Master Chan, in his inimitable way, was expressing the fundamental fault to most Chi Kung practices. Chi, if you believe in it, is a undifferentiated energy source. It has no particular quality of its own, it can be used for lots of different things.('martial chi', 'healing chi'...ect.). It's like water, a universal substance that is necessary for life, and in sufficent quantities, helps things grow. A person's internal state is like a garden, where things are 'cultivated' based on one's concious choices and, unfortunately, one's unconcious and instinctual drives.(anger,greed,sexual and controlling needs) The water grows EVERYTHING in the garden, weeds and flowers together. The more 'water' the more 'growth'.

To a traditional martial artist their martial art becomes, in time, 'watercourses' in their garden, that serve to channel and direct the chi. To see if a martial artist has attained this is fairly simple. Their movement should be able to 'flow', connected and uninterrupted, moving in a wave-like manner between top and bottom. This mimics the movement of chi. This takes quite awhile to attain though, but has always been thought as the best way to form one's character ('weeding the garden'), before adding more water.

Nowadays people seek to shortcut the traditional way, by directly increasing the waterflow into their 'garden'. They don't bother to do the arduous physical work of the traditional martial way. They dismiss it as unnnecessary and go right to the 'chi'. Unfortunately they often claim to have 'it', but move in a very disjointed way. One wonders, how can they feel the chi, if they can't feel their body enough to move it in a way that follows the chi? The answer is that the chi they are feeling isn't really 'there' in their physical body. It exists only in a mental construct of their body that lives in their minds.This is what MC meant by Chi Kung being 'BS". It is often 'claimed', but cannot be demonstrated.