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* Scout, the [[Weak but Skilled]] Padawan in ''Yoda: [[Dark Rendezvous]]'', is a master at these, striking arms to make them go numb and tingly. She also has a perfectly centered grab on the carotid triangle that makes targets black out within ten seconds, though that might be less "pressure point" and more "cutting off blood to the brain".
** [[Choke Holds]]
* In [[Horatio Hornblower|Lieutenant Hornblower]] a doctor patches up Bush after being [[Covered in Scars|stabbed several times]] by revolting Spanish prisoners. He notes that all Bush's opponents had stabbed overhand and the ribs overlap like the gables of a roof and then says it is more reliable if one is going for the chest to use an upward blow that can sneak through the bones into the vitals.
* Some parts of [[Belisarius Series]] deal with Indian unarmed combat techniques. In one part it is claimed (probably fictionally) that Indian assassins had a secret move to paralyze an opponent but leave him alive as a sort of torture technique for targets they have a particular grudge against. While this is probably medically possible it is unlikely that the author would have known much of anything about the traditions of Indian assassins in the sixth century much less whether they actually had a move to bring about this result.
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