Qing Gong

kawaii

Does anyone know if qing gong (lightness technique) is actually real? Can people really jump severaly times their own height?

judomick

nope in a word, unless your a grasshopper!

i think parkour is the closest anyone will get to flying or weightlessness on earth

parkour= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jquXcwooV6A

qing gong cant find anyvideos of demonstration but heres the training
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkpde4vSuwc

kawaii

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8003217673082613748&q=qinggong - Just found this. I'd liked to think that there's some reality there...

judomick

apart from the pyjamas i dont see a difference between parkour and that clip? except the pyjamas, looks cool, the fighting in the video is completely unrealistic though

kawaii

yeah... that parkour clip was pretty amazing I must say...

and yes, that fighting did look very choreographed.

SorGan

judomick wrote:

apart from the pyjamas i dont see a difference between parkour and that clip? except the pyjamas, looks cool, the fighting in the video is completely unrealistic though

good clip, a well conditioned well trained body such as that clip dude can do all that, its that simple, look at a pro gymnast for eg.:)

SorGan

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=515642196227308929&q=street+gymnast
Light technique

dlofnep

Parkour is fun. I went to a few meetings when I was over in Michigan. Mind you, I was in much better shape then. The things the guys did were unreal.. Going into the mall, climbing the railings, backflipping off walls. The look on everyone there was brilliant.

Black Swan

I would be skeptical about the use of such techniques in the real world, but the FX that are used as metaphors to tell stories coming out of China and Japan recently are fun to watch, and sometimes lend themselves to the mystical content of the story.

pearsquasher

I would be skeptical about the use of such techniques in the real world, but the FX that are used as metaphors to tell stories coming out of China and Japan recently are fun to watch, and sometimes lend themselves to the mystical content of the story.

Bam!

Dragan

Gravity is Gravity at the end of the day. Through conditiong of the CNS and required muscular chain it is possible to jump very high indeed....but it's best to approach such things with a sense of realism.

smacl

The BBC aired a documentary on free running (Parkour?) a couple of months ago called Jump London. Great to watch, but a young persons game and interestingly of the four runners, one was too injured to perfrom when the time came. From a self defence point of view, if you're not in an enclosed space, it looks superb for running away from a fight, which qualifies as effective self defence in my book