What is with that judo chop thing they do in the movies on peoples backs to knock them out?

is that for reals, or what is the deal with that?|||It is called comedic artistic license, the same thing they use to create a character like Austin Powers, Fat Barstard, Dr. Evil, Fem Bots, and Austin%26#039;s %26quot;mojo%26quot;, whiich is what gives Austin Powers his, well, Power. Consider the following possible exchange in the writers room:





%26quot;So, I%26#039;ve got a great idea for a movie.%26quot;


%26quot;Yeah, what%26#039;s that?%26quot;


%26quot;There%26#039;s this guy, see, and he is a British Secret Agent in the swingin%26#039; 60%26#039;s, right?%26quot;


%26quot;Go on.%26quot;


%26quot;Well, he is cryogenically frozen...%26quot;


%26quot;Excuse me? He%26#039;s What??%26quot;


%26quot;Cryogenically frozen. He was the best agent the Brtish Secret Service had ever had, and he stopped all the crime in the world, in cluding the nefarious Dr. Evil...%26quot;


%26quot;Who?!?%26quot;


%26quot;Dr. Evil, dude. Stop Interrupting!! Anyway, so they wanted to preserve him in case Dr. Evil ever came back, so they froze him, but he didn%26#039;t die...he just sort of...HIBERNATED.%26quot;


%26quot;Um, okay, sounds good so far...%26quot;


%26quot;So anyway, Dr. Evil wasn%26#039;t actually killed, he just blasted off into outer space in this Big Boy shaped rocket ship...%26quot;


%26quot;Why Big Boy?%26quot;


%26quot;I dunno, because Foghorn Leghorn wasn%26#039;t cool enough, okay?!?%26quot;


%26quot;Okay, geez, just asking...%26quot;


%26quot;ANYWAY, Dr. Evil came back in the future, and while he was gone, his right hand man Number 2 -SHUT UP, DON%26#039;t SAY A WORD!! - had created a time travel machine, and so Doctor Evil decides to go back in time and steal Austin Powers%26#039; Mojo from him while he%26#039;s frozen....WHAT NOW??%26quot;


%26quot;Well, excuse me, but what the heck is MOJO??%26quot;


%26quot;It%26#039;s his essence, it%26#039;s what makes Austin Powers, well, AUSTIN POWERS, baby!! Yeeeeah, baby...%26quot;


%26quot;What was THAT??%26quot;


%26quot;Sorry, got carried away. So, see, Austin finds out about it - the HARD way, no pun intended - as so he breaks into Dr. Evil%26#039;s lab, and travels back in time to get his mojo back, and since he is the best secret agent in the world, even WITHOUT his mojo, he judo-chops everyone in his....WHAT, WHAT WHAT???%26quot;


%26quot;Um, I didn%26#039;t thnk they had a chop in Judo...I thought it was all kinda like wrestling??%26quot;


%26quot;Well, it%26#039;s the 60%26#039;s, right? EVERYTHING was screwed up in the 60%26#039;s, so a Judo Chop wouldn%26#039;t be out of the ordinary, would it?%26quot;


%26quot;I suppose not.%26quot;


%26quot;GOOD. Glad you agree...sheesh - so, he goes through the 60%26#039;s and judo chops everyone in his way until he get%26#039;s his mojo back, and drops kicks Mini-me in the process.%26quot;


%26quot;Mini-me??%26quot;


%26quot;Yeah Mini-me. Frau Frueline - DR. EVIL%26#039;S SECRET LOVER before you ask - kinda perfected the cloning process, and created a miniature Dr. Evil while Dr. Evil was frozen, and he is Dr. Evils%26#039; sidekick.%26quot;


%26quot;Uh huh.%26quot;


%26quot;Well, what do you think??%26quot;


%26quot;...%26quot;


%26quot;...%26quot;


%26quot;...%26quot;


%26quot;...It%26#039;ll make MILLIONS!!!. I LOVE IT!!!%26quot;





Or, It could just be a pardoy of Martial Arts.|||Hi there





its very much fake. As Ray has said its based on the Shuto (knife hand) strike seen in modern jujutsu and karate.





Spock perfected it by turning it into a pinch!


William shatner rounded it off using the two hand version!


And Austin Powers just blew it out of the water!





;-)





Best wishes





idai|||Actually, it%26#039;s not as unusual as most think. I used to read a lot of pulp fiction novels back in high school and college(still do, but not as much today) and I have read about judo chops in lots of novels back in the 70s, probably due to the authors%26#039; unfamiliarity with the martial arts during that era. I think I have even read about judo chops in a book from the Hardy Boys series involving Chet Morton and from those Mack Bolan and Sam Durell Novels. So I%26#039;d say the Judo chop was a popular fixture of paperback novels back during the 60s and 70s and was carried over into the 80s and 90s TV and film culture and became one of those cliches that directors and screenwriters have made into movie staples. But now that most people are more martial arts literate thanks to popular media, I%26#039;d suppose people begin to find such techniques described as odd.|||The actual name is shuto not judo, although they screw that up in the movies. While modern judo does not employ strikes the original style of judo did, even though it was still based mostly on throws and grappling.|||iv been knocked out by 1 it sucks but u hav2 hit really hard not a little girlie tap like in the movies|||Judo has no chops, so obviously it is fake.|||Ya! spock does that too, only he does the pinch. mabey there%26#039;s a really sensitive nerve there or something.|||I guess in theory you could hit an artery and temporarily suspend the bloodflow to the brain enough to cause a slight concussion, dizziness and even unconsciousness for a second or two. It%26#039;s easier though to produce the same state by grappling this particular part of the body.|||yes it is very much real and im not about to explain to a stranger how it works either or what you do thanks....