Hey all, I'm back after a long time, hope you all remember me.

Anywyas, back to subject.

There's something I've recently been watching on tv, channel BBC3 called "Mind, Body and kick ass moves". On this programme some bloke called Chris something travels round many countries and experiences martial arts using mind over matter. There has been many taiwan residents doing crazy stuff such as putting their head on a guillotine thing and having bricks smashed on their back. Others will hit themselves in the stomach with with ravor sharp weapons amongs other things.

I was just posting to say that its amazing what can be done when you get serious about these things and practice.

Maybe we should try it!!

Yeah alot of people can do this stuff. You learn it if you study Qi Gong ( or Chi Kung). All those Shaolin Monks can do it, it is very cool. I went to a show once ( I believe it was on Chinese New Year) and they did cool stuff, like putting the tip of a spear on their throat and then leaning on the spear, walking on lightbulbs without them breaking, smashing eachother with bricks and poles etc.

I've got a martial arts DVD that has old black and white footage of some monastary.
The old guy is with three little kids(about 6) and he does all sorts of stuff like grabbing the one kid by his hands and ankles and swinging him and using his head(the little kids) to break concrete bricks and all sorts of other wierd things.
Also to see these little kids fighting is something else.

Although I've seen a 10 year old kid beat up a 30+ year old trained martial artist.
He was one of my trainers' son and has been doing wing chun since he could walk.

BTW, I've got about 8/9 years martial arts experience, I've been doing it since I was young.
I've done karate, wing chun, long fist and tai-chi.


There is a guy in my country who is quite far in wing chun, he has to go to china for his gradings now.
The last grading was on TV here, he had to lean over, with a spear tip in each shoulder(that little soft triangle under the collarbone) and a whole lot of tiles on his back, they broke the tiles with a 14pound hammer and one of the spears even snapped.
At that level, gradings are easy - if you live, you pass.

I've seen guys do some hectic stuff, especially when they're doing chi work.
We had a demonstration once where they did some chi moves, one of them involved a line of guys standing in a row, chest to back, the guy in front held a telephone book on his chest and it turned out that a friend of mine was the last guy in the row.
Anyway, our instructor got ready, it was a one inch punch he was doing - thats where your fist only moves an inch to contact, there is no pulling back or anything.

When our instructor punched, everyone took quite a lot of steps back and my friend at the back flew about 1m into a wall.
Our instructor lined them up again, and did the same thing, but this time a reverse one inch punch, this time he punches, opens his hand, grabs and pulls(not anyone, just the motion) - this time everyone landed in a pile at his feet.

I've seen the same guy shatter inch thick oak doors and do all sorts of wierd stuff.

There's this Aikido master who came to my country about 5+ years ago to make some demonstrations. It was really strange because he could push people around with a simple hand motion from halfway across the room. People would be pushed back or toppled over for no apparent reason.

Last I heard, some Japanese company was employing him for scientific experimentation. I think he was featured on the Discovery Channel once.

Steven Seagal?

i honestly think that they speed up the frame rate in all Steven Seagal movies so it looks like hes moving fast. Also, all his movies are exactly the same. He's alsways a cop or ex marine who is fighting terrorist or chinese mafia.

He does wing chun, I reckon thats how fast he is, he's apparently quite good - not as good as Dennis Rodman or Wesley Snipes though.
Personally I think he has a great style - its the same as with Chuck Norris - he's got an unconventional style that looks like it shouldnt work but damn, it does.

You want a joke martial artist - Van Damme is your best candidate.


Thats chi. I've seen some awesome chi demonstrations, including one that involves people flying 2m+ from a touch.

Yes... Ninja Steven Seagal with laser eye beams!!!

Speed up the frame rate? Are you kidding? He's not even that fast.

Nah, he's not that fast, decent - but not THAT fast.

I remember once my old long fist teacher was showing us something with rooster stance and using me as an example. I blinked and missed the whole thing which was a double rolling block then strike into rooster stance.

Well, Seagal seems to be a fairly good martial artist, or at least I've heard he was (I'm not much impressed though by his acting or movie making skills).

In any case, you'd have to be pretty darn slow for them to have to speed up the frame rate for those martial arts fighting scenes. I'd say what they show in his movies is about a good fighting speed. (Though I'm often annoyed by the choreography)