Quote Originally Posted by Andre View Post
He took it from the Bill Gee form,Wing chuns final form, which is the finger thrusting form. Its for attacking the soft tissue areas eyes and pressure points around the jugular and aorta and under arms, into liver, etc.

If you watch the form on utube theres a turn of the wrist sometimes inwards or outwards depending on if you are coming over or under the opponents arm and depending on the target as well as vertical strike and horizontal to fit in better to the target, the cocking and snapping of wrist on the end of each finger strike deflects the fingers in without risk of breaking them (like if you went straight in. )

Bruce was taught Bill Gee before he came up with the one inch punch.

So it was definitely part of his thinking process in coming up with it.

Trouble is people get carried away with its application. He would only use that type of thing on a fist for blasting an opponent away from him like at close quarters in a clinch or to land one opponent into another one when dealing with a few.
I know about the trapping and Wing Chun we did a lot with that as well, BUT it's mechanism was still applicable to the punch. Remember as having no way as your way, as long as its effecient and effective in all ranges of combat it was all good with Bruce.

I remember running up the length of the school pumping our fists like a grain harvester blasting away also on the heavybag for a minute straight blasting... rough stuff.

We always got into the historical signifigance of orgins etc. for respect, etiquette and applied knowledge. But the onus was on defending yourself in the most practical and effective way