Inflicting Pain

I use to teach that if you inflict pain it will stop a fight in its tracks. Some systems provide for techniques that are used to induce pain. In a dojo setting and with someone who is not in a category of a violent criminal type, i.s. in a school yard scuffle, it might work but in life rarely.

It is also pretty cool when you teach someone who is not well indoctrinated in fighting on the streets. Take this as an example, how many times have you discovered painful injuries "after" sparring and after a session say the next morning when you get out of bed?

The body tends to send out or dump chemicals into our bodies when we hit that point of danger as a part of its protection. Pain is removed or lessened or dulled so you can continue to survive. Don't take my word for it, go seek it out from those who live or work in violence environments. Personally, I have had knee injuries, fingers broken, and ribs cracked in sparring sessions. I also applied said pain techniques while walking ville patrol late at night on Okinawa where drunk Marines needed to be herded back to base before the JP's intervened. They didn't work and when I interviewed said jarhead the next day they had a sore spot but remember nothing as to pain.

If you are forced into a physical altercation you had best use something that will end it while you don't get hit. It may be a pain inducer, it may be a joint lock, or it may be a strike but don't assume because you can feel the pain in a training session that you or your opponent will feel it in a real fight.