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Erle Montaigue – Dim Mak – The touch of death
MONTAIGUE, ERLE Born in 1949 in a tiny mining community in New South Wales, Australia, some 50 miles south of Sydney.
His mother literally observed in a giant mirror above her head as they sliced her open to bring him out.
Erle’s two brothers were still born owing to the umbilical chord strangling them, and Erle was in the same circumstance, therefore the Caesarean section at 6 weeks.
Doctors predicted that Erle Montaigue, who weighed just 4 pounds, would be a mentally and physically retarded child.
(Many people still believe this!) Margaret Kathleen, Erle’s mother, returned to the hospital where he was born years later to show them that he was not in that condition and was prospering.
Erle’s father was likewise a self-taught musician who could do just about everything. This rubbed off on Erle as he matured, and he experimented with many other musical instruments until his first guitar arrived in 1962.
As an only child who was “different” from the other children in his mining community, he was constantly picked on and had to take alternate routes home from school (which he despised) every day to escape getting punched and beaten up in general.
His only pals are ladies, particularly his frequent companion Eileen.
They were together from the age of three until thirteen.
Erle met a music instructor at school who urged him to join the school choir, which proved crucial in Erle’s music career since he learned he had a voice.
Erle struggled in school and at the age of 12 couldn’t read, write, or add.
But he quickly recognized that in order to get the females, he needed to appear to have a brain! So he went on a self-teaching schedule in which he learned to read, write, and perform complex mathematics in only one week, much to the teacher’s surprise.
However, the draw of the wild and the females was too strong, and by the age of 15, he was spending most of his school days truanting down at the local beaches.
Erle’s first band was founded in school in 1964, and by 1967, he had been expelled for actions way beyond the call of school duty!! This was also one of the nicest things that could have happened to him since it took a big weight off his shoulders, freeing him up to pursue females and music.
Erle was performing at an open air event with his band “Earl’s Court” when he observed a pair of stunning blue eyes staring up at him.
She was just 15 at the time, and they married shortly after she turned 16.
Of course, a marriage at those ages (18 & 16) was impossible to maintain, and it dissolved after two children.
Erle is still close to Cheryl Ann, who has been remarried for approximately 30 years.
At 1967, Erle began working as an apprentice Telephone Technician and wreaked havoc in the General Post Office’s teaching facility.
We won’t go into detail, but Erle has always been a bit of a rebel, to put it gently.
So his stint with the Telephone Company lasted only two years before he was cast in a new rock musical, “Jesus Christ Revolution,” which was followed by Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar.
During this period, Erle also recorded his first hit song, “Can’t Wait For September” (1969), which was a huge success for him.
Erle encountered an old instructor named “Mr Wong Eog” who everyone mistook for Tokyo Joe while at the Telephone Institute.
Mr.Wong informed Erle that he knew a martial style by which one might become Superman! Erle went straight in there to learn from this gentleman, aiming to become Superman (after getting beaten up for much of his school days).
Erle found Tai Chi, which was unheard of in the West at the time.
Erle worked in the music industry in Australia until 1974, when he moved to London to pursue his music and acting careers.
But God had another reason for going there: he wanted to meet his second Tai Chi master, Chu King Hung, who had accepted him as his first student.
So goes the story! After his father died in 1978, Erle returned to Australia, found the love of his life, Sandra, had three more children, and met Chiang Yiu-chun, Erle’s principal internal arts instructor from whom he learned REAL Tai Chi, Wudang Arts, and Dim-Mak.
Erle traveled to Hong Kong in 1981, where he met and studied with Yang Sau-chung (son of Yang Cheng-fu) and Ho Ho-choy, the legendary Bagua instructor.
Erle has had a number of additional professors in China, including Fuzhongwen, Shao Shan-kan, and several others whose names have already vanished, from whom he has learned a great deal despite not being a long-term student.
Erle, his family, two dogs, and business relocated to the United Kingdom in November 2003, where they presently reside in Wales.
His music has resurfaced, and he now performs and records with his children as part of their family rock band, “MOONTAGU.”
Erle is known as Moontagu by the Chinese since they cannot pronounce his true name, and it means “Old Tower,” which Erle is pleased with.
Between 1979 and today, Erle has experienced a burst of innovation and production, producing the most number of DVD titles on internal fighting/healing arts as well as a wealth of books released worldwide.
With his publications from the early 1980s and DVD releases, he was the first Westerner to bring Dim-Mak to the Western World.
Prior to Erle’s efforts, there were only a few little and unimportant half-hearted books produced and published in China about Dim-Mak, as few people ever got the true transmission.
Even now, Erle’s books on Dim-Mak reign supreme, and all other publications on Dim-Mak are based on Erle’s work.
Many so-called masters claim to have known all along, yet sales records reveal that they all purchased Erle’s work.
One very well-known Chinese Master in the United States, who wears the silk suit and Nike shoes, just purchased Erle’s MTG3 DVD on the Pauchui San-Sau form and then released his own DVD title on that form.
However, Erle, being Erle, has tweaked several elements in the original form so that they operate much better, and this master has faithfully replicated these adjustments in his own DVD titles.
