I think youre dreaming.

All pain is relative to experience. I know many points on the body that when hit can do a massive amount of damage and knockout. And yes even fall like a wooden chicken. But with familiarity these points become less and less useful. Consider the first time I was struck in the funny bone ligament. It knocked me down and I was almost unconscious. I was 7 and now all that point does is make my pinky twitch. Although some points can't be toughened up such as the groin and major nerves. I have yet to fall like a wooden chicken from anything since I was 12. Except for a subluxation or ruptured appendix. My pain threshold is rather high. Not good from a medical standpoint.

Delayed Death strike is a strike that has a likely to cause a large blood clot. depending on where you strike it can cause a shutdown/malfunction of just about any organ chosen days later.

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I really enjoyed Montaigue and Simpson's Encyclopedia of Dim Mak, and so far it seems like it makes the most sense of the books I've read, though it does omit things like the time of day associated with each meridian (probably where the idea of the "delayed death touch" came from).

In terms of professional fights, I think one explanation as to why there are so few pressure-point-type deaths is that different meridians run so close to each other in commonly-struck areas that a kick or punch (especially in big padded gloves) will usually smack a whole bunch of points at once, which if anything stabilizes chi because the system that carries it is being whomped uniformly rather than specifically targeted.

I think a lot of the techniques are grabs and holds because the points really are tough to target in a real fight. Next time you take an elevator, stand back at a comfy fighting range and try to hit the elevator button with a full speed one-knuckle strike... you can imagine how much harder it is to hit a target half that size on the body of someone who's moving and hitting back.

There are places where the points run thick enough--neck and jawline are among the best--that a strike with something pointy like a finger jab or knuckle is almost sture to strike a point of some kind, and if you can luck out and get the right angle of strike, and maybe even the time of day when the chi/blood of the corresponding organ is the most active, that you'll get in one of those strikes of occult legend. But I'm doubtful most of us can achieve the knowledge and the control to plan those strikes: for instance, good old Stomach 9 (Renying) is so close to Large Intestine 18 (Fu Tu) that I don't know anyone who could reliably target one or the other on a fast-moving opponent.

All this makes it an inexact science at best, and if any of the stories I hear are true, the corresponding stories of people spending 50 years to master it don't sound so exaggerated. I had a Sifu once who supposedly knew Dim Mak (he never demonstrated or taught anyone, not that I know of, so I can't be sure) who was fond of saying that there are several instant-kill points located on the skull, and that they are easier to find using an axe... I think for him Dim Mak was just one more tool, and he didn't want to encourage going after esoteric knowledge to the exclusion of what should be obvious and practical. Or it could have been that he didn't know at all... either way, though, I'm not terribly concerned as a fighter with how Dim Mak works or doesn't work... I'm much too busy trying to learn to throw a Hadouken ;)

I use the ancient "Single Finger Dim Mak", with 1 finger gently placed on the trigger of my 1911, I can set up deadly vibrations in a persons body and give them a deadly case of kinetic energy poisoning ; ).