That's a common opinion, which is fine.
With a logical mind, I can no longer hold that opinion due to personal experience.
Among those experiences: I've been knocked out by someone simply holding my wrist firmly and poking my arm in a certain place. I didn't understand it at all at the time, and I'm still not very clear on the HOW of it, but I can no longer deny that there is definitely some truth mixed in with the fantasy.
What do you call someone who practices Dim Mak on themselves?
Dum Fuk!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlF937SmcUE
People trick themselves all the time. Those people would swear that their teacher's chi was propelling them across the room. It's called suggestion.
Its called hypnosis. You believed (even if it was just at the subconscious level) that it would work, so it did. The people who do this are very good at setting up a receptive state in the subject (you). It is not a criticism of you, you were put into a position were an outcome was presented to you in such a way as to induce a state of belief in you. It is a common technique for mentalists, hypnotists and true believers.
When this people attempt to do this to people who are skeptics and don't have time to prepare the subject the result is failure, although they have lots of excuses. There is a video in one of the threads of a hypnotist posing as a sifu doing no punch knockout and the random person from the class dropping in pain.
I meant no touch punch in the above statement. Sorry.
Yeah, I've seen alot of Aikido schools that have devolved into this sort of thing. It's actually pretty entertaining.
And like I said, my statements are based on personal experience and teachings from people I trust and respect.
I won't make claims about the actual workings of Dim Mak; whether it is qi, magic, psychology, or whatever. I can only relate my own thoughts on the matter.
For those willing to do the research, there's a lot of information out there regarding the neurological systems of the human body. Even if all the Dim Mak stuff with the five elements and the meridians is crap, and it's really just ways of manipulating nerve pathways, it's still effective. Why does it matter if you think of it in terms of qi?
Whether you believe gravity is an effect of an object's mass, or you believe it is caused by a magical god that lives under the earth's crust, it doesn't change the fact that the apple will fall on your head when it is disconnected from the tree.
What do you call someone who practices Dim Mak on themselves?
Dum Fuk!
There is a very simple test for whether something is fantasy or not: have you seen it for yourself done in fighting against competent fighters not associated with the claim/claimant?
If I had been told what was supposed to happen before the technique was done, I could definitely understand that point of view. Unfortunately (for me at the time at least) it was more along the lines of:
Me: What's the application of this technique in this form?
Sigung: Here, I'll show you.
*grab, poke*
*strong electrical-like shock feeling in my arm and along the side of my face*
*I wake up a few seconds later*
Me: What the hell was that?!
What do you call someone who practices Dim Mak on themselves?
Dum Fuk!
What do you call someone who practices Dim Mak on themselves?
Dum Fuk!
You didn't fake it, it was real to you. As T said it is suggestion. The suggestion was set up to a degree because you were in a kung fu class that obviously does dim mak, the instructor, an authority figure, said let me show you something, and I bet there were several students, who had seen this before, watching with knowing looks on their faces.
So you were set up, just because the clues were non verbal doesn't make them any less powerful.
Oh yeah, there are places where there are nerves near the surface of your body and they can hurt like a b1tch. I was taught some of them when I was in the Marines and received some training to be a prisoner escort. We simply called them pressure points and pain compliance.
Actually, it's just a basic Shaolin class. Dim Mak isn't part of the standard curiculum (sp?). It was being held in the gym of a local rec center and I was the only student present (private lesson).
Regardless, I would love to know how to give non-verbal cues like that. If that's how it works, it doesn't make a difference to me. It's a neat trick no matter how you look at it.
What do you call someone who practices Dim Mak on themselves?
Dum Fuk!
How do you know they work? Well simple. You build build. No need to test them on people. Stack six to eight bricks. When your Iron Palms is strong enough to smash them all. Then you know you have that ability to hit someone on top of the head or the back of head with that same force. As for Bui Tze strikes. When your able to thrust your fingers through a heavy bag of sand or punch your fist through a punching bag and leave a hole. You know you can do serious damage. What we call demostrations of people breaking things with their strength are really just a guage to see where your progress is. No need to hit someone in the face with an inch punch to see if you got enough power. If you have telephone book on somes chest then you measure your progress by hitting the phone book with causing serious damage. Why go around killing people...thats not the intent for inquiring this skill.
As for practice. I practice shooting my Nine at a target. Not at people. No need to shoot people. Thats what targets are for. As for practicing with a knife. I can use a rubber or wooden knife. No need to really stab my training partner or stranger. No need to use my gun,knife, or WC deadly techniques unless I am in sitituation where I can't reach my nine or shot gun to kill the person who is trying to kill me. But why buy a gun? Just in case! why buy knives? just in case. Why train lethal techniques just in case I am in life or death sitiutation me against them. its me or them. i choose me!
I know if hit someone hard enough in the back head with the torque punch it will kill them. I don't do that though. I have had no need to do. I learn how to rake the face and rake the throat but I haven't done it to my training partners. No need to. You acquire the skill for just in case. But don't go around using it on people...
i know how to chain punch people in the nose until it bleeds. But do i do strangers or training partner like that?
Okay Chazmek I stand corrected!~~~ Thankyou...
how would snake not work with out if pressure points strikes don't work...what do you need for pressure point strikes to work?????
your right WC is also not all about killing. But there is small aspect concerning killing techniques and conditioning needed to so in case your in fight to the death against some gangster,robbery,burlar,rapist,assasin,drug dealer or thug. But know its not just about killing your correct. I am simply illuminating an aspect few people seem to mention!