As I was trained we never really struck into the neck in training, or even discussed the possibility. I know that a knife hand strike, a ridge hand strike, or even a straight strike or spinning back fist strike in the neck would have an effect on my opponent. None of the various other places I trained talked about it either.
Then
in 1984 at a George Dillman
tournament George tried to get Tristan
Sutrisno interested in training with Oyata
Seryu who he was bringing in for a clinic. At that time George was
traveling to train with Oyata Sensei. But I was also training with Tristan and
he was not interested. Tristan was a marvelous martial artist in his own right.
Then
at the end of 1984 I moved to Derry, New Hampshire for work, Quite a distance
from Scranton. Pa.
Then
in 1985 another of my friends and instructors, Ernest Rothrock, described a large demonstration his school
participated in hosted by George Dillman.
He specifically described how George KO’s one of his students by lightly
striking into his neck,
Decades
later I found that demonstration. You
can watch the entire thing. It is worth viewing as so many there were my
friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqpD6lAhg0c
The
funny thing was that after experiencing George KO’ing his student Ernie (who
has oodles of Chinese Arts himself) spend the next several weeks trying to KO
his own senior students with his own finger tip strike. While ht had plenty of
power and technique that would work, he was not successful at that strike when
he tried.
Then
roll forward to 1995 at the first clinic I attended with Sherman Harrill. Of
course there were oodles of technique studies covered but one of them really got
my attention. Sherman was showing how single finger and double finger strikes
into the arm were really bent knuckle strikes. And each strike offered a
different nerve into the arm to strike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDh1W81QO4g
A
bit later I worked out that hand formation could be a strike into the neck,
similar to the strike of Oyata Sensei.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLTPtQ40Qoc
That
is not necessarily the way Oyata Seryu
did it, but to the observer it can look the same. Which was more than enough for me.
In
time I worked out a number of different ways the neck could be struck..
In
addition to the strikes I first mentioned in the begging this is what I see as
possible.
1.
a
knife hand strike,
2.
a
ridge hand strike,
3.
a
straight strike with a vertical fist
a.
Optional
striking with the vertical ridge of knuckles with that fist.
4.
a
spinning back fist
5.
the
two lead straight finger bent two knuckle strike
6.
a
knife hand strike that then continues to curve around the neck
7.
a
back hand slap strike descending into the neck using the shape of that strike
into the area of the neck below the jaw line
8.
from Rothrock preying mantis a mantis fist
finger strike into the neck
9.
from
Rothrock eagle claw a grasping claw
into the neck, where the thumb and the fingers grasp that area on each side of
the neck
10.
a
Sutrisno technique where a double
hand descending strike into the shoulder area creates an opening to allow both
hands to dig the thumb and index finger into that area on both sides of the
neck
No
doubt there are other possibilities. I have addressed some of them in the
following blog post.
https://isshin-concentration.blogspot.com/search?q=the+neck
Yet
another possibility
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