Go to the Concepts board and the Fa Jing/Kong Jing thread and there is a discussion of Mooney’s double-blind experimental test of his chi projection abilities. For those of you who don’t want to go to the trouble of reading the whole thing, here is the synopsis.
He failed, and failed big time. Only 2 of 16 subjects showed any effect at all, and one showed the opposite effect Mooney was trying for.
Sorry WD, my life is empty, and this is how I try to make it seem fuller. I thought another Mooney related argument was what we all needed to brighten up our days.
Are they saying Mooney doesn’t have Fa Jing/Kong Jing or that Fa Jing/Kong Jing doesn’t exist?
Basically, this test proved nothing as a lack of proof is not proof. After all, with all our scientific knowledge and resources we have still not been able to prove the existance of aliens, big foot, Lockness monster, the Easter Bunny, or Eskimos. Yet there are too many unproven and unvarified accounts to dismiss them. (Except maybe Eskimos. Little people living in ice houses eating whale blubber??? Yea I’m gonna believe that one)
They never say Fa Jing doesn’t exist, simply that Rich Mooney failed to demonstrate it. I’m pretty sure the easter bunny has fa jing, though, so if they could just find him, it would be like killing two birds with one stone.
It’s quite obvious that the eggs are left by Santa’s reindeer during his Christmas deliveries. Due to the cold of winter, the eggs cannot develop fully until the warmer spring weather.
“What’s in the eggs?” you ask? Simple: Elves (aka Santa’s helpers). The “Easter Egg Hunt” is simply a way to control the elf population. The eggs that are not found by children hatch and the surviving elves make their way to the North Pole to begin the task of compiling a database of naughty/nice children and creating appropriate gifts accordingly.
This is a little known fact, but the life span of a Christmas elf is extremely short (about a year). This is due to the harsh climate of the North Pole, and that Santa works them to death making toys for all of the children in the world. This is why Mother Nature, to keep the elves from extinction, has the reindeer laying eggs every year.
So I guess science will never be able to prove the existence of chi powers, since they will never find the Easter Bunny.
red fists, i agree that the origin of many a japanese martial art is a chinese martial art, I also agree that Kempo is japanese for Chuan Fa which is Chinese for Fist law/method.
I do not agree that the modifications of Japanese arts are “slight”.
Lessons in the Hara (Dan Tien) and Ki (Qi/Chi) are omitted in many styles of Karate and not dealt with to the depths they are explored in systems such as Shaolin based styles. Especially in the west.
Both have definitive value as martial systems. But imho, they are very different animals.
I said “a lot of Japanese Arts”, I didn’t say any Kara-Te(To-Te), Ju-Jutsu styles being called kempo.
Kempo is used in Japan to differentiate the arts that still acknowledge their Chinese roots.
“Shorinshi kempo” in Chinese would be called “Shao-lin”, same system but the the founder mixed the shao-Lin and other Chuan Fa systems he learned.
I study “Tai Kyoku Kempo” a form of Tai Chi Chuan specific to Japan,as our founder also made changes to the systems he studied in Taipei.
But in Japan there are also “Tai Kyoku Ken”/“Shorinshi” Schools, which are the traditional unmodified Tai Chi/Shaolin styles.
Same counts for Hsing-Yi, Ba Gua and many other systems.
In my style we call the Dan Tien the Tan-Ten.
I know it gets confusing as some styles used to refer to themselves as “Kempo” and are now calling themselves “Kara-Te” or “Ju-Jutsu”.
But yes, there are styles that hardly look at all like their Chinese parent styles and other like mine that are recognised as the same as their parent styles.
And that was told to me by some chinese Tai Chi instructors out here.
I can’t believe Mooney hasn’t had one of his coniptions and threatened you guys yet. He must not be aware of the disturbance in the force you infidels have created.
