Can somebody explain the scientific aspect of the 1inch punch.
Thanks
“Scientific aspect” ?
You train your muscles and neurological system to work so effectlively that you can generate affective power traveling one inch or less with your fist/arm.
DO you understand the “Scientific aspect” of a ‘normal punch?’ I dont think there is any difference.
Its just a punch.
Well, as I am sure the replies will start pouring in about this, the 1" punch is mostly fake. It is based around the concept of power through your structure and rootedness, basics in WC. Most people who do it tend to **** thier fist back a few inches before they actually punch.
I recently went to a seminar with Carl Dechiara. He is the closest I have ever seen demonstrate that sort of close up power with me there. He is able to generate a tremendous amount of force but he stresses it is all about rootedness, preciseness, structure. He explained that sometimes the idea was second and third power, meaning, when you fist made contact the first time, it would deliver a second, a third and so on, without breaking contact.
I am not sure whether you can get the sort of power out of this as a full wind up but it is still powerful enough to keep you off your balance and feeling the pain!
yenhoi
Hi,
Try contacting Blaine Collins in Las Vegas. I have him on tape breaking boards with a Biu Jee (finger strike).
Phil
http://www.wingchunkwoon.com
Phil:
I am a believer.
My current instructor had me hold a phone book on my shoulder, facing him, and then simply placed his open palm on the book, and then tossed me 8 feet.
He has performed many many other ‘martial art feats’ since that time.
I am not a skeptic, I was just trying to give a very simple answer.
Ohhhhh…ho ho…! Inch punch! A beautiful beautiful thing. But just like most beautiful things, like my elephant, greatly misunderstood. Positioning, positioning, positioning, and stance! Oh… lots of fun.
Sabu…
Does your elephant one inch trunk you from time to time?..
Must really hurt eh?.. 
My elephant taught me the punch. Very complicated, yet simple.
Sam wiley will cream his pants if you ask him. Try the main board.
power can be determined by the formula: Power = Force x Speed. A wing chun punch is relaxed and fast to create speed, the force behind the punch is determined by your body weight which only changes after a curry and a few pints. So the faster the punch the more power you can create regardless of size. Imagine a pebel. If you drop a pebble from one inch on top of your head you will feel it, if you drop the same pebble from the top of a mountain and it hit you on the top of your head it would most probably kill you.
The tense one inch from impact adds an extra element to the equation, a snap which speeds the punch at the last moment, it also preperes you fist for impact, when you know you are definately goin to hit the opponent. Bruce Lee said “a punch is like an iron bar hitting the opponent, a wing chun punch is like a iron bar on the the end of a chain hitting the opponent”. Like a whip it snaps at the last moment and hurts if it hits you.
A one inch punch is there when you dont have a lot of distance between you and your opponent but need to strike, as you know you dont need to pull back before a punch in wing chun, and it is also dangerous to do so as it opens you up for attack.
Have I made sense?
The trouble with a lot of this stuff is that lay or common ideas of “science” or “physics” are not what pure and applied scientists or physists would consider “science” or “physics”.
There’s a lot of “common sense” explinations for why WCK does what it does, but the true science involved in explaining a mechanism and system as complex as the human body and its interactions remains a difficult, difficult task.
The short punch (don’t really need 1-inch) can be the result of “tricks” (drop step, hip torque, still arm moving body, etc.) but once you rule out telekenetics, you’re pretty much left with something explained as a “trick”. Still, some “tricks” work.
In the version I ascribe to, the punch simply reaches a state where you’ve developed and internalized it enough to refine it down to only the most essential of movements. Everything else is stripped away. The hand touches to stabalize the point, the arm aligns to make the nail, the body hammers home. Some describe it in terms of whip or wave like power. There are lots of different metaphors.
There’s a neat demo I’ve seen some in my lineage do where they hold a board lightly between two fingers while touching it with the other fist. Then, the release the two fingers, letting the board go, and just as its about to fall, they Faat Ging and break it.
Rgds,
RR
elephant kung fu & the one inch.
No small matter. Once upon a time twenty three hundred years ago in the Maurya dynasty in the land of the Bharatas(India)… death by elephant strike was one of several capital punishments. Read the Arthasastra-the major war and statecraft treatise of that period. Trained war
elephants could be used. Tied to a tree-gored- - a biu tusk. Or tied down
to a slightly elevated platform. the elephant could put his paw on a chest top and presto a zero inch iron sternum palm strike.
Without studying accupunture!!!
I dont know whether the disciples of elephant kung fu were named
Hathi i
Hathi ii
Hathi iii
or not. But a complete elephant kung fu book is yet to be written.
The non war elephants who hung around uselessly were probably called rolling trunks. Good for giving the kiddies a ride or a laugh or two and otherwise generally ignored..
Some had great chi storage capacity and power through
standing chi kung. Note that at the Hamburg zoo a year or so ago a poor trainer met his maker when he couldnt get away after administering an elephant enema- possibly to one that may have been one of old jong’s constipated intellectuals. Sorry for the intrusion-cheers-- bye for a while— hrrumph-off to practice.