From bullshido:
http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82076
Hey all. It's been a while. Here's a recount to an encounter I had recently with a self-proclaimed Kung Fu Master, who claimed experience in Wing Chun and a pressure point based system of some sort. I figured you would enjoy this.
This happened as a result of a discussion in a russian-speaking martial arts forum, where he was claiming that his groin attacks will neutralize the mount position every time. in addition to that, he also made numerous other claims, including only targeting pressure points when fighting, all other targets being ineffective by comparison and such. Believe me when I tell you that this dude claimed he could do a _lot_ of things. Had this happened here, it would certainly have been a mega-thread
During one of these discussions I offered to demonstrate the fact that he will not be able to get to my groin when mounted. He lives on the east coast, in a place I travel to quite a bit. As such conversations go a lot of the time, we exchanged a couple of emails and I forgot about it for something like a year. Recently, in a heated discussion with another forum member, he challenged him to a fight and used me as an example of someone who has been ducking him all this time. Naturally, this caught my attention. Two weeks later I just happened to be on the east coast visiting my family and I set up a time to drop buy said Master's house for a demonstration. Here's how it went down:
I arrived at his house at 10 AM as promised. At about the same time a friend of the Kung Fu Master's (KFM for short) arrived with a video camera. I change, stretch a little, and it begins.
Our original dispute started with attacking the groin when mounted, so KFM lies down on his back, I take the mount, and we start. KFM tries to reach for my groin, naturally he can't, I move up into high mount, isolate the arm, and keylock him. One thing to note, however, is that it is unnerving to have someone try to grab your nads in a fight. Not effective, but unnerving nonetheless.
We reset, and KFM tries to defend by manipulating some pressure points on my face and neck. The pressure points don't produce anything beyond minor discomfort. He then tries to manipulate pressure points near my floating ribs, also known as tickling, which actually has some effect - I take his arm and kimura him (or, rather, if I remmeber correctly, kimura-into-armbar him). I take this time to show that the mount is an awesome position to eye-gouge since it lets you completely immobilize your opponents head and he has no way to escape.
After that, we get up and (with me not defending at all) KFM tries to press all the same pressure points again, one on my throat, one where the jaw-bone connects to the skull, and one somewhere on the side of my head. They are mildly uncomfortable.
Then we moved on to sparring from standing up.
As a lyrical aside, there's an old russian proverb that in every bet between two people there's an idiot and there's a *******. At this point, I am trying hard not to be too much of a *******.
So we start from standup. Neither of us are wearing gloves. Not having done any standup at all in the past few years, I hit him way too hard a couple of times and take my time to apologize. Originally, this was going to be a full-contact-gung-sao-to-the-death (tm) but I'm down somewhere at 30% power. When we reset I, not wanting to hurt the KFM, clinch, gently lower him to the ground, take mount, and begin applying shoulder pressure when he submits. This is the part I actually have on video.
Gung-sao over.
After that, KFM realizes that he has boxing gloves after all. I put them on, he doesn't (so as not to interfere with his special punching technique), and we do something like a minute of stand-up, with me hitting him in the head at will (due to the whackyass stance with the neck straight and chin floating around) when he submits again.
I go home.
Amazingly enough, KFM posts some of the video, shuts up, and goes away. That's the primary reason I am not using names - I did not honestly expect him to keep his promise.
http://memoryofadream.com/photograph...challenge2.mpg
He has since posted a two-sentence "thank you" note and disappeared from the original forum. He made no excuses for anything and kept his word about releasing the video.
At this point, there's basically two ways for him to go - he can continue stewing in his "kung fu" crowd, slowly rationalizing away this experience or he can open his eyes and change his approach to training. I'm hoping for the latter, though I'm not sure it's actually going to happen - he was very far off in the left field when we met. He was actually pretty certain that he would swat me away like a fly with his superior street-oriented martial art.