Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-24267641-20160615202445/@comment-2089817-20160616010554

Well, honestly I'm not sure where to start. Bear with me though, please don't take what I say as insulting, I just tend to go on long rants when martial art-related ideas are discussed. But it should help you go in the right direction.

This isn't an advanced Hakuda technique, simply because this only requires basic reiatsu control (coating it around your hand), which would be taught in Shino Academy and probably be refined by any basic Hakuda specialist in the Onmitsukido. In fact, I would dare say a move like this would actually be a requirement for anybody entering the Onmitsukido. Would you be able to call it a necessary technique? Yes, I would. Onmitsukido members probably would use this sort of technique, especially if they are Hakuda specialists. But calling it the pinnacle of Hakuda is way way way off. Martial arts is many levels more than just "hitting really hard". In truth, there is no "the pinnacle" of Hakuda. Martial arts is about self-development, and as such, if you had ten Hakuda Masters, you would have ten different "pinnacles of Hakuda". Of course, there is truth to the idea that martial arts does have different stages to it, but these stages of development are up for interpretation.

Now, another major issue I have with this is that you called it a "soft-type" technique, which was used by Aizen as a "hard-type"...? I think you have these jumbled up. Hard means to meet force with force, colliding power, but this doesn't mean just offense. Force can be applied to deflect an attack, for instance. It can be used to neutralize an attack. Soft-type, on the other hand, is to avoid direct contact with incoming force. You lead it, guide it, and use its strength against it while using the minimal necessary strength of your own to do so. I don't see anything about this that makes it soft. It's completely hard-type.

So, establishing that, you want to improve this technique, correct? From what I see, your intention was to create a technique that heightens piercing power, turning the hand into a literal substitute for a sword. And you wanted to make it even more advanced by having it be able to "When executed properly, it merely diverts the material on either side of the hand, allowing its piercing power to be achieved." Okay, well, I see why you were trying to use soft-type to explain the technique. But you're really pushing it with the explanation. I really think you should leave it out.

If you want to achieve the same effect, I would rather suggest you use the explanation that the strike is conducted with such perfect precision by a Hakuda Master that space itself bends in the path of the knifehand strike, and in doing so, everything is bent and therefore split in its path, which causes it to be an extremely useful piercing and cutting technique. Does that sound good?