Re: Favorite targets/nerve points

There are numerous techniques that target this area.

However, there is one via military hand to hand that in one case is for an overhand right punch to the chin from an orthodox stance. The idea is to duck but the left hand is in front to check for a knee lift and the right arm circles with the right palm flashing in front of the attacker’s face. The right arm continues the motion and then the forearm hammers down on the upper forearm targeting the radial nerve then pulls and draws the attacker toward the defender off balancing. The defender’s left hand reaches around the back to the nape of the neck and digs the ring and middle fingers into between the neck and the trap in and down forty-five and wiggles around. The defender then grabs and hugs the head with the left grasping the chin and pressing against the defender’s chest. The defender places the door knocker knuckles of the right fist behind and below the attacker’s right ear lobe. With a quick pull back on the chin and at the same time the right fist presses in hard with the right knuckles and rips up diagonally and through the temple.

This is classified as a blood knockout. If you look at the illustrations you can see that it would be possible to sever the veins, small arteries and the cranial nerves or at least stretch and damage said nerves. There is a lot of physical evidence here but this was to incapacitate the enemy then break the enemy’s neck for the kill.

We obviously modified this for a punching scenario and go to the choke out for civilian purposes but you can see the military application. The previous generations of warriors were smart, ruthless but smart.