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Old 05-11-2006, 11:08 AM   #214
Mike Sigman
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Re: The "Jo Trick" and Similar Exercises

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Bratzo Barrena wrote:
It's funny when we see these Ki/CHI masters, who for example claim they can move Ki aroud their bodies at will an use it to protect them as an invisible shield.
I don't know any real "masters" who claim that. There are some experts who say that conditioning the "qi" resists punctures to the skin and provides resistance to blows, but not on areas that are not covered by musculature
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To prove it they put a spear to their throats and push. It's a nice trick, but have you ever seen them focusing their KI in their eye and the putting a spear on thier eye and push? Of course not. Can they do ti? NO. Because it's not true ki is a kind of invisible shield they can use at will, that's bullshit.
That's an amazing rhetorical device... you make a statement about something I've never heard claimed and then you debunk it. Let's call it a "strawman" argument, for want of a better name.
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How about the video of this guy screaming and the attacker falls down. If that power were true, from ancient times armies would have been trained in that art and they would have ruled the world.
Strange... being strong doesn't guarantee anyone will win every fight and yet soldiers still foolishly traing their strength. Will they never learn?

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Mike Sigman
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