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Or are you better off with just pushing with a finger, easier aim and all that?
Better off with the finger. I think it would be tricky to get the right angle with a strike, and if you're strong enough that would hurt on its own, you might want to resort to a brawl instead.
Yep. If you apply pressure evenly up and back where the nose joins there, you can induce startling tearjerking pain, and also snap the head back, which shifts the attacker's centre of gravity.
Check. Added to the arsenal.
eta: dear old dad also advocated for a heel of the palm rammed up under the nose. Cartilage to the brain, he said. I never trusted that possibility.
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For the record, I don't think the philtrum trick will work on zombies.
Dana,
we are building a moat.
For the record, I don't think the philtrum trick will work on zombies.
Probably depends on which kind of zombie.
And how firmly attached the nose.
Don't you hate when the nose just pops off?
dear old dad also advocated for a heel of the palm rammed up under the nose. Cartilage to the brain, he said. I never trusted that possibility.
My self-defense instructor advocated that blow to the nose not so much because it was particularly likely to kill (according to her, you actually have to know what you are doing to succeed) but because it is more likely to break the nose - the pain and blood being good distraction particularly if the attacker is expecting you to be a weak, frightened woman who won't strike back. Not the least bit convinced a zombie would be at all bothered, however, so it won't help during the zombie apocalypse.
If zombies aren't incapacitated by the painful sensation of their own flesh rotting, I don't think hits to sensitive nerve endings would be much use against them. Though if you're strong enough to drive the nose all the way through one's brain, have at it.