question about pressure points/softer tissues

[boyo1991]

hi! i have a question ,seeing as my style is mostly kyokushin, and i train at home(by free lessons ) they dont really tell us about all the pressure points/softer tissues to attack, so i was wondering if someone could help me with this problem?

[ninjer]

Pressure points arent effective the way you may have been lead to believe, or as you suggest in your post.

Most pressure points work well only as accessories to a move, i.e. a cross face. On top of that, considering that kyokushin is a striking style, you're less likely to use pressure points. Pressure points are more likely used in a grappling style to get your opponent to react. Off the feet its hard enough to make contact with large targets (head, ribs, etc).

[boyo1991]

i guess your right, just wondering to enhance my style...

[marie curie]

Pressure points are more likely used in a grappling style to get your opponent to react.

Agreed! It is much easier to do in grappling, because not everyone has pressure points in the exact same place on their bodies. In grappling, if you don't get it, you can often try again.

[boyo1991]

alright, thank you!

[P.A.L]

here is pressure point combo for you,

use one knuckle punch and keep hitting the arm pit and blow to the rib next to the chest, after it makes the opponent concerne fake a punch and when he drop his elbow you do mawashi geri to the head.

as a kyukoshin guy you need 3-4 pressure points, the solar plex punch while fist is 3/4 turned , one knuckle punch to arm pit, shin kick to the point around 5 inch above knee, Rib punch on the side of the chest.

[boyo1991]

hey that has helped!(im half sparing with my cousin outside right now....)

[Athena]

I don't have much advise for you..but one time my friend was hyper and she was just joking around but she used her finger to poke me in the little crevice pinched between the should, armpit and shoulder blade...both my arms were sore for the rest of the week >.<;;

[Johnlogic121]

There are about 36 pressure points used by martial artists out of a total of about 108 major points on the human body that can be activated using accupressure. Acupuncturists use the same points, but insert the needles at the edges of the acupressure points. Just as acupuncture can enhance health, strikes to pressure points can damage health in seemingly mysterious ways. George Dillman has a jujutsu pressure point fighting system in which he teaches his students to strike up to five pressure points in a row for devastating knock outs. However, he recommends that students train in the most dangerous techniques no more than fifteen minutes a week to protect the health of their vital organs. In Kung Fu, people sometimes say that it takes ten years of diligent practice to be able to apply pressure point fighting secrets capably well in combat, as you have to hit with the proper angle, force, and direction precisely. Doctor Hatsumi (now deceased) used to teach that if you practiced hitting pressure points in your training your could expect to hit pressure points between 5% and 15% of the time in fighting. Most of the major pressure point areas are embedded in basic striking techniques, such as the straight punch to the solar plexus or a front kick to the groin (the male testicles are probably pressure point #1). Thus, by knowing a form accurately, you can strike pressure points without understanding the complex anatomical relationships between the point and the internal organs. Some schools that teach pressure points heavily also do accupressure or massage to treat the points that they strike on their students, since a lack of such treatment can be detrimental to health. It is possible to win a fight without striking pressure points at all, but striking pressure points does more damage than an ordinary strike.

[yingampyang]

There are hundreds of presure points, so i wont list them. But style you are learning wont teach you many, you need to do nin-jitsu so learn many of these presure points. But there is one style that will teach you all of them and that is CDA , but this is hard to find and very expensive.