How George Dillman makes people believe

When I first got into Martial Arts several decades ago I was a massive believer in things like no touch knock outs, and pressure point fighting. These days, not so much.
Instead of critiquing his technique which has been done a million times already, I thought it might be interesting to see how he manages to get people to believe that what he does is effective.
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[@christianbennett6792]

He came and taught a class at a dojo I was at when I was a child. My dad from the sideline was telling me not to play into it and we abandoned my dojo entirely after for even having him as a guest.

[@Christizm]

you should have told your dad you want to learn no touch knockouts as his teachings are legit.

[@johnhamilton4677]

​@@Christizm Lol

[@robertdemon3550]

It amazes me how people fall for this no touch crap, your father was no fool.

[@philwelborn6718]

I would love to see you have him convince you live ~ see WHO is the false prophet. Talk and opinions are cheap. CHALLENGE Him Personally to Prove "Your Opinions and Scientific Jargon to be Reality!" I would would PAY to see You step-up to the plate and let him demonstrate "Several" of his favorite techniques on you... Like I said, talk is cheap! I'm open-minded ~ ... show me, as they say in Missouri!

[@robertdemon3550]

@@philwelborn6718 I would straight out let Dillman demonstrate his no touch knock out technique on me, you wouldn’t have to pay me, nothing would happen because his no touch knock out techniques are complete fantasy.

[@toddellner5283]

A certain famous Thai boxer was watching a Dillman demonstration with my wife's MA teacher. He watched the little pokey finger strikes to the neck after which the student dutifully fell down. He said in a stage whisper "We do the same thing, but we hit them with our shin." /I bet sledgehammers would transmit Qi to the acupuncture points just as well.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Most pressure point strikes work really well when you hit them with a pickaxe handle.

[@simoneriksson8329]

Every point is a pressurepoint if you apply enough pressure ;)

[@elliotvernon7971]

In the 80s, before Dillman got into the ki projection bs, I remember reading some relatively good articles of his on the meaning of kata in karate. IIRC he was arguing that what was interpreted as blocks were in fact throws or soft tissue strikes. Maybe he was once genuine but he began to believe the dim mak and ki projection crap that was going around at that time - Paladin press stuff.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

I think those were likely the same articles I read.

[@turbopowergt]

Yeah, I read his articles in all the magazines in the 80s. I think I still have some Paladin Press books in my library. :)

[@NewChannel-wi7vj]

How can this fool write any "good article" about kata when he has ZERO CLUE how to perform kata in the first place? I mean, don't take my word for it: videos of him "demonstrating" (O the delusion of the guy!) kata are available here on KZbin... Can you please point me to one where Dillman doesn't look like the complete clown he is?

[@drinktillwerefunny]

YES EXACTLY~ DILMAN WAS CLAIMING THAT HE AND HE ALONE HAD CRACKED THE MYSTERY OF KATA, THAT IT WAS ACTUALLY CODE FOR PRESSURE POINTS. THAT IT WAS NOT SIMPLE BLOCKS, KNIFEHANDS, BACKFIST AND STIKES. BUT RATHER SACRED PRESSURE POINTS WERE HIDDEN IN THE MOVES.

[@Joshuanyc73]

I love this channel. You can usually spot someone who knows what they're doing on the mats within seconds. Here it's clear through your words. You manage to articulate - not pontificate - by just speaking plainly about what works and what doesn't. Humility is earned and it's obvious you did the work to get there. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Thank you!

[@tedclare5504]

I was actually at this seminar and you can actually see me in this video lol I’m laughing at it now because I look really sleepy like I’m about to nod off. Dillman talked like this for about 4 hours and I think in total there was about 6 mins of “practical” work done. Do I believe in pressure points? Yeah, I don’t use them as Dillman does and I don’t believe it has anything to do with chi etc, I’ve made them work in my security work but they are very much the poison on the tip of the arrow, if your delivery system sucks then nothing will help you, if you can’t land a solid punch or earn the right to throw someone then no amount of pressure points will help you. Outcome of this seminar? I was £200 less well off and got nothing in return. I would point out I’m in no way associated with George Dillman.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Thanks for commenting! I agree that there are places on the body that can cause debilitating pain or numbness when hit. But there's nothing mystical about them. Just plain old anatomy and physiology!

[@baudgaud]

I don't know about "pressure points" but I know "nerve strikes" that actually work. The upper lip and nose, both sides of the neck have nerve clusters around the major arteries, the inside of each wrist right where the little bony bump is, and the lumpy muscle in the forearm where it connects to the elbow. Try it on yourself, but don't hit too hard.

[@sharp_medicine9858]

Thanks for reminding me, I haven't watched that Yellow Bamboo clip in several months. I'm possibly a bad person for enjoying watching a middle aged woman get knocked to the ground . The whole thing is just so entertaining though. I love the bit when he fakes a seizure after realising he may have overdone it a bit.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

I'm very tempted to do a critique of that whole clip. It's both tragic, and hilarious.

[@grimmriffer]

I used to lurk on the martial arts newsgroup where some jujitsu lads who visited yellow bamboo hung out. The posts from a yellow bamboo apologist on what went wrong were hilarious. IIRC they ended up claiming a warlock must have poisoned the chi on the beach the day before.

[@drinktillwerefunny]

I saw the fake seizure, when he knew hewas guilty & liable. Poor old lady took and NFL hit &clock rung! but she still believedit should have worked?!?!?!

[@robertvondarth1730]

I am a professional hypnotist, I have performed strange and “street” hypnosis, and it’s obvious from my perspective that’s it’s all suggestion

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Thank you! It's nice to hear that from someone with real world experience.

