Chi demonstration from HatM #1

Why didn't one of the 2 guys filming this episode have the "master" use his Chi against them, instead of asking others what it felt like, etc. The same goes for the throw attempted by the "student" - why not teach the move to one of the 2 guys ( wouldn't take that long) and have them try it against the "master"?

I always thought Bil Moyers should have tried to take him. I do not understand why he didn't try.

because then everyone would realize it's a sham.

Bill Moyers was 59 when this was made (1993); but good point, I wish they'd had a cameraman or someone else go at him.

yeah right!!!! the american student is a total retard nerd! Boxing my ass, a boxer would give you a real hiding! as for the other brain washed retards flying around please there are other ways to make money than scam or over act situations. This is not possibly only to brain washed people. Step back and get a seasoned fighter (after all he is a master of this chi) to give him a go, and not the brain washed village idiot. More like a westerner. I know who my money would be on.

A lot of nay-sayers commenting here.

Reminds me of the the first wave of American doctors visiting China, yelling "fake" as they watched, with their own eyes, surgery being done with no anesthetic, only acupuncture, on animals as well as people.

Why do we Americans think and act like this over every new idea that comes along?

Exactly nom - they can't handle the idea of this. If the dead-hand of science cannot pin it down or categorise it - it can't be true.
They must inhabit a very dull and finite world!

I love Bill Moyers!

@1966BOBBY - "...the dead-hand of science"

I would upvote your comment if I could, if only for that great piece of wordsmithing. So true. So very true.

What makes my life so delicious to me are ALL "intangibles",  including my laboriously-earned attitude towards the tangibles.

Because science is intellectual, not intuitive. Science denies what it cannot test, the only downside to that is somethings require intuitive learning before they can be scientifically tested. Since Westerners rely solely on what they can physically test, they miss out a bit.

In other words... Scientists can only test what they can get their hands on and because this concept is over their heads it is currently out of their reach.

Nicely said, Sei783. :-)