(sharp breaths)
- Bruce Lee JKD, the shovel hook.
If you watch my other JKD videos I've shown you the
straight lead, the hook punch, and the various punches
and attacks in JKD.
Now today I'm gonna show you the shovel hook.
(intense music)
Now the shovel hook in JKD is a little bit different
from other punches in terms of the body mechanics.
I learned this from Ted Wong and it's one of Ted Wong's
favorite techniques.
I remember back then when I was training with Ted,
I was, this is me, and I was throwing Ted a punch
and he would slip to this way and just throws me
a shovel hook right there to my ribs.
I remember it hurt me for a couple of days.
So I, I clearly remember this punch.
Now the shovel hook, you can use as an offensive technique
or defensive technique.
Let me show you the body mechanic first.
Just like your typical straight lead punches or hook
it's the same kind of body mechanic using your
hip obviously.
Just imagine you're kind of shoveling.
Right, you're digging some kind of a, like dirt.
Just imagine kind of this kind of body mechanic.
Right, and here your hand goes up here, at a 45 degree.
So look, so I'm here, now it's not an uppercut.
You see an uppercut goes through this up right?
(sharp breaths) Right?
Not an uppercut.
But it's going through this way.
And your elbow is pushing up.
So it's like this, like this.
Now you can go, you can see here,
you can see the body right?
Or if the opponent is this way, you can see you can go
slip to the jaw, or to the throat.
Again see this angle.
And so it's more close quarter, fighting.
Okay so it could be here, right?
(sharp breath) (groan)
Could be here, or it could be here, like that.
Now what you don't wanna do is it's not a push.
So it's not like a push like that see.
This is wrong, it's not a push.
It's your whole body using your hip from here,
(sharp breath) like that.
(punches landing)
Now make sure the elbow is in when you're throwing
this punch because imagine you're shoveling something.
See this, look at this.
The elbow if you push, now push forward.
This has no power.
Tuck it in, push.
See, now I move.
That's where all the power comes from.
So make sure you're not throwing it this way.
Look at that part it's here.
Tuck it in, imagine almost like something here.
And then from your ribs, from your hips,
and you push this up your whole body.
Almost like lifting the person.
Right, almost lifting the person.
That's when all the power comes in, try that.
(sharp breath) Yeah.
Now and make sure when you throw the punch,
straighten your head, don't turn.
Stay looking at target.
Yeah, better.
One more time, and here.
So this is to the throat or the chin, this is to the ribs.
Yes, relax, yeah.
Good, I'll throw a few you see.
So this is the body right?
Okay, so if I'm here, from here.
So from here. (sharp breath)
Okay. (sharp breath)
Again. (sharp breath)
Right there, okay.
Now, I'd say on attack you could use it.
So let's say the guy is in right hand to right hand.
Again remember JKD, right foot forward.
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Now for now, leg right to right.
You can take a step this way,
and then you can see the opening.
And you can, you can do the shovel this way,
and shovel hook this way and shovel hook this way.
Okay, so, looking like this.
Slip, right, from here or from here, right?
On the other hand you can also do it this way.
This way let's say someone is talking,
throwing in a punch, I'll do it slow.
So throw us a punch, right.
Here, very very sneaky.
'Cause he would expect you to hit something like this.
But not like this.
So it looks something like this.
(sharp breath) From here, right.
And then from here, right? (groans)
Okay. (heavy breathing)
So from here, inside he doesn't see it,
from here you can do a take down.
So that's a defensive technique.
So there's shovel, a lot of power, make sure again when you,
when you us it make sure use your foot.
Don't just lift it this way, 45 degree.
When you combine it with a straight lead, with a hook,
with different punches, right?
Extremely, extremely powerful.
So there you go, that's a shovel hook.
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