[@ambulocetusnatans]

I've always thought that there are things that martial artists can learn from hypnotists. mentalists, and conjurers, but there's a time and a place for it, and one must be certain to not delude oneself or ones students.

[@robertvondarth1730]

@@ambulocetusnatans Here’s a free lesson from a street hypnotist. Initiate the gesture and mannerisms of an honest attempt at a handshake. Because, although a handshake is a complex motor pattern with many parts, our minds think of it as one thing. Our unconscious fills in the details, as a handshake has become an automatic gesture. But.. Interrupt the handshake half way thru (on the half beat) with a strike, as will send the target of influence into a state of temporary confusion, this will narrow their choice of responses and create a bigger reaction time gap. An attack on the half beat from an offer to “fist bump” touch gloves or high 5 may also work

[@ambulocetusnatans]

@@robertvondarth1730 Thanks. Yes that's the kind of thing I mean. I am also reminded of a story I heard about David Copperfield. If my memory serves me, he was on a date when he got accosted by a thug wanting his wallet. Apparently he did some sort of slight of hand and fooled the thug. The thug went away and nobody got hurt. When I heard that story I thought that it was a good example of the maxim from the Art Of War where it says "to win without fighting is best".

[@baldieman64]

I encountered a handful of characters claiming Dillman type abilities while training in the UK in the 80s and 90s. They were almost always rather earnest young men who had never really experienced real violence, and they were simply passing on what someone else had shown them without testing it. A lot of the "traditional Japanese medicine" and supposed control techniques fell into the same category. Most of them were quite surprised when they encountered polite resistance. It's not just martial artists that are vulnerable to this nonsense. Reiki was ridiculously popular for a while. Writing this, a name popped into my head. Russell Stutley...... Now that's a man who isn't well-meaning, or the victim of simply believing something he was once shown.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

I'm not familiar with that name, I shall research...

[@CuttingEdgeSystema]

Last I heard RS had to leave the UK for warmer climes....

[@robertnguyen9493]

The yellow bamboo clip where the dude plows through that woman, and then like a child who realizes they’re in trouble falls to the ground and starts convulsing. Like so many others I found it funny as hell the first few times I watched it. But then ya hear the guy turn around and actually blame the woman that he literally just ran over, it makes me wanna sign up for his seminar , volunteer to run at him, then just go straight Tony Jaa Ong Bak on that son of a bitch. But that’s just me!

[@EnglishMartialArts]

No, its not just you!

[@robertnguyen9493]

@@EnglishMartialArts my man!👊🏼

[@Christizm]

his legit though the other two guys knocked him out later on what he should have done is not run so fast and hard towards her as his much bigger and use commonsense when doing this.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

@@Christizm are you serious?

[@alex111683]

The absolute funniest statement he ever made is when he revealed how to counter his tactics. He literally said you have to be a believer for it to work on you or the other was pointing your toes opposite ways.

[@luchtefeld0654]

Several years ago, when I was super into martial arts, I purchased a George Dillman training video. I was so impressed, I purchased an in-person training by one of his students. During the training, when the instructor asked for a volunteer, I thought the volunteer looked familiar. I went back and watched the video again and it was one of the "volunteers" in the George Dillman video. He was clearly not a volunteer. Feels like a gut punch to realize something you've been training hard for is a scam. At least it didn't damage anything but my pride. I also trained for years to condition my fits into weapons only to discover it caused severe arthritis. There's just too many magic tricks in martial arts that take away from the techniques that work.

[@cmoeklund69]

I met the guy in the 90's. I liked the explanations of kata moves and the pain compliance techniques since I have a Karate background. The pressure point stuff was interesting as I had already met som people talking about Dim Mak and such. I'm, however, quite pragmatic and I don't believe some magic energy flow being part of it and the science jargong makes me cringe. As some instructor once said: "Everything is a pressure point if you hit it hard enough". Since I shared the same train with him after the seminar I got to listen to a lot of storys and ended up with some free t-shirts and books...So there's that. I think he, at least then, believed in the things he taught. I did train with some of his students (former students?) a couple of years later and they told me he had gone off the deep end with the "no touch" BS. .....And I have hardly ever worn the t-shirts.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

I agree that the stuff he was saying 30 or 40 years ago made sense and was very enticing as a premise. But yes, he's a nutjob now.

[@robeckton1675]

@@EnglishMartialArts I fell into the same trap you did when I was younger. It wasn't until I started studying "pressure points" from a western medical perspective that it started to make sense. That being said, anatomical points do work against a compliant opponent. Making them work against a resisting opponent is different, it has to be looked at as another tool in your toolbox.

[@NewChannel-wi7vj]

He's ALWAYS been a conman. @@EnglishMartialArts

[@harjutapa]

Excellent work as usual! I like this approach to looking at Dillman's bullshido

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Thank you!

[@MrCmon113]

Dillman is actually a better fighter than any of us. Making people believe in absolute bullshit is a much greater power than being able to strike well or get onto someone's back.

[@ambulocetusnatans]

I never watched one of his videos, but KZbin keeps trying to recommend Dillman videos to me. After 12 years together, and it's like KZbin doesn't even know me.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Lol, stay clear!

[@ericsimonson8002]

It's nice to see people like you trying to spread the word about fraudulent martial Arts. Keep up the good work

[@SticksAandstonesBozo]

The fact this guy still gets paid to appear is mind boggling.

