Pressure point striking techniques are regarded as the deadliest in all disciplines of hand-to hand-combat. This article will provide you with some history of the techniques and provide you with the fighting structures to which they are applied.
History of the Pressure Point Striking Techniques
Pressure point striking techniques are prominent techniques started and developed in the Orient. Past records suggests the martial uses of pressure point striking were first contrived sometime close to 1400 years ago in a then war-laden China. Throughout the centuries, these techniques have developed and been applied to both Asian fighting styles and systems created by other countries. In the traditional applications of the art, the principles of this technique were only taught to students who possessed superior skill and temperance in regard to the discipline needed to execute the strikes accurately. As such, the precepts of applying martial arts striking techniques has adopted the Chinese translation of "Dim Mak."
Pressure Point Striking Strategy
Dim Mak translated in English is the "Death Touch" and has played a mythical role in most western martial arts movie genres. The truth of its power is more medical than mythical. This art places emphasis on striking the areas of the body by redirecting his opponents attack. The sensitive areas of the head and neck are primary areas. Other areas include the solar plexus (the soft area in the middle of the rib cage), and the wrist and long muscles of the arms and legs (the thighs, forearms and biceps).
Fighting Styles That Incorporate Pressure Point Striking
The application of such a technique has been regarded as mysterious and deadly, but very effective in the fighting styles you see in martial arts dojos today. The street fighting styles of China incorporate to neutralize opponents in various hand techniques. The trapping technique, which involves a fighter to "pin" or push the arms of his opponent toward his own body in order to deliver pressure point strikes to the head, neck and face are common in the Wing Chun and Wing Tsun style of . In Hapkido (a Korean martial art) and Karate and Kempo ( Japanese martial art), the blocking techniques against kicks and punches are a combination of blocks and pressure point strikes aimed at neutralizing an opponent's ability to use his arms and legs to strike. In Aikido, the long muscles of the arms are neutralized by applying strikes to the pressure point and adding constant pressure as you throw your opponent.
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