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In Judo founded by Jigoro Kano, there is docu- Martial Artists in turn help yet more people find
mented though rarely taught Atemi Waza. this totality.
In Wing Tsun the wooden dummy form and prac- More and more the students, not the instructors
tice was to train the proper way to apply the Dim are searching and finding the truth in studying
Mak (deep Kyusho) or the blood/ the arts in their totality, which includes the
nerve targets of the body. Kyusho so ignored, refuted or dismissed by in-
In Aikido Ueshiba wrote that structors. Kyusho has now in modern times has
Aikido was 80% Atemi (point reached critical mass, whereas its truth and the
targeting)… So why is this quest by hungry students is self-perpetuating and
not trained accordingly? can no longer be shunned by instructors if they
Elders of Chi- are to retain the student. We can see even the
nese, Oki- mainstream is picking up on the use of these vi-
nawan tal points and using it more and more in movies,
and Jap- books and advertising. A couple of the newer
anese movies (of a long list) were Sherlock Holmes and
pugi-
lism Jack Reacher. Even Dan Brown author of the
docu- DaVinci code is writing about it in his latest
best seller Inferno… it is even mentioned
in TV ads for mattresses! So why are
Martial Artists the last hold outs on this
ancient and thriving aspect of the arts?
Kyusho Kyusho is real and it is very simple
when learned and practiced correct-
mented these Kyusho and or Dim Mak targets in ly… one strike can end a situation
so many forms such as the Bubishi, Secret Style and yes it is street effective if that
Notes, Scrolls and more importantly embedded is the goal. And before the inevi-
in the Katas, Forms or Kumites. When we take table question arises, it is already
all of this into account we cannot dismiss that being used in the MMA matches.
Kyusho is real, that it is not worth the study or The aim here is not to sway you
effort, because the founders of each art did. It
is the truth of the whole picture as opposed to to a particular group or method, but
the cover of half that we must seek, realize and rather to first inform you of what Kyusho really
build on… especially now that we have the good is, how it works and then how we can all help the
fortune it has surfaced from the obscurity it was Arts and others benefit with it, but more on that
once captive by. We must now keep it alive and later in this series of articles that aim to set the
help it perpetuate so that we may help our fellow record straight on what Kyusho is and how it can
benefit us all in the arts.
© Evan Pantazi 2013
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