I’m not saying I haven’t seen men or women who had great skill in the martial arts. But it didn’t impress me so much that it changed my life in any significant way. That’s a pretty high bar you set and something like that just hasn’t happened to me.
I suppose if I saw a tiger break a man’s ribs with just his tail, or something like that, then I WOULD be impressed.
“16 Kung fu masters that flew in to town”
Now that is something I’d like to see. 
Darn, Highlander - I was going to say the Beijing Circus, but you beat me to it. Absolutely amazing body control - I would never want to be in a fight with anyone who had the kind of precision, strength, and agility it takes to, for instance, be part of a group that balances twenty people on a unicycle while the bottom ten people juggle spinning plates and the top ten people do backflips while holding flaming torches.
“…and boy were their arms tired!” (rimshot)
I was at a small exhibition once and saw this guy (can’t remember from what school) doing a rope-dart form. The thing shot out precisely every which way, hissin inches over the heads of the audience. He had such perfect control and accuracy I’m sure he could put the dart through someone’s eye from 30 feet away. Very impressive, I always thought the weapon was just for silly acrobatic performances before I saw that.
Gargoyle again,
It is just for silly acrobatic performances, and I was trying to hit the audience with it. The accuracy on those things is horrible .
On tv ( no one said it had to be in real life:p) I saw this “Shaolin monk” pushing a car with the sharp end of a spear placed on his throat and the other end placed on the car. He pushed It several metres. That was quite impressive.(but then again, it was on tv:p)
Oops, I just saw the title of the topic again, sorry. It WAS something that you had to have witnessed in person.
silly me.
Originally posted by MightyB
My Sifu was teaching my si hing an advanced spear form and my si hing couldn’t get the correct power in a downward strike with the shaft.
Huh..huh he said shaft
I was at a karate tournament once when i was like 12 or 13. This guy from my freinds dojo was competing. This dude beet 75 people and took the gold metal in sparring. He was excellent.
I haven’t seen anyhting else that impressed me as much as this did (aside from the movie stuff, but that’s not “real” fighting)
I saw some dudes pull a truck with their balls once as well, and they didn’t rip them off, which was really amazing.
I saw Ashida Kim clear an entire message board of spam in 5 minutes one day.
IHAK
In general: The guys that pulled a truck with their balls.
In person: My sifu throwing me with the single palm change while I was fully resisting; except he did it using only one arm.
I got beat up by a 60 year old man (some where around that age) who knew tai chi in a sparring session in my school.Felt like I was getting punched with brick.