Striking bag

[W.Lynn]

I bought a 2-pack of canvas coin bags from the big online retailer, the cheap ones, no handles or anything, just heavy canvas. I bought a bag of pea-gravel at the garden end of the big-box home improvement store. A small amount of the gravel is in each bag, I twisted the top of the bag and "tied" it shut with several wraps of packing tape - use gorilla tape or anything else you have on hand, even string if it's sturdy.

It's probably driving a few people up the wall, but one of these sacks now resides on the corner of my cedar chest. I spend some time every day doing fingertip, mantis, bird beak, knife-hand, ridge-hand, and other strikes into it.

At some point, the rest of the pea gravel will go into a sturdy bucket, for driving a whole-arm knife hand strike into.

Now imagine you know someone dumb enough to start something with anyone who knows enough anatomy to keep things interesting, and trains part of every day like this.

[W.Lynn]

I may be getting toughened enough on my fingertips to take another stab at learning guitar. It always hurt too much before (wouldn't toughen because I was always the one doing all the cooking and dishes.)

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Soooo your telling us you've given up cooking and dishes for beating up on poor little rocks MMmmmmm ( thinking to myself Karen alert ) lol

[W.Lynn]

I still take my turn cooking, just not every meal. But yes, I do beat up on rocks, the concrete posts next to the gas pump while fueling, whatever.