Pain – Real Pain

 

 

The Chinese designation of that point 1/2 between the testea and the anus is an extremely sensitive area.  It is called the Hun Yan point. (point B above)

 

Tris Sutrisno a Shotokan/Tjimande instructor I was once assisting for a demo. struck me there from him being on the floor. A simple middle finger strike.

 

I learned a new definition of pain as well as learning how to fly. smile emoticon

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the Hun Yuan Point or Death from Below

 

 

Victor Donald Smith Truthfully, the most pain I ever experienced in a strike, and i literally jumped high. There is no muscle protection there, exactly at the point directly below the top of the head. But rarely discussed. The strikes do exist but no one talks about them ever.

Bottom of Form 1

 

The use of the Hun Yuan point is one of tactical necessity.

As I wrote if finding yourself on the floor and they prepare to stomp kick you, you can strike up with a single finger nukite strike to that point. It depends on who lands their movement first.

 

It can be used from the front or the rear, but employing other technique with it from the front, can deflect their awareness from the actual attack intended.

 

I think the obvious example would be the U strike from the front. The upper strike drawing the focus of their eyes towards it, then the 2^nd strike could become a hooking finger strike rising into that point.

 

Another example would be the versions of Gojushiho which include the rising crane strike to be followed by a descending crane strike. Scooping that Crane strike from below would be unanticipated.

 

Likewise a rising toe kick from the front in the hun yuan point can be very unexpected.

 

But I suspect it got the greatest use from the rear of the attacker, based on the best defense is an offense they do not anticipate. And attack from the rear fits that exactly.

 

All of the attacks mentioned work well when they strike from behind.

 

And when you consider that part of the art’s development was to be a guard, anticipating an attack and preventing it would be high on the list.

 

Of course this does not exclude other possibilities, ones that do not use this point. But one likely wanted their available tool box to be full.