Product Details

• Actors: Professor Thomas Keen
• Directors: Thomas keen
• Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Yamazato/Fighting Spirit Productions
• DVD Release Date: October 19, 2004
• Run Time: 55 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0006A5NTC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #136,055 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

In this Keens Stone Warrior presentation you will be presented with twenty one exercises in detail and the program is made to build muscle mass, power and strength. All you need is some small space of fur to six feet and you can begin with this Stone Warrior program and it is starting out like a weight lifer working without the equipments.Emphasise will be given to striking and blocking. Twelve repetitions for seven weeks, 3 days a week is necessarr. This program contains training material and is a sure way for you to achieve strength results in your muscles.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Controversial material, September 29, 2009

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Turiyan gold (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stone Warrior- Chinese Strength & Health Program (DVD)

Provocative title yes. The green dragon studios is probably the 2nd most controversial subject/school/system next to 18 daoist palms. What I will add outside of the politics is that you can do the system without tension. Something is better than nothing. The thing which defines most of the green dragon sets is the obsession with tension which I dont agree with. Saving the iron vest form which I have taught from Kwan fu. I have the iron palm form by Kwan fu too. Oddly enough its better than the green dragon iron palm video I saw. The latter was a combination of two tapes and was incomplete. I heard other things about other tapes by them. I cant comment unless I see two different teachers teaching the same thing differently. In this case it was chicoine and john allen. Whats missing from this is allens drill sargent method of instruction to what always seems to be an imaginary audience of seminar students. I say this because no one ever seems to cough, talk, drop pencils or anything. Its like they are mute or perhaps too intimidated to even dare interrupt. Criticisms of this form are that it can indeed make your arms as hard as rock but at the cost of speed. What I have to say is that indeed within the set are exercises when done singly or in combination can literally make not just the arms hard as rock, but the whole body. But we are talking a more esoteric, or legendary or dare I say spiritual side effect. #1 #3 #4 #7 #9 #19 stand out as the important ones for reasons I really cant get into. The postures with the arms crossed is called in shaolin "key lock arts" and increases physical strengh in a manner which would be hard to convince people with a "rational mind". Other techniques are thrown in, not all are technically geared towards the "stone body" effect. Some might help cool the body. For the record high blood pressure is called "liver wind" in chinese medicine. People with blood pressure issues should be careful with this set. Some people teach tension forms to apply tension only after movement. But i've seen a test on sanchin that said it was no more strenuous than deep knee bends. Two herbs that will help with hypertension are tibetain mulberry fruit (morus alba) and xia cu cao (prunellia vulgarius). Both are superior herbs and safe. When the arms cross in front of the chest you should face magnetic north. I guess thats all I have to say about this one for now.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Usefull system, December 27, 2004

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Damien M. Deane "wolfshen" (Stroudsburg, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stone Warrior- Chinese Strength & Health Program (DVD)

Great form of exercise and definitly a challenging form of qigong for the advanced practitioner, martial artist looking for some form of expansion to their training. The only downside is you will not find any of the internal basis or what have you on about the Stone Warrior or Iron Wire/Thread qigong on the disk, but it is the advanced portion of their system so they probably expect you know about the internal or historical aspects already.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Making a correction, March 29, 2006

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Thomas Keen (PA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stone Warrior- Chinese Strength & Health Program (DVD)

I'm sorry that you were not happy with the production. If the DVD is faulty, please send it to me for a replacement.

No, not filmed in the basement but in a 5,000 sq ft hall where we were hosting the seminar.

Yes, out of breath because the exercises are under full tension and demonstrated at full tension. If you're not out of breath with the exercise, you are not pushing enough.

Iron Vest is the internal set, Stone Warrior is all external. Please visit my site for more details on the complete Chinese Strength & Health Program.

We will refilm this DVD to make the atmosphere more appealing.

Thank you for your help.

Sincerely,
Thomas Keen
Keen's Martial Arts