Intimidation techniques?

Wrist locks and thumb locks scare the crap out of me. These are not typically crowd-pleasers. But effectively applied, it would make a grown man scream like a 6 year old girl, and to me - that's crowd control. In this case, you need not expend the energy of a kihap/kiai - your opponent is doing it for you! :-)

Several thoughts on this...... First, what intimidates one person is of no consequence to another. What intimidates may also be altered by the attackers mental state at that moment. Someone high on drugs or drunk is less likely to be intimidated.

As for more than one attacker, first choice should always be to escape, and not face them. However, if back in a corner and you must fight, you must destroy the first attacker "quickly and in a graphic way". That is likely to make the others less likely to want to attack. It lowers their confidence which will lower their effectiveness, and put doubts in their heads.

EDIT: I like the comments made by possum... i find that the larger and stronger an attacker, the more likely I am to use finger locks on them. Over the years i have never run into anyone that i can;t control with finger locks. As possum said they will scream like a little girl if you put a finger lock on them. And for those that think that no one can put a finger lock on them, i have this to say.... On several occasions I've had someone walk into a class where we were practicing finger locks. On more than one of these occasions I've had one of these jokers make the comment that if he was attacking me that I would never be able to get a finger lock on him. They think that they can keep their fist clenched preventing someone from using a finger lock on them. Oh, how wrong they are.... All you have to do is deflect and grab their wrist, and simply use a one knuckle punch to the back of their fist. It does not matter where you punch. They will instantly open their fist allowing you to finger lock them.

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I am not sure if there is a correlation. Some of the most painful techniques are not spectacular looking. They just hurt a lot or make you feel nausea or apply painful pressure on your joints. Some of the spectacular looking techniques are not that painful and are quite bearable.

Given a choice, I would prefer to knock out an opponent and hope that their friends get second thoughts about attacking me.

@Odee. If I were to answer your question as to what techniques I do not want to be on the receiving end of, I would have to agree with most of the Contributors and say it is the finger, wrist, elbow and shoulder locks. I can deal with the pain, but the risk of injury is very high. I would hate to have to miss training again, and when I go back to train, to be training with pain in my arm or shoulder.

But we as martial artists who practice these techniques realize how painful and dangerous they are. I am not sure if the general population is aware of how painful they are.

As for the throws, for people who are trained in breakfalls, the worst that can happen is that you get the wind knocked out of them and they be seeing stars. I would imagine, if someone is not trained in breakfalls and they get slammed onto the sidewalk, the results would be devastating.

While Kajukenbo people do know some Judo throws, we do not train like Judo people, we do not practice randori with the throws. We only do a throw after we punched and kicked the opponent a few times, to decrease the chances of the opponent countering the throw. In other words, we would throw the opponent after he is knocked out or TKO'ed.

With that stated, my answer will be the same. I will not try to intimidate any of my attackers. I will knock the first one out. If the others do not attack, that will be great. We all saved ourselves a lot of energy and we can all go home. If the others still attack, I will have to deal with them.

Techniques are meaningless. Thus it would be even more meaningless to be intimidated by them.

The best and most effective intimidation techniques are either extreme calmness, assertive but not aggressive behavior, and cockney humor.

Pugpaws, I'd just put the lock on the wrist then transfer to their fingers once their wrist is broken. It's more efficient if you ask me. People who are dumb enough to tighten their fist, just makes it easier for the wrist to be manipulated via the hands.

As soon as I see such prancing, I know he is better at showing off than fighting. Intimidation is accomplished by displays of attitude (of the right kind in the right amount), and by looking calm enough to make it wash. Body language is the other intimidation. You can "just tell" when a man "means business". When I was a bouncer I always knew "this fool is about to hit me", just before he tried to hit me. He conveyed his intent, it just didn't intimidate me.

Most intimidating (and fun!) of all is when someone makes an obvious attempt to intimidate you, and it just as obviously doesn't work. He is instantly intimidated, you need not do any other thing.

As for which techniques frighten me, none. A technique means nothing without somebody doing it. Most any technique may be deemed "scary" in the right hands.

I don't know of any way to intimidate me with a technique. There were a few throws that I didn't like being thrown, but it will not intimidate me to see it done on someone (namely kata garuma or uki otoshi). Kata garuma you are so high when being thrown. maybe because I'm short and everyone else was so tall in comparison. Uki otoshi was a throw with a hard fall.

Of course like someone mentioned the pain techniques are great especially when it is being applied to someone else. But I don't mind volunteering for them to be applied on me. Of course I prefer to be the one doing the technique.

My instructor has this one set of of groin strike that he will hit you 5 or more times. Instead of actually hitting you in the groins he slaps your thighs front and back. This stings so bad that it freezes you. I love it. I hate being the uke. i want to get better at it to have the same or similar quick rhythm that he does. But again if he want to demonstrate this technique those that know what he is going to do will not want to step forward, I will volunteer. I try to watch but it is hard when he is doing it on you. He hits the right nerves every time.

anything with the finger tips scares the $#!+ out of me.

force concentrated into such smalls areas can do to much damage.

I like being able to see as well lol

Saw a guy pulling a knife once, that scared the **** out of me. Until the other guy pulled a gun.

I don't know, I fight silently