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- Bruce Lee's one-inch punch.
Now, if you're a Bruce Lee fan, you know
Bruce is known for his one-inch punch.
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If you watch his Long Beach demonstration
about the techniques and different things that he does.
First of all, what a one-inch punch is
not an actual attack, it's more demonstration,
it's a dramatic demonstration about Wing Chun's power,
that he can generate that much power from a short distance.
You don't actually go up to a guy,
"Hey, let me put my fist on your chest,"
and I do a one-inch punch, that's not what it's about.
And if you study his clips, sometimes he would
do the one-inch punch, but sometimes he would also do a,
almost like a five, six-inch punch.
So it looks a little bit more like this.
So from here, right from here.
So that kind of stuff, it's a little bit more like,
that hurts, right?
Yeah, hurts right?
So we put in some padding in the middle just to make sure.
So that kind of power, and how do you practice that?
Number one, you need to learn how to
explode all of your energy into that one point.
Okay, so number one, I see a lot of people making mistakes.
It's not a push.
See, I can push.
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That's not a push, it's a total relaxation,
boom, and you explode.
Second thing that I can see people do,
that they try to do it with just the arm.
The power comes from the leg, okay,
the actual power should come from the leg.
See this, you see the camera can see this,
first we'll learn how to do this first.
Just do this first, this.
So from here, see that's a snap.
So you gotta practice this.
You can hold even, sometimes, a dumbbell.
Do this, learn to snap, and then you learn to snap,
once this is good, you learn to snap at your elbow.
See this, so Shin, just this part, feel the snap.
Right, you feel that (grunt) a little bit.
Now a little bit elbow, little bit more.
So you learn to snap this, and then with practice
learn to snap this, and then you learn to snap
this, this, this at the same time.
So from here, just this.
From here, a little bit more, right,
it hurts a little bit more.
A little bit more, elbow here, right.
You can see that.
A little bit more, right, from here.
Then you learn to dun, dun, dun, three parts,
then it's your hip.
So here, this,
this part, watch, I'll exaggerate a bit.
See that, that's a snap.
See this, from here, here, here, here,
all at the same time, like that.
So you let all of your energy go.
Imagine you're throwing a ball, like that.
Once you can do all of that, then you learn to snap
with your back foot as well.
So then it's from here, from here, from here.
See my body, whole body, see this?
My whole body is putting towards it.
From here, okay, one more time.
So from here, one-inch, da, da, da, da, da,
right, from here.
That's how you generate the power.
That's a one-inch punch, you gotta practice
here, here, here, learn to snap your waist,
snap your foot, boom.
And that's how you generate the power.
What happens is then it's more, this kind of stuff happens
when you can't in some situations like this,
you can still have the power.
I don't have to pull back and then hit again,
I can go from here, I can generate enough power.
That's why a lot of times people say,
"Oh, Bruce's style of Jeet Kune Do,
"funnily there's no power."
There's a lot of power, it's just more JKD guys
cannot generate power.
Bruce can hit someone, he can crack someone's skull,
because with so much practice he knows
how to generate through power.
So I suggest a lot of guys practice through this first.
Learn the one-inch punch, just practice, learn to snap.
Even this, I'm not gonna punch, just feel this.
Just feel this, right?
You can feel there's a snap.
Everything, this, this, this, this,
this is all a snap.
Even the shoulders, right, that's a snap.
This comes from here.
A snap from here, my waist, and my foot.
So that's a teaching the body mechanic.
Same thing if Shin grabs me here, right,
this kind of stuff.
See my shoulders?
Boom.
Here, so from here, right, boom.
That's also a one-inch.
It's just how your body generates power.
That's a one-inch punch, so practice that.
Give that a try, comment below if you have questions.
A lot of mechanics, as you practice you might
have some questions.
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