| I'm very realistic about self defense training. I | | | | the only reason why it worked! |
| know that the only way to survive a street fight | | | | Pain is pain and everyone knows that it will go |
| or attempted mugging is to injure your attacker | | | | away, so it can be ignored, but damage, or the |
| to the point that he is combat-ineffective. That's | | | | fear of damage will have an immediate effect. |
| why I always have to laugh when someone | | | | If someone tries to rape you and you squeeze |
| teaches a self defense class and tries to show | | | | his elbow and it hurts, he'll just ignore it and punch |
| off with his knowledge of "pressure points." He | | | | you with the fist on the arm that you're not |
| takes one of his students, presses on a certain | | | | holding. If you begin forcing your thumb between |
| spot and the student is writhing in pain. The rest | | | | his eye ball and his eye socket, he'll realize that |
| of the class starts cheering and saying "wow" or | | | | you could pluck his eye out of his skull and crush |
| "aha" and actually believes that the instructor has | | | | it like a grape, which is a very frightening thought |
| discovered the holy grail for defeating an attacker. | | | | and that fear alone will cause him to give up! If |
| Don't ever try any of that nonsense in a real | | | | not, just continue pressing and destroy his eye, |
| fight! | | | | which will definitely work. |
| I once "had" to go to a seminar taught by a | | | | If someone tries to mug you and you bend over |
| German cop. He spent about an hour teaching us | | | | and press your thumb into the back of his leg, |
| pressure points for controlling someone, none of | | | | near the knee, it will hurt him, but it will not stop |
| which seemed to work on me. My training partner | | | | him from plunging his knife into the back of your |
| went to him and asked him to demonstrate the | | | | neck, separating your spinal cord and causing |
| same points on me. Ok, no problem. He squeezed | | | | instant death. If you stomp on his knee joint, you |
| a point near my elbow and I smiled. "Ok, not | | | | will tear the tendons and ligaments that he |
| every pressure point works on everyone. That's | | | | depends upon to support his bodyweight and he'll |
| why I taught you so many." He tried again . . . and | | | | fall to the ground immediately. |
| again . . . and again. He pressed here, he squeezed | | | | Causing pain never stopped an attack, but causing |
| there. Yeah, some of them sure did hurt, but that | | | | damage always does. |
| certainly didn't mean that I had to start crying and | | | | You may not always need to maim or kill an |
| begging for mercy! | | | | attacker to get him to stop, but you sure do |
| He then asked me if there were any points that | | | | have to know how, in case it is necessary to do |
| did work on me and I showed him one. I cradled | | | | so to save your life or that of someone you love. |
| his head in my right elbow, grabbed my left | | | | Destroying the structural integrity of an attacker |
| forearm with my right hand and used it as a lever | | | | by breaking his leg or causing him to go into |
| to force my left thumb into his eye socket. For | | | | shock by destroying his eyeball will immediately |
| some odd reason, he immediately begged me to | | | | make him combat-ineffective, regardless of his |
| stop. "You could really hurt someone with that!" | | | | pain tolerance or whether or not he is high on |
| Of course, I knew that I could really hurt | | | | adrenaline or even PCP. |
| someone with that and he knew that, too. That's | | | | |