Now I have never trained with Seiyu Oyata. But he
was the first to demonstrate the finger tip light strike to KO an opponent. For
example while not an Oyata student, George Dillman spent some time with him,
then began doing his version of the same.
If you search
YouTube you can find many video example of Oyata demonstrating this technique.
This began about 1984 when Dillman first saw Oyata doing this technique.
In 1985 Ernie
Rothrock saw Dillman demonstrate this on one of his students at a demo, and the
next week he told me he kept doing the same (with no success) to his senior
students multiple times.
Then in 1995 I attended my first clinic with Sherman Harrill at Garry Gerossie’s school and observed something very close to this demonstrated by Sherman. He was showing a method of striking into the arm with either 1 or 2 bent knuckles. After watching how each strike obtained a different effect, my mind started working.
Now I never
experimented striking into my students neck’s to KO them, but I saw the
similarities to what Oyata showed.
It likely is not
the same as Oyata Sensei did, but close enough IMO.
Later on further
reflection I realized that I was shown this hand position in 1980 when I began
studying Tai Chi Chaun. It was identical to the Tai Chi Hidden Hand used in my
Tai Chi Straight Sword form. I really just learn the form not applications for
those moves.
The Hidden Sword
is used for the reciprocal hand from the
one holding the sword. I worked out that the hand could be used for a finger
jap to the eyes of the throat. I did not see this striking potential.
The first clinic I attended with Harrill Sensei at Garry Gerossie’s group had Harrill Sensei showing how to use the lead finger to slide a strike into the arm with the inner bent knuckles (striking into the radial nerve, and also using a 2 finger guide strike into the median nerve of the arm. This was a stand-alone technique, not showing its kata relevance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDh1W81QO4g
The same technique really was the Tai Chi
Sword ‘secret sword’ strike and I discussed with Harrill Sensei’s direction how
it could be used for the finger strike to the throat KO of Oyata, where you’re
actually striking with the bent knuckles, but the observer doesn’t see that.
1. Reviewing
my notes I came to see this is a great way to use stacking both hands for the
strike. Such as in Seisan Kata, the left hand parries and grabs to
pull in. The right hand can use the straght finger strike to guide the bent
finger strikes into the arm (to cause pain) and then set up the backfist
strike, which really works using the closed fist little knuckle strike into the
throat.
2. That
same Oyata article showed him striking to the face of an opponent with the same
index finger extended strike (or perhaps extended first 2 fingers). The strike
looks like its descending into the sinus cavities, and it is possible that the
knuckles are the actual striking area. (from my perspective).
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