Arathena wrote:Heh, I got lucky with my obligatory knife encounter, 11 year olds with pen knives can't really carve each other up very badly, no matter how hard we try. I got a red line or two before someone's parent's broke us up.
As for kata: If you're learning an Okinawan or Chinese descended style, your kata are technique catalogues, and about about 50% or more of those techniques are not punchy-kicky, they're chokes and throws and limb breaking. You need someone to teach you how to turn them from air swishing to body breaking, then you have much more than you though you did. There are lots of bad kata out there now, though.
As for the striking points, from the top down:
Temple -> Concussion - > KO - > (extremely unlikely without a big stick) death.
Eyes -> Temp / Permanent Blindness
Nose -> Breathing difficulties, but I treat it as collateral damage on the way to the eyes.
Throat -> Caortid, windpipe, jugular. Fucks breathing, fucks blood flow to the brain enough to induce issues. Possible KO / extremely unlikely death.
Underarms -> Hahah, wtfux? Break the floating ribs. Screws up the torso motion. Doesn't help enough on its own, really, but it does slow the guy down.
Solar Plexus -> This is the control system for your diaphragm, the muscle that controls the contraction and expansion of your lungs. Taking it offline has spectacular results. Alternately, if you hit too high, too hard, you /can/ break off the tip of the sternum and set it cutting through the organs of the torso.
Abdomen -> Mostly pain. Getting a guy to shit himself involuntarily is always fun, though.
Groin -> Pure pain.
Knee -> Break it, or don't bother. This is harder than you think it is.
Oh, and on the original thread: Fuck Bruce WIllis. I'll be passing on this because I hate the fucker. I'll kick him in the head some day.
Bruce Willis is the man!!
You just have to hit someone hard enough in the temple with a back fist so the knuckle from your middle finger is the only point that hits the temple. It's a pain in the ass to do (not that Ive done it on people, just targets) but if done correctly it can cause an aneurysm then death.
With the nose I was more thinking an upward palm thrust jamming it into somewhere it doesn't belong.
The bones around the eyes are weaker than the rest of the skull because of the shape so it's easier to get through there to get to something important.
Throat all you have to do is throw a good chop at the trachea and it's game over.
Underarms- Feel around there for the small space between the ribs...now imagine being kicked there so hard it not only breaks your ribs but it pops your arm so far out of the socket it looks like a limp noodle, and the space gives enough of a passage for your foot to continue moving further in...or if you're a complete sicko that doesn't mind getting your hands dirty you might be able to manage just thrusting your hands under there and pulling out the lungs...
Solar Plexus and Abdomen- I've accidentally cracked people's chest plates through a chest protector at sparring classes while barefoot...imagine what would happen if the person was unprotected, I was wearing boots, and I was actually trying to hurt them...
Of course, those are all just from the front. Hitting someone in the back, back of the head, or back of the neck hard enough would break vertebrae and cause some serious problems. And we can't forget the beloved kidney shot.
I'd like to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my ass.
