"How often has assertions that defy "science" turned out to actually be science (ie: the earth is flat/round, the earth is the center of the universe, the atom is the smallest particle of matter, etc...) It is our blind faith that science is the answer that confines our creativity.. as Einstein said, "imagination is more important than knowledge".. Just a suggestion: rather than asserting that "Ki blast is a bull", how about "i have no evidence to support Ki blast".. here we leave open the opportunity to evaluate new evidence if it should be presented..etc."
Always the same.
"As of difference, because swimming is very linear, it doesn't use full range of motion nor idea of meredian being emphasised in swimming. But the same can be said about taijiquan compared with yoga or qigong. There are postures in yoga which are not performed in taijiquan simply because it is martially impractical. Main emphasis of taijiqaun are few major meredian points and dantien while if you practice medical qigong, I assume, focus is entire spectrum of meredian points. Of course if someone swim 1 hours every day and if I do taijiquan 10 minitues a day, swimmer is probably far healthier."
Could you approach this objectively?
It is safe to say that swimming is healty but relatively little known tai ji knows of little evidence over swimming.
I remember one time I was reading KFO I saw someone state something like "only if you want to live a short life" as a response to a question whether someone should do qi-gong/related exercise (in which it was later pointed out that it may not be that necessary,this was what triggered the response)
It is this kind of stuff aforementioned that I view as highly dangerous and it makes me hope ppl will not take it seriously (unfortunately some might)
I believe you understand what I mean.
The sunsetīs setting down.Lay me on the forest floor.
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