- All right.
So, JKD fastest lead punch attack.
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Now, Sifu, with the lead punch is
probably the most important punch in JKD
because JKD, we emphasize front,
lead hand, lead foot, right?
But also I think it's one of the most misunderstood punch.
People say "Oh, do you do it this way?
"Is it a flake, is it a push?
"How do you generate power?"
So what's your take on the lead punch,
what are some of the most important things
you have to watch out for when you practice?
- So don't turn your body completely.
The problem with turning your body completely
in this way is that you're vulnerable down here.
Plus you're only using this extension of the shoulder.
- Do you mean here?
- Yeah, and then
if you're emphasizing on trying to get power
with the lead structure, here,
then you're only using half of your body
into the punch.
And so I find it vulnerable
if you were to do it in an attack situation,
again you're sideways here.
- So you mean, if this is the head,
when you punch, if you turn too much, if you miss--
- Oh yeah, if you miss, you're--
- Then this is open.
- That's open and this is open,
and even the lower half is open.
- Right, it's like that, right?
- You're losing, you're losing your levels and you're losing
your eyesight where that could happen.
- Right, right.
- So this here allows you to actually propel
your body forward and attack
and utilize everything into it,
while you're hitting.
- So your whole body, more like this.
Maybe slow down, just slow down for them.
- So your body is coming in.
And when you're right about as you hit,
you drop the weight at that point.
Okay, so what you're doing is you're also dragging
the other foot in rather than going out twisting,
you're going in and utilizing your entire body
with the right hip, okay?
So when you're coming in, as soon as you make impact,
you gotta root yourself.
- I'm exaggerating, but it's more like, like that, right?
- Yeah, yeah.
- So that's where the weight transfer comes in.
- Yeah and so if people can't see that,
I mean you just gotta feel it,
so when you're ready to hit.
All right?
You're hitting with just short amount spaces,
so it doesn't look like here, you know?
And again--
- So from the camera's point of view,
it's not, we're not doing that.
- Right.
- We're not doing this, you're doing more rooted, like this.
- Exactly.
- So the energy is more that way.
- It's coming in here.
Okay?
- Right.
- So that way you have an ability to change it up
any time you have to in case somebody does slip,
and you're able to attack that.
- And also the second punch is faster, right?
- Correct.
- Versus you missed this, oh then well you just one shot.
- This, you know, this probably for
sparring applications or distance applications,
so if you were gearing up, and you guys were ready to spar,
this would appropriately work in that.
- You see this in like magazine posing a lot.
- Right, right.
- They do like a lot of that, right?
- It's extended, way too extended.
Your shoulder's here, so again
utilize your body appropriately, and you can see that.
- Even you can see that the body from here, here.
- Okay?
So if you ever see Bruce's photos, and he's throwing a punch
and there's a specific punch he's doing here.
- Yeah.
- And he's doing something here.
People think it's this all the time,
no, he's still utilizing...
- The body.
- The body in root of--
- The heel.
- Of the heel, and the position of the heel.
So again this is the position that you have, it's vertical
but it's also in tuned to here, it's not so much here.
- What about in terms of the wrist?
What's the movement like?
- So, okay so we're talking about Jeet Kune Do
thoughts and ideas is that it's always here,
and we're hitting with the three knuckles,
the bottom knuckles.
Well some people say that
the two upper knuckles is preferable.
Well if you notice, if I hit, it's more of a
a whip, to once you make impact you arc,
and it comes right back.
So it ends up looking like you're gouging
up against your opponent.
So it's like "boom," right?
Right, I'm not going 'boom'
that leaves me wide open, it's 'boom' here.
- Right there.
- Right, and that's all I need.
Just enough to get in and then follow up with the other one,
I'm not gonna always just rely on just a lead punch.
- And Sifu I know you also taught that
a good way to practice is actually put it in the rear hand,
so as to learn the power, how to generate power first,
through an exaggerated movement.
- Right, so this, obviously I like using this punch
mainly because it applies all the power with the rear foot.
And you'll be able to.
- You learn to whip the punch.
- Yeah, rather than, you know,
going in and trying to practice this over and over,
sometimes you're dropping your hand,
drop your hand here.
- You turn your hand that way.
- All I want you to do is have this hand work towards it.
So this hand's here, you position here,
and it's like you're ripping paper
when you're hitting.
This, here.
- Right there.
- Yeah.
- So they can practice back and forth, maybe that
50, 100 times, go back to--
- Yeah, I would do maybe about 10 of these,
and then 10 of these, okay, and come back and do,
and then bring your foot up this way, try it this way
then opposite side, try it this way.
And then you could start bringing the lead in
a little bit more.
Again, telegraphing.
I don't care.
So you can get used to it.
And you get closer.
And so forth.
- Yeah, if you have questions about the footwork
go make sure to watch the footwork video,
because the footwork is the foundation, so there you go.
That's the JKD fastest lead punch attack.