A martial artist told me that a candle can be put out from a distance by pointing at it. Is this true?

Question

He said that this can be done by flicking his finger and projecting his energy. Fantasy or reality?

Answer 1

True,but it is a trick.My 10 years old son showed me how to do it!Point a finger at the candle,then take a deep breath and exhaled aiming at the arm.The air will travel down the arm,then down the finger!Magic!Need some practice,if not the flame will flicker,which is aslo good ,coz' some conman use this trick to convince people that there are 'spirit'.

Answer 2

I will attempt to answer this question with all seriousness. I am A traditionally trained martial artist.This is very different from what you see in the sport circles today. I have spent many years in training and have preformed two similar demonstrations of this kind. I hope this explains the theory behind how it works.
When we train in our dojo to do a punch (for example) We start with a relaxed body while the punch is delivered, at the moment of impact the entire body tenses and then relaxes. What this does is causes the forse from the entire body to be delivered into what ever you are punching. The mind must focus the muscular energy of the body out the fist. What this does is cause the force to be delivered into the target instead of causing your fist to go into the target. Using this method there is some force that can be delivered from a small distance away into a traget such as a flame on a candle. It takes years to practice this. When we break boards we do not put them on bricks. instead we hold the board in one hand with all five finger tips and break it with the other. The hand holding the board lets go at impact and the striking fist delivers the force "into " the board. I have done this many times and have seen a few people quite far away from a candle and put the flame oput. Now I am not taslking 20 feet or even 3 feet but 8 - 10 inches away is realistic. We use a candle because without a target of substance the force dispurses.
Hope this helps i m me if you need some more info be glad to help I am writing a master text which includes a chapter on this

Answer 3

Google " Chi ", or you tube it you will find some jokers showing some trick or other. This may be done by punching at a candle if you practice but the pointing a finger thing is a bit much. I watched a video on you tube where a guy was pushing around his students by motioning towards them with his hands and they fell around like idiots!
Funny stuff, but it gives martial arts a bad name...

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Answer 4

Try this: clap your hands above or around a lit candle without ever touching the candle or flame. If you do it fast enough, the flame will go out. Then ask your physics teacher about it. Now think of the punch as the same principles but more difficult and more impressive.

Answer 5

Sounds like a parlor trick to me. Energy projection is fantasy.
I do , however, train with candles. I practice my striking techniques on them. If you have enough "snap" on the end of the strike you can put the flame out.
It is just a change in air current, not magic.

Answer 6

difficulty i think of is that there are too many sorts handy for any severe present day fighter to ignore approximately them. there became as quickly as a era the place no type became obtainable and individuals had to instruct themselves. yet this became additionally the era of tribal wars have been all men have been predicted to combat for the survival of the village/city state. the learning they gained became field of conflict, and you knew you have been sturdy adequate to bypass on the certainty because you survived and thousands around you perished. It became a evolution like technique the place the susceptible procedures have been killed off and basically the terrific technique survived to examine. And those awareness have been taught and surpassed down and perfected over countless generations of deaths and survivals. That’s the place present day martial arts originates from. in case you will start up from scratch you're able to desire to flow into wars and battles to objective your technique and survive against human beings’s technique. instruct that your technique works and maximum remarkable what does artwork and make that your existence’s artwork. once you have carried out so which you will declare which you have created a martial paintings. of path we don’t have many present day occasion of this. additionally it’s very no longer uncomplicated to easily ignore approximately what’s already in front of you. the admired martial arts is truthfully obtainable and one can start up out as self experienced, yet they're going to rapidly locate themselves choosing up thoughts from categories or maybe finally end up getting to grasp a variety that they finally end up respecting. It’s no longer uncomplicated to make your self a highway whilst there already is a highway that’s going the proper same path.

Answer 7

No, but it can be put out by your fist projecting a powerful punch from a distance ( depends how far) the candle will be put out.

Answer 8

I think in Zen Buddahism the monks get trained to do it. They get trained to do all types of weird sh*t with their energy. But you have to go to a school in a remote location where you're isolated from the world and you're there for like 15 years. It's a cool trick to learn but it's not worth 15 years of my life to learn.

Answer 9

haha, on the contrary, I've heard some one who could flick his finger to light a tree on fire.....

Yeah... You don't really know, there's a lot of unsolved mysterys in this world.

Answer 10

Only if you have very long fingers!