Welcome To Kyusho Kempo Ryu
Hi this is my personal blog where I like to review and often comment on the wonderful world of kyusho jitsu, pressure point self defense generally all things martial. I think you will find that inspite of my great respect and love of the pressure point/energy combat disciplines I am often pretty critical of many of its practitioners.
Why?
Because as my dear ole dad used to say money talks bullshit walks.
You can go to any youtube and pull up tons of videos of so-called pressure point masters summarily getting there respective butts kicked by anyone from an mma background.
Why?
Well there are lots of reasons, but I can tell its not because the MMA guy didn't believe in the pressure points (although belief systems do influence your susceptibility to neurological attacking), nor was it because the guys tongue was placed in a different part of his mouth or because his bladder meridian was off the ground .
Oddly enough some of these things do affect ones ability to use pressure point work but they should never be used as an excuse in my opinion.
In fact there are about as many ways to screw up a pressure point knockout as there are ways to enhance them.
That being said I want you to know that I am a firm believer in the pressure point arts. But I am often dismayed by the many folks out there who seem to fail to grasp the concept that pressure point work is "advanced" work for most people. If you don't have solid fighting skills, and attributes ...
You should be learning those first!
When people first discover kyusho they are like kids in a candy store.
All they want to do is learn more and more points, the hell with actually learning good solid fighting skills and then actually building in the kinds of drills that allow you to actually strike a moving pressure point when your adrenal cortex dumps about 30 gallons of hormones into your system all at the same time causing your butt to pucker up and your brains to drop out.
Over the past decade I have been working on and developing a kyusho based fighting system that develops strong powerful and FAST fighting skills in minimum time. But my approach is by far NOT THE NORM.
Oops...
Sorry, I went on a bit of rampage there didn't I?
Well anyway, welcome to my blog.
Feel free to post your comments and opinions. In fact I am thinking about starting a Combat Kyushojitsu newsletter. Tell me what you think about that. yay or nay?
Also if you go to the first page of my website you can actually watch a brief video of me doing a very practical and workable kyusho pressure point knockout.
you can see it here
http://www.kyushokempo.comJust be sure that if your going to try the knockout that you do so only under the supervision of a qualified pressure point instructor. Whacking somebody on their cranial nerves is (pardon the pun) not to be taken lightly.
Talk at ya soon.
Sincerely
Master David L Snyder
Founder Kyusho Kempo Ryu
