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Pressure Transfer
Pressure Transfer, sometimes called Compression[1], is a Sterility technique that transfers the pressure from one surface to another (usually larger) surface.
Pressure Transfer is one of the two main components that make up a Compressed Punch, the other being Sterile Acceleration.
Elaboration
For example, one could strike at an opponent with a needle, thus concentrating the entire force of the strike into the point of the needle, and creating large amounts of pressure (for pressure is but force over area). Before the needle hits, a pressure transfer could be excersised to transfer the pressure at the tip of the needle onto, say, a frying pan, with which the opponent is struck instead.
The effect of the pressure transfer, in this case, would be to apply the pressure of the needle to each needle-sized subsection of the frying pan. In other words, the force of the strike is multiplied by the surface area of the frying pan, and instead of a needle puncturing a small hole into the opponent’s body, the strike with the pan instead creates a frying-pan sized hole.
This illustrates that the power of this technique is greater the larger of a surface the pressure is transferred onto. Consequently, it should come as no surprise that the difficulty of this technique grows in kind, and few are able to transfer pressure to an object much larger than a frying pan.
The extra force required to maintain the same pressure over a much larger surface area is drawn from sterility.
Notes
- ↑ While ‘compression’ is a term that would more accurately describe Sterile Acceleration instead, a ‘compressed’ technique usually refers to one to which pressure transfer has been applied.