would pressure points be effective against zombies?

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Permalink Reply by ♪♫ Dawn ♫♪ on March 25, 2010 at 10:03am

Would you really want to get close enough to find out? Their teeth may get you before you could get to the spot... Personally, I wouldn't want to be that up close and personal.

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Permalink Reply by kukri7980 on March 25, 2010 at 4:54pm

well if you was surrounded already, had no other option i mean. I wouldn't want to get that close either! :)

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Permalink Reply by Laz on March 25, 2010 at 10:57am

It depends on what type you are talking about. A lot of pressure points are infact just bundles of nerves which when manipulated will cause a lot of pain. These won't work. Others are based around certain point in the body will will cause system to shut down it struck, eg the carotid. These won't work either as they cause a chemical reaction (eg the carotid causes the heart to stop by the release of potassium into the heart) which stops the systems, the reaction may take place but if the only thing which is 'alive' is the brain then it doesn't matter if the heart stops or not.

If we're talking about runners (alive just super angry) then they die just the same as humans but ignore pain, so the first set of points won't work still but the second example set will.

To be fair I have been doing martial arts for 13 years and pressure points are still hit and miss (literally) there are thousands of techniques which are more easily learnt which are more reliable...not to mention things like a hammer to the head :D

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Permalink Reply by kukri7980 on March 25, 2010 at 5:20pm

like I told Dawn, it was a worse case senario; like if you were out of ammo, your blade is irrepairably damaged and you were running out of supplies and needed to leave your safe haven, that happeds to be surrounded. Just a thought, that's all.

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Permalink Reply by Laz on March 25, 2010 at 5:26pm

worst case scenario if you are that close and desperate-eg backed into a corner and they are a foot away- your body will be pumping so much adrenaline around that hitting a point is going to be more luck, I would say you would be better off just letting the adrenaline do the work for you and fight for your life to get out of the situation. Even going to try and break the neck will be beyond thoughts if you are in that type of situation

if its something like you said, you need to break through a crowd of them or starve to death, personally I would just put my head down and bolt leading with my shoulder/anything that will protect me, (trash can lid etc) you gotta remember that the deadfucks are slow and you will be slow when trying to grab you, the more time you spend near them the less chance you have of getting free

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Permalink Reply by kukri7980 on March 25, 2010 at 5:29pm

Good point.

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Permalink Reply by Suigeneris on March 25, 2010 at 11:17am

I'd love to be there and watch you try and die. I'd also have to put you down afterwards.

You-"Vulcan nerve pinch!"

Zed-"Are you Fulkan kidding me?" Chomp!

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Permalink Reply by kukri7980 on March 25, 2010 at 5:02pm

Why you gotta be a dumbaz? it's a ligitamate question. And no you wouldn't put me down cause you wouldn't be in my survival group. people like you should be erradicated in the first wave of outbreak. Now as my dearly departed Grandma would say " IF you don't have anything nice to say, then keep your damn dirty mouth shut." Good Day.

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Permalink Reply by PRIME_Ω_PREDATOR on March 25, 2010 at 5:08pm

Pressure points or nerve strikes?

I don't believe pressure points would do much because they are about pain compliance. Zeds feel pain?

Nerve strikes temporarily disengage the receptors that spur the motor ability of a body part. Might be effective in slowing one down if that's how the body still works when you're a Zed.

STAY ALIVE

PP

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Permalink Reply by kukri7980 on March 25, 2010 at 5:35pm

Sorry everyone for the sloppy typing in the original post; I was using my iPod as a key board. Any way, it seems that the concensus so far is accupressure/nerve strikes are not a good idea. Keep the comments comming, as long as they are inteligent and not plain out rude.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Mares Photography on March 25, 2010 at 6:27pm

Coming from a background in Tae Kwon Do since I was 17, a former kickboxer and bouncer I now teach "Stand Up" fighting to some MMA fighters. I worked in the nightclub scene and concert security for over 12 years in the late 80's and 90's. So I have lots of real world adventures in controlling angry alpha males
Now drunks fight like the crazed infected zombies, and many a drunk has bitten our bouncers just like the infected do. Pressure points on a dead I think would not work, because the dead feel no pain, if you shoot one 5 times in the chest It will still come at you. The only scientifically proven and biologically possible way to produce instant incapacitation is through destruction of the central nervous system or brain. This will usually cease all motor related and voluntary actions. If the central nervous system is not damaged or destroyed, there will be no immediate incapacitation.So never throw a punch at an infected because you might strike the teeth area by mistake. A zombie will grab just grab you and hold on for chance to tear into your flesh, they won't punch, kick or counter any move you use against them. Since the infected are still based on a human skeletal system any front kicks to the knee will drop a zombie and make chasing you more difficult, a solid front kick or side kick to the upper chest area of an attacking infected will drop them just like an attacking drunk bar patron. Use the momentum of any attacking infected against them giving you enough time to draw a handgun or other weapon to end the fight. You should always carry some kind of heavy edged weapon as backup that you could drive into the infected brain. Being out of ammo with a broken blade like you said worst case scenerio, you might kick an infected enough times to stop any other aggresive actions by stomping the brain with your combat boot. Unarmed hand to hand combat with the infected should be avoided at all costs, especially in areas where more than one gather.

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