[@slappybagOG]

So, I have 15 years exp in Japanese JuJitsu and dabbled in a few other arts too. Also strength trained a long time and developed several joint problems now I've hit my 30s (problematic elbows and stuff like that) so I had to re-evaluate how I train. I approached my sensei about it, and it turned out he actually knew much about Qi Gong and Tai Chi and so I began to learn some of the movements and dropped the strength training etc. Not only has my joint health improved massively from the slow movements, but my leg strength has increased massively alongside my endurance and vitality. When I started to notice the effects (at about 6 months in the training, am now a couple years in) I asked Sensei honestly what he thought about Chi/Ki/Qi and he said this: "The ancient ways were created by people who realised the good of the exercises without the scientific understanding to explain them. The energy exercises and growth of Ki, can be scientifically explained as training balance, breathing and patience which enhances many aspects of strength for a martial artist. At the very least, regular practice clears old air from the lungs, makes the lymph nodes do their job properly, stimulates the metabolism, strenghens muscles and ligaments and most importantly focuses the mind". All of these benefits were described by the ancients as Ki or Chi or Qi depending on what place of origin your chosen art originates from. I train these exercises daily, and highly recommend them to any martial artist, but remember there is no magic, only science!

[@davidjones8043]

You weren't speaking to anyone that actually can manipulate qi then. That's laughable, sorry. You've been misled by someone who doesn't know any better. Qi is a VERY real force. Can you knock someone out without touching them? No. But there are many uses for it, especially healing. If you actually want to know and train THE TRUTH , I suggest reading The Way of Energy by Lam Kam Chuen, The Complete System of Self Healing by Stephen Chang and Energy Work by Robert Bruce. Once you learn to feel Qi, you'll KNOW undeniably that Qi is a real force. I also suggest The Gateway Hemisync system. All those benefits are true of Qi Gong, but that's literally the most fundamental level of it. The actual energy work is the entire point, hence why Qi Gong translates to ENERGY WORK.

[@redred7289]

There is a guy in the UK who does these Dim Mak seminars called Steve Burton. I went on one of these seminars a few years ago and it looks pretty similar to the Dilman-ery. I think its a load of rubbish but I have several friends who have really bought into it and are always eager for the next seminar. You can become an instructor in Dim Mak in 5 seminars. You can find this guy's videos on KZbin. I love to know what you think of him.

[@fotmasta]

Well done. I was reading about suggestion and placebos and Dillman's name came up so this was helpful to see him 'in action'. Derren Brown is a modern day debunker of this piffle. In one clip he does a no-touch punch and sends a guy flying. IIRC, he does it a second time while the subject's back is turned.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Yes I've seen that. Derren Brown dies a lot of good work explaining this tosh.

[@fotmasta]

@@EnglishMartialArts Another character well-versed in suggestion is Richard Bandler, co-founder of NLP neuro-linguistic-programming. His seminars are chockablock with enthralled audience members and his demonstrations are always a success in that context. He has the same bluster and confidence as ol George.

[@NewChannel-wi7vj]

Derren Brown is himself a fraud. Not the best example of a "debunker"...

[@florianopolis6299]

Your seem to be so nice .. Just got here by accident and stayed because you just... Seem so genuine and nice. Thank you for this great video!

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Thank you!

[@bigrobnz]

The biggest thing I got from a Dillman seminar was that it changed the way I think.....didn"t change the way I trained or technique i did but the why and when ,the target of a strike etc.......stuff like that.......I got to train for another 15-20 years after that and I"m pretty sure I would of stopped earlier if I hadn"t of met and trained with him.....

[@midnightmoviecult7414]

Bullshitsu! Good to have ya back missed ya Oz, fight team!

[@EnglishMartialArts]

FIGHT TEAM!

[@lainhikaru5657]

Dillman was very valuable for a school presentation I made long ago when I was still at school. Not for martial arts, but for the collective suggestion phenomena. I was initially gonna use mega churches as an example, but mocking people'a religions could have make the tewcher bias give me a lower score, so I used "bullshido arts" instead.

[@robertdemon3550]

When people say pressure points I always think of where you would kick someone to give them a dead leg.

[@timandjacquinicklin9596]

The real problem here is when performing Acupuncture or Shiatsu , your patient is standing or laying down and still. In a full on fight the guy is in a chaotic abstract movement. So although I believe in Acupuncture and Shiatsu and such arts and agree they may be pseudo arts. Fully clothed in the street and not conforming none of this will work . Tim

[@NewChannel-wi7vj]

Acupuncture is utter nonsense. Shiatsu is nothing more than glorified massage with a Japanese name.

[@paulrouleau1972]

A carnival con man in a gi.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Yes, but he was legit once, many years ago.

[@toddellner5283]

@@EnglishMartialArts I will bet dollars to horse turds and hold the stakes in my mouth that a combination of money, desire for attention, and impressionable young women are to blame for the decline

[@EnglishMartialArts]

@@toddellner5283 I'm not gonna argue with that.

[@paulrouleau1972]

@@EnglishMartialArts I remember.

[@The_Prenna]

I give this video 5 out of 5 Dillmans. Wait, wrong channel. With all the various forms of Bullshido I'm always impressed by the physical skills of the ukes. The way they flip and toss and turn is often way more impressive than the Grandmaster.

[@M_K-Bomb]

This was a lot more insightful than I thought it would be. I've heard people say he and others pay the people, but it's like 'no' it's a trick, manipulating the audience and the person.

[@promiscuous5761]

Thank you.

[@jonathanwaswrong3917]

I use the secret _alternating lifting your left big toe and right big toe_ technique to avoid knockout all the time... God bless all yall! FIGHT TEAM!!!

[@davidweeks9144]

I’m surprised nobody has challenged him to a fight.

[@Stahlvanten]

0:41 How dare you sir?! WE saw a perfect practical example just the second before in your video. ... :'D

[@FelixstoweFoamForge]

Chi MAY be a thing. In the context of "there's a (probably electro-magnetic), force that permeates the universe. BUT....even given that as an assumption, is it a practical thing to use in a combat situation? The answer has to a resounding NO. There's an OLD story I read years ago about a native Australian Elder who was once asked by an anthropologist: "can you do telepathy?". His answer:" Yup". Anthropologist: " Do you still do it?". Elder: "Nope. The bloody telephone is much easier". My point being: a fist in the throat is way easier than messing with any energy field they may or may NOT have.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

I like that story!

