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.
@@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.
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!
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 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.
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
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?
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?
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.
@@charlenehoughton7069 Dear Charlene, I should probably ask Your father about this (but I don't know His address), but perhaps You can answer too: 1. How long (years) shall I (or anyone else) have to train to get my hands like this? 2. Why does he only train one hand like this and not both? Is there iron leg training? 3. Why is it important that the fist (knuckles) should be flat (he says at 2:40 and 2:59)? 4. Is there any downside to this training in the long run (e.g. hard to bend the finger, sore hand, sore joints)?
@@tomcartman9434 Hi Tom! 1. Minimum 3 years to achieve good results. 2. Reason for training one hand not two.... Once iron palm is achieved it will be easy to accidentally injure someone by touching their body. So one hand is trained that way you can make contact with family and friend with the hand not trained. In tradition if you are right handed you would train the left hand. If left handed you would train the right. Reason for this.... You have to think before you use your hand. If you train your dominant hand you lash out or use it without thinking.. This way you don't hurt someone out of anger, lashing out without thinking about the consequences. We don’t do iron leg. 3. Training only the knuckles to extend to training the the knuckles to be flat.... Training the knuckles to be big and extend from the fist is also good, however the gap between the knuckles does not get trained. Thus leaving a weakness in the fist... Training the knuckles to be flat trains the fist without weakness. 4. This type of training you must have correct herbal medicine to soak the hands, you must have correct breathing exercises. Hei Kung. Without this you will damage your hands and also damage your body internally.
@@charlenehoughton7069 Thank you for your answers! There are other kung fu styles that do iron palm/fist training too, but they use different method, mainly chi kung exercises, and their hands don't grow as much, but stay normal, as if they don't do iron palm/fist training. Is their method less effective, less strong their hands?
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!
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
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 ruclips.net/video/QSYuOr_zfYw/видео.html
@@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.
@@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.
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!
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!
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 😊😊😊✌🏿✌🏿
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.
Thanks for sharing Charlene. Sifu Houghton is legendary! 真功夫！！
You can't fake skills and dedication of this level.
I salute you sir!
He should also condition his left hand
@@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.
@PaMuShin You understand the origins of Karate though, right?
This video was quite warm and kind of had a personal touch as well as being interesting. Thank you for sharing 😊
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!
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😅😅
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!
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! 👍 👍👍
A true master. So much respect for Sifu Houghton
Felicitaciones Cherlene y a tu padre. Somos practicantes de Hung Gar . Saludos desde Venezuela.
練拳不練功，到老一場空👍不愧係劉師傅傳人💪👍👍👍
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👍🤗🙏
Thank you so much 😊🙏🏻
@@charlenehoughton7069 hallo Miss Charlene ,Question, Mr.Houghton use Dit da Jow for iron palm? thank you
@@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.
Thanks for the video. Nice light-hearted demonstration of the traditional Iron Palm training. Also use lots of dit da jow!
Wow he has hands of steel ! & Humble heart amazing balance.
This is really long term training encompasses with high level of self discipline. Respect👍
Real kung fu from a true hung Kuen legend
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
Coolest dad ever! Speaks great Cantonese 👍
OMG！I feel the pain by just watching the demonstration 😅師傅你真係好勁！🙂👍👍👍
It all starts with grains of sand....
This is also the same concept training of Goju Ryu Karate. Hats off to Sifu Mark Houghton and his daughter Ms. Charlene.
Mark 哥,佩服你对功夫坚持不懈,真是五体投地！
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👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏
Please share the 练功洗手药方！thank you very much
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?
I love the wushu / kung-fu spirit in your videos.
That's real Gung fu!!! Salute you both. Charlene I actually saw you grow up on youtube. :)
Thank you for sharing and feel the bitterness of daily exercise for striking the prefection.
Mark Houghton is a legend.I had the combat magazine he was in.Hung gar is an awesome system
Holy, that's scary yet awesome! I feel pain on my hands just watching the video!
This video was legendary i looking for something like this, thank you
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
definition of Badass indeed! Awesome content!
A great teacher of Hung Gar Kuen. He trains pretty hard.
我亦是住在同村，非常仰慕何麥師傅！👍🙏
do we need any medicated plaster or herbal medicine to soak the wounds after hitting th kettlebell or rock?
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?
really love the vibe and homey feeling of this video. Thanks for sharing!
Glad to see your dad is doing well! I grew up watching him in movies
Pero esas técnica de endurecimiento es mas parecida a las técnicas Japonesas en el Karate.
Donde esta el entrenamiento de Chi kung marcial?
Very lucky to have such a great Kung Fu master father🤗
I still remember i saw a old man at early 80s doing this in 九龍公園
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
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.
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？
何麦~小时候看过他演的电影~😁
What can I do when i have swellings?
Thanks a lot, we need more videos like this Charlene !!!
remember this man from so many hong kong action movies in the 80s and 90s. so cool still see him around and healthy.
I love Hung Ga Kuen. Tough style, but very dangerous if you know how to use it.
Is this in Hong kong
真是沙煲甘大个拳。好奇问一下只手还有没有知觉😅
Wish you would put English subtitles on too. Cheers
No dit da jow after?
