“I’m one of three recognized masters in the Western Hemisphere in `Death Touch,’ ” said martial artist Tom Cameron.
Get out. Does that mean you can punch someone once and they die?
“No, it means I can stand six feet away from someone and cause them to die.”
Sweet.
Cameron, 50, learned the smackdown of death during 33 years of training. He teaches self-defense to about 100 students in the Evergreen Park and Oak Lawn Recreation Departments and the Palos Olympic Health Club in Palos Hills. Cameron hasn’t actually killed with his “Death Touch”–we don’t think, anyway–but he has taught some of his students “tap knockouts” that can lay people out without taking their lives.
Cameron and his group have appeared on WGN-Ch. 9’s morning show and syndicated magazine of the bizarre “Ripley’s Believe It or Not,” among others.
Seven of his students are scheduled to travel with Cameron to Hollywood this week to tape two shows for future broadcast: the WB’s “Steve Harvey’s Big Time” and “Unscrewed” on cable network G4Tech TV.
They’ll swing swords and break bricks and such, but it’s the metaphysical tail-spanking–he says it’s electromagnetic–that attracts the oohs and aahs.
