2 necklocks and 2 strangulations - SP-10

For this video, we selected 2 necklocks and 2 strangulations.

The attack is in all cases: Tsuki Jodan.

In all cases, the defense starts with:

• Mae-Mawashi Uke
• Kick to SP-10 (Splean 10)
• Grab the back of the head via the throat  

After the first defense, we proceed with eighter a necklock or a strangulation. The last two techniques are performed after the oppontent escaped.

Be aware that this is a simplyfied example. You can use more Atemi's during your defence to unbalance the opponent even more.

Video

Extra information:

With the kick, we hit SP-10 (splean-10). This Yin point is located in about the middle of the inside of the leg. It makes you buckle the legg to the outside. This point can create space or unbalance the opponent.

These are the attention points for the first technique, the strangulation:

• Make sure you turn the head
• Squeeze the hands and (be careful with this....) push your body forward to put on the strangulation

These are the attention points for the second technique, the necklock:

• This necklock is very dangerous, because the body cannot keep up with the paste of the head!
• The body must lean over, you pull the head and the chin.

In the next two techniques, you are not able to finish of with a strangulation or necklock. The oppontent escapes.

These are the attention points for the third technique, the strangulation (after the escape):

• Make sure that you are standing strong when the opponent attacks with the knife
• Hit GB-32 (middle of the leg on the outside).
• You can proceed with the strangulation eighter with the fist in LI-18/ST-9 or you can strangle with your underarm 
• The end control can be standing, make sure that you stand strong!
• Take the knife out of the hands of the opponent.
• The end control can also be on the ground. The opponent is out of balance, you can let him fall and proceed on the ground

These are the attention points for the fourth technique, the necklock (after the escape)

• Just like in the previous defence: make sure that you are standing strong for the next attack
• You can add various atemi's to further unbalance the opponent
• End-control: grab the chin (ST-5 or ST-4) with your left hand, pull you elbow towards your hip
• Go with your right arm under de arm of the opponent. You grab your arm with your hand 
• Lock the arm and pull the head in the opposite direction.

Enjoy practicing these techniques

8 Strangulations and locks with umbrella

Today we posted a new video. In this video, we show defenses with an umbrella (this could be any kind of stick).

The controle techniques in this video are strangulations, a wristlock and an armlock.
Enjoy watching the video.

More detailed information technique by technique:

In general:

• keep your hands close to the neck
• squeeze with your hands to strangle

Details per technique:

1. Attack: Hook punch

• Deflect the attack with the umbrella
• Stab the umbrella behind the neck 
• Point it a little to the left shoulder, it is easier to grab
• Place your hand as close as possible to the neck
• Grab the other end of the umbrella
• Place your other hand also as close as possible to the neck
• Squeeze the umbrella, this way your wrist will come close to each other and you will strangle the opponent

      2.  Attack: Hook punch

• Repeat defence one and continue with:
• Move a little back with your body and move your right hand to the tip of the umbrella
• Make space with your body and guide the umbrella under your armpit
• Squeeze with your hand and bring your shoulder down.

      3.  Attack: Hook punch

• You have the umbrella loose in the hand (fingers down)
• Turn your right hand up (underarm horizontally)
• Grab the umbrella with your other hand and deflect the attack
• Turn your left hand with the umbrella around the arm of the opponent
• Press the arm against the body of the opponent
• Bring the umbrella to front of the throat of the opponent with the left hand
• Grab the umbrella with the right hand on the other side of the neck and squeeze the hands again.

      4.  Attack: Hook punch

• Repeat the defence of attack 3. 
• Now in stead of grabbing the other end of the umbrella, you go around the umbrella with your arm.
• Pull the umbrella over the arm
• You would like to grab the head as high as possible, to push the head away

      5.  Attack: Straight punch

• There are two ways to catch the hand.
• here we do next: we turn our hand (fingers under umbrella) and just lay the umbrella on the wrist of the opponent.
• you can also: turn the umbrella around the wrist (fingers on umbrella)
• When the umbrella is around the wrist, you grab the umbrella with the other hand, again as close to the other hand as possible
• Squeeze to lock

      6.  Attack: Straight punch

• Lock the wrist
• Let go with the left hand
• Bring the umbrella in front of the throat with the right hand
• Step in and guide the umbrella under the armpit
• Grab the umbrella around the neck with the left hand
• Turn your body and stretch the opponents arm over the chest

       7.  Attack: Straight punch

• In stead of making the armlock, you now go with your right hand under the arm of the opponent and grab the umbrella
• By squeezing the umbrella, you will make the strangulation

       8.  Attack: Straight punch

• Attack the opponent with the umbrella (right arm close to the opponent)
• Grab the arm of the opponent
• Grab the umbrella with your left hand
• Pull the arm, push the umbella

I hope this information is clear, hope to see you back at our next video.

8 fingerlocks

Today, we posted a new video, this time, with 8 basic fingerlocks. Locks that everyone can learn.

