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Originally Posted by GranFire
well, it can actually kill a person...hit it in the right spot and hard enough (and it takes surprisingly little force I have been told)
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The windpipe has roughly the strength and resilience of copper piping. A strike will not cause permanent damage, in order to take a life via the windpipe you either need to crush it or displace it. It takes a hell of a lot more pressure and effort than the movies would have us believe.
That’s not to say a good finger or extended knuckle shot to the windpipe or well of the throat isn’t effective, but its more of an entry and distraction that leads to your major tools. In my experience it certainly wouldn’t drop or render a conditioned fighter “unable to breath”, and besides when was the last time you saw any decent MMA or BJJ guy that doesn’t keep his chin down.