[Wilhelm von Wankenstein]

Pummelling is hard to describe in words without diagrams or, better still, a video, but it's an exercise in which both partners compete to get their arms inside the other party's and hence in a position to go for a bodylock, while fighting off attempts to do the same. The trick is to keep circling your forearms to the inside of your partner's forearms while endeavouring to keep him from doing the same. The result is a drill that looks vaguely reminiscent of chi sau or tuishou - which it resembles even more closely - of all things, with the objective of securing a superior grappling position. I have worked with a few wrestlers and other grapplers who train using pummelling (it's practically de rigeur in submission these days) and the wrestlers especially are marvellously soft and sensitive in the way they work. You can sense they're awesomely strong, but most of the time, they don't need it nor indeed does the way they grapple emphasize that kind of strength much.