 All right, so I got my buddy here Larry bouncer for eight years and ex-military for five years You're telling me how much did you punch when you were in your old days? 1174 pounds per square inch. Okay, so that's definitely a really hard punch. Okay, maybe you can do as much now But max I do now probably about 900. I haven't worked out for quite a while. Okay, so 900 pounds per square inch That's how hard you're punching. All right, so how do you use softness to defeat such a hard? Punch, so we're just gonna do a demonstration You're just gonna hit me like I showed you and then I'm not gonna turn anything on just out just regular. Okay, so go Okay, so one more time And how many percent are you hitting? 40 40 percent. Okay, so And how's that so how I feel is that I feel shaking through my body because That energy is getting pretty much stuck here. All right, so if that was a little harder, it'll start to hurt Okay, so now I'm gonna turn on some softness Okay, and I'll explain what that means later. Okay, how many percent you're doing? I should do one fold so you can gauge it back. Okay do one fold just I want to ramp it up So let's say you do 80 percent something Ready? Okay, now do 100 percent Oh, I can feel that but Not all of it. How does that go? It actually feels sore right here What happened to that energy when it bounces back as it feels sore like the other times they hit you It didn't feel sore, but this time it does it kind of bounces back the energy right and you were hitting pretty hard Yeah, okay, so that's one way you use softness All right, it's to actually minimize the energy that goes in your body in your organs So that I will damage your organs and internally and actually send the energy down to into the feet Into the ground and actually it actually bounces back to the attacker. Isn't that interesting? Okay, so that's softness and one way the Chinese explained this is like a iron fist in the velvet club You're soft on the outside by heart on the inside All right, here's another demonstration how to use softness Against hardness. Okay, so I'm just kind of stiff here and he's gonna hit my arm And that's kind of hurting my arm. Yeah, me too. Me too. Okay, so Because I'm stiff okay, I'm stiff and he's using stiffness against my stiffness So the energy is gonna get stuck here and it's gonna damage my muscles and nerves here Okay, so I'm not now I'm gonna turn on the softness harder harder harder Harder, that hurts you, right? Well, I hurt you elbow hit my elbow. Yeah, okay. Don't hit my elbow here here 100% all right, so tell explain how that hurts in here Okay, so he yeah, yeah, there's a pain in the arm where there shouldn't be pain basically Because I'm hitting him. He's not hitting me It shouldn't hurt you mean instantly after hitting him. It shouldn't be hurting Because the energy can bounce back Yeah, he does it. I don't know All right Larry, so tell me tell the audience what you felt with that demonstration Well, basically When I hit my forearm against his forearm, I should be the one transferring pain to him through the assault, but After the initial contact the pain is in my arm. It feels like It shouldn't feel sore right off the back when I'm hitting a person like that It the pain should be in them not in me It feels like the energy got bounced back or something. All right, so what's one way to use softness against hardness? Well, it's kind of like this analogy. Let's say you have a hammer really hard and you're hitting a sponge What happens nothing right? It just absorbs the energy nothing does it damage the sponge? Not really Okay, but if you use the hammer to hit a brick what happens? Most likely the bricks gonna shatter because it's stiff, okay? So for example, let's say he's gonna be pushing me. All right, and I'm really stiff It's like ah, I'm not gonna let you push me Okay, see how far I go back because I'm still just transfer all the energy is transferred And they actually goes out this way and my body is flying backwards this way Okay, you've got a tough guy here 240 pounds right to an 210 pounds and I'm 100 for five He's putting string of all this force I'm gonna go way back and just find some bar chair or maybe some glass and I don't want to be doing that right so Let's see. Let's say I do deal with softness. I'm totally soft and he does the same push same energy What happened? How come I didn't fly as far as back again? How come I didn't go as far as back. I didn't go back as far, right? Well, that's because I'm using softness to absorb that energy and transfer it to the ground All right, so now I'm gonna demonstrate to you how to use softness in your attacks to increase damage So here's something I'm just doing about 20% right with a basic stiff Stiff punch, okay now 20% How's that feel? It hurts more. Okay, so a little softer Yeah Okay, so how much more pain hurts? It hurts, yeah It's almost got the almost as a fun process to take the wind out of me Okay, so I'm using the same force, but the relaxation Relaxation cause more damage. It's like a whiplash because I know it's like you make contact and then it's the big down Right, right that way because I'm using softness. Yeah, too. Basically. I'm Transferring it Into your fish. Okay. If you do it fast like this boom It just gets stuck in the in the frame, right? But I'm actually soft and I actually I'm actually slowly pushing it into the body Okay, so how much more painful would that be using? The way you're doing it the second way it's a lot more painful Okay, so that's how you use softness and it'll be easier on your knuckles, too Yeah, it's done the punch like this anyone. Yeah, it breaks your knuckles if you look you can see there's stitch marks there from surgeries Yeah, so don't use your fist when it's the worst fight worst All right, so that's how you use softness to increase damage in your attacks, especially if you're smaller like me or you're Not as strong your muscles aren't as big or you're getting older and you don't have muscle mass that you normally do Then you need to know how to maximize the damage with the minimal effort All right, and also not it not break your fist or break your knuckles when you're attacking And then having to get surgery on your hand, right? So this is how you do it is you use softness use a whipping motion instead of using a stiff Hard punch in order to create more damage in your attacks. Hey, thanks for watching this video So what did you learn in this lesson Larry? Well, basically by using soft Concepts and fighting you can absorb and get less damage in a fight and be able to transfer the damage back To that person trying to injure you All right, cool So, yeah, if you want to learn more about this internal art how to use softness To increase your defensive capability increase your offensive capability through softness This is really a contradiction, right? How do you use softness to to pick a better fighter? Well, that's why we use this ancient chinese art and if you want to learn more about that Make sure you subscribe to this channel and check out some of my other awesome videos too So we'll see you in the next lesson