More damaging physical practices

Just a couple more things that occur to me:

1) Sanchin pressure breathing. Great for developing power, but the practitioners seem to be taking an average of 5 years off their lives.

2) Power stretching/kicking. Not sure why, but the number of hip replacements among American Practitioners of Korean styles seems excessive.

3) Excessive Chinese-style stretching. Flexibility without balancing strength leads to an imbalance and destabilization of the hips. Again, not the fault of the system, but a problem seen in individual schools.


4) Excessive jogging: hip and knee and back problems.

5) Excessive yoga. This is more subjective: I've seen a kind of passivity, an excessive "Yin" quality among many man who do tons of yoga.

The point is that anything, done to excess, can be problematic.