question about pressure points/softer tissues

[Throwdown0850]

dim-mak, or Kyusho-Jitsu.

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Just some thoughts.

Having the presence of mind, accuracy, timing etc to strike specific pressure points is generally difficult, and the level of difficulty increases with the resistance offered by the opponent.

I believe its important to understand that some points on the body are anatomically weaker than others, and targeting these will benefit you. But you shouldnt have an over reliance on these.

You will be much better served to hit hard in general and if you happen to catch a sensitive point then all the better.

[MMA_Jim]

Think of it like this:

When you fight, you and your opponent both have armor. Think of your muscles as being your armor. When you're about to hit, or more importantly get hit, you breath out and tense up your muscles or your "armor"

Pressure points only work when muscles are nice and relaxed, say in a demostration, and not when muscles are tensed and make strong, such as in a fight.

Your best bet then is to look for the chinks in the armor. Those chinks could be joints where muscles have to stop such as your knee joints and hips, or it can be where your muscles are the smallest, such as surrounding your ribs, jaw, etc

[Throwdown0850]

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.

actually there is 360.

[yingampyang]

Good point "throwdown0850", but if you were to do more current research you will find around 500. approx.

[Johnlogic121]

I think acupunturists have a total of about 600 pressure points. However, these can only be activated with acupunturist's needles. Doctor Hatsumi taught that there were 36 pressure points large enouhg to be activated by the hands and body of a martial artist. Ninjutsu has methods for attacking all of them in one fashion or another. Pressure points are sometimes obvious points, like the eyes, the groin, the armpits, the throat, the solar plexus, the radial nerve on the inside of the elbow, and points like the top of the spine at the base of the skull and the kidneys. Less obvious points include the point on the tissue of the hand between the thumb and the first finger by the thumb's lowest joint; this point is called "L4" and it influences the large intestine, if I am not mistaken. You can adjust yourself there with proper accupressure methods to cure constipation I am told. Accupressurists usually press with the thumb or with a supported finger and hold for ten seconds on three separate intervals separted by ten seconds each. Whether you press hard or soft depends on the Yin or Yang status of the point in question, so unless you don't know the current state of your body's health with regard to Chi flow, it is dangerous to experiment because you can end up with wild cold or hot sensations and organ troubles. Researching this area is fairly easy, so if you are persistent, you will learn everything there is to know before long. Good luck!

[yingampyang]

Thats a good amount of information on persure points , but in fact there are much more than 36 hand size presure points in the body.

[Throwdown0850]

Good point "throwdown0850", but if you were to do more current research you will find around 500. approx.

wow.. i really thought there was 360.. but I would only use a few in a fight. who could remember that many?

[yingampyang]

Yes very true , and i too would only use a few.

[bushido_man96]

Thats a good amount of information on persure points , but in fact there are much more than 36 hand size presure points in the body.

How many are there?