If you are not familiar with fingerlocks, then be very careful with training them!

We show 8 different fingerlocks. In al cases, the attack is a push to the chest.
The fingerlocks all come down to the same basic principles:

• You grab at least 1 finger (pointerfinger)
• For training, we advise to grab at least two fingers (the opponent is stronger that way and can resist the lock better)
• This way, you create the lock:
• Your pinks sqeezes and bends the fingers away from the hand
• You thumb and pointerfinger bend the fingers towards the hand/arm
• You hold the finger close to your body (hip or chest). This way you are stronger.

Unless the opponent is trained in resisting these locks, it is very painful and you might break fingers with it. So again be very careful!

Good luck with training these techniques.

24. Hadaka Jime's from behind - ST-5

After the 4 Hadaka Jime's from the front, we now show 4 Hadaka Jime's from behind. We again do this as a defense on the two hook punches, the body hook and uppercut.

The Hadaka Jima:

We will show 3 different Hadaka Jime's from behind.

• two with the underarm over the throat and the hand behind your head (blood strangulation)
• one with the fist in the throat and hand on the wrist (air and blood strangulation)
• one with the knuckle of the thumb on the Adam's apple (air strangulation)

Most important is that you are standing strong, with at straight back and a strong leg!

Here is the video, enjoy watching it!

Attacks

The attacks that we use are:

• A hook punch with the right arm
• A hook punch with the left arm
• A body hook
• An uppercut

Reflex

Our reflexes are:

• First hook punch: LU-6 and ST-9 (or other neck points)
• Second hook punch: ST-5 and LU-6
• A body hook: LU-6 or LU-8http://yawarajujutsu.blogspot.nl/2017/06/6-how-do-you-attack-pressure-point.html and ST-9
• An uppercut: go with the flow

Follow up:

We follow up with eighter a knee (Hiza-Geri) to the body or we follow or redirect the arm.

Unbalancing:

We unbalance the opponent with the use of pressure points ST-9, or by pulling the arm.

End control:
Each time, we end with a Hadaka Jime in which we are standing in behind the opponent.

• three times, we end with an Hadaka Jime with the hand behind the head.
• one time, we end by pressing the Adam's Apple

Pressure points used:
We use various pressure points in the video:

• Stomach 9 (ST-9) (with open hand, fingers and knuckles)
• Stomach 5 (ST-5), new pressure point, we will tell about this point below
• The throat, with with knuckle of the thumb
• Lung 6 (or Lung 8).

More information about Stomach 5 (ST-5)

Location:

Hitpoint ST-5 is located halfway on the jaw. 

Where can you find it?

If you follow the jaw (underside) from the ear to the chin, you will find Pressure point ST-5 halfway the jaw in a hollow. It feels like a rubber band.

Direction:

You hit ST-5 in and down or up; in a 45 degrees angle. The open hand is great to attack this point with. You make a little twist at the moment of impact. (When you straighten your arm with an open hand; the hand will bend a little. This motion is great for ST-5)

Neurological:

ST-5 is connected to the buccal nerve. The buccal nerve is via various other nerves connected to the center of the nerve system in the small brains. This part of the brain is primarily responsible for regulation the movement of the body. By hitting ST-5 the right way, you can cause a knock-out.
It is also connected to the orbit (eyes). 

Impact:

Because of the connection with the eyes you will see the eyes blink when hitting ST-5.
Because of the connection to the middle cerebral peduncle (small brains), a knock-out can be caused.

The stomach meridian:

The stomach meridian contains 45 earth points. The route of the stomach meridian is a long journey from the head to the feet, which makes it a Yang meridian:

• The meridian starts internally next to the nose wing, where the Large Intestine meridian ends. It runs up the nose, it connects with BL-1 (corner of the eye)
• The meridian comes to the surface on the orbital bone, in middle under the eye (ST-1)
• It goes straight down, parallel to the bottom of the nose.
• From there it takes a little internal detour to the upper gums (where it connects with Governing Vessel 24 (DU-24))
  
• And it processes its way down to a little below the corner of the mouth (ST-4).
• Stomach continues his way along the jaw and in front of the ear to the middle of the forehead.
• From ST-5 (on the Jaw), in branches of and goes down to the throat and the supraclavicular fossa. It goes from the hook of the clavicle (ST-11) near the throat to about the middle of the clavicle (ST-12)
• From there it goes two ways:
• Internally it passes through the diaphragm and it goes into the spleen and stomach
• Externally it goes down to a little below the nipple ST-18, Then it continues its way a little lower and close to the centerline of the body.
• Both branches connect at ST-30 (lower abdomen)
• From here it goes back to the front / outside of the leg, via the anterior aspect of the upper leg down to the foot.
• Internally, a branch goes from ST-42 (first point on the foot) to connect with the spleen channel
• It runs down the leg to the 2nd toe (ST45).

I hope you likes this blog. In my next blog, I will show 4 different Hadaka Jime's from the side from the same hookpunch flow. Till then and bye for now.

