Does anybody know this style?

Question

It's called Dim Mak.
I heard it's the lost style of Chinese martial arts.

Answer 1

It is not a style but an area of learning for a few Chinese martial arts. Some martials arts from other countries have similar techniques although they have a different name for it. As has been mentioned above several times, it is a skill set of proper ways to attack the natural chi flow of the body to cause bodily harm. Instead of being a purely physical strikes, certain points are targeted because they are conduits for chi, mostly nerve centers. Because of the serious consequences of such techniques, they are not wantonly taught to just any student (although unscrupulous greedy "master" will gladly sell you some material for the right price).

Answer 2

Dim Mak is a legendary attack that could render a man helpless or even unconscious with just a touch or a tap. It's a set of moves rather then a style of its own, usually it is attributed to Tai Chi Chuan, ancient Kung Fu or Chi Gong masters though some say that the Ninja had an art very similar they called death touch. There is a lot of debate whether it ever existed though some claim they can do it to this day. Do a search on youtube for Dim Mak and you'll find several videos that claim to be of Dim Mak practices. Be very wary of anyone claiming to teach Dim Mak, most have been proven to be charlatans.

Answer 3

I've heard a lot about Dim Mak. It's also known as, or associated with, The Death Touch, Chi Gong, Acupressure points, Acupuncture, Eagle's Claw, China Na, pressure points.. etc. It is basically the combination of Chi Gong, Pressure points, and Acupuncture. According to a video on youtube, there is only one master at a time. Anyway the style requires years of intense training, blinding speed, and intense knowledge. If you want to learn Dim Mak, I'd start by learning a few pressure points. Keep in mind however, that while Dim Mak may grant you the power to kill with one touch (notice I say may), other forms of fighting are also effective and don't take over 30 years to master.

Answer 4

Dim Mak is not a style per se. It is the use of pressure points in fighting. It is central to some Chinese styles as well as at least 1 Okinawan style. Most Asian MA uses it to some extent. The level of Dim Mak varies with the school & rank. There are some things that I won't teach lower belts or children.

Answer 5

See Gnostic Paladins answer for the most concise definition I've heard in quite some time. Dim mak is not mystical or lost or all that hard to learn . Its just a study of areas where the most damage can be done by a strike or grab.

Answer 6

Dim mak is over rated if you know anything of the human body you should know how to hurt someone. the Death Touch is basicly what Dim Mak means. I watched a program on National geographic and they showed how hard a person can hit kick whatever. The hardest anyone punched was a boxer, they had martial artists from diferent styles the boxer ruled. Kicks or leg attacks was dominated by Muay Thai. The death touch, belive it or not was Ninja

Answer 7

I know the Dim Mak techniques of the shaolin eagle claw style and some of the tai chi ones

Answer 8

Dim mak is nothing more than acupuncture anyone who sells it otherwise is full of it. No death touches, no poison the chi ect...I believe in some of the healing aspects of chi but in fighting i am skeptical. Even pressure points to cause pain i can go with that but effectiong someones chi with a touch(and some say they can without touching) to kill em idunno. Even if it was true whos gonna stand around for you to use it on?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pdrzBL2dHMI

its funny how he couldnt effect the jiujitsu people. and then goes to say oh its only works on 40% of the people. Lets say this form of dim mak is real: I dont like those odds 60% of the time i try to do something to defend myself Imma get knock the $#@$ out. and forget defending urself against anyone who stays in shape cuz althletes are the hardest to effect.

Answer 9

There is a lot of misconception surrounding the subject of your question. Before I begin, let me explain that I speak some Mandarin Chinese but not Cantonese, so I will be writing the words a bit differently: in Mandarin "Dim Mak" is pronounced "Dien Hsueh." But it's the same thing--same Chinese characters, same training. Just a different pronunciation (for example, "Shaolin" is a Mandarin word; in Cantonese it is pronounced "Siu Lim"--which is where the title of Wing Chun's first form, "Siu Lim Dao," comes from).
Now: Dien Hsueh is not a style, nor is it lost, nor is it secret, nor is it a specific technique for killing people with your bare hands. Dien Hsueh is an area of study--just like striking, throwing, swordsmanship, internal training, etc. are areas of study. Dien Hsueh literally translates as "point destruction," and refers to the ability to cause pain and injury disproportional to the force of the blow by striking at specific vulnerable areas. The most easily recognizable are the eyes, larynx, and groin; the Chinese mapped dozens and referenced them by acupuncture points--although they are not exactly the same as the acupuncture points.
Every system of Chinese martial arts includes at least some study of dien hsueh. A closely related area of study which is also the subject of much misconception is "chin na so," sometimes shortened to "chin na." "Chin na so" means "grabbing and seizing by hand" and refers to the study of various joint locks, joint breaks, holds and throws also studied in most forms of Chinese martial arts.

Train hard!

Answer 10

Dim Mak is a fictional technique only thought out in theory. It is made famous in movis and books. For instance in the movie Blood Sport, when JEan Claud Van Damme breaks the bottom brick. That's supposed to be Dim Mak. People say it means death touch but it doesn't the actual translation means Artery push. So the thechnique it self is not real. However if you look at it from the point of view that if you hit someone hard enough in te right place... Head, chest, groin etc... You could kill them. But that isn't a technique it is the human bodies in ability to take hard strikes to the brain heart or vital organs. Hence if you kick someone in the head hard enough, or punch them in the nose hard enough and on the right angle you can kill them. Hell if you punch someone in the solar plexis hard enough you can kill them. Probably not a young healthy person but a child or an elderly person.
And any one who claims to have been tought "Dim Mak" or a sensei who says they teach it. Is ful of it. Because according to the theory of it. Only one man per generation in China is taught the technique. And it is handed down either form father to son or teacher to student.
There are how ever styles that teach pressure point techniques but again the idea of them being for practical use is not realistic. Most people who suport them typically have only seen them used when one person stands still as their sensei grabs or pushes a pressure point. But in a fight it is next to impossible to hit a nerve point no bigger than a quarter. If it ws why don't MMA fighter train in them. They can be used as distractions if you are beeing held down say a woman being raped. Digging you knuckle behind the ersons ear. Or right under the back of your bottom jaw. Pushing the ridge of your hand under the nose.
But they are certainly not debilitating nor are they deadly.
Tai Chi, and Acupuncture are main ways pressure points are taught. Most if not all of the information you will find on Dim Mak is based on theories or is taken from information from arts like Tai Chi and often the person writing the info is not trained in nor has any direct knowlage or experience with it.