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Originally posted by News Junkie
Anyone recall the first Bloodsport movie where to enter the competition Van Damme has someone pick one of the bricks in the middle of a stack - then proceeds to strike the top one so that the selected one - 2 or 3 down from the top - explodes?
That technique (the select break) is a reality - I can and have done it. It is a technique that was developed for penetrating body armour - without penetrating it.
Always? . . .
Originally posted by Anuubis
reply to post by News Junkie
To truly follow the path to enlightenment one must always have tasted the temptation that would lead him astray.
Sticky Snake helps too It's a technique I adapted to a game I play with my kids - similar to JKDs "hands" but more of a grapple - it is played with eyes shut - great fun and good development of sensing movement, tension and intention in an opponent.
Originally posted by AnuubisThat is how the ninja learn to fight without seeing their opponents.
Originally posted by Anuubis
You are both right, Fa-jin and qi are one and the same.
Originally posted by AnuubisFor those who do not know how, it's most likely because they cannot open their minds.
Originally posted by Dr X
1. The mystical energy field from chinese medicine. I have felt this during several aikido exercises. I believe it is real but has very little to do with real fighting.
Originally posted by Dr X
The 3rd type is the one used in aikido and tai chi
3. It is just another name for energy in the scientific sense. It therefore has 3 manifestations: linear kinetic energy, rotational kinetic energy and gravitational energy.
It just is what it is. To put a name such as physical on it limits the perception of it to one's interpretation of that word.
Originally posted by Dr X
Beware all the mysticisym around ki. It is physical.
That would only be true if it is taught in the wrong order. The wrong order is physical, manipulation, perception. Unfortunately this is the order that 99.99% of people pursue it.
Originally posted by Dr X
It is energy and its feeling of contact and redirected can only be felt through years of practice.
Being soft physically follows on from being calm in the mind. If it is learned in the correct order, then you don't need to undo all those years of external "tense, tense, tense" in the body which tranlates to "force, force, force" in the mind. That external mindset is loaded with attachment to outcome and desires - which inhibits being in the moment and clear minded.
Originally posted by Dr X
The reason is you have to be soft is to feel and redirect the energy. If you are too strong then you actually counteract some of the energy which is wasteful.
Not contradicting you - just stating that in this situation there is a continuum where at one end most of the work is done externally where only a little internal effect is present and at the other end most of the work is done internally with only little to no external skill is required.
Originally posted by Dr X
there is more to the soft arts than just ki there are incredibly subtle movements using leverage, positioning, relaxation and technique.
My teacher's teacher used to fight in asia. He would beat internal fighters before he even learned internal. He did it because he was able to disturb their minds.
Originally posted by Dr X
Remeber the tai chi masters of old were said to be able to defeat the shaolin monks.
Yes, but not merely for the martial arts aspect - they are a pathway to the truth if you can find the right teacher.
Originally posted by Dr X
Softer styles rule! .