In Kyusho Focus is everything.
You must have a single goal, a singular mind, a unified spirit and a clear mind, even in a high stress environment or time of need.
We look around in these times and see many Kyusho training programs... and many people want to see and learn them all. However this is a sure path to mediocrity at best.
First you must find the training that is based on reality, by this we mean that to study a actual god given structure over a man made theoretical method. TCM, elemental cycles and even pressure points are based on intangible man made (conceived) theories and ideas such as the meridians and pressure points. If you work on a cadaver as example and open the body, you will be able to see, feel and move real structures such as organs, nerves and vascular tissue we all were born with. You will not see however any meridians, pressure points or, elemental items as these are all just theoretical ideologies conjectured by man.
Next you must not only know the actual structure (target), you must use that as the end goal devoid of technique and based on experience, clarity of mind and soul in that endeavor. This mindful spirit you cannot be taught, you must (after being shown of it's reality) experience it time and time again to fully understand and more importantly make it a part of your soul, to be your reality and to achieve the ultimate success.
If we have the singular goal of advantage over an opponent, we can not believe that working with multiple targets to be the recipe for success. If we train to work specific multiple points in a sequential set of actions, the complexity will create the impossibility. When next you add the unpredictability of speed and aggression of purely spontaneously acted attacks, any technique, sequence or planned ideologies will fail.
As opposed to trying to attack or control small fictitious targets, instead you must focus on your understanding through experience of the weaknesses of man. For true Kyusho skill to be fully realized, it must become your way, not anothers' and not based on set actions, Kata or technique, Kyusho must become you.
To understand the strengths as well as weaknesses in both yourself and the opponent in physical anatomical composition, physiological function, mental and spiritual focus... this is primary. Experiencing your personal natural tendencies, weapons, actions and targets they are most acclimated to, the practitioner needs to then apply them and feel the body collapse from them. In addition to fully develop the totality they must also live that experience to know the interior as well as the exterior... this is empathy and crucial... you must feel what you do.
When the actual feeling is embedded in all three realms,then it will not be Kyusho, it will not be Martial Arts, it will be you.
-ep
