Dim-Mak

[ps1]

I have seen people accomplish amazing feats. Falling over 200 feet and hitting cement only to walk away without a scratch, lifting cars off of loved ones, fully healing from devestating accidents, running headlong into a battle..under fire...killing 5 combatants and not getting injured. Most will agree, however, that these feats are few and far between. I'm positive that, in each, there is some guiding force or energy that assists the individual at that time.

That said, I doubt seriously, that anyone can harness these energies at will. I think they do come from somewhere that our science, as we know it now, can not yet explain or duplicate. Wether it's devine intervention of an internal energy, I don't know. Further, it's people like George Dillman that take the legitimacy away from good martial artists. In my opinion he's a fraud who makes up for his inadequacies by using trickery on people who have a weaker mind than him. Above someone mentioned hypnotism...I think that's an accurate description of what he does. Not unlike the tactics used by cults.

[obiwansbane]

still no comments on my video of the chinese master guy :'(

[jaymac]

I was given a Dim mak DVD once to watch. In the very beginning it cautioned the viewer about the severe and possibly fatal results that could occur to a-would-be attacker if used. I shut it off after that point and returned it to its owner. Firstly, I do not want to train in a style that its only defense is to severely injure or kill an attacker. What if they were just throwing a punch. This DVD claimed that it could teach pressure points that would immediately stop an attacker, but years down the road, that one technique you used, could actually kill that person. Give me a break. I would rather try to defend myself against a crazed, adrenaline pumped individual with the self defense that I can practice over and over on an uke (without killing them), than rely on a death touch.

[mantis.style]

As someone else has said, I have yet to see any claimed DimMak stylist perform any technique on someone other than his/her own students or a non believing person. Consider this, they have performed blind tests for acupuncture that basically proves that acupuncture doesn't work. Seeing as acupunture is based on "chi", what does that say about it's existance as some would try and sell it to you.

[obiwansbane]

can i see these tests? cause i personally know someone who does acupuncture and from what i've seen of the "patients" it has been working

[ps1]

still no comments on my video of the chinese master guy :'(

Yup. Watched it. Unimpressed. It's just like every other guy out there that claims to do dim mak. And if only one person per generation can know it (as the video claims), then why are there so many people who claim to teach it? That would seem to indicate that there are alot of liars out there. I would say he's probably just one more. As for the reporter, it is painful to get hit in pressure points, which is what the guy did to him. It's also not uncommom for a strike to a nerve to continue hurting and giving that pain signal after the strike is over. The slap on the back (that cures him) just gives the mind something else to concentrate on.

[Feathers of Doom]

i saw a few interesting things on TV. related to this subject. I haven’t watched any of the posted video's (dial up) so tell me if its the same.

a guy on Ripley’s believe it or not hit around 10 students in different spots (not even hard) paramedics reading different instruments hooked to the students said that the electrical patterns in the brain of each student was changed and all of there breathing stopped. he brought them back to normality by rubbing the different area's.

Another thing i saw was about a class that taught how to throw "chi balls" kind of like a special move in a video game. The teachers threw it at students and they all fell over. But when a scientist had these "chi balls" thrown at him he wasn't affected at all. They chalked it up to the power of the mind believing in these events that caused them to work. Maybe it’s the same with Dim-Mak.

[obiwansbane]

the first one, yes ure right its what we're talking bout... the second is awsome though... i wanna go "KAME.... HAME.... HAAAAAAAAAAA" and have someone fall over! where can i take this class? or at least see this video

[Feathers of Doom]

i saw this a while ago on discovery, History or national geographic channels. try doing a search for Chi Balls in You Tub you might find it. i would myself but i have dial up and video's dont play to well.

[a_ninja]

There was a special on the discovery channel called fight science and they had this one martial artis that studied in ninjitsu that know how to do it, but he didnt know if it could kill someone. Well some scientists tested it and found that that blow would kill a man.