He pretty clearly said that energy somehow emanates from the planet through human beings, but has yet to describe this marvelous mechanism. Even taking your interpretation as true, which is very generous of you, tendons, joints, and other "linkages" do not move of their own accord. They only move when the muscles to which they are attached contract or expand.
Your long times in martial arts, which I respect, provides you anecdotal evidence, not medical or scientific knowledge.
You're adding context to what I said. Transfer energy from the earth to the opponent. If it helps, transfer energy from the ground to the opponent. If for some reason you took it as magical fairy dust which protrudes from the earth, you're one of the very few. Many of the members on these forums know what is meant by saying "transfer the energy from the ground or earth". I think this is a good learning point for us all and we should make the best of this situation so that it doesn't happen again in the future.
Sukerkin, do you think we can make a sticky of commonly used phrases and their meanings and post it in the newby section so that the newer members will be aware? It would suck to waste 3 pages again on having to describe down to layman's terms, what should be common knowledge.
Tanizaki, your e-thugging started before I described energy transfer. You can see that in your first response to my reply. It's great that you enjoy arguing but like with most things in life an over abundance of anything becomes a nuisance. You appear to have learned a great deal through your schooling and its nice that you like to allow that to shine. There's more to life, however, when communicating and dealing with others and that is portrayed through social skills. In that department you seem to come up lacking because you first response to anything is to contradict anything that has been said.
Now, I'm only trying to help you seek happiness when I say this. Google "forums+love+argue" and see if anything is more to your liking. Here we enjoy discussing MA with active, positive arguments that usually result in benefit. Not arguing arguments that result in more arguing. I remember, a very long time ago, in kindergarten to be exact...there was this one boy that no one ever got along with because all he would do is tell the other kids that they we're wrong. The kid just sounded moronic and was bullied a lot because of this. He wasn't bullied because he went to a school full of bullies. It's because society didn't accept his idiocy. Not trying to directly insult you but that's a realistic term. Here's a definition from wiki:
"Idiot" was originally created to refer to people who were overly concerned with their own self-interest and ignored the needs of the community. Declining to take part in public life, such as (semi-)democratic government of the
polis (city state), such as the
Athenian democracy, was considered dishonorable. "Idiots" were seen as having bad judgment in public and political matters. Over time, the term "idiot" shifted away from its original connotation of selfishness and came to refer to individuals with overall bad judgmentĀindividuals who are "
stupid". In modern
English usage, the terms "idiot" and "idiocy" describe an extreme folly or stupidity, its symptoms (foolish or stupid utterance or deed). In psychology, it is a historical term for the state or condition now called
profound mental retardation.
I gotta get back to work, have a good day
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) because I understood implicitly what he was trying to say i.e. that certain martial techniques rely on transmission of power from the bodies linkages rather than simple muscle movement from the striking limb.
