But did you watch it? I don't care who does it, only of the results.Forgive me for stopping the video when they brought in the Shaolin monk. They are the wrong ones to "test" for that kind of test. With that said, there are a number of people who could better demonstrate the one inch punch.
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I'd love to see one of them. :asian:With that said, there are a number of people who could better demonstrate the one inch punch.
In fairness, she did say they had measured to impact from boxers and that the first punch matched the boxer. Then she said, with regard to the one inch punch, that they had never had that power generated by anyone before. I agree that it would have been good to see the actual reading.This is entertainment, not science. You'll notice that all three punches were reported with a different type of measurement for the result. And there's no control. Why don't the compare the host's 1 inch punch, and a boxers 1 inch punch to the monk's?
I'm not saying it's not impressive, I'm just saying that there's a lot left out of the report.
But did you watch it? I don't care who does it, only of the results.
Something that irritates me about this is that they call it Bruce Lee's one inch punch.
It's not his one inch punch at all , it is Wing Chun's one inch punch and Wing Chun people were doing it a long time before Bruce Lee was even born.
After watching the video very closely , you can see that the monk's fist and forearm are quite tense , this is quite the opposite to how a proper one inch punch in Wing Chun is performed.
Being tense is like trying to accelerate in your car with the brake on.
We totally relax the arm and body to achieve maximum velocity and transfer our body mass into the target.
Far be it from me to tell a shaolin monk how to train , but I dare say if he learned to relax he could probably generate even more power than what he's getting now.
aye, and I get irritated when people think the technique (any technique) is simply mimicking the movement. There's more to it than that. But people think that's it, so then someone does just that, mimicks the movement and they try to make conclusions out of that "experiment". It just doesn't work like that.
Exactly right , there is so much more to it than that.
When I tell people that one of the main components of a good one inch punch is to have extremely relaxed thighs they look at you like you have a screw loose.
But it is true , whenever someone strikes , some of that energy will rebound from the target they are hitting and go back through their own body.
If the person is tense that will cause a blockage and the force will travel back into them and push them back slightly out of their stance lessening the amount of force that is put into the target.
In Wing Chun by relaxing the whole body any of the rebound force is channeled down our bodies , down through our stance and into the floor , if it is done properly the force of the punch will actually push us into the floor making our stance even stronger and increasing the amount of body mass that is transfered into the target.
Not magic , it's just the way the Wing Chun stance was designed to work.
But did you watch it? I don't care who does it, only of the results.
Something that irritates me about this is that they call it Bruce Lee's one inch punch.
It's not his one inch punch at all , it is Wing Chun's one inch punch and Wing Chun people were doing it a long time before Bruce Lee was even born.
After watching the video very closely , you can see that the monk's fist and forearm are quite tense , this is quite the opposite to how a proper one inch punch in Wing Chun is performed.
Being tense is like trying to accelerate in your car with the brake on.
We totally relax the arm and body to achieve maximum velocity and transfer our body mass into the target.
Far be it from me to tell a shaolin monk how to train , but I dare say if he learned to relax he could probably generate even more power than what he's getting now.
It's still force = mass X acceleration. The monks punch clearly had a pull back to about 3 in. before accelerating forward and his technique allowed him to transfer a great deal of body mass into the technique. (No intended slam in the observation about the real distance. It is very difficult to control for the tendancy to pull back and I'm not sure how much additional acceleration that permits.) My Grandmaster regularly did one inch breaks. It was still mass X acceleration. The other "demonstrations"... barring input from an engineer or physicist, it appears to me that breaking a long staff around someone allows the tip to accelerate well beyond the impact point on the staff resulting in the break of the staff. While I'm sure the impact force is large, it's not the same as the impact from the accelerating tip if that were to strike the body; and some of the force is dissipated in the process of the staff breaking. Similarly, breaking a slab against the body dissipates the force in the slab as it breaks much like the crumple zone of a car front end. The spear tip; he clearly controlled the placement of the spear head (a double head which spreads the force over a greater surface area) and held the spear head until there was a significant bend in the shaft. All of this dissipates the force at the spear tip and is not analogous to bracing against a sharp tip that has a trajectory moving straight into the neck without tangential forces. So, great showmanship, and the force he generated in the punch was real force. I don't know if the lay public is well served by demonstrations of "magical" powers that rely on giving the impression of withstanding blows that are less than they appear.Hmm,same crash test dummy, same scientist measuring the results, and Lucia Rijkers hits with 922 lbs of force, apparently the same as the much larger Houston Alexander, yet the monks punch is so impressive?
Being tense is like trying to accelerate in your car with the brake on.
We totally relax the arm and body to achieve maximum velocity and transfer our body mass into the target.
After watching the video very closely , you can see that the monk's fist and forearm are quite tense , this is quite the opposite to how a proper one inch punch in Wing Chun is performed.
Being tense is like trying to accelerate in your car with the brake on.