Oh god, it has nothing to do with "Ki", "chi" or anything else it's a simple display of kinesiology and physics that some disguise as mystical magical invisible powers.

Duane

Ha. For once, Duane and I agree about something.

AAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!

Duane

Do you mean, its not "Magic!"

;-(

"It look like magic, look carefully for trick. There always a trick." Kuda Yuichi
Duane

Call it "thaumaturgy". Sounds much more ritzy.

What others do, is not my concern in regards to:
"that some disguise as mystical magical invisible powers",
every field has its imposters and marketers.

Ki as defined as a life force, is practical.

Ki energy described as the flow of water through a fire hose, preventing it from bending, is common sense.

Our bodies are over 80% water.

Would the mechanistic describe our movement in terms of bones, pulleys and tendons?

When I see a tiger move, I see a wave, not a stick diagram/erector set of pulleys: a mechanistic approach.

If you want to talk physics, kinematic wave theory as studied in the models of wave propagation theory or the piezoelectric effect in this forum, under
Non-mystical discussion of Qi

I might buy your proposition IF your skin was firehose and you could take that 80% water in your body and physically direct it with your mind to create 100's of psi of water pressure...but you can't. If ki is "real" then how can I take anyone and have them do the same technique using their extensor muscles and no ki since they don't know what it is. Fairy dust not included.

Duane

Look at a piece of raw iron.

You can get it magnetized by wrapping it in a bare wire electrical field, and flowing energy through it.

Our bodies have a lot of systems flowing through it, some of them are bio-electric.

Pound on that iron enough and it will heap up.

File on it and the iron filings will magnetize.

Our bodies have pressure systems internally also.

For more research, see Piezoelectric.