We cannot be held responsible for injuries 

caused by practicing the techniques shown in the videos!

So, be very careful when practicing the techniques!

Respect the danger of locks and pressure points.

Only practice these techniques with

an authorized teacher or school (despite of the martial art)

23. Stomach 9 (ST-9) - Hadaka Jime from a punch flow

Hi there! In today's video, we show Hadaka Jime (naked strangulation). We perform the Hadaka Jime while we are standing in front of the opponent.

Because of my 50th birthday I did not have the time to make new video's this week. In the meantime, I wrote about why pressure points are effective from a neurological point of view. If you are interested, you can start reading from here.

The Hadaka Jima:

We will show the Hadaka Jime with the head under the armpit, but not in the traditional way!

I place one hand on the shoulder and the other on my own wrist. I press the shoulder away with my hand. The other hand squeezes my own wrist, the strangulation will be a lot harder, as the muscles will be tense.

Here is the video with the Hadaka Jime, on 4 punches followed by various pressure point attacks. Enjoy watching the video, but be very careful with the attacks to throat and face!!!

Attacks

The attacks that we use are:

• A hook punch with the right arm
• A hook punch with the left arm
• A body hook
• An uppercut

Reflex

Our reflex against these attacks is a poke to CV-22 and  we hit eighter LU-6 or the Lung points on the wrist. The reason why I place my hand behind the head is to seal the energy. By preventing that the opponent can move back, the pressure point will be harder (this goes for most points on the head)

Follow up:

We follow up with an attack to pressure points in the throat (we also show attacks to pressure points in the face)

End control:
Each time, we end with a Hadaka Jime in which we are standing in front of the opponent as written above. extra information:

• About the middle of the underarm is over the throat of the opponent
• You can strangle in two ways:
• When you squeeze your hand around your wrist
• By puching the shoulder away
• Turn your hips, you will lock the head more, the lock is better and harder to resist.

Pressure points used:

We use various pressure points in the video:

• Conception Vessel 22 (CV-22)   
• Stomach 9 (ST-9)is a new pressure point, I will tell more about this point below.
• The throat
• The chin/nose area
• The eyes in combination with the nose. We will show cool variations with this one in future blogs.
• A Hiza Geri, (Sorry, I did not perform them very well this time).

More information about Stomach 9 (ST-9)

Location:

ST-9 is located just besides the Adam's apple. 

Where can you find it?

If you press between the adam's appel and the big muscle. You will become light in the head.

Direction:

You hit or press ST-9 in and down in a 45 degrees angle. The knife hand is great to attack this point. You make a little twist at the moment of impact, like you drop your hand in the neck.

Neurological:

ST-9 is connected to the brainstem, it measures the blood pressure. If you manipulate ST-9, the brain will think that the blood pressure is disturbed. It will lower the heart rate and might cause the person to pass out.

Impact:

There will be a disorder in the head. The opponent might lose consciousness.

The stomach meridian:

The stomach meridian contains 45 earth points. The route of the stomach meridian is a long journey from the head to the feet, which makes it a Yang meridian:

• The meridian starts internally next to the nose wing, where the Large Intestine meridian ends. It runs up the nose, it connects with BL-1 (corner of the eye)
• The meridian comes to the surface on the orbital bone, in middle under the eye (ST-1)
• It goes straight down, parallel to the bottom of the nose.
• From there it takes a little internal detour to the upper gums (where it connects with Governing Vessel 24 (DU-24))
  
• And it processes its way down to a little below the corner of the mouth (ST-4).
• Stomach continues his way along the jaw and in front of the ear to the middle of the forehead.
• From ST-5 (on the Jaw), in branches of and goes down to the throat and the supraclavicular fossa. It goes from the hook of the clavicle (ST-11) near the throat to about the middle of the clavicle (ST-12)
• From there it goes two ways:
• Internally it passes through the diaphragm and it goes into the spleen and stomach
• Externally it goes down to a little below the nipple ST-18, Then it continues its way a little lower and close to the centerline of the body.
• Both branches connect at ST-30 (lower abdomen)
• From here it goes back to the front / outside of the leg, via the anterior aspect of the upper leg down to the foot.
• Internally, a branch goes from ST-42 (first point on the foot) to connect with the spleen channel
• It runs down the leg to the 2nd toe (ST45).

I hope you likes this blog. In my next blog, I will show 4 different Hadaka Jime's from behind from the same hookpunch flow. Till then and bye for now.

We cannot be held responsible for injuries 

caused by practicing the techniques shown in the videos!

So, be very careful when practicing the techniques!

Respect the danger of locks and pressure points.

Only practice these techniques with

an authorized teacher or school (despite of the martial art)

22. The Brainstem

After the explanation about the spinal cord in our previous blog, again you are closer to understanding the use of pressure points from a neurological point of view!

