Ichi gekki hissatsu

[VingTsunMonkey]

Anyone here believe in it?

It means "Single strike, certian death".

I tend to believe that if someone could drive their thumb joint through 5 inches of pine wood, they could easily shatter ribs (given correct positioning of course).

My knowledge of snap punches extends as far as the fights I've actually been in. My sophomore year in HS someone (CONSIDERABLY larger than I) squirted soap all over the floor outside the shower in the weight room and I slipped and split my head open on the turny knobby thingy for the main water supply. When I got up, the kid and his friends were laughing their asses off (despite seriously injuring me). I lost my head, walked up to him, grabbed his shoulder and snap punched him in the stomach so hard it threw him on his back and knocked him clean out. I probably would've gotten in a LOT more trouble had I not hit him square in the gut and if I hadn't been pouring blood all over the hallway floor on my way to the office.

With that experience, I figured has I aimed for his ribs he would've ended up in the hospital. Killing however would take more root and physical power, but I believe that it would indeed be possible...

[Moonduck]

*shrug* Anything is possible, I guess. Do I believe that it is a technique that can be practiced for? Nah. More like training yourself to just do serious penetrating damage, and then aiming for the spot where you want the damage to occur. As you can't go around heart-shotting training partners, and they no longer give out the authority to test weapons and techniques on condemned prisoners like they did in the Edo Period in Japan. So the technique is relegated to the realm of "might work, maybe". I'm not terribly interested in spending my time on "might work, maybe", especially when success would land my butt in jail =P

That said, there are killing strikes that work. I don't personally think that this is the place to get into a discussion on them (though it's dead. easy to find that info out on the net already) However, a discussion of the body hardening techniques used to get to the point where you can drive your hand into a pine board 5" would be relevant and useful to some. Perhaps you can find somethign on that and post it?

[plancheismine]

is this like the one strike kill method? :lol:

[kawana]

Pfft.. buy a gun :S

[Moonduck]

Pfft.. buy a gun :S

*yawn* Guns are fine for target practice and hunting, but you aren't likely to have one handy in a self-defense situation(barring certain professions, obviously)

[plancheismine]

Pfft.. buy a gun :S
pfft...strap a bomb to your chest :wink:

[Moonduck]

pfft...strap a bomb to your chest :wink:

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