There's a way to train, to do that. You hit something that's soft, like sand, over and over again. And you do it...thousands of times, millions, over a long period of time. And what it does is, it fractures the bones over and over again. Never breaking them, never incapacitating them. But little fractures, that the body recognizes that it needs to repair, so it fixes them. And by fixing them, it builds them up stronger from the reinforcement.
Someone like my mom...things hurt her, all the time. But I think maybe that's what makes her so strong, is that she's built up...hurt after hurt, like striking sand. Little ones. Never so bad that it can't be repaired. But over and over again. So when something comes up, like concrete...
But I think your things, you didn't get years and years of little ones. You and I don't break the concrete with technique, we break it by throwing ourselves at it and hitting it so hard it has to shatter. So we're used to the fractures always being major, and breaking our hand with it, and leaving us with a bunch of healing to do afterwards.
So I think the way you're feeling, it's like cringing at the sight of the concrete block. Because it always hurts when we do it. So it feels stupid to step up and try, because the only way we've ever known to do it is the way that breaks our hand in the process.
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Someone like my mom...things hurt her, all the time. But I think maybe that's what makes her so strong, is that she's built up...hurt after hurt, like striking sand. Little ones. Never so bad that it can't be repaired. But over and over again. So when something comes up, like concrete...
But I think your things, you didn't get years and years of little ones. You and I don't break the concrete with technique, we break it by throwing ourselves at it and hitting it so hard it has to shatter. So we're used to the fractures always being major, and breaking our hand with it, and leaving us with a bunch of healing to do afterwards.
So I think the way you're feeling, it's like cringing at the sight of the concrete block. Because it always hurts when we do it. So it feels stupid to step up and try, because the only way we've ever known to do it is the way that breaks our hand in the process.