I really like this example. It is a perfect example of how Yin and Yang work in a fight.
In this episode, Goku is fighting Tien Shinhan. At the beginning of the video clip included with this blog entry, Goku and Tien face off.
Goku and Tien then begin fighting. They exchange blows in the middle of the ring for the first two thirds of the video.
Then the interesting part begins. Goku takes control of the fight and pushes Tien all the way to the other side of the ring. Tien is right up against the boundaries of the ring, with Goku beating on him trying to knock him out of the ring.
Goku punches and kicks and kicks and punches, but Tien does not go out of the ring. Goku attacks Tien on the edge of the ring for a long time, then Tien counterattacks.
After counterattacking, Tien then begins chasing Goku. Tien chases Goku, who continually flips away, all over the ring.
This entire sequence is an example of Yin and Yang in fighting.
Goku attacks Tien and pushes him back to the edge of the platform. Goku is Yang. Goku is hard and he is on the offensive. Tien is Yin, because he is softer than Goku, and Tien is retreating.
At the edge of the platform, when Goku is trying to knock Tien off of the platform, Tien is using the Yin part of his body, to absorb the hard Yang attacks of Goku. The reason they fight so long at the edge of the platform, is to demonstrate how strong the Yin part of Tien Shinhan's body is. The Yin part of his body is so strong, he can take a full on attack for what seems like minutes without moving.
What happens when Tien counterattacks is that the energy changes. Goku has used up so much Yang energy that he must rest. Tien has absorbed so much Yang energy from Goku, he is now able to counterattack. Tien is like a spring that Goku pushes on, then the spring bounces back, or Tien bounces back and counterattacks.
The reason it is significant that Tien chases Goku all over the ring with Goku flipping away and not fighting, is to demonstrate that Goku's Yang power is depleted, and he is using his Yin power to run away. After he run's away long enough, his Yang power will regenerate so he can defend himself or counterattack.
Tien is able to chase Goku all over the ring, basically because he is using Goku's energy. Tien sucked the energy out of Goku when Goku attacked him at the edge of the platform. Tien then used the energy he sucked out of Goku, to chase Goku all over the ring.
This really is a good example if you sit and think about it, and think about how you would teach Yin and Yang to children. It is an excellent example for people learning about Yin and Yang.
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This is one of the episodes in the arc about the martial arts tournament. This episode shows people arriving at the days tournament and talking about it. There is a group of three men in particular whose conversations is highlighted.
Two of the men look relatively normal. One of the men looks completely abnormal, because he only has one eye.
Why would the cartoon makers include a man with one eye in the cartoon? This is a cartoon of course, and there are many other fanciful creatures like wolf men or dog people. It would be reasonable to believe that the one eyed man is just a fanciful creation of the people who drew the cartoon.
The man with one eye is in with a group of normal men though. As if he is a normal man, not a dog or a wolf man, who just happens to have one eye. Most of the entries in this blog are based on the idea that the people who drew the cartoon incorporated their knowledge of how human beings look and act into the cartoon. That would imply that there is a reason behind including a man with one eye in a highlighted part of the cartoon.
According to Happeh Theory, there are various physical activities that will cause a human being to go blind in one eye. There are usually other health problems that also occur. According to Happeh Theory, the one eyed man in this cartoon, is supposed to be an example of a real life human being, whose body has been changed so it only has one eye, by one of the causes listed by Happeh Theory.
In the following video clip, there is a short conversation between the three men. Please note how the one eyed man speaks.
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The one eyed man speaks with a bumpkin or "not too smart" kind of accent and speech pattern. According to Happeh Theory, that is not a coincidence. A person whose body is changed by one of the causes listed by Happeh Theory, and turns into a one eyed person, will usually experience some kind of changes to their mental capacity. Many times the change in mental capacity will be to make the person simple, like the one eyed man in the video clip.
