Friday, June 15, 2007

After creating

the gap make yourself a hard target by
'ballooning', or 'stalking'. This is done by pacing left to right
without taking your eyes off the opponent, at the same time
you shout out verbal commands like, 'stay there, don't
move!' and point to the opponent, this acts as a secondary
back up fence to the verbal.
Interestingly the ballooning also triggers innate instincts
within the opponent that go right back to the dawn of
mammalian man, when we were not at the top of the food
chain and were prey to bigger animals. Your antagonist will
literally feel as though he is being 'stalked' before attack. The
thought that he is being hunted like a wild beast will serve to
increase his woe. If you watch the cheetah when it hunts the
antelope, he balloons (or stalks) just before the attack -in fact
most animals do, we are no exception. It can be used by us
as an attacking tool to trick the opponent into a flight
response, or against us -often inadvertently -to effect the
same 'freeze' or 'flight' tendencies.