[@grimmriffer]

No touch knock outs? Well, guns are real. But otherwise, nech. Qi/chi? I reckon it started somewhere between an explanation for biology that wasn't fully understood, and a metaphor to help instruction. Pressure points? Well, some parts of the body are more sensitive when prodded or punched, and that can be exploited. But I don't believe you can turn off someone's liver by tapping them on the knee. (I also believe everything's a pressure point, with enough pressure!)

[@NewChannel-wi7vj]

"Everything's a pressure point, with enough pressure." Very nicely put!

[@andrewkruchoski7757]

no bro, as a martial artist, we drill together and we know when we're doing it light and when we go hard. when we bend with the punches and when we stand fast... i've personally learned from him at least 4 times and every time we learn something new and see for ourselves how effective these strikes can be when trained and used right. megan, 4'5" 12 year old girl, had mr harding, 6'2" 225lbs on his knees in tears with perssure point use. i've spared both these people, i know how hard they hit and what they can do, that's why this is the great equalizer when learned in full.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Awwww that's sweet.

[@krta1773]

​@@EnglishMartialArtsI think the problem is you're totally non-believin'. Non believer, PLUS... I don't know if I should say that in the comments, but if the guy has his tongue in the wrong position in the mouth, that can also nulify it... Yeah, you can nulify it, you can nulify a lot of things done to you, in fact you can nulify it if you raise your two big toes... PLUS... If i say I'm gonna knock you out and you raise one toe and push one toe down - can't knock ya out. And then if I go to try again you reverse it. If you keep doing this 👍👎I won't knock ya out.

[@ericcaledonai9700]

Would I suggest train in the known techniques shown to work. Here is a form set. Sanchin. 3 Battles form Bunkai The swirling C movement is the grappling part grasping the wrist at the brachial radial nerve - then you step in and with a Tiger Palm striking the Orbital bone just below the zygomatic process hard. This will either knock your opponent out, or crush his orboriculus Oculi. (Orbital bone.)

[@andrewkruchoski7757]

he does talk slick, but thats because he's been doing this since the 1960's, another reason it looks effortless because it is. he's using about 1/4% force when demonstrating these techniques because if you hit full force, exactly like he said, you can snap someones neck. the kata he referenced are all from shorin-ryu kenpo brought to america by Ed Parker. as a yellow belt we learn these forms,but not until we've studied for years, 12 in my case, did we learn how they actually work when used in combat. add in kyu-sho to the techniques we've drilled for a decade previous and immediately everything clicks.

[@CuttingEdgeSystema]

Every single instance of no contact work I've seen (and I did the rounds of most of those guys in the 90s) was purely psychological IMHO. Now some (a few) will describe it as exactly that, seems that far more others still like to cling to "energy beams" as an explanation.

[@Debreu]

I'm not sure he is a fraud. I think there is a real possibility that he actually believes this stuff works. People sometimes have amazing skills in deluding themselves.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

It's possible.

[@azazelreficulmefistofelicu7158]

Doing a bit of catching up as the YT algorithm does not share love freely. I have not been notified of new videos on this channel for a while. About "pressure points", I still have to see them in action in any type of confrontation against a resisting opponent. I'm referring to light rubs or light taps that cause knock outs.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

I'm glad you found it! I agree, there is no evidence they work against a resisting opponent.

[@whim6287]

Forgot all about that guy. I usually ignore a lot of stuff that I thought was science when I was a child. For me pressure points are nerve clusters targeted for blows and should never just be relied on. Striking one of the nerve clusters on the inner arm can get people to let go of a weapons in my experience. Not a 100% thing though, also in my experience. That said, I came here expecting to see a Brachial Slap or some other stun. Also Fight Team!

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Forgetting about him is probably the kindest thing we could do!

[@tapioperala3010]

This sounds like bulshido :D I really like seeing that you've kept your style and I'm waiting for more videos (yes, I know this one is 1 year old one :P )

[@EnglishMartialArts]

It's definitely Bullshido!

[@Yokes27]

2:53 and then again each time that part gets replayed again and am I the only one childish enough to realize he or possibly the cameraman farts a few times? I pointed it out to my 9 year old son and we both laughed hard at the thought haha

[@captainquagmire859]

From what I heard about the meridian stuff is about Chinese prisoners/prison guards applying pain to certain nerve points and it's just another way from acupuncture that they talk about certain nerves and "Pressure points", now sure how true that is, I don't know and nor am I disputing TCM, just sharing info from what I have been told

[@russelldonithan2621]

I know somebody that teaches pressure points running a school makes you a target despise being challenged in his school on the streets 5:22 (Illinois state boxer champion )they never let him down

[@JohnJohnson-pq4qz]

There is always a certain amount of "going with it" in any martial arts demo. Even quite series people can convince themselves of all kinds of silly stuff. I recall one of the instructors, at my first martial arts school back in the early 80s, telling us that if you where caught in a headlock you pinch the back of the guy's thigh. No magic, no pressure point...just the pain of pinching the sensitive skin on the thigh... And this was at a serious kick-boxing school that produced a lot of full contact champions. I was a kid then and really into the Asian martial arts and open to all kinds of esoteric woo woo and I had to restrain myself from bursting out laughing. The guy doing it was a pretty decent, hard contact oriented, guy who had logged hundreds of hours hard contact sparring...and suddenly he was showing stuff that I would not try on my little sister...why? who the hell knows.

