Re: Antagonism from MMA schools

Renli wrote:
On Mar 16, 6:49 am, Rabid Weasel
renli
I'd be interested in hearing your explanation of why they are real.
Because they have a measurable, repeatable, physiological effect.

So in other words, you accept that pressure points work because you
can see them working, but when it's explained how they work to you,

.... that you suspect the explanation more than the demonstrable phenomena?

Yeah, that's typical of science. Any half-way decent chemistry class will
discuss the various ways in which the same phenomena have been explained, with
later theories explaining *more* while still succeeding at explaining what was
already explained.

you think it's gibberish, so you invent some other explanation (i.e.
science) and then look in that direction.

If 'science' is the alternative explanation, it seems like a better
alternative. The alternatives to science being irreproducible results.

Finding that yes, science can explain how they work somewhat, you then
throw away everything that science can not explain.

What, like the similar effect needles in places not deemed important by the
acupuncture traditional Chinese medicine have similar effects? How does qi
theory explain that?

How then do you train/teach these methods, with no unifying theory to
explain them? And by methods I also mean the methods of revival?

The first step is reproducibility. If QA at my company offers an explanation
of *why* a behavior is showing up, I don't pay any attention to it. They have
no idea what the underlying mechanisms are, only the surface phenomena. Given
the phenomena that they uncover, *I* find out what the 'why' of it is.

You can't. You've gutted the art, killed it.

Gutting art simply provides the next generation of artists with new sausage.
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Matthew Weigel
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