I would absolutely put the spinning backfist into the list as a circular punch. I believe there are better and worse ways to root and rotate to deliver the power with it, not everyone does it the same. But when done well, it can be devastating. I practice the spinning backfist on a heavy bag regularly. It is very powerful.
The way that I learned was to try to do what was described to me. So when my sifu at the time stated that I want to move my weight into the punch, then I practiced that over and over until if felt like that. I literally keep failing at it and one day "clarity" hit me and I was able to do it, but it took a lot of failures before I could get it right.
Back in the 70, there was a tournament in Hong Kong. In that tournament, a CLF guy threw a right circular punch. A WC guy used a left Tan Shou to block it. That CLF guy's circular punch not only knocked through the WC guy's left Tan Shou, but also hit on the WC guy's head. After the tournament, the WC guy went back and tried to get solution from his teacher Ip Men. Ip Men told him to use a right Tan Shou (plus body rotation) to block an opponent's right circular punch instead.
There's no need to show you the video. You wouldn't be able to point out the things that just I mentioned in the screenshots simply by looking at the video. I'm not sure if know Jow Ga long fist techniques, but we don't use anything that would come close to describing a "long hook." You still wouldn't believe me about the 40% because you never sparred with me and you.
If you are chasing the wrong thing, because a strike deceived you then you'll never have enough time. That's why people get kicked in the face when they reach low to block a kick that they think will hit their leg. Once you make one decision, it takes quite a bit of time for you to be able to reverse that decision and make the correct. By the time you realize you made the wrong move, you'll only have enough time to tense up your face and prepare for impact.
When a long fist circular punch is done correct, it will travel outside of your field of vision and your brain will stop processing it all together, literally forgetting that it's a punch. I've been able to easily hit people with slower punches.
In systems that use circular long fist punches, student are taught by default that the circular punches can be used to either attack the guard, incoming strike, the body, or the head. It doesn't matter because the movement stays the same. Here's me using a circular punch to attack a round house kick. A linear would be addressed in a similar way. Here you can see that I 'm willing to punish that kicking leg with a circular punch. Here it's important to keep my punch circular so that the kick doesn't break my arm. A circular punch isn't a head on colision
If your opponent dodges under your circular punch, you may get him into a reverse head lock.
Not sure what you are talking about. If you don't train long fist circular punches then there's no way you would be able to fully connect the power. If you can't do this then your test will be off and biased towards your ability to do one punch and the inability to do another.
That's why sucker punches are so dangerous. The brain doesn't even know it's coming.
If you are chasing the wrong thing, because a strike deceived you then you'll never have enough time. That's why people get kicked in the face when they reach low to block a kick that they think will hit their leg. Once you make one decision, it takes quite a bit of time for you to be able to reverse that decision and make the correct. By the time you realize you made the wrong move, you'll only have enough time to tense up your face and prepare for impact.
When a long fist circular punch is done correct, it will travel outside of your field of vision and your brain will stop processing it all together, literally forgetting that it's a punch. I've been able to easily hit people with slower punches.
When done correctly the punch hides behind the body or close enough to the body so that your eyes don't pick it up. That's what is happening here.
In addition to that. Trying to grab circular punches is not the best way to approach them because of the path that they travel. An attempt to grab the punch will most likely fall short. Linear punches go straight so all you have to do is intercept a linear path. Circular punches can change the path that the travel.
If you were to compare a linear punch it would be the x-axis. Traveling in a straight path. Let's say 0 represents The person punching. It is the origin of the punch. Lets say at (1,0) represent inches away from the body that the arm has traveled. So with a linear punch, by the time it moves an inch away from the body, that's the path that it will continue to take to a person's face at (7,0) Now lets take a look a the wave. The Sine wave represents a long fist technique. From 0 inches to 1 inch we can see that their are 2 different circulars punches takes a different path, but they share the same point of travel at (1,.08) So at 1 inch away from the body is where that path of the punch can change directions. Lets say the steep wave is an upper cut, the bigger wave is targeting the head. So I can start with a punch that looks like an upper cut and then change it to a punch that attacks the head.
Because circular punches can loop back without stopping, I'll be able to attack left or right using the same arm. In this graph, the left side is above the A axis. The right is is below the x-axis. If my circular punch comes from the left side and travels right, then when it gets to the right side. I can make it to the opposite of what it did on the left side. If my Palm is the impact surface going left to right, then the back of my hand with be the impact service going right to left.
The problem with circular punches is that you don't know when that of the punch will change, unless the person only knows how to throw one type of Circular punch. If all you know are big circular hay makers then it's easy to find the path because only one path exists.
In systems that use circular long fist punches, student are taught by default that the circular punches can be used to either attack the guard, incoming strike, the body, or the head. It doesn't matter because the movement stays the same. Here's me using a circular punch to attack a round house kick. A linear would be addressed in a similar way. Here you can see that I 'm willing to punish that kicking leg with a circular punch. Here it's important to keep my punch circular so that the kick doesn't break my arm. A circular punch isn't a head on colision
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This is a few frames later. I'm holding his leg up because it this happen right when the round ended. The reason my hand is under the kick is because the punch was circular. Had it been liner I would have driven force vs force and I would lose.
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Using this graph again. Think of the sine wave as horizontal punches. The x -axis is your teep or linear punch. With the horizontal and the vertical punches we step off our opponents center line. So in the case that the circular punches do not connect then stepping off the center line will ultimately protect us from being hit full force, provided that we aren't standing there like a deer looking at headlight.
Wow. Seriously, what is up with the attitude? Kool aid? Seriously?
In Jow Ga we throw 2 punches. You dodge the first, the second punch will find you. You dodge the second punch, the second punch can then be looped to start the combos all over again. We can punch moving forward, moving left, moving right, moving backwards.
Since you know so much about Jow Ga and Circular punches. Then Explain what is going on here. Explain the tactics I used to set this up and why he couldn't answer with a linear punch, a linear kick, or a teep. Knock yourself out.
In long fist, if you dodge my right hook punch, my right hook punch will change into a right back fist. If you block my right back fist, either my right back fist will change into another right hook punch, or my left hook punch will come to your head.
What is unreasonable about pointing out that you haven’t trained in the method, so you don’t understand how it is done. Not only that, but you haven’t spent time training those types of punches, so you cannot do them effectively and powerfully.
Agree!
Neither. I'm just blunt these days. I pretty much see the same thing as last year. I say something, then post reference pictures of it happening. Yet people like you will call me arrogant and not once did you explain why I was wrong /incorrect about what I stated.
