Stan that's something a bit different.
Plain ol' pinching is removing the growing tip, about the top inch of the plant, or each branch, if you continue on with it.
It differs from FIM-ing in that pinching essentially makes a cut through an internodal region, while FIM if done properly cuts DIRECTLY through the tissue at the active node at the top of the plant, and may take a bit longer to recover and resume side growht than a straigh pinch, but results in multiple new tops rather than the 2 that a pinch gives.
As an aside, the bending thing I did by mistake on a few plants recently and ended up with a bunch of vigorous growth from the LOWEST nodes.. ?? No complaining here though~