It's Kiai Joe!

[Dooey Jo]

He'll shout you into submission!
And turn the volume down, or you might get knocked out

Basically it's a guy who uses Kiai (in this case it means a shout; it's a Japanese martial arts term) to incapacitate people, and to ring a bell. His master allegedly could kill small birds with his Kiai.

I think it would have been more convincing if they had tried it on the reporter, though that bell-ringing seems fun.

[Azrael]

I'm finding it somewhat difficult to believe that you can damage/kill anything just by yelling at it! The bell thing was kinda cool, though....

[Rye]

He was stamping on the ground when he did the bell ringing, I sincerely doubt he could get much of a tone out of it with just his voice.

I strongly suspect that this kiai thing is morelike that Chi bollocks, it's more reaction, anticipation and expectation than an actual force being applied.

[Dooey Jo]

I strongly suspect that this kiai thing is morelike that Chi bollocks, it's more reaction, anticipation and expectation than an actual force being applied.

Kiai has proper uses; it empties your lungs, gives focus, may scare the shit out of someone you want to scare the shit out of, etc. However, killing stuff is not one of those uses, at least I wouldn't rely on it to injure anything. It's not an entirely uncommon claim though, being able to kill things with a kiai.

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

He'll shout you into submission!
And turn the volume down, or you might get knocked out :lol:

Basically it's a guy who uses Kiai (in this case it means a shout; it's a Japanese martial arts term) to incapacitate people, and to ring a bell. His master allegedly could kill small birds with his Kiai.

I think it would have been more convincing if they had tried it on the reporter, though that bell-ringing seems fun.

Well, loud, abrupt noises tend to make people freeze up, unless they've trained themselves to get over it. This is part of the reason why police and military types require a lot of range time with their firearms and practicing scenarios where they might have to use their firearms against other people similarly armed . . . you have to train out that tendency to flinch and hesitate on hearing sharp noises. So I can see momentary incapacitation, especially if someone has most of their attention focused on the person who makes the sudden noise.

Killing small birds with loud noises also isn't tht big a deal. If you've got them confined and stressed, you can literally give them heart attacks with a sufficiently potent stressor.

And the bell-ringing thing was accomplished by him stomping really hard. You can see it very clearly when the BBC camera was placed on the floor.

In short, it's a cool video, but almost total BS.