How can i restrain somebody via pressure points?

Question

pressure points on the head, arms, neck and legs please

Answer 1

I've been practicing the martial arts for 25 years and have been a police officer for 14. I've been to many seminars and had many instructors in different styles.  From my training and experience I can say this with all certainty. Unless you can use an immobilizing joint lock, your pressure points will hurt, but not stop anyone.  From my experience I've learned that if someone has a pp put on them, their first response is to grab where it's being applied.  a nice wrist, elbow, neck knee, or ankle lock works far better than pressure points.  Watch an bjj or mma match.  What wins the fight?  Not pressure points, but joint locks.    

Answer 2

If you need to ask the answer is obvious...

YOU CAN'T!

EDIT: jongtzeven11 -- Thank you for the edit!

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Answer 3

Honestly, you'd be better off using joint locks to retrain someone.  

Pressure points are good for forcing position, and getting out of holds and whatnot.

Answer 4

You can't. What's going to work on one person is not necessarily going to work on another. Depending upon them for restraint would be pointless. Learn mechanical compliance instead.

Answer 5

Sorry no can do.  

Answer 6

You don't just restrain a person with pressure points. They can be used and used effectively but the requires proper training.

No one should share this information on an online forum. Actually you don't share this information with many people in general.

Answer 7

Actual restraint via pressure points requires you to actually have a functioning restraint of a person, pressure points can then be ultilized via pain compliance to keep a person from further struggling, or from moving in certain directions.

Overall knowledge of them will not help you restrain someone without knowing common restraints based on gross motor function, and leverage. Someone could give you all the pressure points there are (in fact you can look up many of them online) and that knowledge would not give you practical application.

Furthermore, even if you knew where a point was, how to affect it, it's uses in restraint would be minimal without actually knowing how to restrain someone ultizing sound techniques employee leverage, mechanical advantage, and the ability to use joints, an opponents momentum against them, and to properly understand restraints.

Also restraints are typically meant to not cause harm to the person you are restraining. The idea is to be able to restrain them, keep them from hurting you, someone else, or themselves without injury to them. In many cases pressure points and pain compliance are not beneficial in this manner, as people who generally are subjected to pain tend to become more aggressive and desperate, and generally does not tend to calm someone down, as you intention with most restraints would be.

Having someone flip out due to pain, and having adrenaline induced, will make them more dangerous both to you and themselves.

Having someone controlled via sound mechanical advantage means no injury to you, or the person you are restraining, and furthermore doesn't elicit a fear or anger reaction, that sends someone's heart rate sky high and pumps adrenaline into their blood,. Generally part of restraining is using psychological understanding to calm the person down so that physical restraint is no longer necessary.

Restraining is a means of de-escalating a situation which is what you want.

Pain compliance, pressure points and joint locks generally escalate a situation as well as a persons reaction to it.

They are good when you need someone to do a specific action (i.e. put their hands behind their back for cuffing). Not so good for general restraint.

Just my experience.

Answer 8

YOU can't!

And only a few practitioners who contribute to this forum know about Dimmak/Kyushojutsu.

They will not share any of that info here, on an open forum where it can get into the wrong hands.

The ones here who do post answers, DON'T KNOW A d**n THING ABOUT IT!

I can assure you.  

So don't take their advice.

It is much deeper than most realize.

jongtzeven11 - the Long Term Practitioners here refrain from giving any information like your on here because, even though it is not totally accurate, we feel even wrong information can be misused.

Can you please edit those details out of this forum?

Let's prevent a mishap.

Answer 9

Grab someone by a pressure point and they are more likely to flail instead of being restrained.

Answer 10

Shakes has the best answer. He has teh experience to back it up. real ex. on the street against people that these tactics should be used against. I am not saying they do not work or they dont hurt but there are BETTER methods. And Dimmak is bull. If it were easy to get hurt by getting pressure on certain parts of the body on certain parts of the day, we would not be able to play sports in fear of getting pressure on the wrong spot. IF there are dimmak masters out there who can do what they claim to be able to do, then...good for them they are very very few and far between, but for the rest of us who cant spend OR depend on OR travel to Japan or china to be taught by these `masters``. There are FAR FAR better things to be training on than pressure points.

Anyone whos ever been in a fight knows that under pressure and in danger, gross motor skills go out the window. fFACT. Scientific fact. Not martial arts mystique. So if you are going to think about pressure points or veins to attack with will cause pain or knockouts. Focus on the outer thigh, the tricepts. (ex if he grabs you around theneck, uppercut the tri cepts) and the biggest one of all the side of the neck. A good chop will give him a pulsing knockout.

Much easier to pull off under pressure.

so thats your answer from me my friend, For the head go to the neck, arms go for the tri cepts or bicepts ( elbows to the bicepts will elliminate the arms, legs go for cut kicks to the inside and outside legs.