Epic Knockout?

**Rock Ape** · Posted On: 1/08/2013 9:28am

Pressure points are BULLSHIT

Waste your time with that **** if you like but the first time you try it on anyone other than an 8st weakling and or completely compliant training partner, don't say I didn't tell you after you get your teeth smashed in.

**Vieux Normand** · Posted On: 1/08/2013 10:20am

Originally Posted by Rock Ape

Pressure points are BULLSHIT

Waste your time with that **** if you like but the first time you try it on anyone other than an 8st weakling and or completely compliant training partner, don't say I didn't tell you after you get your teeth smashed in.

Now, now.

The appropriate type of pressure (say, a well-swung ball-peen hammer) works wonders on pretty much any pressure point. The fact that it would also harm just about any other part of the physique is...um...not germane to the topic at hand.

So there.

**W. Rabbit** · Posted On: 1/08/2013 11:21am

Originally Posted by Vieux Normand

Now, now.

The appropriate type of pressure (say, a well-swung ball-peen hammer) works wonders on pretty much any pressure point. The fact that it would also harm just about any other part of the physique is...um...not germane to the topic at hand.

So there.

That is not the kind of pressure he meant and you know it.

He means is that the concept of trying to apply pressure to POINTS on the body of a RESISTING opponent is a recipe for disaster. I agree.

A resisting opponent is not going to let you poke them or hold still while you find the "sweet spot". While you are poking around on their body they will mash your head into meal.

That is in a completely different realm than actually striking, compressing, or otherwise traumatizing the neck/spine, the possible outcomes of which are obvious (unconsciousness, paralysis, death, etc).

So "pressure points"..no. Manipulating someone's blood pressure, yes, any blood choke, punch, or baseball bat could do that.

***Omega Supreme*** · Posted On: 1/08/2013 11:43am

Originally Posted by thrutch

Looks like he pinches the carotid artery with his left hand and delivers a short knuckle strike to the back of the neck with his right (striking "Gall bladder 20" in pressure point topology). Attacking opposite quadrants of the head is like a double-bubble in the pressure point world. In this case it's enough to drop his man, albeit without knocking him out.

There's not much to be added to what Vieux Normand said up there ^^, but I trained this stuff for a while at a karate club about 18 months ago and found it to be a mixed bag. The points are there and when struck in a certain way can produce certain results, but a lot of the pressure point crowd veer off into the "meridian/chi flow" Dillman mythos about which it's easy to be sceptical. FTR I've been (briefly) KO'd twice off it, both times from neck strikes.

Somebody asked me to chime in here. I'm just going to quote you.

**thrutch** · Posted On: 1/08/2013 11:51am

Plagiarist.

***Omega Supreme*** · Posted On: 1/08/2013 12:33pm

Originally Posted by thrutch

Plagiarist.

No, a plagiarist would've simply done this

This looks like he pinches the carotid artery with his left hand and delivers a short knuckle strike to the back of the neck with his right:Gall bladder 20" in pressure point terminology. When attacking opposite quadrants of the head it is redundant with pressure points.

I have trained this extensively.

See what I did there?