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The one-inch punch is actually a method of Chinese kongfu, of generating power.

One-inch punch is a catchy term made up by Bruce Lee, which is actually correct,

but really there is all kinds of short power.

I mean, you can use a short power palm strike, you

can use a half-inch punch or a three-inch punch.

In some people call them a trick.

It could be a trick, it could be a emotion, but it does the damage for what it is.

It's pretty powerful.

With your wrist joint is the best way to start, usually, and just flicking it.

Giving yourself like a flat target and you use the

three bottom knuckles here and you just pop forward.

Take your time, no point in rushing it.

Make sure your elbow is in your center and just slowly over time.

Just keep working on a soft pad or a pad of beans.

You know, usually having a training partner, someone holds something for you.

It's a good judge for how much power you're putting out.

And you just keep doing it, keep doing it.

Until you feel like you've got a decent amount of control.

There's a certain amount of time that first

strengthening takes place in your training, too.

That's a big part of it.

It has to do with training in the form.

The traditional way mostly goes into the internal aspects.

The centering of the chi.

Chinese medicine has this concept of chi circulation in the body.

And by developing the internal power, the

internal chi, you interrupt the one-inch punch.

One is first through the practice of breathing or chi meditation.

Through breathing visualization, developing

power centers and certain parts of the body.

That's the internal approach.

The external approach is more muscular in

body alignment, power-based, port generation.

A lot of fight starts with finger pointing and a lot of that stuff.

And from that finger pointing, which is the closest to someone's sore

plex, maybe a face, you can generate that one-inch

punch that will actually be your winning card.

So, let's say the person we attack and the person kind of intercepts my punch.

Just that one-inch punch comes in.

Without pulling back, that's from a combat extension.

If you hit someone with a one-inch punch, maybe on the surface, you break the ribs.

Internally, you might shock their internal system.

You can rupture someone's plane.

You can damage the liver.

You can bruise someone's heart.

Something wrong with one of your vertebrates, and someone strikes you really hard.

The power is going to try to find an easy way

out, and it'll go through that injury point.

So, in extreme cases, guys have been known

to strike some of the front and the entrance.

They're back.

You're hitting his vulnerable point.

That's also the key, too.

But, obviously, if you hit this weakest man, at the strongest point, you're not

going to do any damage because he's got muscle protection.

In the Chinese movies, the one-inch punch has always been showcased very well.

However, it killed pill volume, too.

The way that it was portrayed was okay, but visually, it was not pleasing.

The way that the one-inch punch was portrayed was taking

your skin off your knuckle, and this is how it is.

But, it's not about that.

It's the body mass that moves.

It's not the callus on your knuckles that does the damage.

I would continue to teach the one-inch punch as part of my curriculum,

if the student gets that far.

If you learn how to apply the shortest distance with the most powerful impact

that you can generate, there's a pleasure, because

there's a huge discovery about one-inch movement.

If you look at it in that context, it's got invaluable lessons.

But if you look at it as a one-inch pony, that's it at the end of that show.

I think there's been a slight dip on martial arts in general.

You think 150-200 years ago, people were

training this system because that's all they had.

That was their livelihood.

They trained a lot harder, and they do today.

People tend to be a little bit lazier.

Maybe that's why there's not that much engineers in martial arts, because the

kids would just play video games all night long.

Why come and train and sweat them?

You know, be painful, right?

You know, you've got to think we've been doing basically the same stuff until about

100 years ago, until industrial revolution.

That changed everything.

People are sitting in front of computers, you know.

And we haven't had time to catch up with that yet.

That's a radical change.

So I think the importance of getting back in touch with your body is very high and

has continued to become up more in the priority list for a lot of people.

So I expect the martial arts to take actually, you know.

I think they're already taking an upswing back up, you know.

Because there are systems out there that are almost being lost.

And people don't want that to go away.

So I think they're going to get better.

The consequence of one-inch punch that happened in Long Beach for me,

at least, it's amazing.

And I think it keeps opening doors.

And I think that would be the future of one-inch movement or one-inch punch.