How to bring the rooster on point
Pointing is the final stage in the gamefowl’s conditioning for the actual fight. If conditioning is to prepare a cock for battle, pointing is to prepare the cock for the moment of battle.
Lately, pointing has become a specific stage of the gamefowl’s preparation specialized by some higher masters of the game. It is not uncommon nowadays that the pre-conditioning and conditioning stages are handled by assistants handlers and feeders. But, most of the time it is the chief conditioner who will take care of pointing.
Pointing is the culmination of all the time, effort and knowledge put into the gamefowl being prepared for the fight. Here, in this final act, there would be no room for mistakes. So close, to the fight, there would be hardly enough time to adjust or correct a mistake at this point.
Without doubt, the aspect of gamefowl conditioning has assumed a much greater role in the outcome of a cockfight. Whereas, sometime ago it was rather breeding or quality of the gamefowl that almost always told the difference between winning and losing, now, the situation could be a different story.
Now it seems, at top level competition, gamefowl are already created about equal. Therefore, some emphasis should shift toward discovering superior conditioning methods. After a while, many have already adopted or formulated equally good conditioning techniques. So it boiled down to one very important aspect of conditioning which is pointing.
Soon, the focus will be zooming in on pointing as a factor that will spell the difference between winning and losing.
Pointing, in short, is bringing the rooster at the edge of conditioning at fight time.
How do you do it? One is by stress management-- managing stress to time the release of adrenaline at the moment of battle, not earlier. We all know that the realease of adrenaline can do wonder to the responses of the body.
