voodoodollpike
It was an old technique for monks actually...weird huh
sweatdrop ninja Interestingly enough, there are a few stories behind it(but no one knows which one is real). One is as old as a few thousand years B.C. and one seems pretty recent, maybe 15xx+.
If you want, you can read them all here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zui_Quan#Origins