Friday, July 6, 2012

Kungfu

At Tiantai Mountain we went to the temple then met up with Yifa's friends. One of them was a kungfu master/unlicense chyropractor/medicine man. About a year ago Yifa took the wrong medicine (Chinese medicine) and became paralized. I'm not smashing Chinese medicine, some of it works since it's still practiced, but clearly in this situation it did not. So this Kungfu master/unlicense chyropractor/medicine man fixed Yifa in three weeks. He did a small Kungfu demonstration which unraveled quickly.

The type of kungfu this guy knows is about cultivating power and sending it to one place. It's not about quick jabs or dance around. It's quick, powerful, and minimal moves to kill -I guess. He made it clear he was 57 years old, and looked pretty healthy too.

His first demonstration was pushing Josh's two arms with his two fingers. Kind of like arm wrestling. You can guess who won.

Kungfu Master vs. Josh

His demonstrations continued to pushing other people. He would simply push other people without any struggle. Josh held his hips while the Kungfu guy stood virtically. He just walked into Josh, who was leaning all the way into him, and Josh slid as he walked with ease. It was pretty amazing. He was a fairly legitament Kungfu dude.

Kungfu Master vs. Skinny Josh


Naomi volunteered to test his stregth, they tried to come up with another test of stregth, but he was kind of doing the thing of: "Meh, just a woman." He told her to try to hit him. She got pumped up and jumped around a bit, he laughed, she did a few quick jabs and punched him in the face. He was totally caught off guard, the group gasped, he didn't seem to show any pain.  Turns out Naomi is a european karate champion.

I don't have a photo of them fighting, I was sort of/kind of cowering in the back.

They had one more round, both were quick, he was completely on the defense but lightly slapped her face then it was over. I had a hard time watching, there was some humiliation going on at both ends. Kungfu dude lite up a cigarette, then said: "I don't dance around and do quick jabs, I just pull out the heart. I cut skin like tofu." He was kind of a sore loser, but he could probably do it.

Later on he claimed he could cure illness just by waving his hand over somebody and guide the yin into balance with the yang. It was a bit out there, but then again Kungfu guy was kind of out there with this skills he showed us.

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