2 finger strike KO

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2 finger strike KO

Postby GrahamB on Mon Jun 01, 2015 12:51 am

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Re: 2 finger strike KO

Postby dspyrido on Mon Jun 01, 2015 1:53 am

Derren brown does it better.

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Re: 2 finger strike KO

Postby Ron Panunto on Mon Jun 01, 2015 6:38 am

More bullshit.
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Re: 2 finger strike KO

Postby kenneth fish on Mon Jun 01, 2015 7:20 am

The guy is a professional stage magician and escape artist. This is pure hokum.
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Re: 2 finger strike KO

Postby windwalker on Mon Jun 01, 2015 7:47 am

for the detractors

how could or would it work?
why is it BS or hokum?

note: not supportive nor dismissive only interesting in reading others thoughts.
One word explanations dont say much ;)
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Re: 2 finger strike KO

Postby gasmaster on Mon Jun 01, 2015 7:51 am

Nlp, or some other flavor of influence. like Kenneth said, he's a professional stage magician Making a tv show.
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Re: 2 finger strike KO

Postby Dmitri on Mon Jun 01, 2015 7:58 am

It only worked because he didn't curl one toe up and push the other toe down. That's the best defense, I've heard.
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Re: 2 finger strike KO

Postby Bill on Mon Jun 01, 2015 8:34 am

windwalker wrote: how could or would it work?
why is it BS or hokum?


Professional magicians use paid assistants to make what they are doing look real. In other words, the student who took the 'chi' punch works for the magician and was only acting.
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Re: 2 finger strike KO

Postby I am... on Mon Jun 01, 2015 8:57 am

Finger strikes can put people down, but one has to train the fingers like crazy for a long period of time to do so unless they are hitting a spot like the eye or parts of the neck generally. From the look of things, this clip demonstrates the power of suggestion more than it demonstrates a weaponized hand.
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Re: 2 finger strike KO

Postby Spncr on Mon Jun 01, 2015 11:03 am

Dmitri wrote:It only worked because he didn't curl one toe up and push the other toe down. That's the best defense, I've heard.


Hahahahaha, oh dillyman
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Re: 2 finger strike KO

Postby dspyrido on Mon Jun 01, 2015 3:31 pm

Bill wrote:
windwalker wrote: how could or would it work?
why is it BS or hokum?


Professional magicians use paid assistants to make what they are doing look real. In other words, the student who took the 'chi' punch works for the magician and was only acting.


I really hope this is not just a paid actor pretending to be an mma artist. At the very least using suggestion on a pre-screened martial artist would make it a lot more interesting.

Even if it's not "real" it's still can be real for certain susceptable subjects (estimated at 10% of the population but the better the hypnotist the higher the odds). So from a combat perspective if you were a good hypnotist you would need to prescreen targets for suggestability, create a conducive environment to reinforce it, then set it up and perform it. Should take a minute or two to achieve knock out power on a small sector of the population. Once it's setup it can be even near instantaneous. -box-

So here we have a link between a validated effect (even though science does not completely know why it exists ... yet) and what is seen with arm waving people bouncing.
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Re: 2 finger strike KO

Postby Bill on Wed Jun 03, 2015 7:07 am

dspyrido wrote:
Bill wrote:
windwalker wrote: how could or would it work?
why is it BS or hokum?


Professional magicians use paid assistants to make what they are doing look real. In other words, the student who took the 'chi' punch works for the magician and was only acting.


I really hope this is not just a paid actor pretending to be an mma artist.


Of course, that's how it works.

Look at the school' he is at. He calls the instructor the greatest exponent of wing-chun in Hong Kong. He didn't look so great to me. His 2 inch punch that extinguished the candle should be called a 12 inch punch based on how far he withdrew his fist before he punched. Same when he punched the other student in the chest. ;)
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Re: 2 finger strike KO

Postby windwalker on Wed Jun 03, 2015 7:57 am

I really hope this is not just a paid actor pretending to be an mma artist.


Of course, that's how it works.[/quote]

so the consensus is that the demo student was working with him?
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Re: 2 finger strike KO

Postby Dmitri on Wed Jun 03, 2015 8:53 am

If Bill's opinion counts as "consensus", then yes... :)

FWIW I don't think either of those clips involve any acting. Simple suggestion/NLP, as was mentioned.
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Re: 2 finger strike KO

Postby windwalker on Wed Jun 03, 2015 1:31 pm

Dmitri wrote:If Bill's opinion counts as "consensus", then yes... :)

FWIW I don't think either of those clips involve any acting. Simple suggestion/NLP, as was mentioned.


ok, so simple suggestion/NLP is used. Should be easy to do.
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