re: #544 Iron Fist
Chinese soft forms are really very powerful.
I do think it’s obvious that traditional Chinese martial arts tapped into many insights about what the human body can do. I don’t believe they were correctly identified as a semi-magical “qi” personally. It’s kind of like when an Amazonian tribe attributes the workings of some medicinal herb to their local god. It may well be that the herb actually works, but not for the reasons they think.