Back in February 2025, Eli taught a weekend workshop on the 12 Deadly Katas of Dim Mak.
The full workshop was filmed to create this video, covering the first 6 of the 12, a workshop coming up in October will cover the second 6, this will be filmed also. Click here for info on this upcoming workshop in England.
This is also a great video to partner with the upcoming online course for these forms, since the online course will only cover the solo aspects.
The training covered all areas, the Qigong, the partner applications, and the mitt work.
As usual, Eli went into great detail on these methods, showing things that have never been put on video before.
The 12 deadly katas (also known as the Wudang 12 circular palm techniques) are a set of 12 very short forms, some just three strikes long, that hold within them all the principles of the internal fighting arts.
Fighting Applications
With each form you learn a new set of fighting applications, close range life or death kind of stuff.
We must alway train in both lethal and non lethal fighting methods, so we can use the correct methods for any given situation.
In this case, it's the lethal methods, they are not called the deadliest katas for nothing!
Dim-Mak
Leaning about real Dim-Mak, not the Hollywood style magic you see all over YouTube these days, Dim-Mak simply means striking to the most vulnerable places.
Some of these are obvious to everyone, the eye, the groin, the solarplexius etc, but theses are not always open to you in a fight, so learning where all the others are will give you the edge.
Qigong
The forms are also Qigongs, each one activating a different meridian.
These Qigongs are done vigorously to light a fire within you, but also done in a very calming manner to activate the yin in ones body, it is the different breathing methods used that will bring out the yin or the yang in the Qigong.
Partner Training
These forms are also practiced as a partner fighting application, where you pair up and practice the attack defence methods of the form, once learnt this will then pass over into your sparring training at a later stage.
The strikes from each from will also be practiced on pads to learn how to gain the correct body movement for each one.
- Run Time: Approx 6.5 hours
- Level: Beginner to Advanced
- Media Type: MP4 Download.
