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Getting science on your side

PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 6:00 pm
by willie
Recently, I've been involved in many debates which I believe to be non-constructive.
I have found that most of those debates were filled with faulty information. (Especially taiji and weightlifting).
Seeing how it is impossible and undesirable to approach non-approachable people, I've decided to make video's that are
backed by science instead.

Re: Getting science on your side

PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 11:45 am
by willie
The word acknowledgment means,
1. acceptance of the truth.
2. The action of expressing gratitude or appreciation.



Re: Getting science on your side

PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 1:21 pm
by everything
do you have a tldr you want us to comment on? I'm not a scientist, but I grew up in a "science town" (where almost all my friends' parents were scientists) and have some training in stats. There is actual scientific method of study supported by statistical methods (to reject that a pattern is due to random mathematical chance) which is about rejecting the null hypothesis (nothing is technically ever proven), and then there is "science".

Re: Getting science on your side

PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 1:57 pm
by willie
everything wrote:do you have a tldr you want us to comment on? I'm not a scientist, but I grew up in a "science town" (where almost all my friends' parents were scientists) and have some training in stats. There is actual scientific method of study supported by statistical methods (to reject that a pattern is due to random mathematical chance) which is about rejecting the null hypothesis (nothing is technically ever proven), and then there is "science".


Interesting.
I've found that the information that I acquired seems to work very well.
Although I have lifted weights for a long time, I believe that by remaining humble and learning from those scientist's has helped me
to shape my own work out.
I really cant figure out why this topic isn't part of the main discussion. Every martial artist will benefit from resistance training, Yes, even Taiji.
Thanks
P.S. If I had the type of information that I put in these video's years ago, it would have saved me a lot of time and effort.

Re: Getting science on your side

PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 3:06 pm
by everything
Sorry not to have fully watched your videos, but if information from scientific studies helps, I agree it seems like a good idea to use it!

For the "mysterious" stuff in taiji, qigong, and TCM, I don't believe scientific studies will be able to explain certain phenomena related mainly to qigong and TCM for a long time. That is mainly for several reasons. 1. Is that there is no good way to do a double-blind study with some kind of control group to isolate factors, so the scientific method can't easily be used as it can in physical science. That doesn't mean the subject is faulty or science "disproves" something. It means the lens can't be used to study the phenomena. That is a big distinction almost all Internet arguments miss and probably will forever miss. 2. No big for-profit entity has anything to gain from funding such studies. Quite the contrary. There is large incentive to attack anything in this area if it's perceived as a threat to big pharma. Only big insurance may have some incentive to support work in this area.

Re: Getting science on your side

PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 3:28 pm
by willie
everything wrote:Sorry not to have fully watched your videos, but if information from scientific studies helps, I agree it seems like a good idea to use it!

For the "mysterious" stuff in taiji, qigong, and TCM, I don't believe scientific studies will be able to explain certain phenomena related mainly to qigong and TCM for a long time. That is mainly for several reasons. 1. Is that there is no good way to do a double-blind study with some kind of control group to isolate factors, so the scientific method can't easily be used as it can in physical science. That doesn't mean the subject is faulty or science "disproves" something. It means the lens can't be used to study the phenomena. That is a big distinction almost all Internet arguments miss and probably will forever miss. 2. No big for-profit entity has anything to gain from funding such studies. Quite the contrary. There is large incentive to attack anything in this area if it's perceived as a threat to big pharma. Only big insurance may have some incentive to support work in this area.

Everything, I would have to agree with you when you said that science is not caught up enough to explain the mysterious part of Tai Chi or Qi Gong.
However, that doesn't mean that we can't benefit from what they do know.

Re: Getting science on your side

PostPosted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 7:50 pm
by everything
For sure 100% agreed. Life is so short and we gotta use/do what we can moving super fast from a known Point A to an unknown Point B.

Re: Getting science on your side

PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 11:25 am
by willie
everything wrote:For sure 100% agreed. Life is so short and we gotta use/do what we can moving super fast from a known Point A to an unknown Point B.

Okay fair enough. So now I guess that a reasonable question would be, you've been training now for x amount of years, what do you know about the mysterious part that you can be absolutely sure of?

Re: Getting science on your side

PostPosted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 6:28 pm
by willie
The video part 3 messed up some how on youtube, I will replace it tomorrow with a new one.

Re: Getting science on your side

PostPosted: Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:46 am
by willie
Something went wrong with yesterdays upload, So I had to do it over again.
This is information that I wish that I knew when I first got involved.
Thankfully, the internet has become a great source of information. Even though, one has to be careful because
a lot of that information is incorrect.
Part 3

Re: Getting science on your side

PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 12:47 pm
by grzegorz
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Re: Getting science on your side

PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 1:05 pm
by everything
willie wrote:
everything wrote:For sure 100% agreed. Life is so short and we gotta use/do what we can moving super fast from a known Point A to an unknown Point B.

Okay fair enough. So now I guess that a reasonable question would be, you've been training now for x amount of years, what do you know about the mysterious part that you can be absolutely sure of?


almost nothing. I can be sure that things like perfect timing and effortless throws are definitely not "mysterious", qualitatively. But how to consistently pull off either the normal "effortless" or the "mysterious" are beyond me. My best sport is soccer, and I'm strictly old man recreational level. I've played with D1 athletes and ex pros, and seen someone from USMNT up close, and they are on another planet. How would a hobbyist in MA or anything else ever get to "elite" level? It's impossible. Every once in a while a normal person can have the perfect golf swing, but that's nothing mysterious.

Re: Getting science on your side

PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 3:27 pm
by willie
everything wrote:
willie wrote:
everything wrote:For sure 100% agreed. Life is so short and we gotta use/do what we can moving super fast from a known Point A to an unknown Point B.

Okay fair enough. So now I guess that a reasonable question would be, you've been training now for x amount of years, what do you know about the mysterious part that you can be absolutely sure of?


almost nothing. I can be sure that things like perfect timing and effortless throws are definitely not "mysterious", qualitatively. But how to consistently pull off either the normal "effortless" or the "mysterious" are beyond me. My best sport is soccer, and I'm strictly old man recreational level. I've played with D1 athletes and ex pros, and seen someone from USMNT up close, and they are on another planet. How would a hobbyist in MA or anything else ever get to "elite" level? It's impossible. Every once in a while a normal person can have the perfect golf swing, but that's nothing mysterious.

This is a very level-headed post. The answer is basically nearly no hobbyist are going to come close to competing with professionals.. it's usually a matter of genetics, in my opinion. I can't even imagine why somebody doing Tai Chi would want to jump in the ring with somebody doing MMA. It's just not a good idea. When I was doing MMA the entire intent and mindset was completely different than Tai Chi. Tai Chi can be devastating, but MMA is devastating. There is a big difference between could be, would be, and is. Our entire intent was to get damage. That means to damage your opponent. Taichi is more of a social event where laughing and wow that's cool, and all that fun stuff resides, (insert exceptions here).The weak defeating the strong never had anything to do with somebody insisting that you must be weak in order to perform taiji correctly. That is a complete falsehood. Being athletic is a far superior plan of action. That's why almost all top level sport players enjoy the benefits of weightlifting, body building and/or powerlifting...

Re: Getting science on your side

PostPosted: Wed Jul 04, 2018 5:31 pm
by willie
This one didn't come out to good but there is still a couple things that are important.

Re: Getting science on your side

PostPosted: Thu Jul 05, 2018 3:53 am
by Appledog
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