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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
 Posted - 12/15/2013 : 12:42:15
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"Empty Force" or "EFO" is allegedly a "no-touch" form of martial arts, wherein crackpots masters can disable people without touching them, even stopping their hearts. Think of it as really aggressive therapeutic touch.
Here's a video of one such "master" at an open seminar in Spain. He got informally tested by some local skeptics, and failed completely. He even begged off when one skeptic offered to really punch him.
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Fripp
SFN Regular
USA
727 Posts |
Posted - 12/15/2013 : 17:10:54 [Permalink]
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This reminds me of George Dillman from years back. Check out his Wiki page for more on his "pressure point" fighting where he claimed he could do light touches to incapacitate you.
Here's excerpt from that page:
National Geographic Channel demonstration
In September 2005, National Geographic Channel's Is It Real? program (episode 20) asked for a demonstration of his "Knockout" Chi (a no-touch knockout technique), during which Kyusho-jitsu and Small Circle JuJitsu instructor Leon Jay was unable to knock-out Luigi Garlaschelli, an Italian skeptical investigator from CICAP. Dillman's explanation of the failure was as follows:
The skeptic was a totally non-believer. Plus I don't know if I should say that on film but if the guy had his tongue in the wrong position in the mouth, that can also nullify it [Qi power]. You can nullify it you can nullify a lot of things. In fact, you can nullify it if you raise those two big toes! If I say I'm going to knock you out, and you raise one toe, and push one toe down....I can't knock you out. And then, if I go to try again, you reverse it. If you keep doing this, I won't knock you out.[10][11] |
These guys would never have the stones to show their face(s) at an MMA tournament. |
"What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. I thought my Dark Lord of the Sith could protect a small thermal exhaust port that's only 2-meters wide! That thing wasn't even fully paid off yet! You have any idea what this is going to do to my credit?!?!"
"What? Oh, oh, 'just rebuild it'? Oh, real [bleep]ing original. And who's gonna give me a loan, jackhole? You? You got an ATM on that torso LiteBrite?" |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 12/15/2013 : 17:28:35 [Permalink]
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Yeah, that Dillman NatGeo clip is on YouTube.
And you reminded me of another video of a "Kiai Master" who believed his own hand-waving baloney so much he bet $5,000 he could win against any MMA fighter, and lost badly. The hand-waving is literal, by the way. |
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On fire for Christ
SFN Regular
Norway
1273 Posts |
Posted - 12/15/2013 : 17:30:06 [Permalink]
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| The students are drinking the kool aid. I think I saw one demo where a guy would knock someone out without touching them, he would do like a dragonball Z type energy blast and the student would swoon. It's hard to tell if these people are just helping their master save face or if they buy into it so much they actually faint. |
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Fripp
SFN Regular
USA
727 Posts |
Posted - 12/15/2013 : 17:41:50 [Permalink]
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That video is hilarious.
I remember back in the mid '80s when the Gracies and the Machados and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu just started getting noticed. In my opinion, BJJ and MMA is the best thing to happen to "martial arts" in terms of debunking all the mystical clap-trap that used to be rampant in the various disciplines.
Unfortunately, we can see that there will always be people like these clowns. |
"What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. I thought my Dark Lord of the Sith could protect a small thermal exhaust port that's only 2-meters wide! That thing wasn't even fully paid off yet! You have any idea what this is going to do to my credit?!?!"
"What? Oh, oh, 'just rebuild it'? Oh, real [bleep]ing original. And who's gonna give me a loan, jackhole? You? You got an ATM on that torso LiteBrite?" |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 12/15/2013 : 17:44:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by On fire for Christ
It's hard to tell if these people are just helping their master save face or if they buy into it so much they actually faint. |
Two words: Benny Hinn. |
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sailingsoul
SFN Addict
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Posted - 12/16/2013 : 21:58:27 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Two words: Benny Hinn.
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Perfectly placed link Dave.
Like the head on the left Benny Hinn is laughing all the way to the bank, with their money. Maybe the head on the right should fall over. I suppose with the euphoria felt believing your saved and going to heaven it's worth the money.
I can't help but ask why does GOD need "seed money".
I know! To buy a couple of Lear Jets for "Ba, Ba, Ba, Benny and the Jets". |
There are only two types of religious people, the deceivers and the deceived. SS |
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