windwalker wrote:
Why not allow for others to have an understanding or experience that
you have not experienced yet, but would be willing to accept after experiencing it.
In principle I do allow for this. My attitude is NOT: "Just because I haven't experienced something, and I also consider it unlikely, I state categorically that it's impossible." Leading on to...
The question of faked vs real always comes up...always a possibility.
Indeed, always a possibility. But still quite unlikely. And, as said, if the man already demonstrates very dubious basic body alignment during cooperative PH with his own students, that seems to me a very poor foundation for developing excellent soft-touch (or "no-touch"!) skills against anyone acting less cooperative.
....one might give pause and ask why? whats really going on?
. Which is just what we're doing.
C.J.W. wrote: The teacher in the demo is in CMC's lineage and a student of the late Dr. Tao Bingxiang. Tao was one of CMC's top disciples who was for his PH skills and also knew Liuhebafa.
By all accounts, Dr. Tao was the real deal and, ASAIK, not a proponent of "no-touch energy."
I was lucky enough to train in Dr. Tao's seminars for a few weeks and got some hands-on time with him too. I also saw him deal with less cooperative, rather 'rude' pushing a couple of times, which he managed extremely well. As said, even though by this time he was very old, small and of seemingly frail build, and put a great emphasis on yielding and moving his torso, he always had great alignment if you looked closely. None of the "deficiences and excesses" in body structure that I believe I see in the thread-starting video. He also gave an excellent lecture on theory, which was very physics-based (he was an aeronautical engineer). In my experience at least, he never demonstrated or espoused anything like chi-blasts, even though he could 'blast' someone pretty well with a soft touch and minimal movement once he had undermined their structural integrity (which usually didn't take long
).
-- All this on the basis of my limited experience - I was just a seminar participant, certainly no indoor student...