Unorthodox Disabling Technique

Somebody wanted an unorthodox disabling technique for fun in the comments. I don’t want to start laying out my playbook, because I assume at some point I will be walking to my car, find myself surrounded, and have to come up with a creative way to break contact and beat feet into the underground railroad shuttling alt-rightists to Eastern Europe, to plot our return after enough K has passed.

Since this site is all part of my permanent government file, I don’t intend to sacrifice any advantage to the pinko commies who will one day come to collect me. But I will lay out something I came across which is mainly of use when you don’t want to leave evidence of violence behind on whoever you are dealing with. I doubt I’d ever use it since there are better and surer ways, but if you were a cop looking to disable someone and you are hesitant to leave marks for legal reasons, or if you are in Europe and purposeful violence on migrants is frowned upon, it could prove useful.

In full disclosure, I have never used this, or seen it used full force. I did have it demonstrated at only about 1-2% on me, and it was effective in its grossly attenuated form, although I was not resisting it. It is a muscle and strength-driven move, so it will probably not work as well for women.

Basically it is a way to finish someone who has fallen to their back under you. If the person has any MMA or grappling experience, I would not use it, because it opens you up to losing the top position. If your opponent falls to their back, and like lightening pivots around so their feet are pointing toward you, then you have a bigger problem with them, and you should worry about maintaining top position and moving slowly, rather than finishing them quickly with this.

But if you and your opponent are clinched and go to the ground, and your opponent begins trying to just fight with you without pivoting his feet toward you, getting his legs around your waist and putting you in the guard, you can move to this.

The technique basically comes down to putting your knee as low on your opponent’s sternum as possible. There is a lever-like aspect to your use of the sternum, so you want your knee right at the bottom edge of it. You then grab the shoulders, and pull them up toward you as hard as possible as you drop all your body weight on the sternum, and drive it in and angle the force upward a little, up toward his head. This will usually mean grabbing the clothing at the front of the shoulders, and pulling, but as with wrestling, it could involve grabbing the arms if your opponent is shirtless, though you’d need a wrestler’s grip. You pull the shoulders, and because of your knee position, you are pulling the shoulders forward, and slightly downward from your opponent’s perspective. It is designed to curve the back forward, and simulate caving the chest inward, as you are dropping all of your weight on the lower edge of that sternum, driving it in and a little up.

At the peak force position, you should be in a mechanically advantageous position, where your weight is being driven down, with all the pulling force generated by your trapezius muscles and your straightening back, as you straighten your knee down into his sternum.

As it was taught to me, this causes the ribs to push through the flesh, causing some sort of deep tissue bruise that takes days before you can breathe again. My own impression from when it was done to me is it takes the “joint” structures, where the ends of the ribs meet and join to the sternum, and it places a stress on them which the structures are not designed or adapted to bear.

So as the end of the sternum is being driven down, the ribs, which are attached by ligaments and buffered by cartilage, are being flexed so that the ends of the ribs want to rip free from the sternum and spring up out of the chest. At the same time, the ends of the ribs on each side are being pressed together, inward, over the sternum as the chest is caved in. So the ends are probably getting pressed into the cartilage around the sternum, crushing it as well, and the structure may be designed to see them slide upward as they are forced to slide inward, amplifying the stresses on the ligaments holding the ribs in against the sternum.

It is that damage to the sort of “joint” structures linking the ends of each of the ribs to the sternum that causes an inability to move the rib cage at all after it – something you have to do all the time when you breathe. You don’t realize those little joints linking your ribs to your sternum are important, but if they are all swollen and inflamed due to cartilage damage, and the ligaments holding it all together are damaged and unable to move without extreme pain, you can’t breathe, you can’t move, and there is nothing you can do about it.

The real upside over a stomping kick to the neck, or jaw, or ribs, or an armbar or choke is that since it damages ligaments and crushes cartilage in small structures overlooked on physical exam, and it doesn’t leave a bruise, abrasion, or other mark, it will be missed if they seek medical attention. The main symptom should basically approximate multiple broken ribs and an inability to comfortably move the ribcage at all. However from what I was told, there would be no issues on X-rays or other tests, so a physician cannot independently confirm the injury. But again, I have no idea how much testing was done by those who passed the technique down to confirm that.

It will impact breathing and any motion of the core, I was told for at least a week and probably much longer, and I was also told the victim would probably want an emergency room visit since they would not be able to breathe or move at all without extreme pain. So it probably will involve the authorities if you use it. But assuming you did it quickly, and video evidence was lacking, it could just have happened accidently as you fell to the ground. Because of that, and the fact there is no medically diagnosable injury, I was told not to expect any major legal repercussion like you might get with a broken arm or cracked jaw. For all the Police know, your opponent could be making up his physical complaint.

When I first saw this, it was being discussed offhandedly in passing, as one of several potential finishes of an opponent under you on his back on the ground. I was puzzled, because as demonstrated it appeared as if it wouldn’t have done much. You put your knee on the chest and pull the shoulders. It appeared harmless, so I asked it be done to me lightly. I can attest even an exceedingly light application, even by a guy who only weighed about 150 lbs and who put almost no weight on me, was pretty harsh, and I could feel where it was going if it was done full strength and by someone 200lbs or more.

I think the reason it is so harsh, is that there are not that many times a day when your ribs apply pressure forward and inward against the ligaments holding them to the outside of the sternum, so those structures are naturally weak. Even the lightest stress would damage them, and if you can get your trapezius muscles applying a couple of hundred pounds of upward force by shrugging, as a couple of hundred pounds of your body weight are driving the sternum down, the amount of damage to those little attachments done by that combined 400lb force can be impressive.

Again, because you are placing your knee on your opponent’s chest, this is not a move for use on a capable opponent. In placing a knee up on your opponent’s chest, you are balancing yourself precariously, as your are sacrificing your base, which allows you to resist your opponent’s pushes and pulls to throw you off – something you need to hold that top position. You are also giving your opponent your leg, so as he takes you down and gets on top himself he could go to an Achilles hold or ankle lock and you would lose the leg.

But against a drunk asshole outside a bar, or if the opportunity presented on a criminal who grabbed you as you both fell to the ground, it can offer a quick way to end things with less legal liability than you would normally have.

When I was younger, I always intended to try this out at some point, but those years have slipped behind me and I never got the chance. Given circumstance today, I probably won’t be fighting again, absent a life-threatening attack, and then I am not going to be in an experimenting mood, playing around with arcane hand to hand that is primarily designed to avoid detection.

Were I ever to have used it, my plan was to repeat it three or four times sequentially, just to be thorough and see what happened. If anybody ever uses it on somebody full strength, let me know what happens, but as after any altercation, don’t hang around too long. I’d just be interested in how bad the guy looked as you were walking away quickly.

Spread r/K Theory, because even the guy whose ribs you just crushed deserves to know why society is collasping