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- Today we're gonna talk about why
you don't wanna punch in a street fight.
Now, if you watch a lot of YouTube videos,
street fights, a lot of times, when you're--
when people are excited, or they're like,
adrenaline's running, they start doing stuff
like this, it's very, very easy to do that.
You know maybe, doing something, hit him
a couple times, I get like, I get mad.
And people start doing stuff like that.
They'll start swinging on the other guys.
Now, the problem is, here is hard to see.
What you don't see is, even for professional
boxers, when they get into street fights,
it's very easy to break their knuckles.
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Very, very easy, because when someone
punches your head, natural human reaction,
we're gonna be like this.
And if Jason punches me on the forehead,
my head, has a lot of the bones.
It's the strongest bone in the entire human body.
So, if he hits me like that, as he's
get excited, hits me a couple times.
He won't realize it, but he actually
but he actually breaks his knuckles.
He will realize it afterwards, so it's
very, very dangerous.
Very, very dangerous.
And also, it requires that much more accuracy,
now of course, if you hit a guy like that,
and I drop, you knocked me out, that's okay.
But just to think about this.
So, even if you condition,
you see professional boxers.
(punching)
They break their knuckles.
So, instead of doing that, what I recommend,
is actually a palm strike.
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A palm strike, and here's why.
If you think in terms of palm strike, so
the fist gives you this much area
to hit somebody, okay?
Now, with a palm strike, look,
you have a bigger area, you have a bigger area,
of hitting somebody.
And you can hit me, and hit it this way,
you can hit it this way, now I'll show you.
So, Hassan, help me out.
So let's say, for here, now Jason
I want you to punch as hard as you could
with your fist, just see, okay?
And Hassan, you tell me which one has more power,
so, punch with a fist.
(punching noise)
Try again.
(punching noise)
Try again.
(punching noise)
Okay, guys, that's a fist, now
try with a palm strike.
Just hit it with this part, this part
of your palm.
Now, try that.
(slapping noises)
You can see, you see how he walks back?
See it gives you more power.
The same strike, but it gives him more power, right?
- That was more powerful.
- You can see.
So even with an untrained person,
a palm strike like so, so something like this,
so you can do a punch or a palm strike.
(breathing noise)
If you put your body into it, to the guy's face,
and hit him a couple times, he'll probably
leave you alone.
Right?
So palm strike.
Another thing is with palm strike,
so let me show you, you can hit it
this way, right?
See, if I'm hitting Jason, I can hit him
straight like that.
See, it's very easy, you can see,
to knock out somebody with this.
Right?
Now, rarely do you see someone gets
knocked out by a jab.
Rarely, because human bone here
is designed to take pressure, front and back.
What you see people getting knocked out
is side to side.
That's why in boxing, most people,
you see the hook punch is the knockout punch,
not the jab.
So palm strike allows you to do that, see?
You can hit it like that; he will turn.
Doesn't need a lot of power.
Or I can hit it like this, which is a spin,
right, you can see it's a spin.
Boom. Like that.
Or, now, but here's also why it's so good:
now with a fist, if I miss, think about,
let's say if I'm doing a slow punch,
and he kind of just bobs and weaves to the side...
You see that? Right? I missed.
Now, if I'm doing a palm strike,
he leaves to the side, but see this?
I can still do a lot of--
I can grab the throat,
I can scratch the eyes,
I can do this, I can grab here,
but if I punch, I can't do that.
So it gives me that much more variables, right?
Instead of just punching, so here,
this, this, this, this, pulling the hair,
all this stuff you can do with this,
if you condition your fingers and your palm.
Here, here, of course, the groin.
The fist is OK, but in Chinese ways,
the sneaky attack my Sifu taught me,
not even--it's not like this.
We practice with this, so but we practice,
and when we practice, we hit here.
You don't get you to hit your partner's groin,
but you practice like--and he knows,
OK, I got it, right?
But you actually do it in...
So imagine this is balls. It gets graphic here.
Inside, you pull the ball, and you pull it out.
OK, so hit, grab ball, you pull it out.
It hurts.
It hurts like hell.
So from here--so imagine here--
(slapping noise)
- -like that.
See how I do the drop, like boom.
Even that sounds painful.
- Yeah.
- Right?
(laughs)
It sounds painful.
So do not punch in a fight.
As you get excited, especially
people start doing this stuff, do this.
And sometimes you may not want
to hurt the guy.
You might not want to knock him out,
but this type of stuff, right, you can spin him,
you can do stuff like that.
You can do this type of stuff, right?
Or sometimes you just want to,
"Hey man, I don't want any trouble."
You don't have to like, boom, hit him in the throat
because just, "Hey, you know,
I don't want any trouble."
If he still comes in, if he still comes in,
now you can do it.
That's what I'm talking about.
So palm strike; practice it well, practice often.
I'll see you in the next video.
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