The brain stem is the a part of the spinal cord that is located at the bottom of the scull.
This little part in the brain stem is responsible for the vegetative body functions (heart, lungs, kidneys, etc.). The signals going from the spinal cord to the brains (and the other way around) are checked by it constantly, to make sure that the body is in good shape.

If any concerning signal enters this area, the autonomic nervous system responds. This can be by lowering the heart rate (if it gets a message that the blood pressure is too high) for example after correctly hitting ST-9; This could shut the body down (by passing out).

I hope you find this information interesting so far. In my next blog, I will wrap this information up and give an example.

Thanks for reading, in our next blog we proceed with techniques and video's. We will show the various pressure points followed up by a Hadaka Jime from a punch flow.

21. The spinal cord

In my previous blog, I explained in general how the various nerves systems work and what the impact of a hit on a nerve is.

This blog, I will go a little further into how the spinal cord works in relation to the pressure points and body parts. Again notice, this blog also is an extremely simplified explanation of an extremely complex system. It just explains what is interesting if you use pressure points in the martial art.

The spinal cord
As you can see, the spinal cord is fragmented in 4 parts.

• C = Cervical
• Th = Thoracic 
• L = Lumbar
• S = Sacral

These 4 parts are split in segments, called the vortices, they are all coded:

1. C5 to Th1: this is where the signals pass from the brain to the arms (and the other way around)
2. Th1 – Th4: are connected to the heart and lungs
3. Th5 – Th12: are connected to the stomach, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, adrenal gland, small intestine and large intestine. 
4. L1-L3: are connected to the Large intestine, kidney and bladder 
5. L1 to S3: this is where the signals pass from the brain to the legs (and the other way around)

In the last part, next time I will write about the brainstem.

20. Effect of a punch on the fibres

Now that we have seen the various fibers in our previous blog and we understand what the fiber in the nerve looks like, so it is time to look at the effect of an attack on the nerve.

Let's first show the effect of a punch in a picture:

1. With a soft imact, only the red (A fibers) are effected. 
You will feel some pain. The brain will send endorphin (painkiller) to the location that hurts and it will make adrenaline (fight hormone), to prepare the body for a fight.

2. With a medium high impact, both the red (A fibers) and green (B fibers) are effected. 

The pain will be more intense and last longer. It will keep on sending impulses to the brain.

3. With high impact, the impact will be such that all fibers are affected. 

The brain will do everything possible to limit damage to the body; it will shut the body down if necessary.

It depending on where the pressure point is located what the impact of an atemi will be. So if the

I hope it makes more sense how the nerve system works. I In my next blog, I will write about how the spinal cord works high level.

Now that we know how the nervous system works, we can move on to the spinal cord.

19. Fibers in the nerves

In our previous blog, I started writing about the neurological impact of pressure points. In this blog I will take you a little further into the nervous sytem. We are going to have a closer look at the fibers:
There are 3 kinds of fibers in a nerve:

1. Type A-fiber: red

• These are the thickest and fastest fibers (2-100 meters per second). 
• They sent the sharp pain signals to the brain. 
• They are easy to activate and are easy to revive after an attack. 
• They do not influence the autonomic nervous system; they will initiate a motor response at the most.

2. Type B fiber: green

• These are smaller and slower than the A fibers (around 10 meters per second). 
• They are connected to the reflexively part of the nervous system and some of the afferent nerves of the peripheral nervous system. 
• The nerve recovers less fast and remains sending signals to the brain. 

3. Type C fiber: yellow

• These are the smallest and slowest fibers (0.5 meters per second). 
• They only react to hard attacks 
• These fibers affect the autonomic nervous system directly 
• The brain (part of the brainstem) might assume that an organ is damages. Therefore it will react severely by for example lowering the blood pressure or by passing out. 

I hope you now understand what a fiber a kind of looks like. In my next blog, I will explain wat the impact on the fibers is during and after a punch.

16. LI-10 and LI-11 - A bended armlock flow (3 locks)

Hi there! In today's video, we show Hadaka Jime (naked strangulation). We perform the Hadaka Jime while we are standing in front of the opponent.

Because of my 50th birthday I did not have the time to make new video's this week. In the meantime, I wrote about why pressure points are effective from a neurological point of view. If you are interested, you can start reading from here.

The Hadaka Jima:

We will show the Hadaka Jime with the head under the armpit, but not in the traditional way!

I place one hand on the shoulder and the other on my own wrist. I press the shoulder away with my hand. The other hand squeezes my own wrist, the strangulation will be a lot harder, as the muscles will be tense.

Here is the video with the Hadaka Jime, on 4 punches followed by various pressure point attacks. Enjoy watching the video, but be very careful with the attacks to throat and face!!!

Attacks

The attacks that we use are:

• A hook punch with the right arm
• A hook punch with the left arm
• A body hook
• An uppercut

Reflex

Our reflex against these attacks is a poke to CV-22 and  we hit eighter LU-6 or the Lung points on the wrist. 

