chi master's powers include the ability to make you dance away from him

[Skepiroth]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3psYEPYaBo

If the JREF would like to fly me to where ever this guy lives to fight him and prove him wrong, I'd be very happy to do so :-p (free vacation to Asia)

P.S. I won't be as nice as the Aussies who fought Yellow Bamboo

[Goshawk]

I saw something very similar last year on PBS's Great Performances, I think it was Merce Cunningham. :D

Seriously, though, how come his chi power, in pushing them away from him, doesn't simply knock them on their tailbones, as would happen if he physically shoved them with his hands? The balletic barrel rolls are, to my mind, a dead giveaway that they're doing it themselves, not that he's pushing them. It's what's known as "physics".

Not that I think devotees care, but still...

[Skepiroth]

I saw something very similar last year on PBS's Great Performances, I think it was Merce Cunningham. :D

Seriously, though, how come his chi power, in pushing them away from him, doesn't simply knock them on their tailbones, as would happen if he physically shoved them with his hands? The balletic barrel rolls are, to my mind, a dead giveaway that they're doing it themselves, not that he's pushing them. It's what's known as "physics".

Not that I think devotees care, but still...

You just don't get it... he has THAT much chi power to waste

[osmosis]

That looks like fun.

[Operaider]

There was a great master that taught students in the ghettos of Harlem back in the 80's that was said to be able to posses this power.

With a single wave of his hand his students would go through acrobatic contortions, even so far as to be knocked into flips or spun on their head.

Thus is the history of break dancing.

[Operaider]

2 things

If this guy is able to exert so much energy and knock someone as far away as he claims. Shouldn't he be able to exert the same energy on the ground and lift his ass a good 20 feet off the ground. Why doesn't he do that?

Secondly, my favorite part of that video happens a little before the 1/2 point of the film. When the student clearly misses his "you flip away now" cue and needs to be shoved.

[Zep]

In India, this sort of dreadful and low-grade overacting is actually taken seriously. :eek:

[Horatius]

And, if it's real, why do the two guys react so differently? One guy goes bouncing up and down, with his legs flying all over the place, while the other guy just stumbles really dramatically, without ever doing any "hopping". If it was a real force, you'd expect the effects to be more consistent.

[Dazed]

There's no way its real. Who are these 2 hired goons?

[Horatius]

There's no way its real. Who are these 2 hired goons?

I think you meant "goofs" there. I actually respect a good goon.

[Grimoire]

In India, this sort of dreadful and low-grade overacting is actually taken seriously. :eek:
Yeah, they call them music videos...

But really, does anyone look at that video and seriously think it is real? I'd love to see him try that on Chuck Liddell...

[Zep]

Yeah, they call them music videos...Alas, I'm being quite serious.

In India and Pakistan, if something "scientific" is recorded on media of some kind, e.g. "on film" or "in print" or "on the internet", then it is taken as being valid data at face value, no matter how illogical and amusing we may think it obviously is. And the act of debunking is considered somehow so IMpolite that it is rarely, if ever, attempted. Something about loss of face, I guess.

The homeopaths of those two countries do a roaring trade on this basis alone. And they know it, because they also believe that if they simply and deliberately ignore evidence contrary to their position then they haven't been proven wrong, so they must still be right. That is, they stick their collective fingers in their ears and go "La la la I can't hear you".

[mgdwcb]

That video is quite sad, as Wing Chun is a rather physical martial art. If you get hit hard by a Wing Chun practitioner you may fall down or double up in pain but you won't skip backwards twenty feet and come back for more, unhurt. Bruce Lee would turn in his grave to see such a thing.