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Sinergy -> RE: Face Slapping. Your an Expert!? (5/15/2006 7:23:13 PM)
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Hello A/all
Actually, as a third degree black belt, self defense expert, with a host of other martial arts, as well as college physiology courses and research in pursuit of my chosen interest, I suppose I am an expert.
Thank you for asking.
It is not really the tendons of the neck that are in danger with face slapping. The neck is designed to survive a lot more damage than can be administered by a face slap. Which is not to say you should cold cock somebody with a 2x4, but still.
Physiology lesson: The brain sits inside a little sack (surrounded by it's own fluid) with blood vessels running through it in membranes that prevent blood from actually contacting brain tissue. Breaking these membranes can spill blood into the brain tissue, which kills brain cells. Drinking a beer does something similar, so it probably wont cause permanent damage to one's ability to sign one's own name since the brain has billions of brain cells and is designed for redundancy should it lose a few thousand here or there in the pursuit of perverted deviancy. This whole thing sits inside a hollow and solid bone cavity called the skull.
There is a thing called a "coup-contrecoup" knockout. The other name for this is "brain bounce knockout." Suddenly displace the skull six inches in any direction (forward, sideways, or IN A CIRCULAR MOTION) and the brain bounces off one side of the skull (damaging brain tissue) and then striking the other side of the skull (damaging more brain tissue). Boxers using a crossing punch, whiplash injuries, etc., are generally this sort of injury. The brain's response to trauma on both sides is to shut the major neurological systems down, leaving the basic ones to support life up and running.
This would be another word for knockout.
Face slapping a person can rotate the skull suddenly. That chin moves six inches to one side, or in a circular manner, the brain bounces around inside the skull. A good wallop and the person ends up dreaming weird dreams face down on the floor. Too much of this, and it becomes impossible to figure out the complexity of Big Bird's philosophy on life, largely because so much brain tissue has been damaged.
The correct way to slap somebody in the face involves taking the non slapping hand and gently (lovingly, domililily, whatever) cupping the skull to prevent rotational momentum. And then proving a nice wallop on the other side of the face. The face is slapped. But the brain sits happy and content in it's little kiddy pool.
While it might bruise things in the face, etc., the face is designed in a way similar to the way the sides of your car are designed; to provide crush distance to protect the brain. You probably are not going to seriously damage the face with a slap, as long as you dont wallop the back of the head (which can knock the eyes out the front) too hard, or rip out the eyes or break the nose or that sort of thing.
Clear as mud?
Sinergy
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