Secret Fighting Arts of the Worldby John F Glbey
Rutland, Vermont, 1963, Charles E. Tuttle Co.
It’s always interesting to hear people describe a special fighting move they like to use. Here’s the one this book starts off with.
As a boy, author John Gibey is walking in a park with two young gents who were his hood’s best street fighters. The trio comes across an elderly man, slumped against a tree and puffing contentedly on a pipe. This target is too much for Gibey’s companions.
Without a word, the men converge on the old fellow. He goes on puffing. Suddenly, both strike him at the same time, full on both sides of the face. Then they chuckle and step back to let him collapse. But… no body falls. The old man takes his pipe from his mouth, taps the tobacco out of it, puts it in his upper pocket, and says lackadaisically: “You boys ‘pear to be lookin’ for trouble.”
The three take off. As Gibey explains, One pair of heels is worth two pair of hands.
The old man was probably even more skilled in not having to show his skill, Gibey
says. He showed the highest principle of fighting, that of not having to fight. Gibey’s research into unarmed fighting methods started that day. This book is the result of his travels looking for (and getting knocked out by) the deadliest and most dangerous people on the planet.
Delayed death touch. A Taiwanese man with a small beard called Oh almost kills his son to show Gibey the “delayed death touch” is still alive. Oh explains: “My son has never had the experience and needs it badly.” Oh puts his right index finger lightly on a point just below his son’s navel. Three days later, at exactly the time Oh has predicted, his son passes out. He would have died if his father hadn’t used secret techniques to bring him back to life.
Also found In Taiwan: a man who can plunge his arms up to the elbow straight into hard ground. And: a man who can support over 200 hundred pounds of weight attached to his genitalia.
Liverpool Nutter. “There are two things an Englishman understands, hard words and
hard blows.” Based on this philosophy, one Liverpool man practices an hour every day for years to perfect his headbutt. (“Nut” is the Cockney word for head, hence “the nutter”). Now, he can do it eight times per second(!) Awesome.
Macedonian Buttock. You could call this one the “buttbutt.”
Parisian Halitotic Attack. Here’s an obvious one from our brethren in France. Gibey gets knocked out by a man in Paris who spent years eating smelly foods and herbs so he could generate an “evil breath.” But does he get any dates? (Will not work in a windstorm.)
Kiai-Jutsu. Aka: Spirit shout art. Gibey gets knocked out by the ancient ninja art of using a loud shout to kill or wound.
Unexpected Tactic. Gibey challenges a legendary fighter in South Africa and succeeds in throwing himhard to the ground. He’s about to choke him out when the guy starts crying. Gibey lets up his hold justenough to let the guy kick him in the jewels. “I had been kicked and hit there before but never sobeautifully and had never passed out,” he says. When he wakes up, there is a note: “SURPRISE!”
