Who Switched from External to Internal Martial Arts and Why?

[Miqi]

agreed.

There is no such thing as internal and external.

There is only whole body.

People that cannot grasp this concept are neophytes who like most westerners buy into that fantasy magical BS.

The opoosite, in fact, is true: as Wang Xiang Zhai said "bound foot grows the least".

In fact, whole body power is nothing to do with internal and external. In the way that you use all three of these terms, however, internal and external are indeed meaningless, but you have simply replaced them with the equally meaningless 'whole body power'.

Not that 'whole body power' actually is meaningless - just that, as you use it, it's just yet another magical ability that you can't demonstrate, and has to be believed - and those who don't believe it have to be described as 'neophytes'.

In other words, you are repeating the argument strategy of the tailors in the tale of 'the Emperor's new clothes'.