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- From: azw@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Michael Woodward)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Beginner's questions about Chi
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.131929.17308@aber.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 13:19:29 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.022552.35214@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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- I ask this from the standpoint of someone who has been at the cutting edge of
- rock climbing for 20 years, but whose martial arts training is, er,
- informal and esoteric.
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- Everyone has internal reserves, emergency power, a sort of switch in your
- head, which comes into play when things get extreme. High standard climbing
- ,I beleive, trains you informally to access this at will, to a degree. When
- the switch clicks, everything goes quiet, things seem to happen in slow motion
- soo you have all the time in the world to plan and act, and you can do power
- tricks which blow your mind afterwards! In the few confrontations in which
- the tried and trusted method of running away very quickly has not worked, I
- have found this effect more than adequate.
-
- What are the net views (I hestitate to say wisdom) on the link between
- this effect and the concept of training to access chi?
-