Close Striking Assault’ means to conduct a sudden assault in a very short distance or close range during combat. This method consists of very effective assaulting result. Since it is carried out in a sudden manner and in a very short distance, it will usually catch the opponents by surprise; despite the opponents may have certain reaction, they can hardly avoid being hit. Since the method is very powerful and destructive, and can damage the internal organs of the opponents, it will continuously put them in a defensive rather than an offensive position. Normally this method will be used in a very close distance when the opponents are not well prepared, the opponents’ mind, chi, and spirit will be badly disrupted due to such sudden strike.

In Chinese Martial Arts’ category, there are various definitions and names for `Close Striking Assault’, such as `Close Striking Assault’, `Tremble Strike’, `Explosive Strike’, `Pointing Strike’, etc. After decades of practice, we can summarize the `Close Striking Assault’ as ` Strike at one point, Go through every points!’ This `Close Striking Assault’ does not cause obvious epidermal damage on human body; in fact it will cause a strong striking wave inside the human body and thus cause a penetrating and tremble effect in the internal organs. After strike, the opponents will usually feel dizzy, and vomiting. The light impact may disarm the opponents’ strength for further fight; on the other hand, severe impact may lead to internal bleeding or even death. This is a special technique in Martial Arts ― strike on the outside, hurt the inside. This method can be carried out by using palm, fist, and elbow.

During combat, when the opponent has been hit, he will feel a dramatic tremble inside his body, just like the echo from the valley, the sound reflects from the obstacle and bounce back to create continuous echo.

If the abdomen has been hit, the internal organs such as stomach, intestines, liver, spleen, and pancreas will be tremble and vibrated substantially. Those organs will hit the spine and reflect to the organs to cause another vibration. If the heart has been hit, it will cause irregular heartbeat or increase the rate of heartbeat. If the stomach has been hit, it will cause vomiting, feeling upset and even throw up blood. If the liver has been hit, it will cause internal bleeding. This is due to the blood vessels being cracked during the sudden impact come form the strike. In this situation, the echo effect will be high, and the vibration frequency will be high too.

If you consider `Close Striking Assault’ is fast and heavy, you would rather consider it a sudden impact with amazing penetrating power; the stronger the penetrating power, the higher the effectiveness of the strike. Especially when the opponent has first been hit, we do not let him have any chance to rest, but to carry out continuous strike. The effect is similar to the ocean earthquake ― wave after wave ― the internal organs will experience continuous impacts and vibrations, and it causes abrupt heartbeat, blood vessels cracking, internal organs bleeding, and it causes severe damage to the internal body; and we should highly aware of the consequence. During practice, we must be very careful to control the strength and the power of the strike, in order to prevent any unwanted accident. This assault method is not recommended to use unless your life has been frightened.

In Martial Arts, there are two ways to employ powerful strike: the first is to start from a long distance; the other is to start from a short distance. Long distance strike can defeat the opponent and throw him out to a certain distance from you. Short distance strike, however, use `Close Striking Assault’ technique to defeat the opponent with a sudden, fast, and surprise effect that the opponent can hardly evade the attack. It may not throw the opponent out to a certain distance, but it causes a tremendous tremble from the internal organs of the body, which destruct his mind and spirit to the extend that he losses his defensive ability.

How can we achieve a proper management of practicing and implementing the `Close Striking Assault’? That depends on continuous hardworking practice, in-depth observance, realistic understanding, repetitive practice, and the focus on balancing the combination of real vs. fake action, fast vs. slow timing, using your whole body as a fist, then you can combine your mind, chi, spirit, and strength from your body and concentrate it to “Strike at one point”. This kind of `Close Striking Assault’ will then be very powerful.

Why there are some people who understand the theory and have the right action, but they still could not obtain the desirable results? That is caused by the lack of substantial practice, and more hardworking effort should be invested to achieve the success. When the `Kung Fu’ is well practiced, the penetrating effect will be bigger and stronger. If the style can be maneuvered appropriately, you will be able to destruct a bigger power with small effort, overcome a stronger opponent even though you are relatively weaker then him, and achieve a winning situation through god strategy.

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