How to Pressure Point Fight
by Harv Simpson
I’ve written before about how I don’t believe in fighting, I believe in ending fights. The longer a fight goes on the more likely it becomes that you could get very badly hurt, especially if your opponent is bigger or more experienced than you.
You need to know how to stop a fight as quickly as possible. The best way to do that is to skip all the punching and kicking at each other you see in the movies and go right for your attacker’s most vital points. You need to cause him a great deal of pain or damage very quickly so he won’t want to keep coming after you.
Now there are two kinds of vital points.
- Physical Vital Points
- Mental Vital Points
The difference is that physical vital points cause a great deal of pain while mental vital point causes your opponent to think twice about fighting.
Identifying these vital points is easy most of the time. We all know of those places on the human body that if hit will cause a lot of agony. Guys always have to protect their groin in a fight for just that reason. Everybody knows it hurts so everybody tries to go for that area.
These also tend to be the softer points on the body. Places like the throat, groin or underarms. These are also places that tend to have very sensitive glands.
You can find a full list of these physical vital points and how best to take advantage of them in the “Top Secret: Self Defense” ebook.
But I have to say that the few times I’ve found myself in hairy situation, I’ve preferred to go for the mental vital points over the physical. The reason for this is that attacking these points takes the will to fight our of your opponent without causing him a lot of pain.
I don’t like hurting people and I don’t want to if I don’t have to.
Attacking mental vital points is more like psychological warfare than a physical pain. An attack to these points sends the very clear message that continuing this fight could negatively alter you attacker’s life permanently.
Attacking points like the eyes, nose, ears, or fingers are good examples of what I mean. If you find yourself in a bar fight, you’re probably not dealing with some hardening criminal. You’re probably dealing with a guy who has to get up and go to work in the morning. Normally he’s a nice guy, but right now he’s had a few too many and is feeling pretty bulletproof.
You don’t want to hurt this guy, but you want him to back off. So you send a message by attacking one of those mental vital points. Maybe you go for his eyes or box his ears.
This guy starts to wonder if losing his eye in a bar fight is a great idea. He starts to think about not being able to hear anymore or having to explain his black eye and swollen ear to his boss the next day.
Suddenly he realizes that this fight might be a more critical and life altering situation than he previously suspected. Now he’s done. He wants to make it home with his sight and his hearing intact. Fighting you suddenly isn’t worth the trouble.
The victory here is that everyone makes it home safely that night.
You didn’t hurt him too badly and he backed off. But you sent him a clear signal that you won’t be bullied and that if he kept attacking you, you wouldn’t hesitate to hurt him very badly and permanently.
That idea of permanence is the key. You want your opponent to think about the permanent damage he might have to deal with he keeps fighting you. He may lose his hearing, his sight, you may break some fingers and take away his livelihood.
The beauty is that you won’t actually have to do any of those things. The fear you instill in him will be more than sufficient.
He’ll back off and go home before he loses something more important than his pride.
These vital points are the best way to end a fight, but you have to know how to use them. For instance, did you know the best way to attack an opponents throat is with just your thumb?
Seriously, you can learn why in “Hand to Hand Secrets of the U.S. Military” which I’m giving away as a free gift with “Top Secret: Self Defense”. Learn more by clicking the link below.