Follow up:

We follow up with an attack to pressure points in the throat (we also show attacks to pressure points in the face)

End control:
Each time, we end with a Hadaka Jime in which we are standing in front of the opponent as written above. extra information:

• About the middle of the underarm is over the throat of the opponent
• You can strangle in two ways:
• When you squeeze your hand around your wrist
• By puching the shoulder away
• Turn your hips, you will lock the head more, the lock is better and harder to resist.

Pressure points used:

We use various pressure points in the video:

• Conception Vessel 22 (CV-22)   
• Stomach 9 (ST-9)is a new pressure point, I will tell more about this point below.
• The throat
• The chin/nose area
• The eyes in combination with the nose. We will show cool variations with this one in future blogs.
• A Hiza Geri, (Sorry, I did not perform them very well this time).

More information about Stomach 9 (ST-9)

Location:

ST-9 is located just besides the Adam's apple. 

Where can you find it?

If you press between the adam's appel and the big muscle. You will become light in the head.

Direction:

You hit or press ST-9 in and down in a 45 degrees angle. The knife hand is great to attack this point. You make a little twist at the moment of impact, like you drop your hand in the neck.

Neurological:

ST-9 is connected to the brainstem, it measures the blood pressure. If you manipulate ST-9, the brain will think that the blood pressure is disturbed. It will lower the heart rate and might cause the person to pass out.

Impact:

There will be a disorder in the head. The opponent might lose consciousness.

The stomach meridian:

The stomach meridian contains 45 earth points. The route of the stomach meridian is a long journey from the head to the feet, which makes it a Yang meridian:

• The meridian starts internally next to the nose wing, where the Large Intestine meridian ends. It runs up the nose, it connects with BL-1 (corner of the eye)
• The meridian comes to the surface on the orbital bone, in middle under the eye (ST-1)
• It goes straight down, parallel to the bottom of the nose.
• From there it takes a little internal detour to the upper gums (where it connects with Governing Vessel 24 (DU-24))
  
• And it processes its way down to a little below the corner of the mouth (ST-4).
• Stomach continues his way along the jaw and in front of the ear to the middle of the forehead.
• From ST-5 (on the Jaw), in branches of and goes down to the throat and the supraclavicular fossa. It goes from the hook of the clavicle (ST-11) near the throat to about the middle of the clavicle (ST-12)
• From there it goes two ways:
• Internally it passes through the diaphragm and it goes into the spleen and stomach
• Externally it goes down to a little below the nipple ST-18, Then it continues its way a little lower and close to the centerline of the body.
• Both branches connect at ST-30 (lower abdomen)
• From here it goes back to the front / outside of the leg, via the anterior aspect of the upper leg down to the foot.
• Internally, a branch goes from ST-42 (first point on the foot) to connect with the spleen channel
• It runs down the leg to the 2nd toe (ST45).

I hope you likes this blog. In my next blog, I will show 4 different Hadaka Jime's from behind from the same hookpunch flow. Till then and bye for now.

We cannot be held responsible for injuries 

caused by practicing the techniques shown in the videos!

So, be very careful when practicing the techniques!

Respect the danger of locks and pressure points.

Only practice these techniques with

an authorized teacher or school (despite of the martial art)

18. The nervous system

Hi there, in this blog I start explaining (very high level) how pressure points work neurologically.

To be able to understand why the body reacts in a certain way, it is important to understand how the nervous system works. This blog give you an extremely simplified view of an extremely complicated organism.

The nervous system exists of 3 parts:

1. The Autonomic nervous system 
2. The Central nervous system 
3. The Peripheral nervous system

The Autonomic nervous system
This is the part of the nervous system in the brainstem that controls our internal organs; like breathing, hart rate, pupils, vain, digestion, etc.

The Central nervous system
This nervous system exists of the brain and the spinal cord. It is the red part in the picture. This part of the nervous system processes the stimuli.

The Peripheral nervous system
The peripheral nervous system contains nerves that go from the spinal cord into the body. In the picture, they are colored brown. This Peripheral nervous system connects our organs and body parts with our central nervous system.

The nerve highway

There are two ways a nerve carries the information from and to the brain:
1. Via the afferent nerve fiber (sensory fiber) - transports signals from the body towards the spinal cord. Information about what the body feels, like pain when you burn your hand or step on a little stone.
2. Via the efferent nerve fiber (motoric fiber) - transports signals from the brain and spinal cord to the body. Information like, you have to move your legs to walk or if the brain want to grab something.

In my next blog I will continue with the neurological explanation by writing about the fibers.

17. How do pressure points work?

Now that is an interesting question!

It is important to understand how pressure points work. What happens within the body?

A lot of pressure points are not that dangerous, think of the nerve in your elbow. When you bump your elbow against an object it hurts immensely. So what do you do? You grab your arm and rub with your hand on the spot that is hurt. Because of the rubbing the pain will slowly disappear. You are actually reviving the pressure point.

