Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
BUAHAHAHAHAHA!! I love the deadpan sarcastic Facebook "fan page" for Yanagi Ryuken - the description says:
"Grand Master of all fighting. This man of steel stands behind a nearly flawless 200-1 combat record. The single loss, as we all know, was attributed to blatant cheating (through actual physical contact) by the challenger."
^ROFL!!!
I am a fan of this page. That is classic. I've tried every argument with my sensei about chi. I've tried the "Lets spar you use chi energy and I use physical force", I've tried the "If chi is a form of energy then there should be a scale of measurement". Everytime I bring up the myths he just pulls rank and changes the subject.

Over the Easter weekend there is a pretty big festival in Ulladulla with a street parade, the fishing fleet gets blessed, carnival rides etc etc. My Sensei put on a demonstration with some students on one of the stages. I participated in one part of it. He did a self defence demonstration with "volunteers" from the crowd. It was quite funny because seeing someone in street clothes as opposed to someone wearing a gi get thrown around really had the audience gasping in shock. I guess it gave it a more realistic feel which was the desired effect. Then he did board breaking. A couple of the young teenage loudmouth students got to break boards and thought they we heaps tough. Then Sensei broke some ice blocks so he asked the teenage students to get their broken boards and break them on the corner of the stage into smaller pieces so he could use them as spacers. This was the highlight of the day for me. These teenage kids constantly harrass me because I refuse to do any of that sort of stuff. So then they are banging these boards on the corner of the stage and nothing is happening. So I just went the full "Oh noes! Whats wrong? You could break dem before but not now WTF?!" After about 2 minutes of this (Sensei was doing weapon kata demonstrations during all this) I explained the physics to the kids and showed them the grain of the board and amazingly they were able to break them... I'm not sure if it was because I showed them about breaking with the grain or if their chi energy had recharged after breaking the boards earlier?... It was probably the latter