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Another part of the video dealt with the subject of telepathy. According to Happeh Theory, telepathy is something that any person can gain, if they practice martial arts or kung fu regularly for the required amount of time. The required amount of time will be different for everyone, but at some point, if the person is learning real kung fu and not exercise kung fu, they will gain some kind of telepathic ability.
This video clip is being highlighted, because according to Happeh Theory, the men who created the DragonBallZ cartoon, were also trying to teach young children, that if they took kung fu and practiced like they were supposed to, they would become telepathic when they were older.
If someone was trying to describe telepathy to another person, how would they do it? Telepathy is invisible. Telepathy is like radio or television in that the method of transmission is invisible to the human eye. There is nothing visible to show anybody as proof that telepathy exists.
What the creators of the cartoon did, was to remove all of the other people from the cartoon except the two people are are telepathically communicating. Then each time one of them speaks, a line will go from them to the other person. According to Happeh Theory, this is a simplistic way to get the idea of telepathy across to small children. By using something visible, the lines connecting the two communicating people, as they speak to each other.
The video clip itself is something that pertains to the cartoon. There is no real information in the clip, other than the demonstration of adult men, trying to get across the idea that telepathy is real to small children, in a way they can understand.
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This episode contains something so important for the kung fu man to know, it is hard to put into words. It is also something that will be hard for most people to believe.
In this episode, Crillen is fighting Chao Tzu. Crillen starts to charge Chao Tzu when he suddenly falls to the ground and clutches at his stomach.
The cartoon then shows Chao Tzu floating in the air, pointing his hands at Crillen.
The pictures imply that Crillen's stomach trouble is because of something Chao Tzu is doing. Master Roshi immediately knows what is going on, and says "How many special techniques does Chao Tzu have?"
It is really possible in real life, for a person to stop another person by making them internally sick. Just like this example, there does not need to be any physical contact between the two people.
This is obviously some kind of mental power. It is a real life fact that long term practice of kung fu will cause a person to develop mental powers. This episode is introducing that fact to young children in the cartoon format.
This mental power, like anything else in the universe, obeys certain rules. The first thing to remember, is that a person who uses mental techniques, will frequently use their hands just as Chao Tzu is doing. You can use this real life phenomenon, to help you to learn when someone is doing this. If you find yourself feeling sick for no reason at all, and someone is standing near you gesturing their hands in your direction, you might want to pay close attention to what that person is doing, and how you feel.
It is not necessary for a person who uses mental techniques to gesture with their hands. At high levels, a person can perform this technique with no movement of the hands at all. Gesturing with the hands is usually done by people who have a weak technique, people who are careless, or people who are under stress which makes it difficult for them to concentrate.
Crillen then realizes what is written above. Crillen realizes that Chao Tzu is using his hands to concentrate his power.
The second characteristic of mental techniques is that they require concentration. Since the mind is being used, the mind must be focused. The reason people raise their hands when using mind techiniques, is to help focus the mind on the target, and to physically focus their mind within their body.
This is really an amazing part of the video. Whoever created this video, basically put down real life high level kung fu techniques, that are impossible to believe for most people, in this cartoon in a matter of fact school teacher lesson kind of way. It is really an excellent job.
Crillen realizes that Chao Tzu is using his mind to make Crillen sick, so Crillen says something to break the mental concentration of Chao Tzu. Chao Tzu is bad at math, so Crillen says "what is 3 + 4?". Because all of Chao Tzu's mind is concentrating on making Crillen sick, he cannot think of a math problem at the same time.
Chao Tzu starts to think about the answer to the math problem, and suddenly Crillen is no longer sick. The minute Crillen could break Chao Tzu's mental concentration, Chao Tzu could not make him sick.
This is a real world lesson that everyone should know. If a person is using mental power to make you sick, all you have to do is distract them in some way. You can talk to them, you can be emotional with them, you can point and say "look over there", or, if they are very strong, you will have to hit them to break their concentration.
The minute you break their concentration, you should feel OK again.
Crillen then punches Chao Tzu.