[@normanhernandez5421]

Do you see Mitsugi saetome videos of Aikido his dojo is Orlando Florida , he was one uke of Mohrei Ueshiba and Kohichi Tohei

[@tomsheppard378]

That rape section is particularly bad. He says the attacker would need to post one hand on the floor but the person he is using has both hands on him.

[@zaneivy]

...acupuncture is a pseudoscience? Here in Asia there are quite a number of scientific studies on its use and effectiveness. Martial artists might consider using it for treating training injuries. I live in Korea and have had acupuncture treatment a number of times and have found it very helpful.

[@NewChannel-wi7vj]

Yes. Acupuncture is pseudo-scientific BS. Please, provide a link to your "scientific studies".

[@johnmc3862]

Yes but as long as theres no scientific evidence it will be seen as such. Accupuncture helped me once.

[@doublep1980]

About the whole ''pressure points''-thing: There's an actual technique, called ''acupressure'' which is used by trad. Asian medicine for chiropractic therapy. It's the same concept like acupuncture, minus the use of needles. Basically they put pressure on specific points, stimulating the nerve ends to lessen chronic pain, like from arthritis or migraines. It's mostly used in combination with trad. massage techniques. Theoretically, you can use this also to inflict pain, by pressuring a specific nerve end. BUT, you would have to be extremely precise, down to the inch, in order to hit the right ''pressure point'', which is practically impossible in a real-life fight scenario. Also, it has nothing to do with mystical energies or whatever BS Dillman is claiming...

[@NewChannel-wi7vj]

It's not "actual". It is BS (same as acupuncture is). Sorry to burst your bubble.

[@IAmMrBabagadoosh]

I've done rukyu kempo for a while as kind of a fun thing, but when we do something like this it kinda works. if we use a pressure point it allows us to do joint manipulation, chi and that magic stuff I don't believe in.

[@rynoerasmus7869]

I’m gonna go with the Nice Solid Right Hook!

[@JamesMMcCann]

"Practice back in your own dojo," so that when it doesn't work, you'll assume it's something wring that you're doing.

[@100dfrost]

Sir, I will soon be giving a seminar on the ultimate answers to all things, please buy your tickets in advance. I will demonstrate the ultimate answers to all things, and you will be allowed to practice them in your home until you get it all right. Remember, pain that comes together from two locations is double pain .. for some reason. Weird dude, but people give him money, so ... Good video, thanks.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

If I pay you vast sums of money will you accredit me as a master of DanteFu?

[@FelixstoweFoamForge]

Hell mate, I can give the ultimate answer away with the cornflakes. Sorry to undercut you. ( It's 42!)

[@100dfrost]

@@FelixstoweFoamForge Wow! Thanks, and so long and thanks for all the fish. lol.

[@FelixstoweFoamForge]

@@100dfrost Tee heehee........

[@yoeyyoey8937]

This is interesting I like the psychological performance analysis

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Thank you

[@yoeyyoey8937]

@@EnglishMartialArts it begs the question of whether he just had a knack for this mentalist type stuff and figured it out intuitively over time, or if it was more intentional and he had a background in it.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

@@yoeyyoey8937 I think we will never know. But it seems unlikely that its pure chance.

[@yoeyyoey8937]

@@EnglishMartialArts I looked into mr Dillman and I might have found the three people who influenced his infamous bullshido, despite the fact that outside of this, Dillman seemed to be respected by and even worked with some legit karate figures of the time. So anyways, when he’s around 18 or 19 he meets Harry G Smith, who was a karate master but also a CIA agent involved in the Bay of Pigs and the Phoenix Program among other paramilitary activities. Perhaps he picked up something about psychology and how to weaponize it from him? He also worked with Seiyu Oyata and Hohan Soken, who were both karateka that dabbled in Chinese “kung fu” and “pressure point” fighting styles. In fact Soken supposedly was an heir of “lost karate techniques” that he wanted to preserve in the world. And Oyata has a literally copyrighted martial arts system now that includes proprietary techniques (sounds familiar). I would hazard a guess that through his experience with these gentlemen, Dillman was eventually able to put together what we see now as his own “martial arts system” along with the gimmicks we’re critiquing him for.

[@Matt_PunchEnthusiast_Morris]

Don't forget Just curl your toes and place your tongue in a particular place in your mouth and his chi powers will be completely nullified 😂🤣

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Yes, not the most satisfying of explanations was it.

[@Matt_PunchEnthusiast_Morris]

@@EnglishMartialArts I personally found it very satisfying 😂 I laugh every time I think of it 😂🤣

[@420JackG]

"I thought the student broke my arm..." Uhhh, are you sure you aren't just an old fat guy who fell down?

[@Matt_PunchEnthusiast_Morris]

@@420JackG 😂

[@EnglishMartialArts]

@@420JackG he's referring to when Hohan Soken demonstrated it on him. An actual fighter who could actually fight. He's clearly talking bollocks, but it's an integral part of the act.

[@seamusnaughton8217]

Your nice guy lhave subcribed to your channal whu because ..ike the way you taiik about arts allbest seamus

[@voreqejackson1238]

17:33 had me dying with laughter 😂

[@Maximilian0011]

Sir, master Dillman did finger (technique) Bruce Lee and Mohammad Ali, I saw it on Discovery Chanel ! LOL

[@garymurphy8969]

Mcdojo life is a good channel about these type of things.

[@andrewkruchoski7757]

meet him in person yourself then make your decision after having a lesson or two...

[@krta1773]

Would he or any of his top students accept an mma match?

