Contact Placement is basically determining what target(s) to manipulate, with which weapon(s) you choose, and then controlling the situation in order to achieve this goal.
Contact Placement can be as complex as a self-defense technique, or as simple as working spontaneously towards striking a specific intended target.
Contact Placement is most useful in a teaching or training environment in order to demonstrate and/or analyze a specific maneuver, principle, rule, concept, or idea.
Contact Placement can be useful in certain combat situations, but can easily cause the practitioner to be come blinded to unanticipated variables (ie white dot focus), which could dramatically change the outcome of the conflict in favor of the opponent.
Contact Placement differs from Base Move in that Contact Placement only concentrates its emphasis on the placement of a single strike to a single target, leaving any extra movements open to spontaneity.
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