That and many other points on the body are annoying and can be restored by rubbing them. But there are also points or combination of points that cause more severe damage to the body. You need to be aware of that! What is it that actually happens with the body and why would you want to avoid hitting certain points on people over 35 years old?

Thanks for reading this blog. In my next blogs, I will try to explain why pressure points hurt from a neurological point of view.

15. Conception Vessel attacks

With Heart 2 (H-2) we discussed the most important pressure points on the arm. We will come back to the other ones, but for now we start combining the pressure points in our next videos in lockflows, drills, etc. Have fun!

In our today's video, we show reflexes in which we attack pressure points. We will go to the centre line of the body (the conception meridian).

Reflexes are very important! A reflex is an immediate reaction, which can be applied in various circumstances. These are moves that you train a lot! We prefer to attack the centre line, because you always stop the attack! it's painful and the attacker will not expect a counter attack like this.

What do we attack?

We attack next points after an atemi attack or grip on the clothes of strangulation:

• The eyes
• Governor 26 (G-26) (a crossing point of multiple meridians) 
• Conception Vessel 24 (CV-24), on the chin with the knuckles (in video)
• Conception Vessel 22 (CV-22), between the clavicles with the fingers (in video)
• Conception Vessel 19 (CV-19), in the middle of the chest with the knuckles (in video)

You can also attack lower points on the conception meridian, but it's best to do that in case of a grip attack or strangulation.

In this video we show various attacks and reflexes to CV-19, CV-22 and CV24. We conclude the video with a lock.

The Conception Vessel

This Vessel contains 24 Yin points. it is also called Ren-Mai or Directing Vessel.

The route of the Conception Vessel is:

• It originates internally from the uterus. 
• It appears on the surface at the perineum (CV-1). 
• Via many interesting points it runs through the middle in front of the body to the chin (CV-24). 
• From CO-24, it makes an internal detour around the mouth and to the eyes.

I hope you found this blog interesting, next time we will show a lock-flow with 3 bended locks. We use the Large Intestine meridian and of course CV-22.

We cannot be held responsible for injuries 

caused by practicing the techniques shown in the videos!

So, be very careful when practicing the techniques!

Respect the danger of locks and pressure points.

Only practice these techniques with

an authorized teacher or school (despite of the martial art)

14. Heart 2 (H-2)

Hi, great the you came back again! I hope you like to video about the techniques we showed at the Kihon AIKO Ashihara Summer Camp 2017. Today I will write about Heart 2 (H-2). It is again a hit point that you can use to position a person or to create space. In this video we show an armlocks that follows after we stopped the attack with Heart 2 (H-2).

How do we attack H-2?
There are many ways to attack H-2.

• With the open hand (to train, this will hardly hurt)
• With the elbow
• With a straight punch
• With the knuckles of the fist
• With the knuckle of the thumb

In this video I will show various attacks and one bended armlock.

Background information:

Heart 2 (H-2)
Location: 

You can find H-2 if you flex your arm, it is 3 cun from the elbow on the ulnar nerve at the crease medial end.

How do I find it?

Place your hand palm under the elbow of Uke. Where you thumb rest on the upper arm is Heart 2 (H-2) located.

Neurological:
H-2 is connected to the ulnar nerve and therefore connected to C5-C8 and Th-1 in the spinal cord.

Direction:

You hit this point in against the ulna bone.

Impact:

The elbow will bend.

When you hit the point; pain will shoot to the pinky finger (where the Heart meridian ends).

When you grab the point it will be very painful, especially when you rub your thumb

The Heart meridian:
The Heart Meridian contains 9 fire points.

The route of the Heart meridian is via the inside of the arm, down from the axilla to the pink, this makes it a Yin meridian:

• It originates internally from the heart. 
• One branch goes down through the diaphragm and connects with the small intestine.
• The other branch enters the lung and comes at the surface at the axilla.
• From the axilla, it runs down the Ulna bone, down to the pink (H-9) 

I hope you found this blog interesting, next time we will show various Conception Vessel attacks. Reflexes to the centre line of the body from a hook punch.

We cannot be held responsible for injuries

caused by practicing the techniques shown in the videos!

So, be very careful when practicing the techniques!

Respect the danger of locks and pressure points.

Only practice these techniques with

an authorized teacher or school (despite of the martial art)

13. Kihon AIKO Ashihara Camp 2017

This weekend, we tought Yawara Ju-Jutsu at the Kihon AIKO Ashihara Summer Camp 2017. An international Camp with 110 Ashihara Karateka's, held in the Netherlands. We provided 3 lessons. As pressure points are used a lot in Yawara Ju-Jutsu, this seminar was full of techniques with pressure points. Ashihara Karate does not contain pressure points, so we kept the techniques and pressure points rather simple. Here is the compilation:

The pressure points that we used were:

Prick to the eyes
This is a great way to stop an attack. You just concentrate on pricking the eyes, the opponent will move back; the punch will loose impact

The nose:
Pressing the nose is extremely painful. You do this with the knife hand. You slide and press from the top of the nose downwards

H-2 / P-2 on the arm:

Also a great way to stop or numb the arm!

