Masaaki Noiri: The Art of Methodical Pressure

How small steps and methodical forward pressure can crowd kicks and defuse intercepting knees.

Pressure fighting at its most fundamental level is the practice of taking and holding space, but there exists as many flavors of it as there are colors in the alphabet. Swarmers seek to maximize their damage output on trapped opponents without necessarily maximizing the time spent holding ground, while pressure counter fighters use the taking of space t…