Targeting and Human Anatomy: Part 2 - The Jaw

Welcome back to the Blog! As you can surmise, this is my second installment of my series on:

TARGETING AND HUMAN ANATOMY!!!!

*holds for applause*

Thank you thank you...

The first target I want to cover is our BLUE targets: The Jaw.

We have all seen this one. It's the ultimate boxing KO and you can find countless videos of it on the internet.

My personal favorite is Rocky Marciano when it comes to Jaw KO's. To illustrate this, I present a special guest to the Survival Academy: Burt Sugar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoRg7oty4wc

Fast forward to 145 to watch the stalking and THE jaw knock out. There are a ton of other knock outs in the video, but I want to talk about this one specifically.

So what causes the Jaw to do so much damage?




Meet the Central Nervous System. Most of you have seen diagrams like this, but I wanted to post it anyway. The two main pieces to the CNS is the brain and the spine. The act of the head contorting sideways causes these two systems to be damaged.

When you have a strong neck and you are prepared, the muscles in the neck stabilize the skull and cause significantly less trauma to the CNS.

The jaw sticks out of the human head like a lever. It is the easiest way to force someone's head to turn. When you apply a solid amount of force to the jaw, mechanical failure occurs. With enough force (or a weak target) can even cause death...

The rapid twisting of the two elements further the damage and have been known to cause a permanent disconnect in the CNS. Think of it like fiber wire.



Each one of those little fibers operates SOMETHING. In the body. Some of them rush of to your extremities, some to your organs. A significant impact on the jaw, TWISTS that fiber wire and can cause those little fibers to snap. Fortunately, they can heal or be repaired... but not always...

When you hit someone on the jaw, and this fiber wife feels the twist, it often times shuts down those little fibers on it's own to prevent further damage. This is what a 1 second KO is. This is when you see two fighters scrapping and one seems to fall down like a sack of potatoes. He regains conscientiousness before he hits the mat. The brain shut down some of those fibers, because they were scared of permanent damage. The brain fires them back up and resumes function.

It's not the pain of the jaw, it's the contorting of the neck that delivers mechanical failure.

If the Jaw is open, the power can knock it closed, causing a major shockwave through the teeth and into the brain. Smashing out teeth is usually the result.

If the Jaw is closed, the shockwave can transfer straight to the brain, causing it to slosh around with similar effect to contortion. It shuts down some function in order to preserve the cells that are being smashed.

Of course, these two forms are not as potent as the CNS contortion I talked about earlier.

Either way, the Jaw is a very good target to cause Mechanical Failure of the target. It hurts anyone, but can really shut down a enemy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOso9QKRgmU

See you at class!