Pressure Points - How To Learn Part 4

Pressure Points

- How To Learn Part 4

BY RUSSELL STUTELY

Well.. Now is the time to move onto the "meat and potatoes" of how to use and make Pressure Points work for you!
 
Let's assume that you have read and understood the previous 3 articles and that you accomplished the following:
 
Learnt and understand Balance
Learnt and understood Power Generation
Learnt and understood how to dissect techniques
 
Now.. assuming that you have done the above, we can move onto the Points themselves and start to learn HOW to apply them.
 
It really is this simple... pick some points to practice.. a few on the arm , torso and head to start with.
 
It does not matter which ones.. but I would advise the following:
 
Arm: L5 / LI10/11
Torso: St25 / Lv/GB Crossing
Head: GB20
 
Now move back to your technique analysis and see where and when any / all of these points become available to you! Start S-L-O-W-L-Y and A-N-A-L-Y-S-E correctly.
 
When a point is available.. HIT IT.. .BUT START LIGHT.. It is better to get NO REACTION then hit too hard and hurt your training partner.
 
When you strike the point.. you MUST ensure that your strike has penetration.. simply hitting the surface of the skin WILL NOT WORK... Doing this will give the usual results that MOST people get... i.e a mixed reaction.
 
Now.. onto the safety parameters:
 
Your training partner and you will have a numbering system - from 0 to 10
0 = nothing, no pain, no reaction
10= you hit me far too hard you stupid ?)*ing idiot.. now its my turn
 
Start around the 2-4 area and G-R-A-D-U-A-L-L-Y build up to 7-8
 
Now.. REMEMBER this... the numbering system is for the person being HIT... not for the hitter. Your no 5 could be your training partners 10 and vice versa.. so ALWAYS start light and then together you will find a power level that you can work at.
 
By ensuring that you keep to this safety protocol you can train points longer and more rapidly than crashing strikes home to see the effect.
 
Once you have done this with all your techniques and started slowly and built up to a decent pace, we can then move onto making the points EVEN MORE effective and also onto pressure testing what you have done so far

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