TBH I am biased toward Chen style as this is my style of Taijiquan and there is very little in the way of bullshit associated with it at the moment… but Yang, Sun and Wu are also good… also if you find a good teacher (one that doesnt bash on about qi and forget to teach the MA side) then thats the main thing…
Props for taking this huge step in the right direction. Changing your belief system is hard. Being man enough to come here and post “I was wrong” has won you my respect, even if I think you’ve a little more learning to do yet.
This is a good step…the only other quick thing I’d say is you need to approach learning from a standpoint of NO senority. This is not a flame, but it’s my opinion that you present yourself as an authority to many of the people on your site, when you lack the background to do so. Try to be a student before you try to be a teacher.
And confine long rambling posts involving “the oldest name of God” to links - that was a lot to scroll through.
6 months of MMA training would assist you develop you ki applications. And if it didn’t, at least you’d be learning how to fight. :qleft5: :qright2:
The links had both reliable and not-so-reliable resources. But, you guys are the experts at deciphering the Bullshit. 
Heh, anyway, I actually have been trying to clean up my forums a good long while. I’ll still be discussing philosophies and the like but I also will make it clear to not mix these with Martial Arts applications.
You’d be surprised, my members have already been showing improvement. One of the mods on my forums already is signing up for a Shaolin Kung Fu Academy.
Edit: By the way, what’s all the hub-bub with Shaolin approaches? I hear they cover a lot of styles.
Those are good news. Congratulations on coming clean Chrono. And remember, fighting skills come at the price of blood, sweat and bruises…
Hell yeah, bro. Thanks.
Missuse of the Shaolin name is common . . .very, very few of the schools advertising “Shaolin” training are affiliated with the actual Shaolin monks . . . and the modern monks’ connection to the ancient ones isn’t so certain…just one of those semantic things we fight uphill against… there’s more in the history section, I belive.
Could you repost this link in full length, or let me know the search parameters you used please?
Cheers
Edit: I spell like a moron…
I have the site link somewhere for the school he was going into. I could still warn him if you guys think it may be fraud.
A member of my forums gave all these to me in email. I’ve been saving and bookmarking lots of interesting sites.
If you want to see some REAL bullshit, here’s an interesting one:
Edit: bites bottom lip DAMMIT! I double-posted. Please don’t bite my head off for it.
I just want to read the abstract and see what journal the paper was published in, i.e. how peer-reviewed it is.
I haven’t read all the links that I have posted just yet. But from the ones I did read, they mostly checked out okay. Anyway if you do see one of those links that tries to talk about Ki as being anything other than an energy of the human body, then…yeah. Bullshit. Heh.
Edit: As I stated previously, a member from my forums submitted the links from her research. The links are self-explanatory. I am unsure about their credibility. If you want I can provide you with a much better, more scientific-backed definition…and no, not like “Johntitor.com.” Heh.
Wow, he actually did it:
http://kisanctuary.chaosmagic.com/
While I’m still sceptical about a lot of things you’re saying, this is definitly a step in the right direction.
I may have had some issues in the past, but I’m a rehabilitated man.
Here’s an article, to you others, who wish to know what Qi REALLY IS:
http://martialarts.about.com/od/martialarts101/a/Qi.htm?terms=Qi
This is breaking through the myths
Edit: Skepticism is fine. Without it, I wouldn’t be here right now. It helped me. And, so will that article.
" More traditional ki methods" …
You are trading one set of bullshit ideas for another.
I am not impressed by your “coming clean”.
Let me makes this very clear to you:
IF THERE IS KI ( BIG ASS IF), NO ONE KNOWS WHAT IT IS.
STOP IT
Why? I am clearly trying to back up what I have said already. I assure you if you at least give me enough room to breathe here, I’ll set things straight.
Set what straight ?
No chi blast but there is chi ?
You have the REAL ki ?
What exactly are you here for?
Welcome. I guess.
Were you the same that threatened me over MSN? If so, it’s all cool.
At least you are more on the right track.
We’ll nitpick at your training choices and ‘philosophy’ more later.