[QUOTE=Grumblegeezer;1262649]OK Hendrik, I read over the two first two articles (the only ones published in English) and they did not offer any conclusive support for the theory that acupuncture points and meridians have a relationship with electrical resistance! Why are you posting studies that cast doubt on your stated position?!?[/QUOTE]
I post facts from different views. I am open for facture evidence, Qi is real but it is no God and not everything.
Upto any one to take what they like.
Does the west know about Qi? Well one can see lots of prejudice scientist in the west since 1850 the opium war era. And now many in the west accept accupuncture and traditional medicine, while some still not accept reality ,via thier prejudice mind by the name of scientific.
Seriously, it is as non scientific for those who never train and practice Qi handling to critics or comment on what they don’t know. And how many here really has more then 100 hours of formal Qi handling training?
Qi is not everything. But Qi is something can be grow and lead to flow in the body. Anyone who has formal traning and pastic know this.
Does SNT design related to Qi? Absolutely.
Any one who goes through the six core elements of snt training never turn back., because result is the reality.
[QUOTE=Hendrik;1262650] And now many in the west accept accupuncture and traditional medicine while some still not accept reality via thier prejudice mind by the name of scientific.
…Qi is something can be grow and lead to flow in the body…
Does SNT design related to Qi? Absolutely.[/QUOTE]
Ok, please share with us your results since you started adding accumpuncture and medicine ideas into your wing chun. What proven increase in fighting abilities have you personally experienced?
While wing chun practice does have health benifits, that is just a bi-product of the training. There are also phylisophical benifits for self growth. And we can do chi gung outside of WC for health benifits.
But the main reason for the existence of wing chun is for combat. All the theory, EKG reports, old scrolls, etc do not prove the results. Without proven increase in combat skills, what are we even talking about?
(And before you start with the ‘this isn’t about me’ nonsense, if you want anyone to take anything you say seriously about your findings and ‘facts’, please tell us how it’s worked out for you so far. That should be pretty simple!)
[QUOTE=JPinAZ;1262651]But the main reason for the existence of wing chun is for combat. All the theory, EKG reports, old scrolls, etc do not prove the results. Without proven increase in combat skills, what are we even talking about?[/QUOTE]
Yeah. I spent a lot of time at Shaolin, where much of Chinese qigong practice developed. They all spend years training to break bricks with their hands, have sticks broken over them, spears broken on their throats, iron bars snapped over their heads, etc.. They fear not being hit. All of which of course they all attribute to their practice of “hard qigong”.
Yet, when they have sanda matches they still get knocked out. Ha. Not only that, but the guy’s skull doesn’t split open like a brick. Where does it all go? It’s all a colossal waste of time if you’re training for combat effectiveness.
While there are health benefits to training “soft qigong”, I find it is due to the type of physical exercise, stretching and deep breathing. “Qi” is bullsh!t.
Qi = BS? Well, if this is true, then why say “Qi” (or chi or ki)? Just substitute the better understood term, “BS”.
Then we can increase the strength of our BS through breathing and special exercises. Like the BS masters of old we can accumulate and store BS below and behind our navel. We can learn to circulate BS through our body. We can use BS to heal people and, as martial artists, we can use BS to overcome our enemies.
Why you’re absolutely right, LFJ. Now I see how by just using the term BS it all seems to make so much more sense!
[QUOTE=Grumblegeezer;1262725]Qi = BS? Well, if this is true, then why say “Qi” (or chi or ki)? Just substitute the better understood term, “BS”.[/QUOTE]
Qi is the Chinese word for BS. If you leave it in Chinese while speaking English more people will believe it.