JohnOfSheffield
Lifer
Not even if you managed to penetrate the frontal lobe with any skeletal material would it be deadly. Even if you shoved a blade up there the best you could hope for is a screaming, shouting person who would be mostly restored.
There was an English officer who was depressed and shot himself right through the frontal lobe effectively giving himself a lobotomy, he lived on and was never depressed again, his wife found him eating bacon and eggs with an entry and an exit wound in his skull, thank god for the requirement of FMJ's even in our sidearms, eh?
A hammer punch to the chest can be, but normally you want to do a "pounce pound" movement where you let it bounce once and push through on the second, this works on an attacking opponent where you go under to the side.
Push two fingers out of a fist, turn it sideways, hit right above the chestplate and you'll kill your opponent, you are attacking the weakest part of the windpipe and you will break it even if you don't hit all that hard.
Push down the shoulder and grab the front of the side of the neck with your thumb tucked in, hold it and you'll subdue anyone, use the thumb to poke the nerve ending right in front of your grip, it will stop any form of movement and end in surrender.
Between the belly button and the lower pelvic area there is a spot, right in the middle that connects the two sides of the pelvic bone, get down low and use the ball of your hand, hit it as hard as you can and it will hurt, hit it hard enough and you'll break it.
Apart from the eyes and the most obvious, this is where you attack.
Oh and we don't go around breaking necks silently, we use a short broad bladed knife with a punch grip, apart from the noise of catching and resting them down it doesn't really make any sound, the neurocortex is cut off from all nerve endings so not even random impulse gets through.
