Prometheus: The George Dillman Story

By: George Dillman

Narrated by: Steve Cooper

Like the legendary Hellenic hero Prometheus, George Dillman is both admired and criticized for sharing once arcane knowledge with the wider world. His pioneering work in the field of pressure point fighting has had made a profound and lasting impression on the landscape of the martial arts. But what many do not know - especially those who dispute his findings - is that Dillman earned his spurs in traditional, hard-knock disciplines for decades before discovering pressure points, and maintains that they amplify, but do not replace, more conventional martial building blocks like physical conditioning, sparring, and the practice of kata.

During the 1960s and '70s, Dillman was one of the most-awarded competitors on the tournament circuit. During the 1980s and '90s, he and his colleagues - Wally Jay (Small Circle Jujitsu); Remy Presas (Modern Arnis); and Leo Fong (Wei Kuen Do) - were among the world's most sought-after instructors on the international seminar circuit. And well into the 2000s, Dillman ran a training camp and research facility in rural Pennsylvania which attracted some of the finest martial artists the world has to offer.

Many of Dillman's theories are substantiated by such "hard" scientific tools such as cadaver research, EKG studies, electrical and neurological monitoring, and thermal imaging. Among his teachers were martial Titans like Hohan Soken, Seiyu Oyata, Danny Pai, and Robert Trias. Among his students are medical doctors, law enforcement officers, and military personnel.

By any standard, Dillman is a martial giant. Here, then, for the first time anywhere, is his story, told in the words of the man himself, and those of his students, and voiced by one of his senior instructors...

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