I recently saw an old film of bruce lee performing his so called one inch punch, was this a camera trick or can we mere mortals

 

achieve this with practice?

bruce lee is well known for his one inch punch off camera........

 

 

Lee did his one-inch punch for demonstrations. It does have an application in fighting. For demonstrations, Lee would punch a person and make them fly away. It was more of a push that he did for the demo's to dazzle the untrained crowd.

 

When he really trained the punch though, the power would penetrate into his opponent and the opponent wouldn't fly away. The point is to do damage and if you make your opponent fly away, you have to chase him down to hit him again. The one-inch punch has application in fighting because from trapping hands a person shouldn't have to "cock" their hand back to develop power when hitting. When doing traps, there is very little distance to hit, so the 1-inch punch is developed.

 

 

The one inch punch is 100% authentic.I saw a wing chun demonstration of it and it was amazing.

 

 

Thanks Anthony,

 

see you at redhall on tuesday

 

bagpuss (purple belt) :brow:are you still thinking who i am?

I don't attend on tuesdays now gary.But I will attend every frisay.The reason bieng that I have too much school work through the week.

 

C Ya

 

 

That was reall stuff my man, It still boggles the mind to think about how he could do it. That guy was incredibully strong, although he looked wirey.

The "1 inch punch" is nothing new to the chinese arts, it is really just the "art" of hitting. Like Ken said it's generating power without a full draw back, and Lee's demos was essentially "pushing" a flat footed opponent for the "flying" effect.

could somebody expline more about the 1 inch punch? I have no clue what that is.

The one inch punch is a technique using your inner energy to produce an effective outcome.You channel all your body's chi into one punch whch takes not much phsyical movement. The way that you punch is the way that you cahnnel your Chi.

 

Hope this helps!