[@ktoth29]

I feel like I've made this comment a half a dozen times before but: I really feel the quackery embodied in this video is present to a lesser extent in every McDojo out there. There is always a gap in skill and knowledge between the instructor and the student, and anyone with a commercial interest is going to exploit that gap to keep the students coming back. You don't actually know what your instructor knows or how effective his methods are, until you are called upon to test them. That's one major advantage of HEMA over the eastern martial arts; no one can claim to be a master its understood that its a reconstructed art of limited effectiveness in a modern context; and I think that's a lot better than the false sense of security that comes with being a black belt in some sportified combat system.

[@NewChannel-wi7vj]

What? There's an equal false sense from people like you that all black belts are BS. The awakening could be rude if you find out the painful way how wrong you are.

[@billd7197]

Plus, if you blink your right eye, it will neutralize the technique. Plus, if you cross your fingers, that will do it too. Plus, clicking your heels together...Plus....

[@DanPeters182]

the thing with weapons is ease of use is incredibly important. That's why tae kwon tricking is it's own thing and never used competitively. Also things like a spear or a sword were preferable to things you'd see in a kung fu movies like the sickle on a rope and stuff. IF ........ and that's a huge if, chi based attacks worked they have such a huge barrier to entry for it to work and there are clearly (by the "masters" own admissions) so many drawbacks to using it then it's essentially a useless skill.

[@poleag]

I want to believe.

[@TheRogueMonk]

also no one wants to be the one that stood against the "master" the pressure social pressure is huge... your not going to if you are a teenager or a younger student who "believes" your not going to dare to stand against him... if someone pushes your nose hard and you dont want to attack them you go backwards too and down ... no one is actually goign to resist because its ont a fight

[@carldzoga1348]

I'm glad more and more people in the community are exposing these fake 'masters'! It may seem like harmless fun and games but teaching impressionable people these "techniques" can and will get people seriously injured/killed!

[@NewChannel-wi7vj]

Here we go again with this old cliché... 🙄🤦‍♂ How many people have died, do you think, or even got "seriously injured" for having tried to use outside the dojo any of the Dillman nonsense? Let me help: zero, is the exact number. These people don't enter real fights, that's the reason why they're into fake martial arts in the first bloody place! As for "more and more people" exposing the fakers, Dillman and his ilk have been known since day one, by real martial artists, to be complete fakes. Only complete idiots (such as the staff at Black Belt Magazine) ever thought they were anything else.

[@carldzoga1348]

@@NewChannel-wi7vj And yet these guys continue to make money and fill their "schools" with students.

[@dragonballjiujitsu]

A few points here. 1. Anyone who has bothered to even be awake in the last 30 years and not being willfully ignorant knows things like pressure point or no touch KO don't work and neither do Thai-chi, Wing-chun, kung fu or Aikido. This isn't even a debatable topic. 2. I agree that exposing these frauds should be any real martial artists mission. Things like this should never be left unchallenged. 3. I think I could put dillman to sleep with a jab, not even a right hook. I'd also put 10 grand on being able to completely end him or any student of his inside of 1 min in a real fight.

[@NewChannel-wi7vj]

Oh, wow! You could put an 80 year old man "to sleep" with a jab? And you could even "completely end him"? Quite impressive, I must admit! You must be a really tough guy!

[@dragonballjiujitsu]

@@NewChannel-wi7vj I think you missed the point. Idiot

[@Yeknodathon]

Did some ballet training last night. When invited to stand on one leg with the other pointing out with my eyes closed I wobbled considerably. Instructor distorting my energy points in every direction to cause maximum discomfort and embarrassment. Not going to mess with her in class.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

That's probably a sensible decision!

[@Yeknodathon]

@@EnglishMartialArts She does touch to adjust. Something might spark and I could be propelled with an unspeakable magnitude of force right across some aspiring ballerinas.

[@Yeknodathon]

... and they're just evil and merciless.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

@@Yeknodathon there are worse ways to go...

[@KaptainCanuck]

It is a dogi/keikogi, not bloody "gi" because, for one, it would be "-ki" when used in the initial position such as kimono or kiai.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Two things. Firstly you may want to spend at least a little time looking at how the English language has evolved over thr last 1500 years. How it adapts, borrows, or outright steals words, phrases, and grammatical constructions from other languages before lecturing strangers on the Internet. Whether you like it or not it is a Gi, because that's the word used in the language we are speaking, wherever it is that word originated. And secondly, if that's the thing that offends you about this video your opinion is worthless.

[@NewChannel-wi7vj]

Sorry, what? You think the "ki" in "kiai" is the same as the "ki" in "kimono" (newsflash: it isn't) and you go around giving bloody Japanese lessons to others? Are you for freaking real? Clearly you don't know the first thing about the Japanese language (and as pointed out by our host here, neither do you about the English language). This should be a very good reason for you not to lecture us about it, don't you think?

[@KaptainCanuck]

,@@NewChannel-wi7vj, learn Japanese grammar before trolling.

[@KaptainCanuck]

@@EnglishMartialArts, Anglicizing a foreign language does not make it correct. Offends? No, but I respect the cultures and languages of others. I bet you have called a support line and the other end spoke with some India or other accent and your could not understand it but will say "Learn to speak English!" Simple thing is do not use a language your have no clue as to how to use and speak. Brits are the worst English speakers in the world. Canadians, and now most who hear it, all say they want to order "whore" when mispronouncing "poutine". I do agree Dillman has become a dickwad in the last 20-30 years, at least,

[@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145]

George Dillman after jamming his knuckle yo someone's nose "you felt that "spark" right?" 😂 Yes, George you jam a knuckle up someone's nostril they will generally feel it, but that's just because the nose is sensitive 🤣

[@michaelr.4878]

To quote Dillman, 'You are just a non-believen'. hehe. i don't understand how that guy was ever able to even have a single student. If I was interested in learning that kind of stuff and walked into one of his McDojos, within 2 seconds of talking to him, it would be very, very obvious that he is not playing with a full deck of cards....and I would run for the exit.

