I also hope Kempofighter was being facetious in name and comment. I have heard and seen some of those kempo practitioners who when striking wind up hitting themselves on the elbow smash. I never understood that either, and a few low level students always said some unintelligible statement as to what they were doing with it. Oh well.

Have a great night.
Anthony

Always good to see you young folks enjoyin yourselves!

Sorry Anthony, I know you were hoping for it, but I promise I’ll take you for Chinese Food as a consolation

And your reference to McDonald’s brings up the very issue that discredits traditional martial artists (TMA). McDojos as we all seem to refer to them (it’s all about numbers and money). When the comparison is made between MMA athletes and TMA, most often the MMA Athlete is practicing and sweating and intent upon his craft, whereas the supposed TMA is the exact creature you refer to from a McDojo: someone who dislikes sweat and would prefer to create grandiose and quite fancifal and fictitious ability that never works. They imagine that after a weekend seminar they can somehow do some earth shattering technique that defies the laws of physics and gravity. The comparison isn’t a fair one, although a good number of the supposed TMA fall in the McDojo category. They wouldn’t really compare well in a fight to an MMA athlete who is practicing his skills intently.

Break: Break: Traditional Martial Arts requires blood, sweat and tears. It takes years of enjoyable training that is at times painful, and if you’ve trained properly in a valid traditional system, you know the joys and the agony. And they meld together, becoming enjoyable agony. Dim Muk or Dim Mak requires more training and understanding than just punching or kicking. It’s much more than the ability to kill, as some surmise. The translation has become warped over time.

As for whether it exists or not, I don’t believe that current science has the ability to define its existance to the satisfaction of all (pro or con). I believe in it, I have experienced it, but I would disagree with an earlier inference that you have to have killed with it to prove it.

In the same sense that years ago man wasn’t aware of the existance 0f anthrax and could not define why man and cattle were dying from a bacteria they could not see, I believe that Qi has yet to be scientifically defined and quantified adequately. I know what it is, I feel it, I believe, and I am scientific of mind and at one time a degreed engineer by education. In the late 1800′s bacteria was discovered to be the cause of anthrax, and Louis Pasteur developed the first effective vaccine. Man was enlightened and believed in an unseen bacteria. In a similar vein, maybe someday someone will be able to either prove or disprove the existence of Qi and the meridians to the satisfaction of everyone. If you don’t believe, that is fine. If you do believe, it takes a lot of sweat and practice to get to the point you can effectively perform any strikes, regardless of your intent, and years more to be able to consistently perform the art. As my teachers have said on numerous occasions, by the time you can use the art, you don’t ever have to. Funny.

As for the Japanese demystifying the martial arts, I must have missed that discussion. I would be interesting in reading that history as it’s one I am not aware of.

Have a Great Day.

Dim Mak is to martial arts what kundalini is to yoga: practioners who don´t like to sweat and make up grandiose ideas that has no bearing in real life,

Please confine your attempts at public miseducation to one topic. The history of American yoga has been written, and you’ve clearly never read it.