View Single Post Old 08-10-2013, 07:37 PM   #62 Dojo: Shobu
Aikido of Boston Location: Peterborough, NH Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 611 Re: Ki energy defined  I don't have a lot of patience
for people getting all mystic about ki. No, there's not some
mysterious fifth force undiscovered by scientists but available
to martial artists.  I also don't have a lot of patience with
people claiming that there's nothing to ki and similar imagery.
Every athletic endeavor has their imagery which makes no sense
logically, but helps the body move the right way for that
situation. Weightlifting--the antithesis of internal arts in a
lot of ways--certainly has lots.  And I appreciate the Sonnen
quote, but five minutes on google would give me plenty of quotes
from well-respected fighters talking about the importance of
attitude and intent, which are certainly not measurable in the
scientific sense. Even our own Keith talking about the OODA loop
doesn't fit in that framework.  Perhaps all ki is is a way to
use the mind to organi