I'm all for it!
The forum has most definitely become one on 'Martial Arts and Fitness training' rather than Specifically IMAs. We have muay thai, MMA, Judo, BJJ, Silat etc threads on a regular basis as well as the semi occasional CIMA one!
However i am not sure it needs to be close.
After all, who moderates who should and should not post, what do they base that on etc etc. The moderators would have to have met everyone they invite into the close forum to know if they have one persons or another persons definition of internal power. Would it be IP from Dan's perspective, from Mikhail Ryabkos perspective through RobP, from Chen styles perspective though Andy?
The beauty of this forum IMO is that although there is often heated discussion, there is pretty rarely bad intent, bad feeling etc behind the posts. Certainly from my POV.
Maybe the answer is a IP subsection, which is heavily moderated. As such all off topic bounds are picked up on very fast and squashed
Dan i think you need to understand though that even if we get this sub forum, you may feel like your trying to convince people all the time unless you give a lot of detail.
As i say the issue is most definitely that we do not have an overarching DEFINITION of IP that everyone agrees on. Maybe you could pen one for a sticky in the subsection so everyone on the same page?
All the best.
Chris