courtesy of sifu_sansoo@...

As you know, leverage is an intergal part of Cabales Serrada. You
often hear that leverage is sometimes said to be anything other than
a strike, so one can well imagine the varied types of leverage. The
unifying concept categorically is basically the application of
stress on bone groups and joints to attain an endpoint, i.e., hit,
slash, control, injury, flip, takedown, death, etc.

Even a push to unbalance the opponent is one type of leverage. A few
exceptions to this are those moves in which you wish to get behind
the opponent while retaining the hold, like a hammerlock. Leverage
is predominantly applied through a pushing action with 90% of
leverage stress being pushes.

The use of leverage allows control relatively easily without alot of
physical effort. Most leverage is not physically taxing because it
is based on the physical and mechanical limitations of the body as
they apply to, and obey, the physical laws of the earth (physics).
With proper set-up grip and positioning, little effort can achieve
maximum benefits or any endpoint so desired. I teach alot of
leverage knowing Kung Fu San Soo and I was amazed when I started
learning Cabales Serrada from GM Cabales in 1998, just how much
leverage the art used. I'm aware of numerous similarities between
Cabales Serrada and Kung Fu San Soo, like both arts fight out of a
Natural position, but thats another discussion.

A more radicial rotational leverage is shoulder leverage either in
the form of a hammerlock or "bent L" configuration. A hammerlock
stresses the upper arm/shoulder junction, the elbow, the wrists and
accompanying musculature with potential multiple bone breaks,
muscle, tendon, cartilage and/or nerve damage. You can also cause
your opponent to break his own shoulder by falling to the ground
while the hammerlock is retained. This rotates the shoulder joint
until it cannot bear the falling weight and breaks.

99% of most martial art systems and styles do no leverage. They only
execute punches, kicks, blocks, etc. Leverage is an intellectual
part of martial arts which only a few really understand. But in
Cabales Serrada and Kung Fu San Soo you have lots of leverage to
use. Good luck on your film. Sifu, "Kali-San Soo Ranch"..Ashland,
Oregon. Train in the "Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument"