'Human Stun Gun' - safe from his own students, anyway

[aerocontrols]

This news item is hilarious. (though colleghumor.com has non work-safe material, pictures, sometimes ads)

http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1678891/

[BenK]

Interesting that he says only 40% are affected and that your can learn to resist the effect. Why doesn't he teach himself or his students to resist if it's so deadly?

[pipelineaudio]

this is the epitome of million dollar challenge stuff

That Dim Mak stuff looked actually interesting though. IS any of that real?

[Amapola]

this is the epitome of million dollar challenge stuff

That Dim Mak stuff looked actually interesting though. IS any of that real?

What he showed with hitting people in the head can work, it is part of something called "Pressure Point Control" that I was once taught by a police officer who taught lots of people, mostly fellow policeman and black belt martial artists.

However.

That is not something you want to do as a way of defending yourself. Pressure points are very small, and you have to hit them very correctly, to have them take effect..... and the problem is, not everyone responds the exact same way to the same pressure point. They do work well for policemen if the situation is more or less under control. Notice how controled the use of these were in the video. And for the police, if one does not work you switch and use another - and you always have your back-up, and your weapon.

Pressure points are useful to know and can help in a more complete system of self-defense, but unfortunately there are no "magic" techniques that work 100% of the time and will always save you. It would be foolhardy to learn such techniques and then think you are impervious to attack.

[RSLancastr]

It looks like total crap to me.

Even assuming for the moment that there is some "shock" being received, I remember that in some of the "Yellow Bamboo" threads here, someone mentioned that there is some device which can be used to effect someone like this from a distance.

[Gr8wight]

It looks like total crap to me.

I've seen this news report before. Someone must have linked to it months ago during the Yellow Bamboo discussions. Doesn't he try it on the newscaster and fail? That said it all to me, right there.

[JLam]

What a jackass.

[roger]

We've discussed this a few times before:

http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=48880&highlight=human+stun
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=45578&highlight=human+stun
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=23486&highlight=human+stun