George Dillman is arguably one of the most popular (or at least the most heard) advocate of pressure point attacks. Some years ago, I went to a seminar in the Seattle area that featured Dillman, along with Remy Presas (the founder of Modern Arnis), and Wally Jay (the founder of small circle jiu-jitsu).
Pressure point attacks are a fascinating are of study, and many are based on sound principles of physiology. However, it seems like it's a small leap for some pressure point advocates to go from physiology-based nerve attacks into bizarre, mystical, esoteric chi-based "no touch" knockouts -- which never seem to work on anyone outside the teacher's circle of students. Personally, the only pressure point this affects is my funny bone.
Anyway, here are some entertaining and interesting videos that shed some light on 'no touch' knockouts. These videos have been a round a while, but they're still entertaining. And if you've got a martial arts teacher -- or your considering joining a martial arts school -- that claims to teach 'no touch' anything -- my advice would be to look elsewhere for instruction.
This first video features Dillman himself and Leon Jay -- who finds his 'no touch' knockout completely ineffective a simple scientist who wanted to test the effectiveness of the technique. Dillman's explanation of the failure is 'interesting' to say the least.
This second video features 'The Human Stun Gun' -- a student of Dilman -- who was pretty thoroughly debunked in this video by the local Chicago news:
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