Posted: Oct 28, 2011 8:59 am
lobawad wrote:I had a hands-on demonstration of Qui Gong by a student of traditional Chinese medicine. I (average sized) and a soldier (Ranger, brutally strong) together had as much effect trying to push over a young man slighter than either of us as trying to push down a wall. It was awesome, in the old sense of the word, but clearly not magic. If chi were magic he wouldn't have had to have gone into special poses, and it was clear that with some momentum, or going at it until the guy got tired of concentrating, we could have pushed him over, and he even said this was the case, i.e. he wasn't claiming magic, beyond "using chi", the actual (super)nature of which he was agnostic about.
I would guess Chi is a superbly effective visualization/conception technique for getting your breathing, postures, etc. into maximally efficient order.
