191 The Sensei Strikes Back
Nobody could be this ridiculous right?
Guess again. Please take note of Joe Nickel‘s three second appearance as the token skeptic:
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SENSEI
We combine elements of Tai Chi, Kiai, QiGong, and Kung Fu. Harnessing of Chi, the life force, and delivering it as a radio blast.
MITCH
Harnessing the 'life force', like a Jedi?
SENSEI
Oh no, that is make believe.
We combine elements of Tai Chi, Kiai, QiGong, and Kung Fu. Harnessing of Chi, the life force, and delivering it as a radio blast.
MITCH
Harnessing the 'life force', like a Jedi?
SENSEI
Oh no, that is make believe.
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I don’t believe in Chi. I do believe in joint locks and severe internal bleeding from a good hard punch.
I think Chi is more of a visualization tool. A way to simplify the forces brought on by contraction of muscles in a specific way and delivered to a target through a contact point to something that the average person can comprehend and memorize, and “feel” it.
“If the guy had his tongue in the wrong position in his mouth, that can also nullify it.” Riiight.
Actually, they’ve got it a bit backward. The idea behind the Force was derived from some of the notions of chi.
I’ve looked into Tai Chi, Kung Fu, Qigong, and Baguazhang. I’ve taken diagrams of meridian points and lined them up with anatomy diagrams. The points may not exactly follow nerves or veins, but they do align with a combination. There is a practicality which makes the mysticism superfluous. Likewise I suspect that the idea of chi originally could have been compared with a scientific explanation, but over the years it has been subjected to “god of the gaps” arguments.
So chi only works on believers. Doesn’t that kind of make it fairly useless even if it did exist? I guess I’ve been training my defense for years.
Pressure point striking does work to a point. People’s physiologies differ enough that it makes it difficult and unreliable. They mostly just cause pain. It is nothing like what these people say that they can do.
Whacking someone hard enough no matter where does the job anyways
You know, kinda like how in the old AD&D rules a Psionic could only use their powers on another Psionic, something about the mind having to be open to receiving the energy. So best defense against psionics was to not be one, then they only had one attack they could use, and there was a helm/ring/whatever that defended against that one too.
Yeah, that’s why psionics disappeared from the rules. LOL
‘Radio blast’? Seriously? Even if a human body could create radio waves (which is absurd), it wouldn’t do anything to anyone else.
In defense of the idea, I keep my mind open to possibilities out there that seem magical but have a true scientific explanation we just don’t understand it yet. We encounter one every day: gravity. We cannot definitively prove where gravity comes from, what causes it, how to control it, generate it, or abate it. But it’s there. Could there be other similar forces? Possibly.
And maybe somewhere along the line someone stumbled on them. Maybe that’s why some people are thought to be autistic – they got tapped into some new perception and since noone around understands it and can teach them how to perceive it they’re left alone in a weird little bubble with noone to show them the way.
But that’s just the ponderings of someone wondering what fantastic things might still be out there waiting to be discovered and understood. Do I think there’s a grain of truth or fact to be found in 99.99999% of the cases claiming things like this “Chi Master”? Pffffft. Hell no. If you have to whip out an axcuse like “their tongue being in the wrong place in their mouth” to cover a nonbeliever just staring at you when you try to known them out with your mojo … then ayep, you;re a charlatan who needs to be run out of town on a RAIL.
Because although sufficiently advanced science can be mistaken for magic (yeah, paraphrasing there), one thing holds true: replicable and verifiable results. And this twit ain’t got ’em.
Is this Chi radio blast am or fm? Maybe that’s where he’s going wrong, sending his woo in fm to an am receiver.