[@andrewalexander1086]

George Dillman was one of the best con merchants at that time, my instructor used to be able to knock me out for a few seconds by hitting me lightly on the back of my head under the skull. I used to try hard not to collapse like a sack of potatoes but couldn’t. It only lasted a few seconds but not sure it could be done in a hard pressure fighting situation.

[@MikeEehl]

I went to one of his seminars, and wouldn’t you know, he would only perform these “techniques “ on his people.

[@Poohze01]

Total wack-a-doodle stuff. It disappoints me that you felt you needed to restrain your ranting. Imho, the ranting is the best bit. And you're so good at it!

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Lol, I'll bear that in mind for future reference!

[@andytopley314]

I am, as usual, all the better for you asking Oz. Good to see you looking well! Excellent vid (as usual) and I think you are on the money with your assessment. I think he sells his snake oil to people who don't watch this channel. FIIIIIGHT TEEEEEEEAAM!!!

[@EnglishMartialArts]

FIGHT TEEEEAM!

[@andytopley314]

@@EnglishMartialArts Your reflexes would put a rattlesnake to shame and give lightening a nasty shock!

[@cuecelimiqui9006]

My comments knock people out too

[@dougallen852]

Pressure point knock downs do work,no question so don't anyone watching this think its all fake because it's not,,I had a trainer prove to me it works being I wasn't sure and it will work don't be fooled.

[@dssaee]

You can measure Ki with a scouter. Dillman's was over niiiine thousaaaaaand!!!

[@ericcaledonai9700]

Motobu Choki Of Motobu Udin Ti.

[@johnstuartkeller5244]

Fight Team!

[@EnglishMartialArts]

FIGHT TEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAM!

[@twinklingjoiner]

I feel chi, ki, any energy based thing is misunderstood bc chi is not some bullshido thing. What I mean is that chi is energy that is chain linking energy from the ground to the strike. So using your hips and breathing to make a powerful punch. Idk if I'm explaining this without sounding like a random guy that believes bullshido, bc I don't believe that stuff works but they use a term that know one really understands even tho that word may just mean energy. All chi is is one's ability to make there energy, aka punch ability, more powerful by using kinetic chain linking and using that force of energy against someone. So if I were to push you to the ground in anyway that's me using my chi, energy, against you. And I'm talking about stuff like bjj and and grappling art. There using chi, energy, of oneself to use on the other person. Idk if I'm explaining how I feel the best way but all I'm saying is that I don't think by waving your hands can control someone. You need to wrestling someone to control them and that's were chi or any energy based stuff is meant to be. It's just a term that means energy.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

I think I get what you're saying. I'm notbsure it fits with what Chi practitioners say, but it's certainly more feasible.

[@toddellner5283]

What does qi literally mean? Breath, including the energy you get from food. I've seen a lot of effective "Qi-based" techniques that came down to nutrition and proper breathing. The language Chinese medicine uses is different, but regulating your breathing so you get extra power out of your strikes, lift heavier things, don't get gassed, keep your focus under stress, and perform better because you eat right all work. Heck, I've had Aiki and CMA teachers say I had excellent Qi because I was good at catching catapulted students before they ran into walls and had a basic awareness of where people were in a crowded gym. Did they mean I had a Mystical Third Eye? No, just a little relaxation, awareness and appreciation of distance which came from years of classes in garages and welding shops where running into sharp metal edges or acetylene tanks was always a danger. Nothing Woo-Woo about it. An old friend who has been doing Itto-Ryu Kenjutsu for over fifty years can do some amazing cutting and has no trouble beating arrogant guys a third his age in randori. He talks about "bringing the Earth up" to make the cut. Does he literally mean that? No, but it's a shorthand that other people who can do the same things understand and is useful for training. And when he raises up his sword and gets in a do cut which would slice you in half he says he "leads their Ki." Once again, it's a term that encompasses how he gets and holds their attention, redirects it, catches them at the right time (generally on the inhale) and a few other things. He isn't saying that there's some Mysterious Life Energy involved. Once again, it's a useful training term that helps students do a number of complex things without getting lost in details. But no-touch knockouts? That's bull droppings

[@twinklingjoiner]

@@toddellner5283 yeah that's what I'm trying to say, it's just energy and the word is being misused.

[@twinklingjoiner]

@@EnglishMartialArts yeah

[@toddellner5283]

@@twinklingjoiner Heh. When I can do that stuff a tenth as well I'll say "Just." He also says "I will show you all the secrets in the first month. It can take you the rest of your life to master them." And he's telling the truth.

[@EYEZAYZEL]

This is effective Qi technique, even though it’s just basic subterfuge and manipulation. But that’s exactly what qi(ki) (kinetic force and it’s potentiality) Which is just a transference Of energy. He’s not really lying when saying the techniques don’t work on some. Just as we have to accept some are susceptible. On a fundamental level that’s Qi control Dillman is just not as good at it as someone like a politician or other world leader. Something to think about.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Interesting take. I quite like that.

[@davidparrott1763]

I wish the internet existed when I was young. I "earned" a black belt in Shaolin Kempo Karate. I thought I was a bad ass and signed up for a kick boxing match. I was decimated, and I was upset that I believed I was fighter. I was fooled, and I was robbed out of money and time. The 80's martial arts scene was fill with so much bullshit.

[@spiritchild9101]

Yeah, if only you had internet troll clowns to warn you.

[@davidparrott1763]

@@spiritchild9101 Not the trolls, but the fact that the internet and UFC did not exist. I think that the UFC and internet shinned a light on the traditional martial arts which highlighted the bullshit. The 80s and early 90s did not have that type of scrutiny.