ST-4 on the chin:

Great pressure point to turn the head.

LI-20 or ST-3 at the side of the nose:

When you grab the nose, you hold LI-20. A little further from the nostril, you find ST-3, this even hurts more.

CV-24 between the clavicles

A great point to stop an attack, to control the opponent or to take him down (like in this video)

ST-11 and ST-12 on the clavicles

Great point to hurt the opponent and take him down.

LU-6 or P-6

We use these points to stop or control the arm.

I hope you liked the video in todays blog. It is a different from the other blogs, but we figured that you might like this too. Next time I will write about Heart-2 (H-2).

We cannot be held responsible for injuries

caused by practicing the techniques shown in the videos!
So, be very careful when practicing the techniques!
Respect the danger of locks and pressure points.
Only practice these techniques with
an authorized teacher or school (despite of the martial art)

12. Control or take-down with CV-22

Today we will combine pressure points P-6 or LU-6 and Conception Vessel 22 (CV-22). Pressure points and meridians about which we wrote in more detail in our previous blogs.

In this blog, we write about how to use Conception Vessel (CV-22) in a take-down or control technique. If you press CV-22 in and down, the knees will buckle; the body wants to escape.

In the video we show a reflex on a Mawashi Tsuki and move on to a control techniques and take-down with CV-22.

Further explanatoin: 

Attack:

• If the attacker uses the arm and the foot at the same side, you can take him down with CV-22.
• If the attacker makes a cross attack (a Jodan Tsuki), then it is not possible, as the weight of the attacker, will still be on the leg. You will be able to go for the eyes.

Defense:

• The defender only turns his body and lift his right arm (not to many steps)
• The defender steps in with his right leg, to protect his own body
• The defender can easily make a Irimi Senkai, to go to the back
• Most important is that the defender will stand strong behind the attacker:
• With the body weight of the attacker agaist his shoulder
• With the rear leg almost straight and strong
• With the back straight and strong !!!!
• When you are standing strong, holding the opponent is easy, you will feel no pain or stress in your body.

Tripple V:

I wrote about Triple V a couple of times now. Triple V is a cluster of 3 Triple Warmer points on the Yang side of the under arm. 

The 3 Triple V points are TW-6, TW-7 and TW-8.

When you attack with Triple V, you align the ulna and radial bones, which will make your arm stronger. It is a fire meridian; which is especially strong against the Lung or Large Intestine meridians.

I hope you found this blog interesting, next time we will write about our Seminar this weekend at the Kihon AIKO Ashihara Summer Camp 2017. We will show a variety of basic pressure points. After that, we will continue with techniques with pressure point Heart 2 (H-2)

We cannot be held responsible for injuries 

cause by practicing the techniques shown in the video's!

Respect the danger of locks and pressure points 

and be very careful when practicing the techniques

Practice these techniques only with an certified teacher

or school (despite of the martial art)

11. Lung 5 and 6 (LU-5 / LU-6)

Today, with Lung 5 (LU-5) and Lung 6 (LU-6), we have introduced the most important pressure points on the Yin side of the lower arm. Today we will combine LU-5 and LU-6 with CV-22 and TW-17, we start combining pressure points in our reflexes. So let's get on with it!

How do you attack LU-5 / LU-6?

You attack both points with a relaxed hand or arm; drive your arm (knuckle at the wrist or at the end of your pinky) in the point through the arm; at the same time you twist your arm towards the hand.

Pericard 6 or LU-6?
In our previous blog we showed how to attack Pericard 6. The danger with that point is that with a short hook punch, the attackers' arm can pass your hand and hit your face anyway. There is less danger with LU-6. This is because of the fact that LU-6 is closer to the armpit, which actually stops the arm. Pericard 6 does not stop the arm, but opens the hand.

Against weapons:
In our video we show a defense against a knife too. Please note that you train on having the back of
your arm towards the arm of the attacker. This way, he cannot cut your vital blood vessels!
We show a reflex right on the first attack. Normally, we would not do that, but parry the first attack, and use the reflexes and techniques after the 2nd or 3rd attack. These attacks are more predictable.
In our video, we show defenses against hook punches, attack to the clothes high and knife attacks.

Please note!

Many fighters are well trained on the arm and are less sensitive to LU-6 (like my husband in the video's). You sometimes do not get the reaction that you expect or hoop for, so always be ready for a follow up technique or next attack!

Background information:

Lung 6 (LU-6) and Lung 5 (LU-5):
Location: 

The fire point LU-6 lies in the middle of the lower arm between the muscles on the thumb side. 

LU-5 is located higher on the arm towards the armpit; a little before where the arm bends. 

How do I find it?

When you slide with your thumb from the wrist to middle of the arm; about halfway, between the muscles you will feel a hollow. When you press with the thumb in that hollow towards the hand, you will feel LU-6. 

