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How else can you train in lethal techniques? How do you train to to gouge someone's eyes out if they keep batting your hands away?

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Not in the ordinary way you're used to seeing, which in the Western world comes primarily from Japanese and Okinawan arts with perhaps a smattering of Korean.

But the Chinese have been doing precisely that for hundreds of years and probably thousands of years. Tai Chi and Wing Chun both make a specialty of it in their pushing hands and sticking hands, respectively, and some other Chinese arts have analogous training.

I agree with what you're saying about pressure points. Pressure points and compliance in general can be very hard to apply and require a high degree of skill. And some people have such high pain thresholds that they can take extraordinary abuse to their joints etc. without quitting the fight or calming down. That's one reason it often takes so many cops to hold down a single guy. Some guys just don't care if you're bending their wrist in ways it was never intended to move and might never recover from.