[@paolosmaldone8347]

When an associate of Dilmann( Evan Pantazzi) tried to k.o.me with that stuff(insucessfully) he said:"10% of pepople are not responding to this kind of strikes but the results could be very dangerous in tim, so dont insist"LOL!!

[@King_Of_Games]

😂😂😂 1:02 That lady got ran over

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Yeah, it's tragic and also hilarious.

[@Pomisher]

Whenever I hear Hohan Soken’s name come out of his mouth it triggers me. I knew Soken O’Sensei as a young teen ager. Matsumura Seito Shorin-Ryu, karate being my first style. Yes there are soft sensitive targets, every style of karate knows them. Dillman. Is an opportunist who exploits his encounters with notable people. Soken O’Sensei wasn’t y direct teacher but my teacher’s teacher. He would stop by and observe.

[@jasonmatthews1303]

I was once in a dojo that was a fan of Dillman. They had one of his reps come through about once a quarter to teach a couple of classes. I was able to get some of his techniques to work and had many more successfully done on me. However, we never pressure-tested them. At best we worked them at a medium "demo" speed. relaxed and casual. I am still convinced that if someone took the time to train pressure point techniques against a resisting opponent they would be useful.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

There are definitely points on the body that cause a lot of pain and provoke specific movements. But usually when digging the point of an elbow in, not a light tap.

[@NewChannel-wi7vj]

"Pressure points" is utter BS. What should be a clue to you is that even genuine martial artists (and yes, I'm talking Japanese masters, for instance) know as much and even say as much. Obviously, as stated by EnglishMartialArts here, some areas of the human body are more sensitive than others (throat, solar plexus, growing, possibly kidney, and that's about it), but everyone know these, martial artist or not, and these are quite different to the myriad of supposed "pressure points" Dillman and other fools say there are, points supposed to add like magical off switches, which is complete and utter nonsense.

[@bblsd07]

A few simple question.... I understand watching videos, and commenting on them. HAVE YOU Actually trained with Dillman? Have you ever been or trained with a person under him that does what you call bullshit, and actually felt it? If the answer is no, then Im laughing! Then why dont you go train with him or a person that actually studied under him? And then come back and talk about what you experience, with proof that you actually have! Anyone can talk and put their two cents in. For me, if I have never trained with that person, I wouldn't be talking about them, putting them down for what maybe you dont understand~

[@spiritchild9101]

KZbin does so much censorship in the name of protecting the community, but allows troll channels like this to profit off targeting, humiliating, and bullying others.

[@strawbilly]

Dude could work in a canaval he can find his marks

[@chantewhite321]

I wouldn't be able to take him serious 😆

[@gradyhernandez4699]

He knew bruce lee

[@jb6368]

Going just say years ago after wife going on I went under duress to accupuntre session after knee replacements. She didn't hold back and told guy I taught it was voodoo nonsense etc and I said prove it works tongue in cheek. Within mins I was paralyzed on bed after him slightly sticking few pins in my arms,I honestly can say I couldn't move a finger. Gotta be something in it although different methods of applications etc

[@EnglishMartialArts]

Interestingly acupuncture died out completely in China as it was considered ineffective. It was officially removed from the teachings of the Imperial Medical Institute in the early 1800s. It was revived by Mao in a propaganda attempt to prove to his people that there was actually a plan to keep them healthy, and to prove to the rest of the world that Chinese Medicine was valuable. It may well do something, but there is no real scientific evidence that poking tiny pins into chi pathways to unblock them is actually a thing.

[@gobravo123]

0:48 😧

[@Philo68]

What would dear Walter have made of this guff? Not much I fear… Personally I’ve never been one to drink the Dillman Kool Aid. I’ve always thought it was horseshit, since I was a teenager.

[@EnglishMartialArts]

He'd have lumped it in with Lancashire wrestling! Utterly useless.

[@slappybagOG]

It's Derren Brown lol

[@FelixstoweFoamForge]

I usually hate doing multiple comments. But just this once I'm going to indulge myself. The reason so many martial arts are so shite these days is, in my humble opinion, because so many martial artists who teach, have never been in a bloody fight. NOT sparing. A REAL fight, with blood in the eye and hate in the heart. When some bugger REALLY means you ill. The art I practice goes way back to the Age of the Country at War in feudal Japan, where if it didn't work, you died. Of course, it's been modified since then, ( and by some schools, not for the better), but the principle stays the same: "Get out of the way. STRIKE. ....then apply a lock or a take down. And if it gets blocked, do something else. Above all, don't freeze".

[@EnglishMartialArts]

I think having tried to use what you teach against genuine resistance from someone who wants to do bad things to you is a great way to find out what works and what doesn't.

[@FelixstoweFoamForge]

@@EnglishMartialArts Oh yes. Definitely so!

[@LuxisAlukard]

I can't remember why or in what course, but one of my psychology professors showed us a video where some researchers debunked Dillman invisible kamehameha wave. I laughed so much seeing people being knocked off by the Force. But later I felt disturebed, because they where all grown men and women - they can vote and effect other people lives, they are allowed to have children and raise them as they see fit, they are using air and food other people could spend in much better ways... And it wasn't that funny anymore...

[@Rasgonras]

Such thinking will get you into "unworthy life" philosophy real quick. Where exactly do you draw the line as to what is worthy to live? You sure you fit in the standard society would set? If you have an answer other than "yes, deeming life unworthy is a dangerous idea" then I have nothing more to say to you.

[@LuxisAlukard]

@@Rasgonras No, I wouldn't go to as far as "unworthy life" philosophy. Just "unfit for certain aspects of life" philosophy.

[@NewChannel-wi7vj]

Indeed! We laugh, but those of us who think about it for more than two seconds realise that these people have, indeed, the right to vote and to raise children!