John Rennie, former editor in chief of Scientific American, talks about martial arts, at SkeptiCamp NYC 2010. Part 1 of 3. Sorry about the sound quality. Moments where technical difficulties have occurred have been cut from this portion.
Training in traditional Eastern martial arts can be highly rewarding, but it is often clouded by mystical, unscientific ideas about "chi," "death touches" and the like. Let a fourth-degree black belt in Japanese karate dispel the woo with a look at the physics and biomechanics that really put the power behind the punches, and a demonstration of breaking.
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