the "Death Touch"

[yingampyang]

no your right it would not have results 100% of the time. it is a very trickly move to do and needs lots of practice.

There has been studies on where to hit and if a human can hit with enough force to kill in one punch , and the results say that a hit direct to the sternum with 500 pounds of force is enough to kill. now most martial artists hit with 700 to 1000 pounds so its no problem.

[bushido_man96]

That is what they say, yet you never hear of it happening.

[yingampyang]

no thats right you dont. Because there is hardly ever a situation that it must be used.

[Bushido-Ruach]

I believe that there is a death touch of sorts, but it isn't a simple touch, it is a strike. There are many, but a good deal of them aren't even a single strike, they are multiple strikes along a single meridian. It is taught in Eagle, tiger, mantis, and White Crane styles of kung fu as well as in martial arts founded in India, that hitting four or more vital points on any one single meridian will kill because it disrupts either blood flow or energy flow to its associated organ.

A single death "touch", however, I think is taking the truth to a stretched limit.

[humble monk]

I believe in accupuncture, and have seen it work. I believe Dim Mak is accupuncture/ accupressures evil twin. If unclogging a chi meridian makes your headache go away, couldn't damaging it cause some sort of ill effect?

That said, I have picked up a collection of tricks that to the uninitiated could seem mystical. Most of us have. I can escape a headlock and floor my aggressor with two fingers and no effort. Chi? No. Body mechanics? Yes. Should I use this to further lead non-MA people into believing that we are magicians with lethal skills and death touches? Only if I want to put money above the integrity of the arts I love.

I belive there is alot to Dim Mak, but not in the sense of what it has come to be understood to be.