Originally posted by Judge
*believe* *believe*(again)
*discipline* *Consistantly*
learn to spell damnit
Hehe, I didn't call him stupid did I.
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There are hard and soft techniques. I have heard wild stories whispered and seen some pretty amazing things. But I beleive that certain things like
visible ki blasts are not possible.
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What I beleive exists (non-exhaustive):
Lightfooting
Healing
Death Blows
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What I don't beleive exists (non-exhaustive):
Visible ki
Planet smashing ki waves
Building smashing ki waves
People gibbing ki waves
People exploding from ki-aided nerve strikes
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What I know exists:
Bridge Hands
"Deadening" pain receptors
Body Temperature control
Ki-aided strikes such as "fa jing"
Ironskin Techniques (not quite as far as "the Five Deadly Venoms'" Toad)
Controling the Endocrine System (to a degree)
"Seeing" an opponent's ki (Note, not the same as Ki being visable. It's visability depends on who's veiwing.)
Sensing an opponent's ki
Ki-aided movement
Dim Mak (although this is more of a nerve strike than a ki technique)
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That being said. I have studied under two asian masters (one Korean, the other Chinese) and have studied for 9 years, although my active training has slowed a bit because of school and work. I have studied true Tae Kwon Do, not this garbage that many peddle in the states (and I suspect elsewhere ;/). I have also studied Hun Gar, Tai Chi, Hapkido, Judo and cross trained with many other expert practitioners of other styles. We sometimes traded techniques and theory.
I believe that children and teenagers can get the basics down, but they can forget about
truly using anything they may "fidget" with. Physical technique must be mastered before ki can be fully implemented. Otherwise, you are simply wasting your time fumbling with a tool you do not understand. Once you have mastered the pyhsical techniques, you may move on mastering your ki. BTW, physical techniques ussually take 6-7 years to master . . . if you learned it faster, you learned it wrong. That's why I feel "most" teens can't learn it. You ussually learn the martial arts too late in life to master ki as a teen. People like Majin/Nameless are an exception.