Is brachial stun effective for real fight

[Robert Sterling]

Thanks a lot for your comments. This technique is really cool.
Nothing is more exciting than a one strike knockout.

 

[Bill Mattocks]

Thanks a lot for your comments. This technique is really cool.
Nothing is more exciting than a one strike knockout.

It is hard to train for obvious reasons. It is dramatic when it works. What you generally do not see are the videos where it doesn't work.

 

[DanT]

Yes, it works pretty much every time. It's only useful as a first strike though, you'll never land this if the dude has his hands up.

It could be used in a combo tho. Maybe jab, low round kick, chop to the neck.

 

[drop bear]

It is hard to train for obvious reasons. It is dramatic when it works. What you generally do not see are the videos where it doesn't work.

Why is it hard to train?

 

[Touch Of Death]

Why is it hard to train?

Because you might hurt your partner, or get hurt when he screws it up, on you.

 

[Star Dragon]

I suggest you practice it a lot on a BOB. It gives you an anatomically correct target that you can strike with force.

 

[drop bear]

Because you might hurt your partner, or get hurt when he screws it up, on you.

You might hurt you partner kicking him in the face. But you are still going to do it.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

It can be effective. Just don't depend upon it. I teach folks to use it within other movements (as part of a two-handed blocking entry, for instance). If the brachial stun misses, the block is still useful.

 

[Touch Of Death]

You might hurt you partner kicking him in the face. But you are still going to do it.

Not the same.

 

[CB Jones]

You might hurt you partner kicking him in the face. But you are still going to do it.

Difference in kicking in the face and attacking nerve.

You damage that nerve and you lose the use of that arm.

 

[Star Dragon]

Difference in kicking in the face and attacking nerve.

You damage that nerve and you lose the use of that arm.

You mean, permanently? I have never heard that. Do you have any reference for it?

 

[Langenschwert]

It can be effective. Just don't depend upon it. I teach folks to use it within other movements (as part of a two-handed blocking entry, for instance). If the brachial stun misses, the block is still useful.

That's how we do it in combatives too. I know people who've made it work in real encounters. It's great to use as a rear attack to help a buddy, much like the scapula strike is. But lots of things work as a surprise attack. It's not likely to work once things are rocking and rolling. I suppose if he drops his hands you could land one like one would a hook or overhand right, impacting with the inside of the forearm.

When they work, it's amazing.

 

[Blindside]

That's how we do it in combatives too. I know people who've made it work in real encounters. It's great to use as a rear attack to help a buddy, much like the scapula strike is. But lots of things work as a surprise attack. It's not likely to work once things are rocking and rolling. I suppose if he drops his hands you could land one like one would a hook or overhand right, impacting with the inside of the forearm.

When they work, it's amazing.

My cousin when he was 8 "karate chopped" a kid in the playground "just like he had seen on TV" who was fighting/wrestling his friend. KOd the kid. My cousin thought he had killed him and then he got suspended.

 

[drop bear]

That's how we do it in combatives too. I know people who've made it work in real encounters. It's great to use as a rear attack to help a buddy, much like the scapula strike is. But lots of things work as a surprise attack. It's not likely to work once things are rocking and rolling. I suppose if he drops his hands you could land one like one would a hook or overhand right, impacting with the inside of the forearm.

When they work, it's amazing.

In theory it is how you lay on a thai grapple.

 

[drop bear]

Difference in kicking in the face and attacking nerve.

You damage that nerve and you lose the use of that arm.

Yeah. Good job those face kicks never do any damage.

 

[CB Jones]

Yeah. Good job those face kicks never do any damage.

But those kicks don't result in surgeries such as nerve grafts, nerve transfers or muscle transfers to restore function of the arm.

Why risk an avulsion or rupture of the nerve?

 

[drop bear]

But those kicks don't result in surgeries such as nerve grafts, nerve transfers or muscle transfers to restore function of the arm.

Why risk an avulsion or rupture of the nerve?

And yet that looks like that kick is targeting the brachial nerve.

Too dangerous to spar?

 

[CB Jones]

And yet that looks like that kick is targeting the brachial nerve.

Too dangerous to spar?

What?

Would it be too dangerous to intentionally target the Brachial Plexus while sparring? Yes. It would be like practicing kicking someone in the spine while sparring.

 

[drop bear]

What?

Would it be too dangerous to intentionally target the Brachial Plexus while sparring? Yes. It would be like practicing kicking someone in the spine while sparring.

Only if it makes their head explode as you suggest.

Which we really only have your word for.

If I can hit a guy in the brachial plexus I will. It is a legal target.

Just for you science boffins behind the ear might be the Vegas nerve. Probably much safer.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

In theory it is how you lay on a thai grapple.

Our clinch isn't as tight as a Thai clinch, but that's how we enter to it, too.