Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf_The_Grey
I think you're missing the point of what I was saying my good fellow. The TaiChi masters aren't immune or unmoved by punches, the whole point is exactly what you were saying, that they trained their whole lives. It is by training a certain aspect of the mind or body that it can become more powerful than would normally be possible. There's more to being unmoved by 5 men, or standing on a finger, than just strength; there's a certain understanding through training of how to manipulate energy to ones advantage. That's kinetic energy btw, not mystical floaty energy that the Jedi strangle people with
I'd love to see the "unmovable man" demonstration. I'm very into mixed martial arts myself, and I find it difficult to believe that no one could move him. You think someone would just pick him up.

Standing on a finger would be a combination of technique, strength, practise and perseverance. If this is what you mean by "the mind can become more powerful" then yes, I subscribe to that theory. I don't subscribe to a theory that would have someone do the physically impossible. If someone trained their entire life to fly by flapping their arms, they'd have to make some drastic physical modifications to themselves and develop MAD endurance to pull it off. It wouldn't be "just" the thought that's doing it, it's all the training they put in.