And here…we…go.
- Follow this link to the results from UFC 86.
In other fights on the card, former WWE pro wrestler Brock Lesnar dropped The Texas Crazy Horse, Heath Herring, with a ferocious right hand after just 15 seconds…
- Speaking of Lesnar, sooner or later he’s gonna run into someone who can deal with his size and power. In fact, he already did when he fought Frank Mir.
While the inexperienced Lesnar was unable to finish Herring, he used his incredible size advantage to keep him on the mat for virtually the entire 15 minutes.
- If I was Lesnar I’d be training in BJJ as much as I could!
This guy is scary. His ceiling? Not unlimited, but close. At some point in the future, Lesnar will lose. No question about it, because he has such an enormous hole in his game. The submission game, a mastery of Brazilian jiu-jitsu…
- Samoan in hospital after receiving an Olympic knockout.
“He is fully alert and neurologically sound,” AIBA medical commission chairman Charles Butler said in a statement.
- Japan makes good in Olympic judo.
Japan’s Masato Uchishiba, the defending Olympic champion in the men’s 66-kilogram class, won his quarterfinal match in style, getting down on the mat and throwing Uzbekistan’s Mirali Sharipov.
- Kung Fu gives disabled children a sense of accomplishment.
For children like Josh, the hope is that the time put in to rehabilitation will result in “mastery” of their motor skills.
- Which Brad Pitt can really box?
“Mate, I’ve been living with that other bloke’s name for years, it doesn’t worry me at all,” British tabloid The Sun quoted him as saying, as he pounded the heavy bag at the Ditan Gymnasium in Beijing.
- Amanda Ward earns second dan in Shotokan Karate.
The 41-year-old has trained at Bargoed for the past eight years and was placed third in the Welsh Championships last month.
- Kung Fu masters from Taiwan showcase traditional Chinses martial arts.
The nearly 1,000 in attendance included many martial arts fans and media all eagerly anticipating the nine kung fu performances.
This one is worth a quick look just for the pictures alone!
- Here’s a cool video of Samurai Jack. Yeah it’s not new news but it is one of my favorite cartoons. The Cartoon Network is now running old Samurai Jack cartoons and I happened to catch one last night.
I finally found a video that makes me very happy to close with! Another one of Dillman’s “no touch” knockout “experts” is selling his bill of goods to paying students. Watch the video first then you can read my rant about this fertilizer and flapdoodle!
The pressure point strikes that this guy demonstrates actually can work if you hit the correct spot. I know this because I’ve done them, had them done to me, and seen them work in prison. And before someone tells me it’s magic let me tell you that science can explain what’s going on: Striking someone on the side of the neck disrupts blood flow to the brain. Limit the blood supply and you can stun or knock someone out. How do you think MMA-types put folks to sleep in the ring? Well it’s not magic fairy dust!
As for Dillman’s “dim mak” I have to say it’s bunk and dangerous bunk to boot! A few comments related to this video: The instructor is afraid to try the “technique” on the reporter. Come on now! If the reporter signed a damage waiver she would be fair game. Two possibilities: The guy is truly afraid he’ll hurt her or he’s afraid to have his technique caught on tape failing.
The EMT’s capture something but it is certainly within what the power of what suggestion could do to a human body. Ah, and the control group: The guys versed in Brazilian Jujitsu! Mr. “no-touch” knockout can’t get his magic technique to work on them. Gee, go figure! Could it be because they are not his psychologically conditioned students? The only way this experiment would have been better is if one of them wrapped the guy up and made him tap out. Human stun gun my ass!
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
– Bertrand Russell
He says his technique only works on 40% of subjects and martial arts athletes are very hard to knockout. Right. If that’s the case how come Dillman dim mak students always fall over like bowling pins 100% of the time in these hokey demonstrations? Can you say “the power of suggestion”? When the ad hoc excuses pile up your BS alarm should be going off! Well here’s your test: Take 10 non-martial arts athletes, have them sign waivers, and try your technique. You should be able to knockout four of them. Wanna kick that one up a notch? Take another 10 people who are not athletes and do the same. In fact, that news channel could have easily arranged that test and filmed it.
FINALLY, I can now also address an article the annoyed the hell out me! In the July 08 issue of Black Belt Magazine they ran a story called “Under the Microscope The No-Touch Knockout”. In it they let a no-touch “expert” defend his magic technique. In particular I remember him using a very ad hoc excuse by suggesting that no “scientist” would bother researching his magic powers because there is no grant money it. Yeah, either that or most scientists realize that if a news channel can debunk the no-touch knockout it’s not worth their time! And shame on Black Belt Magazine for not interviewing a few university scientists on this one! Heck, to be honest you could get a community college scientist or good high school science teacher to debunk this one. To be frank it’s pretty amateur stuff from a scientific perspective.
Why am I so hard on this? Simple. Any number of students who are being taught this bullroar probably believe it. What happens to them when they try it against a mugger? Probably the same thing that happened to this ki master…
That poor ki master would have been better off trying to hit his opponent over the head with a copy of Sagan’s Demon Haunted World! Now can we finally put George Dillman’s bunk to rest?
~BCP
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