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。
Awesome video Mark!
真功夫,练后是点样去除伤痛呢?有擦乜嘢药去淤血。
练完后都要浸或擦跌打酒
@@charlenehoughton7069 Dear Charlene, I should probably ask Your father about this (but I don't know His address), but perhaps You can answer too:
1. How long (years) shall I (or anyone else) have to train to get my hands like this?
2. Why does he only train one hand like this and not both? Is there iron leg training?
3. Why is it important that the fist (knuckles) should be flat (he says at 2:40 and 2:59)?
4. Is there any downside to this training in the long run (e.g. hard to bend the finger, sore hand, sore joints)?
@@tomcartman9434 Hi Tom!
1. Minimum 3 years to achieve good results.
2. Reason for training one hand not two.... Once iron palm is achieved it will be easy to accidentally injure someone by touching their body. So one hand is trained that way you can make contact with family and friend with the hand not trained.
In tradition if you are right handed you would train the left hand. If left handed you would train the right. Reason for this.... You have to think before you use your hand. If you train your dominant hand you lash out or use it without thinking.. This way you don't hurt someone out of anger, lashing out without thinking about the consequences.
We don’t do iron leg.
3. Training only the knuckles to extend to training the the knuckles to be flat.... Training the knuckles to be big and extend from the fist is also good, however the gap between the knuckles does not get trained. Thus leaving a weakness in the fist...
Training the knuckles to be flat trains the fist without weakness.
4. This type of training you must have correct herbal medicine to soak the hands, you must have correct breathing exercises. Hei Kung. Without this you will damage your hands and also damage your body internally.
@@charlenehoughton7069 Thank you for your answers! There are other kung fu styles that do iron palm/fist training too, but they use different method, mainly chi kung exercises, and their hands don't grow as much, but stay normal, as if they don't do iron palm/fist training. Is their method less effective, less strong their hands?
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!
Exelente Blessings very Excellent video ... I wanna see more videos like that
正！請到何麥爸爸拍片，好耐無見何麥先生！
A huge huge respect to sifu houghton.
Holy shit. Speechless. I’ve never seen (literally) that level of Iron Palm.
По сколько же ударов он делает за одну тренировку? И сколько на это уходит времени?
Are you Rene from Flying Tigers 3?
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
"..... but daddy.... I wanted to drink the coconut milk!" 😢
How can you not give a like, its hard work and effort invested first.
你打完之後有冇查鐵沙掌練功藥酒？
You know it’s real iron palm when the dudes right palm is twice size of left palm
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 ruclips.net/video/QSYuOr_zfYw/видео.html
@@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.
@@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.
@@desperatechihuahua7035 Sure
@@candidob8683 他没有洗手的药方，也就是药功，练多了手会废掉
Great video.
Even better bonding!
🙏
i love the 攪笑氣氛 + 功夫 what a winning combo
請問妳爸爸Mark師傅以前係唔係在85-87 Birmingham New Street 開過拳館，not sure is it the same person, 如果是同一人，我朋友應該根過佢老人家學拳。。。😀
Just found you. Cool channel🙏🙏🙏🦄☯️
Fenomenal charlene!!!!tu papa .
hitting kettle bells with your hand?! Seriously I would not mess with Mark Houghton!
这位洋人师父的洪拳水平高
讚👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Very good skill
記得世伯拍過武打片是嗎。
thank you for sharing the video ..
希望Charlene 唔駛練成咁，雖然我好佩服呢位師傅🙏🙏👍👍
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!
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!
if only we get to see Sir Mark and her daugter in an epic action kungfu but old style cinema movie again !
嘩！咁勁！
會唔會影響日常生活㗎？
年紀老大咗有冇問題啊？
Master , Thank you very much for the sharing. You are Super. 💪💪💪
☺️🙏🏻 多謝賜教
Amazing! Great video.
Fun family video! :)
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 😊😊😊✌🏿✌🏿
I like the way he smokes cigar! Same as me!
想問一下，何麥師傳為何要把knuckle的骨變平，而不是突出？是不是有什麼原因？謝謝
不是把指關節變平，是打到骨變大變厚變硬，日子有功變得平坦，其實即係將指骨變畸型。
are those hands or bear pranks I am not sure
James Lacy taught me that iron palm technique... RIP Master Lacy
A truly excellent video. Thanks for uploading!!
練鬆不練緊.加油💪👏👏👏😃
Wa, good kongfu I really! Look alike traditional Chinese master. It's amazing for west people can do that. 👍👍👍
練鐵沙掌要泡葯，唔係硬練，小心倒傷自己
自傷其身，根本佢隻手傷咗自己都唔知，隻手無晒感覺。
讚👍👍very good! Kungfu Master.
He has Chinese Opera mime characters now in his acting. Lol. Brilliant
繼續拍多的好片👍👍加油👍👍
Wa 😮 it hurts by just watching it. 厲害 好粵語 also
是劉家良的 高徒👍👍👍
有腹肌，好正😍
Where is the dit dar jow 跌打酒
You can tell he’s been over there a long time.
I met him in a pub in Hong Kong back in 2004. Very interesting man. :)