EYE-GOUGING

'Eye-gouging' is the act of pressing or tearing the eye using the fingers, other bodyparts, or instruments. Eye-gouging involves a very high risk of permanent eye injury, such as visual impairment. It is disallowed in combat sports, but some self-defense systems teach it. Training in eye-gouging can involve extensive grappling training to establish control, the eye-gouging itself being practiced with the opponent wearing eye protection such as swimming goggles.
In films, characters are sometimes killed after suffering eye damage, although this is unlikely in the real world unless extensive bleeding or brain damage is caused (like in 28 Weeks Later).

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★ United States Marine Corps (1999). ''USMC MCRP 3-02B Close Combat''. Department of the Navy. ISBN 1-58160-073-9.

★ Zorbas, Vagelis. Kino Mutai: The Art of Biting and Eye Gouging. ''www.fullcombat.com''. URL last accessed January 7 2006.

In popular culture

★ In ''28 Days Later'', the protagonist kills a soldier through eye-gouging. In the sequel ''28 Weeks Later'', a infected kills his wife through eye-gouging.

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★ Can the human eyeball be knocked out of the head?