1 inch punch

[mantis]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2356052880328387155&q=kung+fu

1-inch punch!
i am just going to choose to ignore the rest of the clip!

 

[terryl965]

The one inch punched looked great but I don't know about the mind thing.
Master Stoker

 

[mantis]

The one inch punched looked great but I don't know about the mind thing.
Master Stoker

well yeah, that's when i intended to show
even if that other punch wasnt BS i dont think we'd have the chance to do all the voodoo before hitting an apponent

 

[Soldier]

The only way to find out- is to go there and get hit by it.

 

[Soldier]

P.S.
When I was a kid, I tried that on my cousin.
It did not work.
I asked him if he did not believe that it can be done.
He said "it probably can be done" but you can't do it. lol

 

[Nanalo74]

It's simply body mechanics. My uncle used to have me do this on my bigger, stronger cousins when I was a kid to demonstrate that you didn't need to load your punches from a chamber in order for them to be effective.

In the street, you should be able to fire off a shot without having to cock your fist back if you understand body mechanics.

Vic www.combatartsusa.com

 

[still learning]

Hello, Read Bruce Lee's book on the one inch punch....if he can learn it so can you......hard work...on the hands and fingers(push-up).

Like most skills...it takes time to learn and develop. It can be done .....Aloha

 

[Edmund BlackAdder]

The video is interesting. I wasn't aware that the "1 inch punch" was a Taijiquan concept. I thought, probably erroneously, that it was something that Bruce Lee came up with to impress people with.

 

[green meanie]

The punch was nice. The hocus-pocus that came immediately after was a lil disturbing though.

 

[dmax999]

My old WC teacher did the one inch punch to me before. He did it before I had ever heard about it, so my first introduction was getting the wind knocked out of me by it. It really works, and doesn't even require the set up time of the first guy. Most demostrations overdo the theatrics, but it can be done almost instantly in real combat.

Its also a fa-jing strike in TC. I'm beginning to believe it was probably originally a Xing-Yi strike, but could be wrong in that.

 

[Nanalo74]

Yeah, it's a hell of a concept. And I'm all for it as a teaching tool to help demonstrate the power that can be generated in a short distance with proper body mechanics.

It's all the hocus pocus that ticks me off. That's the b.s. in the martial arts that turns people off and I think we can do without.

Vic www.combatartsusa.com

 

[yipman_sifu]

The video is interesting. I wasn't aware that the "1 inch punch" was a Taijiquan concept. I thought, probably erroneously, that it was something that Bruce Lee came up with to impress people with.

I think that Lee Jun Fan stole the credit again, Bruce Lee did not learn the one inch punch by himself, it is a Wing Chun technique that concentrates on the forearm muscles rather than the triceps. Aquiring such a technique requires lots of training on wall bags that are made for chain punches and other wing chun applications.

There is nothing difficult to posses if determination is there. I mean that anyone with determination could master the one inch punch.

 

[Gaoguy]

In the IMA no distance is required for fajing, you can do it at contact. But it isn't done as described above. Rather you have to either stretch or compress the connective tissue (and skeletal structure) and release.

 

[yipman_sifu]

In the IMA no distance is required for fajing, you can do it at contact. But it isn't done as described above. Rather you have to either stretch or compress the connective tissue (and skeletal structure) and release.

You are right, because I also saw people doing it without distance. the influence of the punch is quite powerful more than expected.

 

[Laoshi77]

I think that Lee Jun Fan stole the credit again,

Yipman,
I don't believe that the 'one inch punch' is just synonymous with Wing Chun.

Taiqiquan also has this, but can often be seen as a palm stroke when close in to an opponent. So it is not a Wing Chun technique any more than any other style that would incorporate explosive power or 'fajing'.

Best wishes.

 

[yipman_sifu]

Yipman,
I don't believe that the 'one inch punch' is just synonymous with Wing Chun.

Taiqiquan also has this, but can often be seen as a palm stroke when close in to an opponent. So it is not a Wing Chun technique any more than any other style that would incorporate explosive power or 'fajing'.

Best wishes.

Hi Laoshi

Sure it is not only wing Chun, because most of this pushing away attacks are related to internal arts methods mostly. You know, I am still waiting to get a Taichi school near my area, I think that combining Taichi with Wing Chun is something really great.

Take care

Regards
Yipman Sifu

 

[Bigshadow]

It's simply body mechanics.

I agree with that! Definitely body mechanics (using the kinetic energy of body movement), not super strength.

 

[Jagermeister]

How many times do you think they had to rehearse that big, exaggerated fall after the 1 inch punch? Gimme a break. I think that the 1 inch punch is real technique that works, but what a bunch of acting that was in that clip. For one thing, watch it in slow motion. Really, do it. It's actually more like a 1 foot punch. There is wind-up in this particular guy's technique. And the impact wasn't really all that devestating, despite the hammed up reaction to it.

And that magician - wow. He could unify the belts without even taking a punch. I wonder why he doesn't box or fight competitively. Hmmm....

 

[yipman_sifu]

How many times do you think they had to rehearse that big, exaggerated fall after the 1 inch punch? Gimme a break. I think that the 1 inch punch is real technique that works, but what a bunch of acting that was in that clip. For one thing, watch it in slow motion. Really, do it. It's actually more like a 1 foot punch. There is wind-up in this particular guy's technique. And the impact wasn't really all that devestating, despite the hammed up reaction to it.

And that magician - wow. He could unify the belts without even taking a punch. I wonder why he doesn't box or fight competitively. Hmmm....

I want to know about the inch puncher in the video, the magicion told that he is a Wing Chun trainer, but I never knew this guy to be a in the Wing Chun association, So i wonder why this magicion is saying that he is the best in Hong Kong, mabye he meant Weng Chun and not Wing Chun.

 

[barriecusvein]

http://www.sas-martialarts.co.uk/images/final/mpegs/5th_rank_mpegs/1inch%20Punch%20-%20Paul.wmv

http://www.sas-martialarts.co.uk/images/final/mpegs/5th_rank_mpegs/Floating%20Punch%20II%20-%20Paul.wmv

This is one of the guys from where i learn doing an inch punch (ok so its a little more than an inch, but its pretty much there!).

The second clip is it being demonstrated with a partner.

The 'magician' from the previous video is Derren Brown, he's done many things that are just as, if not more, amazing than this (like memorizing the order of 4 decks of cards). He's a fairly common sight here in the UK, not sure if his show has been aired in the US. He specialises in reading body language, manipulating subconcious thought etc. There is another clip of him on google video, its one of my favourites from his show:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7688956389104405762&q=derren+brown

(on edit: very poor gramatical error corrected)