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Are there any Dojo s in Ohio that teach Dim Mak?
I can t find a single dojo that teaches any of the martial arts I want to learn 😡 There s no jeet kune do I could find and now I heard of another 🥋 martial arts DIM MAK and there s none of that in Ohio either. Do any of u know of dojos with Dim mak?
6 Answers
- 4 years ago
Actually that is more of a food and death touch is contextual as one thing might kill one person and not the other. A true death touch is hocus pok...
- Anonymous4 years ago
Dim Mak or Dim Hsue is merely speculation at most. The basic ideas have never been scientifically demonstrated. It is basically negative Accupressure. It attacks Ki-Qi-Chi meridians, supposedly causing death seemingly of natural causes quickly or in a few years. Red Sand Palm supposedly permits a master to just point at a Ki meridian and kill him without actually touching him. The problem is that Ki has never been objectively proved to exist. Related is Poison Hand. You can put heavy salve on your hand to protect you form a poison you apply that will penetrate skin. Then, when you touch someone, the poison is placed upon his skin and penetrates to his vitals. There is also soaking your hand in diluted poison that is absorbed by your skin while taking antidotes. Gradually you build a resistance to the poison, and eventually, your hand is filled with deadly poison that penetrates someone else's skin when you touch him. "Rappacini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne was about a girl who was filled with plant poisons by her father, so her touch was fatal. Someone told me about a TV show that had a killer using DMSO and poison to kill. DMSO penetrates the skin, and poison is blended with it. (DMSO is dimethylsulfoxide.)
- SteelLv 74 years ago
Dim Mak... where to begin and what can I add that hasn't already been addressed? Ah, I know a different angle...
Let's say, just for argument's sake, that everything you've heard about the Dim Mak is true. In this world of frivolous litigation, people suing each other for the slightest of reasons, and teachers of martial arts having to embrace a culture of "every kid's a winner" and protecting one's self from liability lawsuits, how could a school that teaches the Dim Mak even exist? The answer: it can't, and it doesn't.
Follow Jas Key's advice. Don't limit yourself based on style/discipline alone. Go to a class and see how they train. If you don't like it, don't train there. Simple. Good luck to you.
- Anonymous4 years ago
If Dim Mak means "death touch" than why don't you go to a chinese restaurant and order Dim Sum.
Find out what Dim really means and what Mak or Maek means and you will be dumb founded.
- Jas KeyLv 64 years ago
Dim mak at worst is bag of magic tricks, and at best is a collection of what I call 'deterrent techniques'. In short, deterrent techniques are techniques that causes pain in order to convince the attacker that they do not want to continue fighting, however there is nothing physically substantial that is stopping the attacker from continuing the fight. This is as opposed to 'stopping technique' which are techniques that can physically turn the attacker's ability to continue fighting off(such as KO, a choke that makes the attacker fall asleep, joint breaks that makes the physical use of limbs impossible, and etc.)
Dim mak's supposed magical ability to make people not function properly(essentially making it a stopping technique) through a touch of a pressure point has been proven to be hoax over and over again. At best, legitimate sources that does not make wild claims, shows that they use the pressure point technique as deterrents to try to stop the attacker, but moves on to joint locks in combination with the pressure point to make the dim mak technique a 'stopping technique'. But it's actually the joint locking that is achieving this stopping result and you could learn the joint locks without the whole pressure point non-sense.
You had the right idea with the JKD if you were interested in that, but as you may have noted it's something that's hard to get a hold of. "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." If you were meant to practice JKD it'll appear eventually, but until that time I would look around and see what opportunity is actually available for you right now. It might just be that you have an amazing martial arts master in your own backyard, but you haven't realized it because you were so fixated on finding a particular style.