# Pressure point demonstration-Legit? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 19, 2013, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressure-point-demonstration-legit/663918 "2013-07-19T08:28:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressure-point-demonstration-legit/663918/61 "2013-07-24T03:03:12Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > [OK.](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6itbnNHwz1rnvlqy.gif) yeah, I didn’t realize I had developed it until I realized that the car speed at which the wheels of a nearby car look like they’re rotating backwards (a common optical illusion) had changed for me. It used to be maybe 40 MPH or so. Now I don’t know what it is. At least 80 MPH, I know that. But that’s completely irrelevant. ROFL ---
**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressure-point-demonstration-legit/663918/62 "2013-07-24T03:10:14Z")
Upon re-watching the video, I agree that it’s very hard to tell, because of the blurriness, exactly where the strike lands. Clearly the pimp is unconscious before he hits the ground, but it could have even been a temple strike, just judging from where the strike LOOKS like it lands. I still doubt it’s just a garden-variety force-based knockout, though. It simply isn’t hard enough. I’m betting it’s either the temple (which is another knockout point) or the carotid sinus. The temple is not a point I’d be chopping, because of all the hard bone near there, but it works if the hit is solid and accurate. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressure-point-demonstration-legit/663918/63 "2013-07-24T03:11:36Z")
> [@get\_lives](#): > > Upon re-watching the video, I agree that it’s very hard to tell, because of the blurriness, exactly where the strike lands. Clearly the pimp is unconscious before he hits the ground, but it could have even been a temple strike, just judging from where the strike LOOKS like it lands. > > I still doubt it’s just a garden-variety force-based knockout, though. It simply isn’t hard enough. I’m betting it’s either the temple (which is another knockout point) or the carotid sinus. The temple is not a point I’d be chopping, because of all the hard bone near there, but it works if the hit is solid and accurate. Did you watch it this time without the extra frames your super mind percieves? ---
**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressure-point-demonstration-legit/663918/64 "2013-07-24T03:16:01Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Did you watch it this time without the extra frames your super mind percieves? It’s not about extra frames. ROFL It’s just blurry. I’m still betting on the throat, after watching it again, in slow motion. The karate-dude’s elbow is too far toward the pimp’s centerline for it to have been a good angle for a temple strike. In addition, it actually looks like a _forearm_ hit to the throat, NOT a side-of-the-hand strike. ---
**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressure-point-demonstration-legit/663918/65 "2013-07-24T03:18:52Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Did you watch it this time without the extra frames your super mind percieves? I don’t know how to prove it, at least not easily/quickly, but I really can see more frames per second, at least in/near the center of my field of vision. The interesting thing is that it’s not true in the dark, under those sodium vapor lamps that line highways. I think it’s because those lamps pulse at a relatively slow rate. ---
**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressure-point-demonstration-legit/663918/66 "2013-07-24T03:20:29Z")
And it was a harder hit that I had at first thought. He DOES shift his weight into the strike. He very nearly lifts the guy off his feet, in fact. Still, the pimp’s head does not snap back, which indicates a throat hit. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressure-point-demonstration-legit/663918/67 "2013-07-24T03:22:14Z")
Yeah I think I’m done with this. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressure-point-demonstration-legit/663918/68 "2013-07-24T04:35:41Z")
> [@get\_lives](#): > > AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAQHAHAHAHAHAHAHA > > ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFL > > … > > AAHAHAHAHAHAHAH > > … > > ROFL > [@get\_lives](#): > > Fortunately, you’re almost certainly far too lazy to look this up…and probably a little to cautious to actually try it on yourself or someone else. **Moderator Note** **get lives** , this is General Questions. Knock off the ridicule and personal remarks directed at other posters. No warning issued, but dial it way back. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressure-point-demonstration-legit/663918/69 "2013-07-24T04:44:46Z")
When people start suggesting trying out points that can do them or others serious harm, I’m going to be focused less on politeness than safety. Do you see the wisdom of that? If you don’t, then please don’t bother responding. I don’t want to talk to you if you don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressure-point-demonstration-legit/663918/70 "2013-07-24T05:09:47Z")
> [@get\_lives](#): > > When people start suggesting trying out points that can do them or others serious harm, I’m going to be focused less on politeness than safety. Do you see the wisdom of that? If you don’t, then please don’t bother responding. I don’t want to talk to you if you don’t. **Moderating** If this is addressed to me, you’ll follow the rules of this forum and my instructions as a moderator or you will find your stay here will be short and you won’t need to talk to anyone. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressure-point-demonstration-legit/663918/71 "2013-07-24T06:34:04Z")
My favourite pressure point is that one near the end of the chin, where when you hit it really hard with your fist the other guy falls down. All of the others have proved a disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![sylmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sylmar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylmar)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressure-point-demonstration-legit/663918/72 "2013-07-24T11:30:00Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Is your real name Barry Allen? I’m getting an Akira Ijyuin vibe ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressure-point-demonstration-legit/663918/73 "2013-07-24T11:38:42Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Next thing you’re going to tell me is that the “Five-Point-Palm Exploding-Heart-Technique” I’ve been practicing doesn’t work, either… Don’t stop now. Cecil says that may work > **[Is the “ninja death touch” real?](https://www.straightdope.com/21343643/is-the-ninja-death-touch-real)** Commotio cordis, also known as cardiac concussion. This is a syndrome in which a nonpenetrating impact to the chest causes heart failure but little or no structural damage. and more… ---
**Author:** ![sylmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sylmar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylmar)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressure-point-demonstration-legit/663918/74 "2013-07-24T14:50:34Z")
Hey, I found it Get Lives! > [@](#): > > “a point on the upper forearm as shown in photo No.6. You are able to attack this point with a block or with an actual strike of a finger grab. ::to cause knock out will however cause damage to the internal organs through over stimulation” And it’s even [_better_](http://www.taijiworld.com/pressure-point-fighting.html) than you were letting on… > [@](#): > > "We just heard that if the gall bladder is in pain it will cause low blood pressure and there is a point on the foot just to the side above the toes called gall bladder 42, this point when struck with a heel stomp will cause knock out to occur. " > [@](#): > > “We can further cause damage and knock out by then re-slapping the wrist area using a fa-jing (explosive energy) technique to attack the mind point on the side of the face” Seems legit. I’m going to go practice the wrist slapping technique now. Once I’ve mastered that, I’ll transition to poking the belly button to make the head explode. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressure-point-demonstration-legit/663918.md?page=3)