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...it depends on the pressure. If your goal is to break structure, absorb, or deflect energy, a softer approach might be more effective. However, if you want to disrupt their position or throw them off balance with precise timing, a hard pak can work very well too...
...Pak Sau can be many things, and it truly depends on if you’re the one initiating the bridging or responding to someone’s attack, and in both cases, which “gate” (id est, inside or outside, top or mid). And there’s variations of Pak, as well, not all just slapping to the side to deflect or open their centerline...
...In reality, distance plays a practical part in where the Pak Sau lands as well. Typically the further away you are from the punch, the further from the elbow the Pak contacts. For sure there are solid reasons to Pak to the elbow, but the concepts and principles of the system teach us that Pak Sau = control and helping hand, no matter where it lands...
