I have to say i've watched that vid of the one inch punch quite a few times and to me it just looks like he pushed him back.Ive done it a couple of times to friends and had the same result more or less. If you stand square you are off balance...thats basic physics. If the chap being 'pucnhed' would have been at a 45 degree angle then i doubt the fall backwards into the chair would have been so 'violent'. It looked like a push...the fact the fella was standing square on and went reeling back so easily made it look more impressive.

Sorry but i don't buy the 1 inch punch.

Lee was a good pioneer of 'what works' in a street situation. I train and have trained in combatives for quite some time and lee's moves were some of the most economic and fluid movements there are. His advocated eye gouges, chin jabs but all this stuff had been around since the beginning of time anyway. he just brought them more to the forefront. A lot of the stuff Lee was doing was being taught as WWII combatives by sykes and fairburn for use in unarmed combat in the field of battle.

Lee was a fantastic athlete. No mistake about that...who had amazing attributes. No one can take that away from him.

When Dana calls him the godfather of MMA i think what he means is he was the first martial artist who tried to blend arts together and rightly so. Martial arts has been around since the year dot but bruce trained with the great Gene Lebelle in Judo and a number of other arts to bring together his JKD. Which is more of a concept than an overall art anyway (from what i can gather). Bruce did a lot of good work for martial arts and i do respect him as a a great athlete but sorry...the whole 1 inch punch nonesne is rubbish. Also all this stuff about him as a fighter...hmmmmm

Also as far as traditional martial arts working in a street fight scenario i have posted countless times on this so anyone who has been on here a while should know my views.