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The void principle works on the premise that the adversary cannot fight/resist us where the adversary is not. Hence, always attack the void. The void principle challenges us to manipulate the physical matter of the adversary’s body without directly engaging it and/or directing our force into it.
The basic tenant of the void principle: the adversary cannot resist where the adversary is not.
The proper exercise of void also typically involves the proper exercise of the triangulation point. Many other principles affect our ability to properly execute the void principle, with indirect pressure being a factor of close relation.
In a forward drop-step punch some of our weight actually “falls” into our triangulation point in order to generate movement and power. While that force becomes stabilized by the solid matter of our bodies, it is the void that actually facilitates movement. Our areas of weakness - void and triangulation - prove integral to generating power. When we make contact with the target over a given triangulation point, that arm actually serves as our “third leg,” taking the weight of the body that was falling into the void and communicating it into the adversary.
Learning about martial arts is not only by paying attention to our physical selves but equally by recognizing the function of the spatial emptiness immediately around us.
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