Shoki: The Story of
Sensei Pete Ratcliff
By Nick Armbrister
Interview 14/03/2013.
Sensei Derek also contributed.
Nick: What is the role of pressure points in Karate?
Sensei Pete: You’ll have to explain yourself.
Nick: What do you do with them in Karate?
Sensei Pete: Well, the role of pressure points is to take someone down.
Nick: Say in a defensive way.
Sensei Pete: In a defensive way it would be better than just cracking
them in the face or anywhere else. You use the pressure points to take them
down. There’s other pressure points where it can cause more damage.
Nick: How many pressure points are there in total?
Sensei Pete: Off top of my head I couldn’t tell you.
Nick: But how many do you use in Karate defensively?
Sensei Pete: I use twenty or twenty five.
Nick: So on an opponent, you’d see them in front of you, and you’d know
the pressure points where you can strike them?
Sensei Pete: Yes.
Nick: How can they be used to disable an opponent? Can you demonstrate
one of the techniques?
Sensei Pete: Say for instance I’m in a head lock.
Nick: Right.
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