How hard is to snap a man's neck from behind?

[Wolfman31]

A one inch punch isn't magic or chi or anything else. It's just good mass recruitment and good explosiveness. It's really not all that hard if you've got anything of a good explosion with your legs. You can do a no-inch punch without too much difficulty with a good push off your legs.

Look, I said it isn't magic. It's science. Chi is science. And it's not just limited to the Chinese. I could rattle off a long list of cultures around the world, including some Western cultures, that acknowledge the existence of Chi, though they use their own language to name it. It is a simple universal truth. Anyone can learn how to do it with enough discipline. The one-inch punch is an exercise for building Jin, which is the ability to generate force and goes hand in hand with Chi. Jin is the explosive martial power that is required to snap necks. It's not magic. It's not for the movies. It's very real and anyone who says otherwise simply isn't educated enough on the subject to offer an informed opinion.

Oh, and here's that list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneuma_(Stoic)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_(Tibetan_Buddhism)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitou
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ase_(Yoruba)

But go ahead and keep thinking your opinions hold enough weight to discredit thousands and thousands of years of accumulated knowledge spanning dozens of cultures. Even mainstream Western science is coming to accept this ancient knowledge for the science that it is instead of the mystical stigmatization they incorrectly ascribed to it. If you want to keep living in the dark, knock yourself out. I prefer the light that education brings.

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On the other hand, sometimes a character can get shot - or suffer some other grievous injury that would actually incapacitate most people - and shrug it off and just continue on like nothing happened.

Well, an adrenaline burst can enable people to do crazy stuff and ignore pain for a few minutes, unless the muscles and nerves needed to move are severed.

[Polyxo]

Look, I said it isn't magic. It's science. Chi is science. And it's not just limited to the Chinese. I could rattle off a long list of cultures around the world, including some Western cultures, that acknowledge the existence of Chi, though they use their own language to name it. It is a simple universal truth. Anyone can learn how to do it with enough discipline. The one-inch punch is an exercise for building Jin, which is the ability to generate force and goes hand in hand with Chi. Jin is the explosive martial power that is required to snap necks. It's not magic. It's not for the movies. It's very real and anyone who says otherwise simply isn't educated enough on the subject to offer an informed opinion.

Oh, and here's that list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneuma_(Stoic)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_(Tibetan_Buddhism)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitou
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ase_(Yoruba)

But go ahead and keep thinking your opinions hold enough weight to discredit thousands and thousands of years of accumulated knowledge spanning dozens of cultures. Even mainstream Western science is coming to accept this ancient knowledge for the science that it is instead of the mystical stigmatization they incorrectly ascribed to it. If you want to keep living in the dark, knock yourself out. I prefer the light that education brings.

If "Chi/Qi" and "Jin" are real, then they are measurable, and demonstrable. They're not. Furthermore, the examples that they are real don't require anything but muscle and good geometry.

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Nah even most UFC necks ain't that crazy. Strongman necks are probably damn near solid

They can be softened by a little "massage" of a blade...


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Learned it while in the KGB..."takes years to master".

I got a good chuckle thinking about whoever the KGB used as practice subjects for these guys. So for the first few years it's just a bunch of these guys in a room smacking each other in the side of the head until they "master" it.

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Exactly. For a expert trained assassin it's all about technique. I hear this takes years to master

I love dat Frisbee-Quadro-Neck-Snap