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What is chi? And how do you develop it?

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#1 ·
Does the concept of "ch'i" enter your training program?
If so, what is ch'i? And what exercises develop chi?
 
#2 ·
Chi as in spiritual energy that the secret monks and kung fu dojos use?

lol. all the same i'd like to hear someone who has some knowledge of it.
 
#3 ·
I have chi and it keeps me from being hurt in a fight. I have never lost a fight and I owe it all to my traditional martial arts training and most of all, chi.

By the way Im just messing around, I have heard about it and it is some martial arts thing that was popular before mma came around and showed people what really works and what doesnt
 
#4 ·
I am taking bagua and developing chi or Qi power doubt anyone who hasn't experienced it to understand or believe but from what I have been doing it isn't some mystical power but more controlling functions of your body like circulation for instance. But by doing the right movements as well as breathing and visualization you get the sensation of Qi.

Bagua is more of a combat form of Tie chi where you take a while to learn movement to increase your Qi focus calm and get your body to move together then you get in to combat applications.

ever since starting Bagua or Pakua as some people call it I found that my circulation is better my stress management is better I am more calm and I feel that I move better.

they only way to learn and develop it is by getting an instructor no matter what they say you cant learn it from a tape or book. you can learn the applications but they wont be as affective.
 
#5 ·
Go to your nearest techno club. Look for the guy with glowsticks, making green circles in the dark so fast it looks like a ball. That dude's got Chi.

Just kidding. I do believe there is such a thing as chi, which is basically focused energy, but I don't believe in it as you'd see in the old kung fu movies or on street fighter (HIRUKEN!). I believe it's more of an inner peace/focus & concentration sort of thing. Like Americanfighter said.
 
#13 ·
Fool. It's a part of their culture, yes. Doesn't mean it's real. Just like religion. Laying on spears? Just because you have seen it on tv doesn't mean its legit. I bet if you gave one your own spear which was super sharp they wouldn't be able to jump face first onto it. I've seen programmes where people have claimed to have 'chi' and not done a good enough job of pulling back the machette on impact and bleeding everywhere.

omg if u squeeze an egg with your fingurz top 2 botum it iz imposibel to brake???!!!! egz have CHI!
 
#14 ·
Yeah, that egg things a joke. I work with kids, and one kid was asking me about working out, and another kid said "I bet you can't break an egg with one hand!" So I take an egg, and put it in my hand just like he told me to (to make sure I wasn't somehow cheating). I squeezed the egg with my arm straight out so I wouldn't break it all over myself, and it exploded all over the kid, and some innocent bystanders. Eggs don't have chi.
I'm really unsure about the whole "chi" thing. I do not believe you can generate some sort of crazy force with this chi, but I do believe you can have very good control over your own body. I believe having complete control over your breathing, movement, etc, you have "chi". I guess it depends on your perception of what is the mystery that is CHI.
 
#15 ·
If your idea of Chi is throwing a Hodoken then no its not real.

But yeah, I would say maybe there is Chi. I have experiment with things like Internal Styles, Qigong, and Yoga.

So I would say I still figure it out, but I don't think doing there exercises are a waste of time. Its just another way of exercising.
 
#16 ·
In fighting terms I think chi is just a "ye olde" way of saying kinetic linking. A flow of energy.
 
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#17 ·
Chi does exist. It basically means life force energy (as far as I'm aware). Whether it can be used in combat, I'm not sure but it wouldn't surprise me. Many cultures have believed for thousands of years that there is an energy system in & around the body. There are 7 main points running from the groin to the crown of your head (google 'chakra' system). Each are interlinked and are developed at different stages of your life. This energy is believed to extend outwards in magnetic sort of loops, that can be focused on specific things, given the correct training. It's also believed work on this system & each chakra point can effect your well being & character. With this in mind, if it can be used to heal, then I'd imagine it could be used to damage. From what I've heard though, to use it against someone in a negative fashion also serves to harm the self.