MAK DIM
Dim Mak (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: dimài; literally “press artery”; Jyutping: dim2 mak6), or dinxuè (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ), has its origins in Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncture.
Tales of its use are common in the Wuxia genre of Chinese martial arts fiction.
Dim mak is portrayed as a hidden body of knowledge with methods that attack pressure spots and meridians, which are supposed to incapacitate or even kill an opponent immediately or in the future.
The Vibrating Palm idea is derived from the Chinese martial arts Nei Jing (“internal”) energy methods that deal with Qi energy and the sort of force (jin) utilized.
It is described as “a method that is half psychic and part vibratory, with this energy being concentrated into a wave.”
Dim Mak (Dian Xue) features among the fictitious martial arts systems in Jin Yong’s books from the 1950s.
Although Dim Mak originated in Wuxia literature, a number of martial artists have claimed to have used it in real life, beginning in the 1960s with US American eccentric Count Dante, who gave it the English title “The Death Touch.”
Dim Mak was well-known in US American pop culture by the 1980s.
The Black Belt magazine speculated in 1985 that Bruce Lee’s death in 1973 may have been caused by “a delayed response to a Dim-Mak hit he received some weeks prior to his collapse.”
Other sources have speculated that Bruce Lee’s death was caused by a “Vibrating Palm method.”
[3], accompanying an article on Cai li fo instructor Wong Doc-Fai, stating that “dim mak does exist and is still taught to a few elite kung fu practitioners.”
[4] Dim mak is listed as “one of the secret specialties” of wing chun in a 1986 book on qi.
[5] Bloodsport (1988), a film reportedly “based on genuine events in the life of Frank Dux,” the founder of the first Neo-ninja school of “American style Ninjutsu,” makes a non-ironic allusion to Dim Mak.
Taika Seiyu Oyata created the Ry-te style of “pressure point combat” (Kyshojutsu) in 1990.
George Dillman, a karate instructor, established a style including kyshojutsu, a term he associates with Dim-Mak, in the 1990s.
Dillman later went so far as to claim to have invented qi-based assaults that operate without physical contact (“no-touch knockout” techniques), a claim that did not hold up to third-party scrutiny and was thus dismissed as fake.
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Erle Montaigue (b. 1949) wrote a number of books and instructional films on Dim Mak during the 1990s as well.
Montaigue claims to be “the first Westerner to be awarded the ‘Master’ degree in taijiquan and dim-mak.”
According to Montaigue, Dim-Mak is a Wudangquan technique that he learnt in 1978 from a master named Chiang Yiu-chun.
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Kelly (2001) and Bauer and Walker (2002), both with a foreword by Montaigue, are further volumes published by Paladin Press on the subject of Dim-Mak.
Touch of Death” methods may be seen in a variety of kung fu films, including:
In Bloodsport (1988), Jean-Claude Van Damme’s character shows to the judges that he belongs in the Kumite competition by performing the Dim Mak attack.
Despite the fact that the demonstration was performed on a stack of bricks rather than a human opponent, the video refers to the move as a “Dim Mak” and “Death Touch.”
During a fight in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Jade Fox unleashes a Dim Mak assault on Bo, paralyzing him and preventing him from moving and attacking her further.
When Li Mu Bai countered it with a comparable Dim Mak move, the consequences were swiftly reversed.
The Bride learns the “Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique” from her teacher Pai Mei in Kill Bill (2004).
The character Pai Mei/Bak Mei in the Shaw Brothers flicks Clan of the White Lotus and Executioners of Shaolin performs a Ten Point Exploding Heart Technique as well as a “100-step soul capturing” Dim Mak that allows the victim to go a specific number of steps before dying.
The notion has permeated mainstream culture to the point of being addressed in a variety of media, including the following:
The touch of death was the topic of a Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995) episode titled “Day of the Samurai.”
In an episode of The Simpsons, Bart lies about learning the Touch of Death in karate class.
A third-season episode of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues features an assassin who kills his victims by touching them with his middle finger, which is branded with a snake.
One of the protagonists in Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland utilizes the “Vibrating Palm Death Touch,” which kills the opponent one year after it is employed.
Dim Mak Records is an independent record label.
Touch of Death was an episode of the 1977 television series Quincy, M.E. about a martial arts movie star who inexplicably died while filming a new film.
Dr. Quincy, played by Jack Klugman, realizes that he died because he received the dim mak 10 days earlier.
Many characters (e.g., Archroy) and the author himself (in one of his numerous Details about the Author sections) in Robert Rankin’s Brentford Trilogy series of books say that they are masters of Dim Mak.
Larry Hooper allegedly uses the Dim Mak on Lyn Cassady before leaving the New Earth Army in The Men Who Stare at Goats.
Lyn Cassady has terminal cancer, which he attributes to Hooper’s touch of death.
Jon Ronson meets Guy Savelli and watches as a soldier karate chops a goat to death with the “Quivering Palm.”
TOUCH OF DEATH
The Touch of Death, also known as Death Touch, is a martial arts technique that, according to oral tradition, may kill using seemingly less than fatal power directed at specified places of the body or pressure points.
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