Mystic Warrior Martial Arts founder Harry Thomas Cameron, a protege of Great Grandmaster George Dillman, is called The Human Stun Gun, by some.
The 7th degree black belt in Taekwondo, and 4th degree black belt in Hapkido, hold black belts in several different art styles, and appeared on Steve Gadlin’s Star Makers to demonstrate No-Touch knockouts, and more. He was accompanied by his student Samantha.
The Human Stun Gun reveals energy moving phonemes. Don’t tell anyone, but they are “Me” and “Ho.” The same energy is used to create an energy ball, and knock someone over with no touch.
Here Grandmaster Cameron’s claims are questioned by FOX News Chicago; future UFC Hall of Famer Stephan Bonnar has a cameo.
And here is Grandmaster Cameron’s grandmaster, George Dillman, when National Geographic investigated.
The touchless attack is universally claimed to work by disrupting the victim’s chi or qi.
Qi is a hypothetical energy field, the body’s life force, which flows through hypothetical channels called meridians and was first postulated in prescientific ancient times to explain why people are alive and inanimate objects are not.
Qi has no describable or detectable properties, and the only evidence that it might exist is the anecdotal claims of believers who say they can sense it.
Yet even they cannot describe it, and cannot detect it under controlled conditions.
So while we can’t state that qi does not exist, we can state that its existence has not been demonstrated.
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No-touch chi ball
There are certainly spots on the human body that are vulnerable to injury or that produce sharp pain if struck. For example, it hurts to get punched in the nose.
Various spots on the body produce involuntary reflexes if struck properly, making it possible to force the victim to release a grip or move their body in a certain way. There are various techniques for damaging knee or elbow ligaments with relatively little effort. But there’s nothing magical about any of these, and they don’t depend on the existence of a magical energy field.
There are scammers like this in many aspects of life, so it’s natural that some of them would try to capitalize on people’s belief in the mystic, and wish that martial arts can impart some sort of supernatural power. And for every con man, there are, sadly a lot of marks. And once the marks start, they are typically subject to the Sunk-Cost Fallacy
This is a phenomenon wherein a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial, because they have already invested heavily in it. And so it is that we live in a world where many martial arts practitioners believe in Chi manipulation, Dim Mak, and that a 60-year-old Grandmaster couldn’t enter the UFC because he would kill people.
Don’t be one of those people, looking for half moons in their fingertips. It’s pathetic and lacks all dignity.