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Originally Posted by John Takeshi  Dim Mak isn't the art of "DEADLY POKING". Let's say you rock your opponent with a nice hook or jab to the jaw. He slumps, or stumbles, and instead of throwing wild punches at his head, many of which will miss, you take a wallop at his kidneys or his liver, which doubles him up, then you finger thrust up under the jaw and follow it up with a strike to hte temple.
Now, if you think Dim Mak is walking up to someone and tapping them on the shoulder with a Vulcan Neck Pinch, it shows how little you know. You, not the TMA community, are caught up in some "fantasy" version of TMA. IN other words, don't talk bad about arts you know nothing about, novice. |
Dim mak is not about a knee to the head or stomping on an opponents head. Please direct me to the source of your information, then I will believe you. If you dont have a source, I will assume its not true. And dont use the old 'my master taught me and its not online argument' Dim mak is based on pressure points, not random combination strikes. It is designed to knock someone out, incapacitate, or kill them with one strike. A knee to the head isnt going after a pressure point.
Go through the forums here, you will many arguments against the strikes you claim to be so effective and deadly. Have you ever tried kneeing someone in the head as they are going for a take down? Its near impossible. As we have discussed on multiple discussions here, you need to first sprawl. As for throat strikes, its a risky shot and a small target. Most parts of the throat can take a good solid shot. Not something most people would want to risk in a fight. As for stomping on someones head thats injured, i mean you could run them over with your car to or do all kinds of stuff when somone is laying on the ground but I think anyone in a SD situation one would run at that point and in MMA, the fight would be over. So why would someone do that again? And how is that dim mak?