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- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Is chi/ ki real?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.042022.19063@massey.ac.nz>
- From: MWright@massey.ac.nz (M.J. Wright)
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 04:20:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.040716.17982@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1993Jan25.214650.22896@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Keywords: ki chi tricks
- Summary: Lies Lies and more Lies
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- [snip amazing feats of chi/ki]
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- Some of the apparently spectacular feats that are usually fraudulent
- tricks of technique:
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- - Being so tough people can break baseball bats on your shins
- - Being so tough you can have a car drive over you
- - Firewalking
- (your grandmother would be just as good a subject for these tricks)
- - Breaking thick ice
- - Breaking many, many bricks
- (salt the ice, put more sand in the brick mix)
- - Plucking an egg out of boiling water
- - Moving a pen by thought control
- (these are effectively stage magician tricks)
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- Treat these sorts of claim with a ton of salt: offer to use your own car
- (don't let it out of your sight), offer to swing the bat yourself, offer
- to provide the bricks or the ice, offer to set up the boiling water,
- offer to provide a gasmask for the pen trick. But don't be too credulous.
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- These people give ki a bad name. I agree that we all have ki, and can
- develop it to assist our martial arts, but this has little to
- do with demonstrations of spectacular tricks.
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- Malcolm
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- PS: I accept that up to six or more bricks/concrete slabs can be broken
- by a strike, but the ability to do this is not very widespread, and if
- you do it too much it does your hands NO GOOD AT ALL, especially if you
- make a minute error of technique every 20th time.
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