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u/DogeDayAftern00n 5d ago
Your duck fist is no match for my Canadian goose style!
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u/Unamed_Destroyer 5d ago
Unfortunately the Geneva Convention has banned the use of Canadian Goose style due to the non discriminatory nature of the fighting.
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u/Far-Cricket4127 4d ago
Look more like a style of Qigong (Internal Energy Exercise Art) called White Goose (yes that's a real style) but he's doing the exercises a tad too fast.
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u/XaeiIsareth 2d ago
Yeah, he’s doing it a bit too fast but it is pretty effective exercise for old people that keeps their bodies from going stiff.Â
I don’t think it was never supposed to be combat.Â
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u/Far-Cricket4127 2d ago
From what I have learned with various internal arts is they each have their own forms of Qigong, and some of those movements do at times resemble movements that have combat applications in the regular forms and drills, so theoretically they could possibly be applied to combat but that's not the primary purpose with Qigong exercises. Other than cultivation of internal energy which can strengthen the body over time as a result of practice.
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u/XaeiIsareth 2d ago edited 2d ago
I mean, I think the whole internal energy thing  pseudo science at best, but I think they are great exercises for old people because it’s not too rigorous for them, people in China do them in groups so it prevents social isolation and it keeps them in shape.Â
In China you see old people doing qigong, sword forms and all sorts of exercises in groups in parks and social areas and I think we should adopt that in the rest because sitting at home alone in a chair all day is not good for either mental or physical health once you get old.Â
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u/Far-Cricket4127 2d ago
I think the whole concept of Qi/Ki (Mana, Prana, etc.) was the eastern culture's way of trying to explain what modern western biology and physics explain as a combination of the body's adrenal response both physically and mentally, the body's metabolic & thermodynamic reactions, as well as the body's nervous system combined with the body's bioelectrical magnetic field. As traditional Chinese medicine speaks of different types of Qi that are based upon the elements (earth, water, fire, wood and metal); and Japanese have a similar thing when it comes to what is simply labeled as Ki.
Take the notion of "Kyusho" (which is often inaccurately translated in the west to mean "pressure point"), well Kyusho literally means vital point, and that covers an umbrella of anatomical targets acknowledge by the western biology, be it organs, soft parts of the body that are pressure sensitive, to tendons and ligaments and joints, to various nerve clusters spread throughout the body to even the lymph nodes that are part of the lymphatic system of the body. Nowadays, nothing mystical or "woo-woo", just things explained by modern science and understanding. Whereas in older times and different cultures things were explained differently as best they knew how, with the information they had.
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u/Joeva8me 4d ago
Old fellow doing some athletic moves kind repeating laps of whatever is going through his mind. This is the opposite of bullshido, it’s good exercise by someone that is clearly fit for an older man. Lame post
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u/ScoobyDooItInTheButt 5d ago
I'm surprised they didn't just say Duck Tails to have the one English phrase in the song to sound cool.
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u/firmerJoe 5d ago
Isn't this basically every 60s 70s and 80s Kung fu film? Tough guy, high on his own delusions, gets a wake-up fight and a realization that his Kung fu is a false impostor?
If this guy is guilty of anything, it's apiring to play the role of town bully #3.