Most Damaging Single Technique

[Chikara]

Same with eating an oreo cookie; whole, in bites, or take apart and lick the cream. That's all.

Besides, all arts have had some exposure to each other. Everyone knows about Japanese and Chinese arts, they were influenced by others just as they influenced others. Pankration looks just like wrestling, Chin-na just like Judo, etc.

Getting off topic slightly. Oops! But, it's all beneficial anyway.

[marksmarkou]

A strangle, not a choke. stopping the air flowing to the brain will be fatel in seconds.

[joesteph]

The responses are genserally dictated by physiology. I've always noticed it in joint manipultion arts. . . .

Let's face it, there are only so many ways to break a wrist.

It's funny (I hope that's the right word) that you said this just now, tallgeese, because I got corrected yesterday when practicing joint locks, that I have to watch that I don't break my partner's wrist.

I'm afraid I did warrant the warning. We were reviewing joint locks, and my instructor was standing right next to us when I shot forward to break a wrist grab and do the lock; my partner bent over to one side and I'm glad I stopped--a bit surprised--when I did. It's been a while since doing the "old" locks, and so I guess that the proper safeguard limit wasn't in my mind. I had to review the "old" cautions with my instructor before we went on to practice what was new.