of these systems use Joint locks similar to Chin Na then there was conditioning of the hand. The only difference instead of making the hand from training like Iron Palm training the hand was naturally made hard from the strengthening of the fingers.
Hi jowgawolf,
That's not surprising to me. None of the conditioning that my school does is in the syllabus the only one that we do consistently would be the cardio. And even the cardio isn't in the syllabus nor is it a standard exercise that all Jow Ga schools do. I already know my cardio exercises are not the norm.
I was referring to the iron hand conditioning as in your prior post. All grappling will have strength training for the hands, but it’s not necessarily going to produce anything massive about the hand.
That doesn't look like something they trained for, that looks like they were pissed off at each other.
Pretty common to train it, or pretty common for wrestlers to slap each other when they get pissed off?
