Michael Kelly has published many articles on the medical applications of pressure-point-based healing, as well as the edge a fighter can get when they include pressure points in their combat system.
This legend would inspire the exploitation film Fist of Fear, Touch of Death and countless debates in living rooms and forums alike.Ī Master in Okinawan Shorin Ryu Karate, who is also a practicing osteopathic physician, Dr. Intense headaches would later reveal themselves to be a brain edema. From there, his body began to slowly shut down.
It is believed by some that Lee was hit with the dim mak, and that the old man was actually an assassin from the Chinese Tong. The story emerged, possibly from the article, or his students as witnesses, that the battle lasted over an hour, and it was brutal.
His last film, Game of Death, was aptly named. His match may have been met, when he fought an old Chinese man two weeks before he died. While it is well known that Lee clashed with Chinatown’s leaders over teaching martial arts to westerners, it is less known that Lee had a standing, open invitation to any challengers. Still, as a contradiction, Cameron’s abilities did not work on the Fox News reporter herself, nor on the students of a jujitsu school downtown they visited to test him.Ī 1985 article in Black Belt magazine, called “Kung Fu Pressure Point Attacks,” written by Jan Hallander, theorized that Bruce Lee may have been a victim of a true death touch. Also observed were dilated pupils and clammy hands. While this seems like a clear-cut hoax, the heart monitors attached to his students showed that a spike in heart rate would follow the blow. Like the other practitioners of the dim mak, Cameron says his abilities come from the manipulation of chi energy, but Cameron differs in that he can “stand six feet away from someone and cause them to die.” However, it only works “on 40 percent of the population.”Ī visit by Fox News reporters to his school in Palos Hills, a city in Cook County, Illinois, captured a video of Cameron’s students falling to the floor with only a tap on the head, or a thrust of chi energy from the Master’s arms, as if he were shooting an invisible Hadouken from Capcom’s Street Fighter. Tom Cameron has taken his skills (or “performance,” as some would say) to Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Steve Harvey’s Big Time, and the History Channel’s Stan Lee’s Superhumans. His advertisement between the comic pages reads “An expert at DIM MAK could easily kill many Judo, Karate, Kung Fu, Aikido, and Gung Fu experts at one time with only finger-tip pressure using his murderous POISON HAND WEAPONS.” 7Erle Montaigue While Master Lee was a World War II double agent in hiding, with ties to both the Japanese and the Chinese underworld, Dante openly advertised his school and his technique. Effectively, it is a Shaolin Kung Fu version of the death touch, brought to Chicago by Shaolin warrior monk, James Lee. The booklet also includes instructions concerning the “Poison Hand” attack. The contents outlined the Dan-te system, which included the “Dance of Death,” claiming it to be very “street-effective.” If one were to learn all the steps, in theory, one would be an effective master of combat. Using American comics in 1960s Chicago, Illinois, Dante decided to heavily advertise himself as the “ Deadliest Man Alive” and sell an instructional booklet called The World’s Deadliest Fighting Secrets.
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