I await all the neg reps lol.
 
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...... I freaked out so thought, ok I'll go back up, see what happens. On moving back up the same mad tingly burnging feeling started exactly where it had left off before. This as you could imagine freaked me right out. My brain was all over the place. I asked her the next time I spoke to her if it made sense & it turned out she had cervical cancer & irritabal bowel syndrome due to the stress from the cancer.
 
#30 ·
Anyway, since then I've carried on sending those positive vibes, & have learned how to supposedly protect myself from receiving the negative shit. As I've said, I'm no exprert & far from it, I just now that what I do seems to work & I've had so many positive feedback that it's more than just coincidence. If people would like to think it's absolute bollox then so be it, I've done all this shit with a completely sceptical mind & have had shit loads of legit comeback. I really couldnt give 2 shiney shites about your technical shenanigans. I've told shit loads of people where their illness are & after doing what I have done on these people, they some have miraculous recoveries.
 
#36 ·
First of all, I am not into putting people down, or putting down what somebody is into. I have noticed in this forum that so many times, whenever somebody posts something, they start off by knocking traditional martial arts, or knocking how something is done in one system or another.I realize that this point alone should be the crux of a separate thread that I am thinking of starting,but for now, to preview that idea to the extent that it is relevant here,I would point out that all of the TMA masters say,"If you perform a technique, and it doesn't work, then you simply haven't mastered that technique." What I think that we would all agree IS bull is this business you see where someone promises you that if you buy a certain video or a certain DVD or a certain tape or a certain book, then in ten minutes, you will learn secrets that will make you invincible.Comedian Bill Cosby had a truly hilarious skit about that once;I still laugh when I think about it.
Nothing you can study in ten minutes, in fact, nothing you can study in your entire lifetime will make you 100% invincible, able to defeat anyone anywhere under any circumstances.
but you can acquire skills, and some of them take awhile to develop.
That said,
Basically, I have some questions that I specifically want to direct to you, and a possible response:
1.How did you develop and/or maintain this ability?
Did this come strictly from "meditating?" What are you calling "meditating?"What exactly did you do? Did you focus your eyes on a candle? Or chant a mantra? Or what? What exactly did you do? I,too, profess to have an open mind.
2.Did this solve the problem of your depression?If not,you know what I have found helps with that is some kind of artistic expression:Take up guitar or piano.
Or do what my buddy did after his divorce:
He just gots some paints and some boards and did Jackson Pollock kinds of things, just flinging paint at the boards.
It pretty much eliminated his depression.
And he ended up with some pretty neat artwork to hang on his wall.
respectfully,
Ferdelance
 
#33 ·
:thumb02: Nothing like resorting to name calling. For your information, my brother calls me jesus, for the same reasons you just did. It makes no difference to me. Like I said earlier in the thread, we are all given shit that we're brought up to stifle. It's up to us to practice & let the ability flourish.
 
#53 ·
chi is real its just people see it a somethings its not. My instructor today hit me with and internal strike. when he hit me I felt something inter my shoulder jolt me and then leave.

He hit me in the shoulder and it felt like he hit me in the forehead and rocked me. that palm strike was less than a inch away to and it was not even full force.
 
#60 ·
im glad you posted those two videos that supposedly incorporate internal energy. im glad because it means you really dont know wtf you are watching, and couldnt point out internal energy even if it did exist. this is purely mechanical, bruce lee used the exact same principles for his one inch punch, wing chun teaches it the same as well (as u may or may not know bruce lee began his MMA career in wing chun). anyways, the old guy in that one clip is just using his body mechanics, and to be honest his technique blows. the principle behind the one inch punch is all about relaxation and hip rotation, you have no room to develope speed so you much be comletely relaxed in order to generate the necessary speed to create sufficient impact, the vast majority of the power comes from the hip, as you rotate your hip into the punch you also drop your weight into it, creating a very effective punch from minimal range. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keS3OTNger8&feature=related wow, all that power and NO MAGICS
 
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