quadrants

I thought it might be a good idea to open the forum to pressure point ideas that cover a different area of this rich domain. I suggest looking a quadrants as an idea that you can then integrate into a technique in your style, and post the results here. I'll post it a bit like pressure point of the week.

There are essentially 8 quadrants: 4 in front and 4 in the back. They divide the body forward and back, left and right, and upper and lower.

The easiest use of quadrants would be in a wrist lock. Pick your favorite wrist lock. This would put you in the an upper right or upper left quadrant. When you execute the lock, experiment with aiming the energy (1) no place in particular but at angle of convenience, (2) aiming it at uke's center line and (3) aiming it at the opposite quadrant which would be towards the opposite leg.

The exercise is as much mental as physical. Try it and post your results.

Another use would be in striking. Strike points in opposite quadrants. One of my personal favorites is LI 18 on one side and Lv 14 or 13 on the other. Go easy at first and be sure, if you are not going easy, that someone is around with good revival skills. To me, this one feels like a bolt of electricity in my gut. It would incapacitate me for a moment and give my opponent a clear edge for the next tempo.

Play and report on your own ideas.

Oh quardrents... now they are fun. Especially once you start spiralling through the quadrents! Oh and quadrents within quadrents is even more of a hoot. Extending the quadrents is the most fun to be had of all IMHO though. Gotta go training now, but I'll give you all some fun things to do with thinking in quadrents tomorrow! Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... pain!

MMMMMM.... pressure points...

While my moniker is "Wristtwister"... the people in the Aikido community call me "Dr. Pain"....

No wonder we get along...

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Hokay, fun with quadrents! I'm going to take a slightly different route than Underdog and explain it without PP's (shock horror!) and then you can stick the points in where you like.

Quadrent theory IMHO is a packaged way of looking at Yin and Yang, or the theory of oppisites. Take a front view of the body then stick a vertical line straight down the middle splitting the body in half, dividing it into left and right. Now draw a horizontal line across the body spliting into upper and lower. Now you've got four quadrants, so let's number them:

Q1 = Upper Right
Q2 = Upper Left
Q3 = Lower Right
Q4 = Lower Left.

Cool. Now stick a line straight down the middle of the body dividing it into front and rear. This will take us to 8 quadrants 1-4 listed above are now at the front and the others will be numbered as followed and be at the rear:

Q5 = Upper Right Rear
Q6 = Upper Left Rear
Q7 = Lower Right Rear
Q8 = Lower Left Rear

Still with me? Hopefully, lets play. The classic way of demonstrating this is to use nikkyo/centre lock/s-lock. Apply Nikkyo to your training partner's right hand and twist their wrist into Q1. You'll probably get a mild reaction. Now try twisting it into Q2. A bit better? Now try Q3... things more painful. By the time you get to Q4 your partner should be hugging your ankles. Cool huh?

Now lets work the rear quadrants. First Q5. You need to focus your intent and really try and push their wrist into Q5 (basically through their back) - be careful with the rear quadrants as they bite quickly!. Now do the same with the other quadrants, by the time you get to Q8 your partner should be falling backwards to the left very quickly and with very little effort!

Hokay, some more fun. If you've still got a training partner willing to play lets have some fun with figure 8 movements. Apply nikkyo and push into Q1, then into Q2, down to Q3, across to Q4 and then back to Q1 to start the figure 8 again. DO THIS SLOWLY! This done properly bites like a mofo and remember you're only using the front 4 quadrants! Doing the same with the rear quadrants hurts even more! All we are doing here is using a simply vertical figure 8 motion through 4 quadrants. Now try the same using a horizontal figure 8!

Start off with nikkyo into Q1, now cycle back into Q5, now into Q2, Q6 and back to Q1. Basically you are moving the lock through 4 quadrants on a horizontal plain. Try it working the figure 8 in Q3, Q7, Q4 and Q8. Now if you combining the figure 8 on both the horizontal and vertical plains you'll be getting some brilliant results with minimal effort.

The quadrant theory can be applied using sttriking, choking, throwing, PP and anything else you care to think you. Moving through the quadrants allows you to exert force over the body in directions that are extremely hard for the body's structure to withstand. If you're dealing with the left side, simply mirror the quadrants so Q1 is now on in the front upper left and Q8 is in the lower right rear. Have a play and if you have any questions just ask!

Hope that made sense???

Gav