Talk:Poking (martial arts)

Contested deletion
This article should not be speedy deleted as being recently created, having no relevant page history and duplicating an existing English Wikipedia topic, because eye gouging is a different technique and topic. An eye jab or poke is a strike at the eye, made with speed and brief contact. An eye gouge is different, as the fingers or thumb are pushed into the socket to dislodge and discomfit the eye. Eye gouging is commonly found in contact sports such as wrestling while an eye jab would occur in more distant martial arts such as boxing or karate. Warden (talk) 21:49, 1 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Agree. These are quite different techniques. Andy Dingley (talk) 23:14, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

The Three Stooges
[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eye_poke&diff=511404807 "well supported by citation"]. Which one? Goodvac (talk) 17:37, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe the one reference that says "The Three Stooges Technique" in it. Search for the word "stooges" in that book and you find three pages that have it on there, one calling them the masters of that technique.  The television show was insanely popular for many years, and they did it quite a lot as I recall.  I look for other sources and find there is a lot to search through.     D r e a m Focus  18:01, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Dream is correct. The cite to "The Three Stooges Technique" section of Fighter's Fact Book was added by the Colonel himself, an editor well known for his meticulous fidelity to the sources. Its just about conceivable it doesnt say they made the attack "especially famous", I dont have the physical book, but like Dream used google books to confirm it does at the very least support the more modest claim now present in the lede. FeydHuxtable (talk) 18:09, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * They were "masters" of it, but that doesn't mean they popularized it, as the article claims. Anyhow, I'll try to find a citation to better support the text or reword that sentence. Goodvac (talk) 18:13, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the excellent improvements. Was worried you might be a deletionist here to help those seeking to destroy the article. Glad this turned out to be wrong! FeydHuxtable (talk) 19:18, 8 September 2012 (UTC)