But Chao Tzu recovers and makes Crillen sick again. So Crillen starts asking more math questions, breaking Chao Tzu's power, until Crillen knocks Chao Tzu out of the ring.
The video then ends with something that makes me beam. One of the jobs I have assigned myself, is to teach kung fu people that physics, geometry, and mathmatics can all help a kung fu person learn more about kung fu. It is a very hard job, because no one believes that physics, geometry, or mathematics can help a kung fu man in a real world fight.
At the end of the video, the Crane Hermit, who is Chao Tzu's teacher, says "Who would ever have guessed that a fighter needed mathematics?".
The point is that whoever made this episode, whoever it was that knows all about real life mental kung fu techniques, also thinks that mathematics could be useful to a fighter.
If they are smart enough or knowledgeable enough to know about mental kung fu techniques, their advice about mathematics is something to consider.
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The video clip is long, because there is some background material in it. The entire video clip is being posted so the viewer does not feel like they are missing any information. For the person that is bored by the unnecessary information, feel free to fast forward past it.
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This blog is about pointing out things in the Dragonball Z series, that have a basis in real life. Many people think that because Dragonball Z is a cartoon, everything in it is imaginary. That is not true. Many of the things found in Dragonball Z, have a real world foundation, and teach a useful lesson that could benefit anyone who is interested in kung fu.
Kung fu, like any physical activity by a human being, must obey the laws of physics. Teaching people that physics or any other science knowledge can be useful to kung fu practice is not easy. The ideas are so abstract, it is hard for people to relate them to actual physical things like kicking and punching.
Episode 86 presents a situation which demonstrates the laws of physics in action, and provides an interesting idea to ponder for the thinking person.
In Episode 86, Goku is fighting an opponent during the kung fu tournament. Goku jumps straight up into the air where he temporarily hovers over his opponent.
Hovering in the air is of course part of the imaginary cartoon world. Then Goku begins to fall back towards the ground.
As Goku falls towards the ground, the audience is worried that something bad will happen. Goku's opponent is standing right underneath him, waiting for him to get within reach so he can attack him. Because Goku is falling towards the ground uncontrollably, everyone thinks he will not be able to protect himself.
When Goku gets close to the man, Goku suddenly opens his mouth and exhales powerfully.
His exhale is so powerful that it slows his downward motion until he is stopped in front of his opponent.
This situation might seem like an imaginary cartoon situation, and it is. But this situation can also be described as an exaggeration of real world principles. An exagerration made using something entertaining to a child, a cartoon, in order to teach them things about real life.
What Goku does is possible in a sense. A falling body could be stopped by a powerful enough blast of air. If the blast of air was powerful enough, it could hold the body floating in the air, just like Goku floats in front of his opponent.
This cartoon situation is not real, because the human body cannot produce enough continued air release to stop itself from falling from that height.
What is real though is the idea of being able to exert extreme pressure with the breath. What would it mean if the human body could really exhale a very powerful stream of air that could stop it's movement? It would mean that the inside of the body would have to be very strong wouldn't it? The inside of the body has to be strong enough to hold and push out the air that is going to stop it's motion.
This idea is useful to the learning kung fu person, because kung fu is about making the inside of the human body strong. The higher level kung fu styles focus on making the inside of the human body strong.
This strength translates into real world effects like a very strong breath. The breath of a person who is strong internally, would be able to exert much more pressure on some object, than the body of someone who was internally weak.
When talking to children or adults learning kung fu, if you talk to them about physics, pressure, the internal organs of the body like the lungs, etc......their eyes will glaze over and they will not understand.
By putting that knowledge into a cartoon demonstration, then exaggerating it slightly to make it entertaining to the simple minded, the teacher can get across all of those ideas to the new student. Even if the student does not know anything about physics or anatomy, they are exposed to the idea that a person who practices kung fu will get strong on the inside of the body. So strong that their breathing also gets very strong.
9 Meg Xvid MPEG 3 - Exhalation
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