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)