Is this move actually fatal?

[Serpent]

MP - great training methods! Live dislocation practice with a turkey!

To partly answer the question, you can crack vertebra by snapping the neck sideways violently if you catch someone by surprise. You can dislocate vertebra by elongating the neck if you catch someone by surprise. However, both of these things will not necessarily result in broken vertebra and broken vertebra will not necessarily result in a broken spinal cord which = death.

If the person is not surprised and tenses their neck muscles all the above are much harder unless you're scary strong. And even then it's hard to do. Sure, you can seriously damage someone's neck, but killing them with a neck break is very hard.

You know the movie neck break that I like best? It's the one where the guy lowers himself quietly from the ceiling and wraps his legs around his victim's head and snaps the neck with a quick thrust of the hips!

Breaking a neck is very hard indeed. Just learn the Vulcan Neck Pinch and use that instead.

[joedoe]

I have a friend who is a chiropractor and he assures me that to be able to break the neck and sever the spinal cord, the person has to be pretty much completely relaxed. I think you would have a better chance if you picked them up and dropped them on their head.

[themeecer]

Originally posted by ShifuBinks
he was a seal or something I don't really remember but they had taught him that it was very easy to kill people this way...and honestly I think me training in ninjutsu might have helped because I instinctively knew to go with this move and not try to resist...

LOL. If bobo and FU-pow don't jump on this one, I don't know what the world is coming to, after all the slack they gave SD.

I think you need to reword your story, it is coming out badly.

[neigung]

Or we could go the traditional route and start experimenting on prisoners.

[ShifuBinks]

I just thought of something...one time at the dojo after class I was reading Black Belt or Inside Kung Fu and in between ads for "The Speed Man" and "Tennessee Mountain Man Discovers Fountain of Youth" I read an article about some dude who hurt his neck very badly in training...the guy had him in a triangle choke or something and he wouldn't tap out I really don't remember but next time I'm at the school I will try to find the article and relay the info to you guys...

I think you need to reword your story, it is coming out badly

Well you were not my target audience so please don't lose any more sleep over how I worded my story.

[themeecer]

Originally posted by ShifuBinks
Well you were not my target audience so please don't lose any more sleep over how I worded my story.

Everyone that reads these boards is your target audience. I could have just made fun of your story, but I didn't. I just kindly assumed you worded it badly. But no worries, I'm not loosing sleep over it. I was actually trying to prevent you some grief from others.

[Yung Apprentice]

When I was in eighth grade some kid

So this "kid" was a marine in the eighth grade? Or was he held back 8 years? So as a ninja in the eigth grade you fought a fellow eight grader who happened to be a marine??????????

[themeecer]

I hate when I get attacked by ninjas. I remember one time when these 3 ninjas jumped out and ate my homework and made me late for class.

[Chang Style Novice]

The lesson here is to write carefully and clearly and to read carefully and clearly.

[IronFist]

Yes, the one I'm talking about is the one that Bolo Yeung does to kill that guy at the end of the match in Bloodsport.

I guess if the guy has ot be completely relaxed, you could knock him out first. I dunno.

IronFist

[IronFist]

But if the guy has to be relaxed, it seems easy you could just come up behind someone who's not expecting it and do it and kill them that easily? That would suck.

IronFist