Do You Believe in Linkongjin?

The following typical threads that plague martial arts sites will get moved here if not just deleted: 1 - My style is better than Your style" - 2 - "Internal & External" - 3 - Personal attacks - 4 - Threads that start well, but degenerate into a spiral of nonsense.

Do You Believe in "High Level" IMA?

A) Yes, and I can use the "force" to rain death upon ye of little faith!
2
7%
B) Yes, I've felt the "force" and it was more than extreme flatulence.
10
37%
C) Yes, but I have no legitimate reason for doing so?
1
3%
D) No, but I believe that there are mysteries of the universe yet left unexplained (and really wish I could shoot Qi balls from my eyes whilst levitating, bitches!)...
6
22%
E) No, and the Easter Bunny ain't real either you stupid cunts!
8
29%
 
Total votes : 27

Re: Do You Believe in "High Level" IMA?

Postby MaartenSFS on Fri Apr 18, 2014 4:10 pm

Well put, Klonk.

Jesus. I can't believe that even my 100% clear options aren't clear enough... "High level" means LKJ etc. people!
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Re: Do You Believe in "High Level" IMA?

Postby dspyrido on Fri Apr 18, 2014 6:07 pm

MaartenSFS wrote:Well put, Klonk.

Jesus. I can't believe that even my 100% clear options aren't clear enough... "High level" means LKJ etc. people!


It is very ambiguous & even after this is still ambiguous. Is this a survey about LKJ?

If someone says to me - high level IMA - I will immediately start with trying to understand their view on IMA vs. EMA.

Then we get into "high level". I am going to highlight some areas that come to mind but are not constrained by IMA vs. EMA. These are things I consider "supernormal" & are possible with dedication & training (note they overlap):

- blindfighting
- cold or inch power generated into someone's core that it shakes them to their foundation
- being able to redirect blood flow away or into areas that are cut or damaged - similarly gaining control of any autonomic part of the body
- ability to greatly overcome pain signals & have clear mind in high pressure circumstances
- iron body/golden bell conditioning at a supple, fluid level taking direct impact without having to seize up
- supersensitivity, awareness, taking a centre without the other person even being aware of this
- similarly intimate awareness of the human anatomy & it's frailties to produce reactions & manipulations that they just were not aware of - reversal goes into chinese medical healing that at times leaves western doctors baffled
- conditioned whole body power applying the legs strength & torso/dan-tien strength into extreme areas. For example the applying of this to the fingers & taking them to a level most people can't even imagine.

and many more. IMO these abilities are all very relevant to IMA/EMA.

This is all before we get into the supernatural.

So are we just doing lkj or the entire concept of high level?
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Re: Do You Believe in "High Level" IMA?

Postby johnwang on Fri Apr 18, 2014 6:36 pm

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johnwang wrote:If you can make your girl to come 3 times in a role, you have "high level" skill in sex, otherwise, you are "low level" by definition.

May I ever so gently suggest that you meant to say, "3 times in a row." 3 times in a role would make you a porn star. 8-)

It's my Chinglish problem. ;D
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Re: Do You Believe in "High Level" IMA?

Postby Andy_S on Fri Apr 18, 2014 9:14 pm

Imagine a fellow who trained under a high level IMA master in China gets into a ruck and effortlessly drops all three of the Fansher Brothers during a bar fight.

And let us imagine that our hero does this thing in one of two separate ways:
(1) Using clearly definable Bagua and HsingI techniques: Or
(2) Using his "internal" skill, but without using clearly defined or visible techniques

Which one of the two is "high level?"

I ask this as we have so many complaints on here about when CMArtists or other TMArtsists fight or spar, all their "style" seems to go out the window after the first fist is thrown, and their combat simply looks like generic kickboxing or (shock, horror) MMA.

OTOH, is the "highest level" fighter not the one who has moved beyond technique...?
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Re: Do You Believe in "High Level" IMA?

Postby johnwang on Fri Apr 18, 2014 10:01 pm

Andy_S wrote:OTOH, is the "highest level" fighter not the one who has moved beyond technique...?

What should

- "high level punch" suppose to look like?
- "high level throw" suppose to look like?

Is this "high level"? How can you tell?

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Re: Do You Believe in "High Level" IMA?

Postby GrahamB on Fri Apr 18, 2014 11:02 pm

My high level is not your high level...
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Re: Do You Believe in "High Level" IMA?

Postby Iskendar on Fri Apr 18, 2014 11:45 pm

MaartenSFS wrote:Well put, Klonk.

Jesus. I can't believe that even my 100% clear options aren't clear enough... "High level" means LKJ etc. people!


Define "etc." ;D

Now why do I feel a sudden craving for cigars... 8-)
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Re: Do You Believe in "High Level" IMA?

Postby Lu da on Sat Apr 19, 2014 1:25 am

MaartenSFS wrote:
Lu da wrote:Do I believe in high level martial arts? There will always be people who's martial skill is more developed than others. It's like asking 'do you believe in tall buildings?'

Why don't you ask the question you meant to ask?

I'm pretty sure it's all there in the options...



Your question is all about relativity which nobody can argue. What it seems like you are asking is "Do you believe in magic qi balls and other things that I consider absurd in and will demonstrate that by the choices provided by this poll?"

