Hmm, "right" or "wrong" seem quite peculiar ideas in this context - Bruce Lee strongly questioned the rigid adherance to forms, and aimed to transcend them all having no form/having all form. So while his punch might not have been "right" from a particular perspective, it doesn't really matter too much. It did the job!
Cool site though! I'd like to learn more about the pressure points too.
true, but it dident do its job. ad it should be fatel, but bruce lee never killed anyone with it. its al about the footwork, this wasent a tech he masterd and then made it better, it was a tech he was not allowed to learn correctly(but bruce is still the best, woah[8D])
Hey
"but bruce lee never killed anyone with it"
If he could have done so, he probably would never have used it, and even less chance told anyone if he had! The people who hold to certain forms will never agree though, and will always say "you did it wrong!". But bruce lee did not believe there is any "wrong" way of fighting - so its kinda hard to apply those ideas to him.
Where his feet are really isn't such an issue you know....they dont even move and are just in his standard, natural, fighting position.
Btw have you noticed that when he does that one inch punch his whole body flexes and contracts in series, and all that power and momentum ends up in his hand? Thats where the real power is. When you throw a punch your whole body goes into it whether you notice it or not. This is just like kinda actively using that principle - the force is generated in the rest of his body while the hand stays still. Bruce lee actually taught these principles.
If your philosophy doesn't involve growing corn, I don't want to hear about it.
That is a saying I read not too long ago from my new calendar [:P]
But it has a point. If you get too obsessed with "rights" and "wrongs," you could well lose the ways that work. Style is important, but who cares if Bruce Lee didn't do the one-inch punch "correctly?" He didn't kill people, which is probably what he intended to do. He might've even had the chance to perfect it to the point of fatal, but he could have refused because he didn't want to seriously harm anyone, which is a good philosophy.
Later
~FT
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Originally posted by Inguma
Hey
"but bruce lee never killed anyone with it"
If he could have done so, he probably would never have used it, and even less chance told anyone if he had! The people who hold to certain forms will never agree though, and will always say "you did it wrong!". But bruce lee did not believe there is any "wrong" way of fighting - so its kinda hard to apply those ideas to him.
Where his feet are really isn't such an issue you know....they dont even move and are just in his standard, natural, fighting position.
Btw have you noticed that when he does that one inch punch his whole body flexes and contracts in series, and all that power and momentum ends up in his hand? Thats where the real power is. When you throw a punch your whole body goes into it whether you notice it or not. This is just like kinda actively using that principle - the force is generated in the rest of his body while the hand stays still. Bruce lee actually taught these principles.
well, i see this is going to get into a discussion[:D],yay. i have seen the 1 inch punch 100's of times and he uses his hips to generate the power needed to perform this tech, also he does move his hand up and into the mans solarplexus. his feet are not in the correct possision(acording to win chun) and there for he loses alot of potetional power. you r very right when you say he would not have told anyone about killing a person, but from the way he is standing i do not think he could generate enought power to kill someone, from that stance anyway. he could have allways of performed the move incorrectly to avoid killing his student as he was a very acomplised artist, and he was very awear of his strength and abilitys. u also have to remember that he was not taughlt this tech and because of that he was never able to perfect it, by perfect it i mean that i have seen people who have masterd this skill hit people alot farther than bruce lee did.
well, also there doesn't just have to be one way of performing a punch that generates all it's force in a single inch. perhaps bruce found another method that he found easier.
the only times i've seen him use the one inch punch are in movies, so i can't really comment on his stance though ^_^ (and i don't think bruce lee is going to use a truly lethal technique just to make a movie *look* real).
as well, as neo said, perhaps bruce just never used the technique properly while others were around. lots of martial arts teachers will purposefully make mistakes in their techniques while doing demonstrations to the public, in order to make sure that people watching the demonstration can't figure out the secrets of the school for free (or maybe it's "without the proper training". *rolls eyes*).
either way, that site is a nice resource. thanks neo :)
~kakkarot
anytime[;)], and what u daid is true, shame we will never know[:(]
after searching the web for pressure point sites i stumbled across this very well detailed explination of the one inch punch, to my amazment it said that bruce lee had always performed this tech incorectly[:O], this is the right way [;)]
http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/wengshunkuen/oneinchpunch.html
also i would like to know if u guys had any sites about pressure points.[8D]