The way we train is without padding, but we use control. My partner and I simulate a Realistic Actual/Armed Combat Experience (RACE). What I mean is, I get into a mock argument with him, and try to de-escalate the situation. He may strike at any moment with any weapon wherever he chooses and he can strike as many times as he likes. The goal is to react without thinking and end the confrontation in any way. If you hesitate or slow down to think about what to do next, it ends and your turn is up. If I or my opponent see or feel a strike that we believe would be ineffective, we wait until the attack ends and then go over it slowly and try to see how the body would react. The problem is, if I strike him too hard, I may hurt him, and if I strike too softly, he wont react correctly. I want to know how his body will act when struck with True Force. Any ideas?
You're confusing training methodologies sir. You're engaging in "Scenario Training" that encompasses a wide range of issues including emotion inducing stressors, and requires an in-depth understanding of the Psychology of Confrontation. Before you move to Scenario Training you must address the correct application of the physicality of the process, absent the stressors that tend to corrupt the process.
The only way YOU can learn Induced Martial Posture is to have someone teach it to you a little at a time, in conjunction with the defensive application from both the perspective of attacker and victim. Or you must significantly attack and strike/seize your training partner surreptitiously, with significant energy to induce a spontaneous and substantially uncomfortable reaction, and capture that reaction from multiple directions on video for later study.
However, this will not yield an understanding of how the body is performing or reacting subcutaneously, nor will it reveal subtle weight distribution issues that can have a profound impact on effectiveness and vulnerability possibilities and options.
What you need access to is "knowledge and experience." Neither of them will be found in a chart, graph, or cliff notes, or are they "easy"ily obtained. There are no short-cuts sir if you want to really learn. Or you can bang around with a buddy, and develop a reasonable expectation of what and how you would like to do things, and have fun doing it.
My math tutor once said, "Do you want to be a mathematician, or just balance your checkbook?" If you just want to "balance your checkbook," than keep doing what you're doing and learn as much as you can from it. If you want more, you're not going to find it on a forum. You need a really good teacher, and willingness to be patient and put in the time sir with that teacher. My mentor and Econ Professor, Dr. Thomas Sowell, once said, "There is no such thing as a free lunch. You may not pay, but someone else always does."
In your case you're looking for that free lunch, but in these matters, you're going to have to pay the bill yourself, or you won't eat sir. Either raise the level of your commitment, or be satisfied with what your level of commitment is capable of yielding. You're looking for "easy." There is no "easy" way to become competent at anything.
Good luck!
