What are your thoughts on it?
Ancient Asian mumbo-jumbo, or something real?
>>18641923
Only as real as you
>>18641926
So it's as ambiguous as your answer, eh?
>>18641923
i think it's real but it would take an entire lifetime of devotion to mastering it to show it in any substantial way.
>>18641926
A god knows a god
Like a dog knows a dog
Because shes hexy and she knows it
>>18641923
It is real.
It is the energy our body refines out of Oxygen.
Ancient martial arts are just methods of, how to refine a higher quantity of that life energy in less time, and how to utilize or control that energy.
Thousands of Animus can't be wrong guys.
>>18641923
>>18643216
From Chinese (Mandarin dialect) Qì, literally means ‘air, breath.’
In traditional Chinese culture, qì or ch'i (About this sound qì, also known as khí in Vietnamese culture, gi in Korean culture, ki in Japanese culture) is an active principle forming part of any living thing.
Qi literally translates as "breath", "air", or "gas", and figuratively as "material energy", "life force", or "energy flow".
Qi is the central underlying principle in traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts.
>>18642558
Look to the more ancient tao sorcerers, and the more obscure ancient religions of the mountains of west china for some weird and powerful stuff.
>>18642558
>an entire lifetime of devotion to mastering it
Nope. Depends on your path, but several years of proper study will get you some degree of proficiency. Getting really good takes decades. But what else are you doing with the rest of your life?
>>18641923
Ki is the various signals that the cells in our body use to communicate with each other. Meridans are the actual network that these signals travel through in our body.
>>18641923
It's totally real. Just don't try to actually fight with it.
https://youtu.be/wQJbjX73lC0