How do you explain Ki?

Question

How does Ki (Qi/Chi) work in martial arts?
You can unbalance a person without even changing your initial posture. Ihave experienced it. How can this be? Is it a trick of the mind? Or just the way balance naturally shifts in certain positions with two people involved?
Does anyone really understand Ki? Is there even something to understand, or should we simply accept it?

Answer 1

Unless a person is a student of internal martial arts, Qi is often unfathomable.

If you take a look at a previous post, you will understand why I don't bother EXPLAINING it anymore.

Many (if not most) westerners are too closed minded to accept (or even CONSIDER) anything outside of their own narrow field of experience.

Otherwise, Qi is energy or life force.

Everybody seems to make (sometimes snide) references to Star Wars when it comes to Qi...

Remember, the very human authors of Star Wars got the idea from SOMEWHERE...

The Star Wars philosophy is too well developed to have been an entire fabrication.

IMO: They probably took the Taoist principles, externalized them a bit, souped them up a bit and transported them off of the planet.
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Answer 2

Ki - A bullshido philosophy about mysterious energy traveling through the body. Sometimes Ki is used to describe using good body mechanics to deliver power from their whole body. This is what I consider legit Ki or basically knowledge of self and body mechanics. Bullsh!t Ki is when people believe they can makes shields, fireballs or hurt/manipulate people without ever touching them.

Real Ki is not mystical or Ki at all it's the Human Body in motion there are no mystical chakras and flowing energy pathways, just bones, muscles, and blood working together.

The mind trick portion is just social engineering. Baiting, tricking your opponent into your trap.

Warm tingling sensation - Your blood circulating and your nerves telling you you just threw 500 punches at a piece of foam.

Exploding with power / one inch punch - more body mechanics, epinephrine pumping

You Chi warriors take the credit away from the incredible intricacies of the body. AND THEN you say it's because your so good and so skilled and so humble.

Answer 3

Is total peace in your mind-and the knowledge that you can be in control of all you are presented with''.Levitation" is easy with CHI?KI in your abilities... Problem solving is enhanced and the need to do physical violence is reduced to Instant life stopping means only. I have been at tz (chi) thousands of times and will be there when I die. I am not Buddhaschin..
If you sit in private/closed area and close the thumb to the second finger concentrate on a lite ray as you close your eyes then focus on the retnia burn PICTURE that shows you how to shapeshift and morf into the needed forms that bring on TZ Chi Ki the spark of life Creator placed in the molecule that became You....Once achived it will lead you back to the Old ones who explain it thru your physique/unknown communicationsystem of thought transfer. By this level you need ask no more to be a "good "fighter, only study now to be the last one standing... Boast not Coast not Burden no one. Shintu Preists will try to teach you Ki if you listen well and Feel the words drum on your throat...We as WASP/AAN/
european ect lack the Humbility from birth that they take for granted so we must learn in the fog and quicksand of our own selflove.

Answer 4

Have you ever felt like your hands were tingling warm after a good session of focus mits or heavy bag work? Have you experienced a warmness eminating from you tan tien (or hara)? Chi is seperate from good body mechanics, but cannot flow freely without it. Chi allows you to explode without relying on physical strength (think Bruce Lee's 1 inch punch).
Unbalancing a person without moving would be considered a kiai. Kiai doesn't have to be vocal, but is pretty much anything you do to get into sync with your opponent so they'll be in sync with you. Setting them up using physical movements is the most basic level. Then comes using auditory or visual stimuli and finally, intention is all that becomes needed.

Answer 5

It is as Obie Wan Said A Force Within Us

Answer 6

there are some that say ki, chi, qi
is hocus pocus.