On 2/20/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
In Karate there are 32 Vital Points on the human body. Some, when struck, can take as long a 10 days for the desired effect to occur ;-).
The evidence suggests this is not the case. No one has managed to demostraight such abilities under controled conditions and Karate with it's pure strikeing style tends to get taken appart by say BJJ or judo. While there are exceptions the fighters in MMA contests such as PRIDE ot UFC tend to rely on Muay Thai as their primary source of stikeing skills rather than Karate.