From: dpipes@spica.srg (Dave Pipes x4552)
Subject: Re: Nike Style Tai Chi?
Organization: ----------< :-) >----------
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 15:09:14 GMT
Followup-To: rec.martial-arts
Keywords: knave chi?

In article <1992Oct06.183135.3237@srg.srg.af.mil> schan@birch.srg.af.mil (Stephen Chan x4485) writes:
>
>	Dave, you're just so knave.
>	I realise that not everyone has the natural talent and blinding
>intellect which I humbly possess, but I feel compelled to correct your moronic
>error, since you're my friend.

     i thank for the correction, and take it in the spirit intended.

>
>	Qi (the correct japanese spelling) is not something which you throw
>away - the hole idea is to collect as much of it as you can. The only place
>where you want to store your qi is in your Dan Tien. Which is your personal
>piggy bank for qi.

     as someone else has pointed out, "chi" has many spellings, nearly as
many as the places to store it.  perhaps your use of only the "correct"
spelling (actually an English approximation) reflects the narrowness of
your style and its thinking.  don't take that the wrong way, but...
consider it...

>
>	I have come to realize something which I want to share with you - it
>may disturb some of you, but after researching this subject in many magasines,
>I have an explanation for why so many white folks dont believe in qi...

     many things can be found in "magasines", some good, some bad...

>	Whenever I go dancing, I always marvel at how little rhythm white
>people have...and every basketball player knows that white men can't jump.
>

     you obviously don't know the same white people i know...but then we
knew your background was...specialized...from your above statements.

     i have seen white men who successfully compete in basketball - there
is one in Boston which you would have heard of, if you were as 
knowldgeable about such things as you are about chi...or believe you are...
it is all who you know of <smile> isn't it...

>	Well, another one of white men's shortcoming is that THEY HAVE NO QI!!
>	It explains why so many white people scoff at the idea of qi, and
>why those who do "believe" in qi have such fantastic, mystical ideas about it -
>because they don't have any, and they just *think* they do.

     on the other hand, many people hold forth on subjects they think they
understand...

>	Black people have rhythm, yellow people have qi...and white people have
>hmmmm....
>	white people have dangerous high tech weapons and lots of $$$$$.

     martial arts is so much more than fighting.  and yet you have reduced
chi to a component of fighting, like weapons...i think you miss the point
entirely, but then i could be wrong <grin>

>	This tends to counteract their lack of rhythm and qi.

     another opinion, worth what it's worth...
     <touch /bin/giggles>

>	Chanster
>
>--
>	Stephen Chan
>	uunet!srg!schan or uunet!srg!schan@uunet.uu.net

	david pipes :-)
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	"einstein was not a handsome fellow, nobody ever called him Al
 	 he had a long mustache to pull on, it was yellow
  	 i don't believe he ever had a girl
	 one thing that he missed out in his theories
	 of time and space and relativity
	 makes it quite clear that he
	 was never gonna score like you and me:
	 he didn't know about
	 quark, strangeness and charm..."
		-some good band whose name i am blanking on...