Training Jedi Knight Types Lesson 7 Red Dot Robot - Part IV

PART III: The Attack

By Stephen Cheney

FROM THE FRONT (continued, A)

• The Third Eye:
Just above the top of the nose, in the middle of the eyes. A light hit here, such as with a Backfist, obscures the vision and stuns a little and so allows the application of a hold. It was a favourite distraction strike used by Grandmaster Soke: Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969AD) who designed and for years kept redesigning his art of Aikido from damaging combat into a more spiritual flow. Thus, the various styles of Aikido depending on what period his live-in students learned from him.

As JuJutsu and Aikido (combat version) understand that, in free fighting, you cannot just go in and try to place a hold on your opponent as he, easily seeing this at a distance, will counter by blocking or moving. Therefore the value of distractions.

Do not strike a HARD blow to this point as that may rock the brain (the base of the brain starts at that point level) and cause internal bleeding.

• The Eyes:
Prime Target. Nice people don’t think of attacking the eyes as that would be too much for their sensitivities. There are many millions of nice people, they form the category of peoples who are victims and they end up damaged or dead. There are millions of corpses all though history and everywhere in the world. Try to not be one of them.

Fingers into the eyes can easily damage the eyes, maybe beyond repair, but are not a killing strike. A stiletto through the eye would kill. However, blindness from a fight is an unwanted outcome, unless you are fighting for your life.

However, when you are in danger, a fast thrust to his eyes, but not through them, is highly effective. If you thrust toward someone’s eyes their self preservation instincts kick in and thus they instinctively try to block the attack, they release holds, they jerk their head back, they blink. These reactions leave an Aggressor vulnerable to a follow-up attack.

This attack to his eyes is also an attack to his mind. 

He will realise what he did not consider before attacking you: that he is also vulnerable, just like you are. If may be enough to change his mind and break off the fight.

Only attack the eyes when you are in a desperate situation and when you do so, that you have practiced to control your thrust to limit damage.

You do not do single or double finger stabs. A fight is volatile with a lot of movement of targets, so to maximize your chances of hitting: you spread your fingers and do a sudden fast stab to the eyes like a pecking hen. You can also rake your fingers across his eyes.

When held, you can simply press your a finger or thumb into the soft region above his eyes to make him let go of you.

• Nose:
Location: Center of the face, a prominent protrusion easily seen, so well guarded.

In fighters who are not highly motivated a strike to the nose might end the fight. But boxers can have broken noses and continue fighting. A successful strike to the nose will alarm a bully to the fact that if he continues fighting he can be hurt as he has been hurt. Medically, you cannot kill by ramming soft nose cartilage tissue up into the brain: the skull is too thick; otherwise nearly all boxers would have died.

This is an excellent target to strike with a Palm-Heel (Taisho) pushing the head up and back. A diagonal chop across the nose will break it.

• Philtrum:
The region between the bottom of the nose and the lips.This is an excellent target to strike with a chop (shuto, hiraken) as it will tilt the head back affecting vision area and off-balance him allowing further attacks.

Striking here and upward does not kill with the nose-bone going into the brain; the skull is too thick and bone cartilage too soft. Any strong strike that rattles the brain is, however, dangerous.

• The Cheek:
Using the Slap: Just below the middle of the cheek bone is a nerve point. Dominant males may get slapped across the face as they are physically hurting a woman. They laugh off the slap as useless and may neglect to defend against it. Their ego delighted that the victim’s defence is so feeble. Never underestimate. Psychologically a physically dominant aggressive male tends to allow such a strike; the bearing of it just proves his power.

A slap is a fast movement, which is why it often gets through. But you do not slap with a flat hand. Instead cup your palm and slam it into the centre of his cheek, as you hit turn your body fully and fast into the strike to add the power of mass to the speed. He will be stunned and cheek numbed but he will not clearly know why and that confuses his mind enough to allow you to strike a better area, especially as his head is now turned away so he cannot for a moment see until he turns his head back. When you put your whole body twist into it and your arm loose like a whip: you can knock a man down. The sound of One Hand Clapping.

Using the Thumb: This point can also be attacked to turn the Aggressor’s head and even move him away when in a clinch, by making a fist and keeping your thumb straight and pressed on your fist to reinforce it. You quickly place your thumb (cuticle) on his cheeks and thrust your thumb tip deep into the middle of his cheek just below his cheek-bone to press the nerve; then you angle your pressing force upward and back inward to press the nerve inside against the inside of the cheek-bone (test this on yourself).

• The Chin:
Favourite target of Boxers so is a well known wanted knockout point and so defended. Strike with a Palm Heel from an uppercut close and low up his centre line so it is hard for him to see. Difficult to get to unless you are close in an uppercut position. Opponents who have boxed will have their chin tilted forward and guarded by their hands.

PART V: From the Front (continued, B)

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