TECHNIQUE; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Indirect Pressure

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Indirect pressure is actually, in my mind, a misnomer. It is an attempt to explain something that must be trained and practiced to achieve. It is about directing actions of the body from locations other than those connected to applied methodologies of an adversary attacking. Using the wrist grab, by the way not many attacks start with a wrist grab but will be found in dojo sparring and some systems drills for self-defense, as an example the mind of our adversary will tend to lock on his applied wrist grab and the recipient of said grab tends to focus the mind on the same. Where this comes into effect is when the recipient tries to break the grab, they tend to focus on moving the wrist and hand itself. 

Actually, it is best to redirect mind-state training to instinctively move other parts of the body and/or the body itself to break a technique such as a wrist grab. You can move optimally from the center in a way that using our entire body and mass to break the grab or you can go to the first level by using your elbow to move and break the grab and so on. It is not really “indirect pressure” and it is more about ignoring the target of the adversary’s applications and use our entire bodies to achieve the same results with greater efficiency and success, reaching our goal in self-defense. 

We also look to the sub-principle here of mind-body because to allow the mind to focus on a specific part of the body is limiting and an obstacle to success in self-defense. This also involves the appellation of other sub-principles involving the mind and body or mind-body/body-mind. Any one aspect if the focus of the mind locks the body into that same location or aspect. The truth of training is to achieve a whole body and whole mind-set/state that literally ignores the method of attack when it reaches what ever part of the body or mind or body-mind-body target. 

It is like the application of pain, if the mind is elsewhere the intensity and effect of that pain is diminished allowing for freedom of body-mind movement. It is about breaking the freeze and/or the OO bounce of observe and orient. 

Another way to apply this is addressing the application of methodologies to maximize power and force. It also involves many other principles and sub-principles to provide power that transmits and interconnects through the body, from the center, to the actual tool that hits its target. Taking the focus away from the mind toward the fist for a strike to moving from the center to generate and transfer mass in power, speed and force until it reaches the end of that pipeline and transfers, with chinkuchi, into the target, i.e., the adversary. Add in things like complex forces, i.e., the corkscrew punch, etc., for striking, and we can attain our goals in self-defense.

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