Stretch your arm. Press just behind the fold (on the underarm) If you press on LU-5, the arm will bend a little.

Neurological:

LU-5 and LU-6 are connected to the radial nerve and therefore connected to C5-C8 and Th-1 in the spinal cord.

Direction:

You hit or press LU-5 and LU-6 in and towards the hand.

Impact:

The brain will think that there is something wrong with the arm. As both points are located closer to the armpit, the arm will be stopped, the elbow will release (bend).

The Lung meridian:

The Lung meridian contains 11 metal points. 

On the surface the Lung meridian goes from the shoulder via the inside of the arm to the thumb, which makes it a Yin meridian:

• The route of the Lung meridian goes from the shoulder via the inside of the arm to the thumb, which makes it a Yin meridian: 
• The Lung meridian starts internally at the middle burner; it runs down to connect with Large Intestine. 
• Then it goes up to the stomach; it passes the diaphragm and enters the lung. 
• From the lung, it goes up to the throat. 
• It then it comes to the surface in a hollow in the shoulder (LU-1). 
• The Lung meridian follows its way from the shoulder, via the inside of the arm, along the medial nerve down to the thumb (LU-11). 

There is a lot more information about meridians, like times, sounds, colors, etc. It is interesting but also a complete study. In my blog, for now I will stick to what I can use and what works in our Martial art.

I hope you found this blog interesting next blog we go back to Conception 22 was a pressure point. In that blog we show techniques to control the opponent or to take him down. Until next time.

 

We cannot be held responsible for injuries 

cause by practicing the techniques shown in the video's!

Respect the danger of locks and pressure points 

and be very careful when practicing the techniques

Practice these techniques only with an certified teacher

or school (despite of the martial art)

10. Pericardium 6 (P-6)

We are moving towards interesting locks and take-downs. But there are a couple of pressure points that we use in our reflexes that I want to write about and show first.

Today I go back to the wrist. We already looked at Lung 8 (LU-8) and Heart 6 (H-6). In this blog I write about the point right in the middel of these two points, called Pericard 6 (P-6). This is a press- and hit point. I have seen people grab the point and steer the arm around. I however do not see how you can use this in a fight, so I will not describe this option. I use this point a lot as a hit point.

How do you attack P-6?

You have already seen me using P-6 in previous video's. There are various ways to use P-6:
From a grab on your clothes low: 
Hit P-6 with the knuckles of your middle finger of your fist (Yang on Yin).

From a grab on your clothes high:
Use Mae Mawashi Uke: hit P-6 with the knuckle on the pinky side of you wrist.

Against a (hook) punch:
Hit P-6 with the knuckle on the pinky side of your wrist (by using Mawashi Uke).

In this video we show these 3 reflexes and a combination with TW-12 and TW-17 (or other neck-points)

Watch out!

Be aware, with a straight punch and a wide hook punch, you can use this point perfectly. But if the attacker comes in with a very short hook punch, you might miss the arm. The fist of your opponent could end up in your face! In that case you would go for LU-6 or LI-6 a little futher up the arm.

Background information:

More information about Pericard 6 (P-6):
Location: 

The fire point P-6 is located in the middle between LU-8 and H-6 on the Yin side of the arm.

How do I find it?
Slide with your thumb from the middle of the palm of the hand to the arm. You feel a little bump, after that a hollow, when you press with the thumb in that hollow towards the hand, you will experience a strange feeling. You might feel a tinkel in the middle finger. This is Pericard 6 (P-6).

Neurological:
P-6 is connected to the medial nerve and therefore connected to C5-C8 and Th-1 in the spinal cord.

Direction:
You hit or press P-6 in and towards the hand.

Impact:
The brain will think that there is something wrong with the arm. As P-6 is located close to the hand, it will open the hand (great against a grappling attack).

The Pericard meridian:
The Pericard meridian contains 9 fire points.
The Pericard meridian flows from the axilla via the inside of the arm to the fingers; which makes it a Yin meridian. This is the complete route: 

• The meridian starts from the chest and goes via the pericardium internally through the diaphragm. It then goes to the abdomen and connects with the upper, middle and lower burners) 
• From the center of the chest, the meridian goes to the nipple, it comes (P-1) to the surface next to the nipple (at the side of the arm) 
• From there it goes via to the axilla, down on the arm via the medial nerves down to the middle finger (P-9).

There is a lot more information about meridians, like times, sounds, colors, etc. It is interesting but also a complete study. In my blog, for now I will stick to what I can use and what works in our Martial art.

I hope you found this blog interesting we go back to Conception 22. In that blog we write about CV-22 as a pressure point to control the opponent or to take him down.
 

We cannot be held responsible for injuries 

cause by practicing the techniques shown in the video's!

Respect the danger of locks and pressure points 

and be very careful when practicing the techniques

Practice these techniques only with an certified teacher

or school (despite of the martial art)