When Dragons Touch was first published in 1981, violence was less common and crimes less sophisticated than what is commonly encountered on the streets of America today. carjacking was almost nonexistent, assaults at ATMs were rare, and gang warfare wasn't as pervasive and inescapable as it has been in the nineties. As citizens begin to recognize that crime is too rampant for law enforcement to handle effectively, they are taking responsibility for their own defense and survival as never before, whether by arming themselves or training in the martial arts.

Master Hei Long maintains that since a weapon or defense device of any kind is vulnerable to mechanical failure, surprise attack, and human error, the most dependable defense is reliance on one's own abilbity to take out an opponent in hard-core hand-to-hand combat. In this book, he focuses on 20 pressure points you can use as targets of counterstrikes. Effective strikes to these anatomical targets will result in crippling phyisological damage or, in some cases, death.

More than just an introduction to pressure points, this manual offers a careful study of hand weapons postures and provides more hat 50 practical applications for the featured anatomical tragets. Because all of the techniques herein are extremely dangerous and many can be lethal, the material is presented for academic study only.

Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 Anatomical weapons
Chapter 2 Pressure points #1 thru #6
Chapter 3 Pressure points #7 thru #10
Chapter 4 Pressure points #11 thru #15
Chapter 5 Pressure points #16 thru #20