“Everybody goes to Leon Jay not doing it, and I can actually explain that. Dillman provided his own take on what happened in the episode, which you can watch online, but when asked about it, he provided another as well. Dillman protégé Leon Jay attempted the technique on a subject, and the technique was ineffective. In the widely viewed segment of National Geographic’s Is It Real?(2005) regarding chi, a no-touch knockout famously didn’t happen. There are opinions ranging from chi being able to provide powers and abilities similar to a kind of magic, to the view that the witnessed demonstrations of said chi-power are little more than the power of suggestion or worse, chicanery. The degree to which a person can express or use chi, or if it can be expressed at all, is where the entire debate lies. Baseball players, basketball players – You think Michael Jordan could go up into the air and float, like unbelievably toward the basket, put the ball in, without chi doing it?” Although chi is usually connected with martial arts, Dillman attributed harnessing chi energy with enhanced performance for non-martial art athletes as well, “You don’t need to be a martial artist. It is for real,” Dillman stated, unequivocally, when asked about chi.
Dillman spoke to me about how chi works and the now infamous National Geographic video. (both excellent movies by the way) When talking about chi in martial arts, no discussion can exclude George Dillman (10 th-degree black belt in Ryukyu Kempo Tomari-te).
It is the holy grail of belief for some and a bridge too far for others. The chi-knockout or “no-touch knockout” is quite possibly one of the most polarizing expressions of chi.
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