TheSymbol

What's this I hear about silat practitioners jamming their hands in gross ass boiling chicken fat? Why do you do this?

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Garland

Why, to make themselves crispy. They only add the special herbs and spices when they are engaging in actual combat, though.

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Garland

...in all actuality I think that there is a trick to it, like most martial art "stunts". They are done to show martial prowess through "trial by ordeal". Those savvy to the trick are masterful, those who aren't get burned. That simple. Plus, burns from fat and oil tend to have pretty good treatments in southeast asian ethnomedical modalities. I remember a cook at my parent's Thai restaurant accidentily thrusting his arm up to the elbow into a fryer when I was a child. He immediatly doused it with fish sauce and after applying some sort of balm he got from the local Buddhist monestary, he was pretty much 100% back to normal.

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Tant01

Cold boil trick... the OIL is only a hundred and some degrees... The trick is a fluid that's heavier than oil at the bottom of the kettle boils at a low temp.

Lets see the same trick with oil near the flashpoint 450 degrees!

Talk about extra crispy...

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"In all countries where personal freedom is valued, however much each individual may rely on legal redress, the right of each to carry arms - and these the best and the sharpest - for his own protection in case of extremity, is a right of nature indelible and irrepressible, and the more it is sought to be repressed the more it will recur."

James Paterson

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TheSymbol

What would the benefits of limb crispyness entail?

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Garland

...man, your punches would be *crisp*, yo.

mad sizzlin' hot silat style.

siracha anyone?

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