Martial Arts Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for students and teachers of all martial arts. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
Please refer to the following YouTube video. Do these techniques work well when defending in a street fight or in pressure point/acupunture attacks?
How can someone learn what is the way to attack each point (for instance slapping or hitting)? Is there a internet source that this subject can be learnt thoroughly? How can someone practice this solo (with no partners)?
I practice this style. Don't even try to learn this without an instructor. In the unlikely event you find the points you will likely do yourself serious damage.
They do work on most people and those shown are not even the most effective/dangerous. Learning the points is not difficult with the right recourses but some require specific angles to work, others must be struck and others are deep inside the neck. You have to push your finger into the neck to reach them.
Also in a real fight these are useful but not at all sufficient. No one will stand still and let you poke them. You need a system of techniques that set up the opertunities to use these. And lots of sparring practice.
If you want to take something from Shorinji Kempo that is useful, learn the meiuchi. Its a strike with the fingers in a whip like action to the eyes or groin. Easy to learn easy to incorperate into other styles and very effective.
I don´t think that you can use that on the street, I mean you can try, but there is a good chance that you don´t hit the right spot as in a real fight everything is happening much faster and your opponent will surely not be just standing and waiting for you to attack the right place.
I personally doubt that those techniques work for defense anyway, for massage or rehab purposes pressure points would may have some value.
