Is the Kung Fu technique called "Dim-Mak" for real?

Question

Does anyone know how to execute it?

Answer 1

We share a dojo at a Kung Fu school, the guys there are actually amazing to me. They can do incredible feats with their bodies.

However, combat effectiveness not as much. My friend rolled with one and the guy unleashed a several pressure point combination on him utilizing what he had learned from years of Kung Fu and Dim Mak.

My buddy looked at him right before putting him in an armbar. Afterwards the guy was amazing. "How are you not in serious pain right now? I hit this this and this spot, you shouldn't be able to have moved your arms, you must have incredible chi control!" my buddies response "No you were just poking me, it was annoying but nothing more than that. "

I have been around some amazing martial artists, guys who have dedicated their lives to learning an art. I have yet to actually have seen a dim mak strike work, and honestly if that is the case, why is there no documented cases where someone misused it and hurt someone? Why is there no law enforcement officer who misused it on accident and killed someone? There are plenty of documented cases of deaths from choke holds, injuries from arm bars, deaths from punches, etc.

None from a pressure point attack. None from a Dim Mak practitioner protecting himself from being mugged and disabling his attacker.

Sure there are videos out there, of cooperative partners fainting and such from Chi attacks, but there are none of a guy who just came in off the street and gets knocked out with Chi force.

I will believe in Dim Mak, and all that when there is a documented case of such. Sure there are a ton of vital spots on the human body, weak points and the like, but the bodies natural reflexes protect those spots. Your heart, lungs, and brain are all surrounded by bone, and it takes amazing accuracy to hit a moving human who is resisting in a soft spot. (other than the groin).

I believe in pressure points, I use them on a regular basis for causing pain compliance. However interrupting Chi, damaging organs, and causing death, there have been no documented or scientific cases of. If it was so highly effective and deadly, then the covert ops of the world would be using it to silently and effectively kill people without a trace.

So in my opinion Dim Mak, despite "years of learning and mastery" which is usually code for "doesn't actually work" has it's uses, (pressure points for pain compliance, developing great dexterity, etc) but when it comes to actual "death touches" and "interrupting signals" it doesn't work.

For the record, I have had a 78 year old Kung Fu practioner show me some great things, but also show me some utterly ineffective things. And having spent my whole life in martial arts, including many many traditional ones, I have yet have a person knock me out with anything other than a choke, or a forceful punch or kick.

Answer 2

Yes. It's for real. Dim mak is an extremely dangerous martial art, which can cause a great deal of damage to the human body. The effects of attacking the dim mak points include knockout, death, and a delayed death. Many have seen videotapes and seminars where a subject looses consciousness after being struck on certain points. Although this is a very dramatic demonstration method, it could have dangerous consequences.
Many good martial artists are authorities on this martial arts.

Answer 3

Yes, it is definitely real. As a kid growing up, I always heard the stories, but figured they might be hollywood fantasy. In my college TKD classes, we were shown a few "hypothetical" situations, notice the quote marks since we weren't really sure if it was true. Then in my anatomy&phhysiology and human perfomance classes, we covered some things that made me embarassingly blurt out, "Wow, it'll really work!" Since then, in my kung fu classes, we are shown stuff all the time. As stated, dim mak is a general moniker for various methods that could result in death. After all my medical classes, all I have to say is..... DO NOT TAKE THESE TECHNIQUES LIGHTLY!!!!!

Answer 4

See for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar1yXYOsxQk&search=dillman

http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=16542&highlight=dim+mak

Dim Mak is totally fake! I use to know one guy who claim to know Dim Mak and be able to drain people energy and all craps. So I and one of my friend who is a fighter try to challenge him and he keep back out or make excuse about why he can't do it. If he was as good as he claim to be then why can't he simply touch one of us and knock us out? Also look at massage, you see them touching and massages all over the body, did you see anyone die from it?

Closest you can get to Dim Mak is to develope a extremely powerful punch or kick that would rattle person brain into liquid or hard enough to break sternum bone and ruptered heart. Neither of those are easy task and even though many boxer hit hard, 99% doesn't even have the power to do a such thing.

So don't believe in everything you hear about martial arts.

Answer 5

I have never seen any proof to support that energy attacks are real.
There was a series of questions about energy based attacks on here some time ago. Search through them....

If you are wondering if a single blow can kill, than the answer is yes. In baseball there are documented deaths from batter getting hit by a pitcher throw. I talked to a doctor about this one time. He said everyone's heart has a rhythm. If you can disrupt the rhythm it is possible to cause the heart to fail.

Also, an experienced practitioner could kill with one hit I believe. If the conditions are right I am sure a death could occur. The human body has some very vulnerable points.

Answer 6

Dim-Mak means death touch. Its the study of accupressure finding weak points in human body and using them to there advantage in combat. IE. things souch as a trachea punch would be considered comman show in Dim-Mak. Dim-Mak is not oen technique but thousands of techniques which go after all vital points.

Answer 7

it is very real,and you can not learn it straight out, usually its taught to students of high rank in kung fu. Dim Mak is not as previuosly stated a one blow death strike rather,you learn to hit /press certian areas of the body to achieve various and usually quite lethal results.For example you can press the top of the palm and the muscle between the bicept and tricept and make a person.pass out...its like typing on the body,and you can cause everything from passing out to organ failure to death. Takes decades to learn and requires more discipline than other martial arts. that is why only very advanced stunents make good practioniers......a 4th degree kung fu black belt

Answer 8

link

Answer 9

i looked it up on wikipedia its real