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Do agree that for a forum to function well , moderators are needed but they should not overmoderate or have vested interest.
Think as long as we substantiate our allegation (good or bad) and do not make personal attack ,post should not be deleted or locked
A fren of mine has learn qi gong from Nam Wah Pai(not too sure which Lor) and he is happy with the results but he has not done a comparison like some of you ( but i do feel that their charges are too high)[/U]
In one wu guan in Geylang students pay extremely high tuition fees ( conned ?? into learning taiji 108 after basic qigong for another thousand grand....). They were led into believeing he has arrived in the world of qigong when sifu strucked him with two wooden staffs in different places in his body and the cudgels broke into two's. The fact was the staffs or cudgels were made of the softest wood available and with swing velocity high enuf, they would even break by themselves much less striking anything in the swing path - wow students got impressed of their newly "acquired qigong power" walking a few notches taller without knowing the fact they were thoroughly conned. Try it with harder wood like meranti or tembusu or rubber wood and see if they can take the blow.... even one cudgel!
After a few weeks into taiji lessons, students were again convinced they got super power by easily smashing bricks in all sort of ways. The fact which they were never told is that those are specially made bricks called demo bricks costing twenty cents a piece - looks like construction brick but it is not. It is a type of highly porous brick ( circa 90% air pockets or much less density than normal construction bricks...) which is very easily broken upon slight impact especially when done against the sharp edge of a solid and heavy steel anvil with the brick purposely tilted a few mm by the sifu holding it for the student to smash...... kind of snake oil dog n pony show if you will. Tilting before smashing facilitate smash up of the bricks. Immerse such bricks in water and you will see copious amount of air bubbling out - herein is enuf proof of the unspoken con job. Normal construction bricks hardly have bubbles coming out when immersed in water. Such bricks stored in backyard of the wu guan in the Lorong are indelible proof of the trickery.
There are other tricks too but I will address them as necessary. Meanwhie it suffice to say there is more to meet the eyes. Move aside David Copperfield......
Be critical of what you "see" and analyse other possiblities of what could be truth.
Guess who is laffing the way to the bank?
Think as long as we substantiate our allegation (good or bad) and do not make personal attack ,post should not be deleted or locked
A fren of mine has learn qi gong from Nam Wah Pai(not too sure which Lor) and he is happy with the results but he has not done a comparison like some of you ( but i do feel that their charges are too high)[/U]
In one wu guan in Geylang students pay extremely high tuition fees ( conned ?? into learning taiji 108 after basic qigong for another thousand grand....). They were led into believeing he has arrived in the world of qigong when sifu strucked him with two wooden staffs in different places in his body and the cudgels broke into two's. The fact was the staffs or cudgels were made of the softest wood available and with swing velocity high enuf, they would even break by themselves much less striking anything in the swing path - wow students got impressed of their newly "acquired qigong power" walking a few notches taller without knowing the fact they were thoroughly conned. Try it with harder wood like meranti or tembusu or rubber wood and see if they can take the blow.... even one cudgel!
After a few weeks into taiji lessons, students were again convinced they got super power by easily smashing bricks in all sort of ways. The fact which they were never told is that those are specially made bricks called demo bricks costing twenty cents a piece - looks like construction brick but it is not. It is a type of highly porous brick ( circa 90% air pockets or much less density than normal construction bricks...) which is very easily broken upon slight impact especially when done against the sharp edge of a solid and heavy steel anvil with the brick purposely tilted a few mm by the sifu holding it for the student to smash...... kind of snake oil dog n pony show if you will. Tilting before smashing facilitate smash up of the bricks. Immerse such bricks in water and you will see copious amount of air bubbling out - herein is enuf proof of the unspoken con job. Normal construction bricks hardly have bubbles coming out when immersed in water. Such bricks stored in backyard of the wu guan in the Lorong are indelible proof of the trickery.
There are other tricks too but I will address them as necessary. Meanwhie it suffice to say there is more to meet the eyes. Move aside David Copperfield......
Be critical of what you "see" and analyse other possiblities of what could be truth.
Guess who is laffing the way to the bank?