I have never been struck with a magic chi ball before so I cannot tell you if such a thing exists. I have been struck by my Sifu in a way that caused all of my internal organs to feel like they moved 1 inch to the right and then returned to their natural position. As a student if science I am sure physics can explain why a strike that seemingly had no power could cause this reaction, but I'm versed in physics enough to explain it.
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Re: Do You Believe in "High Level" IMA?

Postby grzegorz on Sat Apr 19, 2014 1:35 am

I believe in high level IMA but I don't believe that it is necessarily better or greater than high level EMA.
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Re: Do You Believe in "High Level" IMA?

Postby MaartenSFS on Sat Apr 19, 2014 1:53 am

To be very, very clear (if I wasn't before)...

The question is... Do you believe in supernatural abilities where it is not required to touch the other person to inflict damage?

I thought that my meaning would have been clear with the recent barrage of threads on this very issue. I'm changing the thread name to reflect this clarity. If any of you need to change your answer please do so.
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Re: Do You Believe in Linkongjin?

Postby Mr_Wood on Sat Apr 19, 2014 4:46 am

my ex has the ability to inflict damage from 1000's of miles away. This is high level ;D
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Re: Do You Believe in Linkongjin?

Postby Bodywork on Sat Apr 19, 2014 4:47 am

This has nothing to do with high level anything. Calling it "high level martial arts," says more about the person calling it that than I could say.
This nonsense as well as overly-compliant people, is a continuing embarrassment in the martial arts.
Thankfully it only attracts the gullible, less serious budo tourists and spares us from having to deal with their idiocy. I had my own run in with one of these guys. He spent all day and couldn't make one, single, thing work on me. I'm nice so I didn't do anything to embarrass him. I thought he was doing a good enough job of that already... in front of everyone!
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Re: Do You Believe in "High Level" IMA?

Postby Iskendar on Sat Apr 19, 2014 5:20 am

MaartenSFS wrote:To be very, very clear (if I wasn't before)...

The question is... Do you believe in supernatural abilities where it is not required to touch the other person to inflict damage?

I thought that my meaning would have been clear with the recent barrage of threads on this very issue. I'm changing the thread name to reflect this clarity. If any of you need to change your answer please do so.

Oh that... Well...this guy says it best:
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Re: Do You Believe in Linkongjin?

Postby D_Glenn on Sat Apr 19, 2014 5:45 am

This has nothing to do with high level anything. Calling it "high level martial arts," says more about the person calling it that than I could say.

Maarten, one thing that has never worked on this forum is 'Sarcasm'. It'd could be laid on so thick, like a whole jar of peanut butter spread onto a single slice of bread, but some people still won't pick up on it. One guy even had a signature line that read: "Sarcasm, yeah that'll work.", or something like that. So while some of us are able to discern it, I've seen it backfire so many times on here, that I think there was eventually a topic about it.

So I use sarcasm, on rare occasion, because I know it's going to fail and isn't going to picked up by most of the people reading it. ;)

Sarcasm used in a poll, is probably going to get some pretty skewed results. ;D

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On another note, Zonker, the only guy who I think has taken the time to read the FAQs, brought them up in another thread, and there's some interesting ones:

FAQ06: What does BTDT mean?
BTDT = Been There Done That
This is the "garbage bin" of the forum. Threads that have been discussed to death (eg, empty force/ling kong jin, 'what is qi', 'what is intention', etc) and threads that spiral into nonsense and personal attacks are sent here to die. If they continue to get worse it is the prerogative of the admins/mods to lock or even outright delete threads from this section. The rules of forum decorum are looser here, but do not cross the line.


FAQ07: Can I ask about 'empty force'?
Don't even go there! (wise words from Balance). These topics go straight to BTDT.

FAQ09: What does HTFU mean?
Harden the Fuck Up. It's from a YouTube video featuring an Australian named Ronnie Johns (who is impersonating a guy named Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read).
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkIVvjZc9Y


FAQ10: Who is Sooty (St Sooty)?
A male guinea pig who broke out of his pen, slipped into a pen with 24 females, got busy, and then slept for two days. For obvious reasons, he has heroic status and deep respect from the RSF community.
Links: http://humour.200ok.com.au/go_sooty.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/1048327.stm

FAQ12: What's up with all the drama?
RSF seems to "go on the rag" about every 6-8 weeks. Pointless arguments will be engaged at length, accounts will be deleted in a huff and some toys will get thrown around and taken home. RSF is 99.9% male, and the women who can put up with the smell of us and post here are unimaginably cool.



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Re: Do You Believe in Linkongjin?

Postby MaartenSFS on Sat Apr 19, 2014 5:58 am

Thank you for clarifying that. I thought Americans were bad with sarcasm (but often need reminding since sarcasm is a huge part of Dutch humour)... until I came to China. At least they don't get up in your face with disagreements, though.

The FAQs were an amusing read.. Especially St. Sooty. That was random as hell!

Although this poll may be sent to BTDT, at least now we know that more people believe in the supernatural than not...

O, WAIT! It's split down the middle now! I know that I said it was a divisive topic, but wouw..
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