Lightness Kungfu on water?

[TaiHan]

how many people in Jin Yong's Novel can actually like jump on water? and name them. All I know is SPT. and I know the Greats in the Condor Trilogy couldn't. Also QQR's title was said to be capable of doing such a feat, but did he ever actually did it?

[superboy]

Didn't SPT used a piece of wood to cross to the other side?

[- L1n -]

thats wat i thought he did'nt literally jump across water he used the stick. actually did'nt people in dgsd do it, i rember in one scene where 2 people walked across water for like a coulple of metres.

[duguxiaojing]

I dont think QQR could actually walk on water i think he got the name due to his level of of lightness kung fu then again i never read LOCH.

Hmmmm...actually i checked the book and could not find the part where XLN is able to use her lightness kungfu and forces herself back onto cliff from a leaf...i thought it was during her battle wit GS apparently not...maybe i saw it on tvb or something....

[Carefree Assassin]

is this limited to JY's works? cos i remember reading in xiao shiyi lang some doctor who's legs got cut off by xiaoshiyilang could run on water.

[Ken Cheng]

Of all the unbelievable superhuman feats performed in wuxia fiction, skimming the surface of a body of water is one of the *less* unbelievable feats to me. Many of us have skimmed stones across the water, and there *is* a kind of reptile that can skim across water. We know the physics involved aren't impossible, but how to make the human body accomplish this is where the fiction part comes in.

[rabadi]

Originally posted by Ken Cheng
...and there *is* a kind of reptile that can skim across water...

Basilisk Lizard (The Jesus Christ Lizard)

[superboy]

Wow, the lizard's skill is pretty tight. He'll be running faster than any of Jin Yong's characters it were human size.

[TaiHan]

so there is no JY's character that could jump on water?

[rabadi]

Using pieces of wood or not, I'll say SPT is still quite formidable. That being said, however, IMHO it was more due to his inner power rather than to his lightness gongfu. I think he probably used the impact of his hit on the water to jump back to the air, making it seemed like he was jumping on the water. I could be wrong, of course, that's just my own theory.

[Jian Shen]

If you count a non Jin Yong character, Wu Ming and Charn Jian in Ying Xiong can walk on water while dueling.

[KeongJai]

Originally posted by rabadi
Basilisk Lizard (The Jesus Christ Lizard)

that lizard does it by air bubbles in his feet or something so it doesn't break the surface of the water.

once when i was younger i saw kids trying to run on water across a creek nearby. it was funny.

[Candide]

Originally posted by rabadi
Using pieces of wood or not, I'll say SPT is still quite formidable. That being said, however, IMHO it was more due to his inner power rather than to his lightness gongfu. I think he probably used the impact of his hit on the water to jump back to the air, making it seemed like he was jumping on the water. I could be wrong, of course, that's just my own theory.

SPT isn't the only one who used that trick. Zhang Cui San in HSDS did the same thing when he was chasing Yin Su Su's boat. However, I think that the distances were different though (maybe longer in SPT's case).

QQR had that nickname because his lightness kungfu was so good that he looked like he was "running on water" when he performed it, not that he actually could. The guy was almost drowned in LOCH after his fight with Ying Gu when the ship sank

[Zhang San Feng]

bai shui ye in lian cheng jue could..while he was fishing anyway...

[TaiHan]

Originally posted by Candide
SPT isn't the only one who used that trick. Zhang Cui San in HSDS did the same thing when he was chasing Yin Su Su's boat. However, I think that the distances were different though (maybe longer in SPT's case).

I think GJ did the samething in Ch 3 or 4 of ROCH, when he chop down a branch from a tree and throw it into the water to jump on it.

[rabadi]

What SPT did was probably more impressive because of the distance. If I'm not mistaken the ship was still rather far from the shore when SPT noticed his future wife and mother-in-law jump into the sea. He needed to cover long distance jumping on the water to save them. So it sounds more impressive.

[- L1n -]

well in the loch 2003 adaption when they were meeting at that place where gj was suppose to fight yang kang, where the 7 disciples of wang chong yang took on huang yao shi, didi'nt the quanzhen people walk/ jump across the water.????

[JigSta]

well in the loch 2003 adaption when they were meeting at that place where gj was suppose to fight yang kang, where the 7 disciples of wang chong yang took on huang yao shi, didi'nt the quanzhen people walk/ jump across the water.????

TV adaption could have been added for effect...

[Tazzy1972]

welcome to the world of special effects

[Ardor]

Maybe it was non-newtonian fluids that QQR can run on?