This video lesson is an introduction to learning pressure point fighting and how it works. The key message is that pressure points are not a separate art you have to start again from scratch. You can add them to your existing skills very quickly.

It is for martial artists of any style, boxers, and self-defence students who want more from the techniques they already know.

What Pressure Point Fighting Is

Pressure point fighting is the skill of striking, pressing or rubbing specific points on the body to stop an attacker quickly. Some points sit where nerves run close to the surface. Some are joints that move easily the wrong way. Others are places where a small push takes the whole body's balance.

You will hear it called kyusho, dim mak or vital point striking. The names change, but the idea is the same. I strip out the mysticism. What I teach is anatomy, physics and technique.

Why It Adds To What You Already Do

You already punch, kick, grab, lock and throw. Pressure points do not replace any of that. They make it better:

  • A punch that lands on a point does more than one that lands just off it
  • A lock is easier to apply when a point weakens the arm first
  • A throw is easier when the balance has already been taken
  • A grab is easier to break when a point opens the grip

So a karate student, a boxer and a jiu-jitsu student can all use the same points inside their own style. Nothing has to be thrown away.

Where To Begin

Start with a small number of points that are easy to find and work under stress. Learn the location, then the angle and direction, then how to set them up. Above all, learn to take the balance first, because a point is far easier to hit on someone who is falling.

Pressure points can hurt and some can knock a person out, so train with control, at low power, with a cooperative partner you trust.

Take It Further

If you are new to this, the FREE Pressure Point Fighting Mini-Course gives you five lessons to start with. When you want the complete method, the Pressure Point Fighting Course covers balance points, pressure points, waveforms and principles in full.