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That 70’s show

I hear ya, SimonM. It’s like there was the axis age (the time of Laozi and Aurelius and many other original great thinkers) then there was the rennaissance, the the 60’s revolution (leading to that 70’s fallout leading to The Tao of Physics, etc.) Now, with the internet, it looks like we’re in the age of blog babble. Maybe that’s the hangover of the 60’s still…

But back OT, Grandmaster Tu Jin-sheng (that’s right, the iron crotch master) teaches a special seminar specifically on qigong tricks and stunts. He is quick to point out that these are not ‘true’ expressions of qigong. They do require some skill and a little slight-of-hand knowledge of the ‘tao of physics’. He teaches it partly to debunk, partly to build confidence in students, and mostly because it’s fun (I think). It’s amusing how many local masters have shown up to this seminar. Gigi Oh, our publisher, sat in on part of one of these, was rather excited about being able to pop the bottom of a wine bottle out by slapping the top until I told her we used to do that while drunk in college with Lucky Lager beer bottles. this being said, I maintain my position that understanding the qigong stunts is very important to the practice of martial arts. You need to know what is real and what is physics. It’s also good to show off at ****tail parties :stuck_out_tongue:

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I gotta try that trick with one of these double-size beer bottles I have lying around sometime. Never have…

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The secret to breaking

The real secret to breaking lies in what you are breaking. For boards, a little oven-dried soft wood is best. Or you can just get some Paulownia ;). For bottles, it’s all about the bottle. Some are much easier than others. Lucky Lager is really cheap, so the bottles are really cheap. Also, the bottle should be half full, not only to make the break more spectacular, but also to help the ahem physics of it.

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Gene,

I can’t believe you talk down on chinese kung fu and say that its like physics. It’s NOT physics - this is a western art. Eastern art is different.

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Slightly OT

This is becoming my weird Shaolin qigong thread. There’s a vid if you follow the link.

Kung Fu believe it? Stomach-churning film shows two boys from a Shaolin Monastery contort their bodies during grotesque dance routines
Footage shows two boys from the Shaolin Monastery doing hypnotic dances
One moves is belly like a crashing wave and then incredibly clenches it in
The camera then pans to another boy moving his shoulder blades out of place
The Shaolin Monastery is a Buddhist temple founded around 1,500 years ago
By Simon Holmes For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 14:31 EDT, 4 August 2017 | UPDATED: 20:01 EDT, 4 August 2017

Footage has emerged of two boys from the Shaolin Monastery in China performing a hypnotic belly and scapula ‘dance’.

The short clip shows one moving his belly like a wave and then clenching his stomach in.

The camera then pans to another boy moving his scapula or shoulder blades out of place in a bizarre movement.


One moves his belly like a crashing wave and then clenching his stomach in

The camera then pans to another boy moving his scapula or shoulder blades out of place in a bizarre movement

The world famous Shaolin Monastery in Zhengzhou, Henan Province is a Buddhist temple founded around 1,500 years ago. It is still considered the world’s main school of Buddhism.

Students can also learn Kung Fu, a Chinese marital art that combines Zen Buddhism, where they can study how to gain such control over their bodies.

The footage was taken on July 12 but emerged online this week.


The world famous Shaolin Monastery in Zhengzhou, Henan Province is a Buddhist temple founded around 1,500 years ago

[QUOTE=Vasquez;631209]I can’t believe you talk down on chinese kung fu and say that its like physics. It’s NOT physics - this is a western art. Eastern art is different.[/QUOTE] Physics is physics, Vasquez. Acknowledging that is not ‘talking down’, it’s being realistic. I do ‘talk down’ deception based on physics tricks. That’s fakery, plain and simple. That being said, I have witnessed several qigong feats that transcend our understanding of physics, but bottle (and some board) breaks ain’t one of them. Neither is the contortion in the article above - but that’s interesting nonetheless.

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My teacher loved to put on weird demonstrations for crowds. Bottom block breaks, bed of nail concrete breaks, etc., but he never pretended it was anything other than a physics trick.