Ok, ok, give me a break. I guess I just can't help myself giving my opinions and I don't always keep my "written" word as I am about to add this post talking more about those sub-principles I told you to research on your own. Still, the book as a lot of solid information and I can now see another reason why martial arts take so long to really learn and understand. It is not just about making a black belt doing the minimum requirements but much more. It is about finding and encoding all those principles that support and drive martial arts. The fundamental principles of martial systems with all its interconnecting symbiotic benefits as well as those sup-principles and their interconnection and symbiotic benefits. (Note and Warning: this is not the end explanation, there is more .... go for it and get the book then spend the time on the dojo floor learning. You will be surprised how much and how long it will support your martial applications, practice and training.)
The principle of "Complex Force" present us with the following five sub-principles:
PRINCIPLE OF SPIRALING
The most obvious demonstration of this principle is the "twist-punch/corkscrew-punch." The critical element of this technique and any other spiraling techniques used is when the actual spiraling action occurs and that is during impact. The fist, wrist and forearm must rotation during impact, it has to penetrate as the fist spirals into the target. Normally, martial artists work to penetrate about one to two inches but others have the practitioner focus on striking the other side of the bodies target point.
In addition, some rotation must occur post-impact. When one says "impact" this means when the fist first encounters the actual target on the adversary. Even if the spiraling begins just before we have to ensure that some of it actually occurs after the impact. Take into consideration the principle of economic motion for a twist/corkscrew punch using to much spiraling can result in wrist injuries.
Joint locks also benefit from spiraling motions. You can witness more of this sub-principle in Small Circle Jujitsu or what the author of "The Book of Marital Power" says should be "Small Spiral Jujitsu."
Avoid that spiraling arc you see when a novice tries a corkscrew punch/strike. The path that the punch takes does not need to spiral, it does not add any power to that strike/punch as that decreases power at impact. It is most efficient to turn the fist, wrist, forearm on the radial axis (Radial Principle).
In other areas the spiral is also part and parcel to the other principles that nature uses in all life. Spiraling or the spiral pattern is found everywhere, i.e. look at the branches and bark of a tree and you will find that it spirals, when you look at pictures of the other galaxies you will see many, if not most, forming a spiral pattern and the path that the earth and moon follow traveling through the universe forms a spiral - the moon forms a spiral pattern as it rotates around the earth while the earth travels through the universe.
Think spiral or helix and this also relates to how both centrifugal and centripetal forces work, another set of principles.
PRINCIPLE OF SCISSORING
The scissoring of an adversaries body between two opposing forces. An example in the striking arena is trapping a part of the body with one hand and striking with the other, or trapping a punch between your hands and applying some tuite technique. Then you can apply two different hand techniques to pinch nerve points.
PRINCIPLE OF CARVING
When you use your hands to grind a part of an adversaries body using rotation and torsion you are using this principle. When you block you should rotate the arm on its minor axis to that it does a carving action into the adversaries striking arm. This is about turning the bone of the blocking arm into the bone of the striking arm. There is an exercise that teaches Isshinryu'ists how to do this, i.e. kakie uke technique. Another is a blocking exercise we did on Okinawa where you stand facing one another off center and do upper and lower blocking and the goal is to use this technique.
Again, delay the rotation of the arm for the block until the moment of impact so the maximum carving energy is utilized properly and within the principles.
PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATING
The most difficult one of the five to explain. It involves aspects of the other four principles. The example given is when using a choke hold on an adversary you shake them during the choking process. This is not meant to imply a larger shaking motion, remember economic motion principle, but a more subtle motion. You create just enough movement to confuse the bodies neuromuscular response along with the adversaries equilibrium. A choke hold, a wrist throw, or a strike, etc. where the vibrating motion will prevent the mind from identifying what to respond to, i.e. remaining in the OO of the OODA loop, and forcing the mind to focus on that motion and technique to stop it and allow them to reach the DA part of the loop. They tend to freeze so that it will cease vibration in lieu of countering.
PRINCIPLE OF SHEARING
Shearing is also difficult to explain but easy to demonstrate. In lieu of direct impact the stike or energy and power of a strike, kick, etc. should drive through the target like a plow through a hard clay field of soil. It is also incorporating other principles like centrifugal and centripetal. Take an elbow to the ribs. If you actually strike directly into the ribs the bodies natural tendency to harden and shield against the blow takes over but if you strike, plow at an angle to the flat surface and follow through or penetrate in an angular fashion you get shearing effects.
Other principles such as positioning of you and the adversary, centerline of the adversary in relation to your own, and angling, complex forces, live energy, timing, centrifugal and centripetal all contribute to maximizing the effect of power and energy. It then by means of shearing takes away the bodies natural protective shielding capabilities and crushes it.
Using complex force along with principles as a whole will ensure that an adversary will succumb to your efforts to stop violence and its damages while inflicting sufficient damage to the adversary allowing you to leave while maintaining the value of true and legal self-defense.
Bibliography:
Pearlman, Steven J. "The Book of Martial Power." Overlook Press. N.Y. 2006.
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