emjej@uokvax.UUCP (07/10/86)
/* Written 7:42 pm Jun 27, 1986 by mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP in net.sci */ Karatekas have tried to break things and failed, and failed, through several tries (bloody hands, etc). Then they get the right mindset (or whatever you want to call it) and everything goes smoothly. If it were just a tough hand I can't see how you explain this. Besides, when was the last time you saw skin tougher than concrete? -- der Mouse /* End of text from net.sci */ The fact that one has to be in the right frame of mind to do a thing doesn't imply that anything supernatural is going on. I find that, as a singer somewhere between baritone and bass, that at times when my throat is relaxed I can sing lower notes than at other times. I don't think that ESP or PK has anything to do with it. James Jones
aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP (07/10/86)
(1) Mouse, unless you've gotten better since I left, your arm certainly
wasn't unbendable.
(2) I've also used the unbendable arm trick, without benefit of aikido.
My mother the physiotherapist taught it to me. Seems purely physical.
Oh, but yes, mindset is important, because you can't get your muscles
wrapping properly without being totally relaxed.
Now, if only there were a ki for dolyio chagi...
Andy "Krazy" Glew. Gould CSD-Urbana. USEnet: ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!aglew
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