Here's a ki/chi trick someone (a so-called 9th degree 'master') tried pulling on me long ago.
Said person goes into the kitchen and emerges with a banana. He puts the unpeeled banana between his middle and ring fingers and says he's going to slice the banana in half with his ki/chi, within the peel.
He begins making grunts of exertion. His forearm muscles are fully flexed. He writhes as if in pain. Several minutes later, and seemingly exhausted, he has someone peel the banana. Lo and behold, it's sliced in half, though the peel bears no evidence of being sliced.
It's a simple magic trick that anybody can do.
What he did when he was getting the banana from the kitchen was prepping it. He inserted a thin sewing needle into the peel, preferably under the brand sticker, but between flat sections of the peel would do. He doesn't push it all the way through, but just enough to wear the needle tip just reaches the other side. The needle is then swept back and forth, slicing the banana within the peel. Big show. Lots of grunting. Huge production. Banana is 'magically' cut in half.
Anyone else seen tricks like this? I'm not talking about 'unbendable arm' type stuff, since there is no deception with that kinda exercise. Stuff like my example, where 'miraculous' feats are achieved by chi/ki alone.
I have a specific fella in mind, but we'll see if someone else doesn't mention him first.
Cthulhu
Said person goes into the kitchen and emerges with a banana. He puts the unpeeled banana between his middle and ring fingers and says he's going to slice the banana in half with his ki/chi, within the peel.
He begins making grunts of exertion. His forearm muscles are fully flexed. He writhes as if in pain. Several minutes later, and seemingly exhausted, he has someone peel the banana. Lo and behold, it's sliced in half, though the peel bears no evidence of being sliced.
It's a simple magic trick that anybody can do.
What he did when he was getting the banana from the kitchen was prepping it. He inserted a thin sewing needle into the peel, preferably under the brand sticker, but between flat sections of the peel would do. He doesn't push it all the way through, but just enough to wear the needle tip just reaches the other side. The needle is then swept back and forth, slicing the banana within the peel. Big show. Lots of grunting. Huge production. Banana is 'magically' cut in half.
Anyone else seen tricks like this? I'm not talking about 'unbendable arm' type stuff, since there is no deception with that kinda exercise. Stuff like my example, where 'miraculous' feats are achieved by chi/ki alone.
I have a specific fella in mind, but we'll see if someone else doesn't mention him first.
Cthulhu
