John Rennie, former editor in chief of Scientific American, talks about martial arts, at SkeptiCamp NYC 2010. Part 2 of 3. Midway through this portion, John performs a couple of live breaking demonstrations. Sorry about the sound quality.
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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