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- Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do - The Hook Punch.
Now, in Jeet Kune Do the straight lead is the most
well known technique that Bruce uses,
but the Hook Punch is also one of the most
powerful hand strikes that you can use, one of the weapons
that you can use, with the right scenario.
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Okay, so the Hook Punch actually-- different kinds of
Hook Punch in JKD, but today I'm going to show you
three of them.
Now in the JKD the Hook Punch it's a little bit different.
If you think of the JKD Hook Punch, a lot of traditional
boxing hook punches is horizontal,
which I'm going to show you today,
but then I'm going to show you the normal JKD hook punch
which is vertical.
Now, Bruce experimented with different techniques and
you can experiment yourself as well, but through the
vertical he discovered that it's actually more powerful
and I've discovered the same thing as well
and also you can see when you do a vertical punch it's much-
it's also like a shield.
Now, one big difference is with the JKD hook punch
it is not coming around like that.
Okay, in boxing you see-- they do a lot of this type of--
like this kind of stuff, but JKD is actually, taking from
the Wing Chun Principle; the center line, is actually
just coming from like that.
So we don't make a big exaggerated motion
just to get more power, because
Bruce is a small guy, so you notice when he designed
JKD he designs not to get hit; he doesn't want to get hit
because he's a hundred and thirty somewhat forty pounds guy
I mean one guy can knock him out,
so he tries to finish the fight early and also always
protects his center line.
That's from Wing Chun Principle.
So from here,
and I'm using my body, my hip.
Just turn like that.
Just like that.
Okay? So let me demonstrate.
So, right there, you can see
so not-- like that.
So that's the vertical hook punch, so it's more
see my hip; it's already facing this way so after
I fire across, right? From here, I just hook.
Watch.
So from here--
from here
from here, you can come back very
quickly to do other strikes.
Here, boom. Look at my body.
Here, boom. So that's the vertical hook punch and then
you have the horizontal hook punch which is very
typical in boxing you can see, so vertical will
hit the jaw, we can also hit the neck and you can also
hit here. Also maybe when Jason gets down here like that:
they say hit, right there.
Very, very powerful.
Horizontal; very typical boxing, the only difference is
the elbow, we don't do it like that,
it's like this.
Okay, see the difference.
Like so, JKD:
everything is tighter.
Everything--
Everything is tighter. We don't do-- we don't swing.
It's the hip, boom boom boom, tighter motion.
Okay, so horizontal hook punch, so I might go so,
I might do something here, I hit the body right?
Right there. Right. Or maybe Jason the punch is here like
that right?
Boom.
Right, so from here--
Right there, from here--
Body,
body--
Good, that's the hook punch.
Last one, which is the rear hand hook punch, which we
don't use a lot because in JKD we focus on using a
straight lead. Front foot, front hand right,
lead foot, lead hand.
With this punch, on that side.
Thank you Jason,
Yeah, this one, which is this way.
Again, we don't do- it's not a swing, very tight, very tight
just like that.
So, look it's not like this which is easier to block,
it's much tighter, see that? Much tighter.
Much tighter.
Okay, so here, see that?
From here--
One more time
So, vertical.
Horizontal,
you can give it a try.
As you can see-- finish practicing that,
one of the things that you could do, you can stop your
motion like, this fist just touching his chest so,
imagine you're fighting from just finishing off the cross
and boom, you just turn, so stay there. Yes.
Yes.
One of the things that you can make it tighter,
imagine you are shooting almost like a horizontal punch,
so I'm not doing a curved one, I'm in this angle,
imagine I'm horizontal I'm just firing this way.
So, usually it's firing this way,
I'm firing this way. Okay, like that.
So much tighter, because you don't really see it,
it's from here-- boom. You don't really see it.
Yes.
Good.
Now try to do the vertical punch, imagine you're firing
from the center line, almost to the side.
So imagine it's almost like a straight punch, but you're
doing it on the side.
Yes, now straight all the way out.
Yes, good! Very good.
Try again.
Yes.
Yeah, when you're doing the hook punch let all
the energy out.
Yes, good, try the other hand; the rear hook punch.
Nice, relax.
It's-- It's also harder when you do it from a total
stillness. So you can do the rhythm--
- Fall into it.
- Kind of just a broken rhythm, boom!; and just explode.
So you can also practice that way, it trains your reflexes.
So when it comes to the hook punch, see the alignment there
make sure you turn your hip and you turn foot,
so you're almost on the ball of your foot so your
weight gets transferred.
Like that, that where generally is the power.
Not from the hand itself but from the foot,
like that, the snap, see that?
You come from here,
and that's how it gives the strength of the punch.
From here, see that?
Or sometimes after a cross, see my weight is now at
the front-- to generate power, if my weight is at the front,
there's no power with my right hand, but if I transfer back,
from here, this has a lot of power, right from there.
So from here, so it's all the way transferred. Right, from
here to there and then back from here as well.
So make sure you turn, like that.
One of the best exercises you could do to practice your
hook punch and also hip motion, is simply with a heavy bag
and all you do is-- you can of course do your combinations
and all that stuff, but this is strictly to develop
power and make sure you have the right hip movement.
So you basically put your elbows next to here,
not like this, don't flair out like that, just like that
and you hit it, see how I have my elbow tucked in?
So do it like that
and see how I'm turning my body?
Like that, okay? It looks something like this.
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It looks something like that,
so you put your hip into it,
right there,
and I'm not using my hand, I'm not pushing the bag
I'm just learning to snap with--
So you can hear the bag should lift up a bit,
so I'm not pushing it
so that's a very, very good exercise
so try that and then you can do it low,
you can do it high, you can do it low.
And make sure-- it gets harder when it gets closer, okay?
So practice well, practice often.
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