Bruce Lee's one inch punch is a party trick, its not even a punch

[Andre]

I didnt make that clear,
I ment every style ,look into all of them so you can see what their strengths and weakness are watch the top men in each.Get on the mat as well and just soak it all in.Dont tell them what or where you are comming from or it will defeat the purpose and you will have to deal with their egos aimed at your style.
We went there to each as total beginers just for the exersize and we soaked up everything we could.
It was an exersize for us to do years ago in one school and we had to write a theisis on the pros and cons of each style under different circumstances before we could steak our own flag in ground.

[JT Rock]

Actually as a Jeet Kune Do practitioner and taught by a Si Fu accredited by Dan Inosanto the one inch punch is taught as a means to finish off your punch. the technique takes practice but when applied properly it brings the nasty for sure. I have demonstrated many of times to friends and family, not as dramatic as knocking someone off a chair but just putting your index person on someones chest like you were making a handgun and then quickly close your fist and snap it downward in the 1 inch range and you generate enough force to move someone its fact!!

Again the application is when you finish your punching motion you wanna snap that wrist like a whip on contact and it adds a whole lot of force. In Jeet kune Do you keep your hands up and open a bit while taking a traditional western boxing stance for trapping and intercepting purposes so when you drive off the back foot while snapping your hips, shoulders and lastly that 1 inch punch on contact the force generated is pretty amazing.

to put it proper percpective you are going to correctly apply the principle while defending your self in a street fight or confrontation, Bruce was all about effeciently neuteralising your attacker and stopping him in his tracks asap. attribute drills are taught in combos, whether its 1, 2's or finger jab, right cross and elbow to the face or muay thai combos utilizing knees or headbutts and kicks that should never go above the ribs. as long as it flows makes sense and can be seamless quick its all good. Remember you wanna strike and get your hands back up and body into position. No movements should leave you vulnerable by design.

Also you are usually taught to reverse your stance if your orthodox you are converted to Southpaw and vice versa. The purpose is 2 fold.

1) Since you wanna end the skirmish fast your initial jab or strike is going to be the most powerful since you reversed stances your Jab because a laser sharp power punch that sets the table for the other strikes to follow.

2) Leaves a mental imprint on someone because if you initially jab your way in before starting your combo sequences he feels the power of your supposed Jab and fears the cross that might come because the jab clean his clock the cross is going to feel like a freight train and he might not want to stick around. even though in theory your cross would be really coming from your naturally jabbing hand. That will be your secret

Its not a principal that was taught for a 12 round fight, maybe it would work I dont know? but try it Adam in sparring and see if it puts more sizzle on it. Another thing I liked is that it taught me to get my hand returned back for defense. When you snap your wrist at the end it makes your arm like a boomerang that coils back naturally

[Andre]

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.

[Andre]

[JT Rock]

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

[Julius Rain]

Any branches of Kung Fu is nonsense! For the world to believe an actore Bruce Lee is an all time great fighter without putting his ass in risk against live resisting opponents, unlike REAL G.O.A.T like Ali proves the masses are asses and ignorant people are the majority.

Wing Chun is the dumbest boxing ever invented and only gullible fucktards who dont have much of a fighting IQ would buy into all their chinese fabricating sales pitch!

Boxing, Muay Thai, Wrestling, Ju-Jitsu = MMA

Dedicated to the truth, someday in the future people are gonna look back and say how dumb where those primitive monkeys to believe such nonsense = Kung Fu

Kung Fu is like a cult and like a greedy coorporation willing to take your hundreds. It angers me that so many are so fucking stooooopid to believe these chinese nonsense. Nerdy fucks! Go throwdown and see how long you actually try those nonsense until you start swinging wildly and turn sloppy cause all that nonsense goes out the window quick. But come watch a mma guy in and out the octagon boxers, kickboxers, wrestlers and jujitsu all maintain their discipline throughout any fight.

[bradlee180]

Bruce lee's base was Wing Chun Gung fu, but near the end, the standup he practiced was basically boxing.

In the late 60s, Lee p!$$ed off a lot of practitioners of Eastern traditional martial arts by saying if you matched a top karate or gung fu man against a top boxer where the karate/gung fu guy could use all his techniques but the boxer would stick to his hands, Lee said the Boxer would come out on top because the boxers were in better physical condition and were accustomed to getting hit, and they had real fighting experience and practical techniques.

[Andre]

But come watch a mma guy in and out the octagon boxers, kickboxers, wrestlers and jujitsu all maintain their discipline throughout any fight.

No they dont. They mix the whole lot up into a style that suits themselves.
The very thing Lee began.
Fuck Kung fu it was a simple stepping stone for him and others.

Think about Karate in the same light you try blocking in those rounded movements like traditional karate does and throwing from the hip with over rotating punches and see how far that gets you these days.

Thai kick boxing back in the day was the closest to what the whole fight game has become the rest all have their uses.
Jeet kune do still has its too. That is where Lee finished and others took over.

Now the whole game is a mixture of useful techniques from many arts including western boxing. Arts that wouldn't stand alone in the Octagon unless a beast of a person came out of one. Kung fu has many forms and is the worse I agree, but all traditional art forms just arent good enough on their own these days, they have to learn the best out of each to survive.

[Julius Rain]

But come watch a mma guy in and out the octagon boxers, kickboxers, wrestlers and jujitsu all maintain their discipline throughout any fight.

No they dont. They mix the whole lot up into a style that suits themselves.
The very thing Lee began.
Fuck Kung fu it was a simple stepping stone for him and others.

Think about Karate in the same light you try blocking in those rounded movements like traditional karate does and throwing from the hip with over rotating punches and see how far that gets you these days.

Thai kick boxing back in the day was the closest to what the whole fight game has become the rest all have their uses.
Jeet kune do still has its too. That is where Lee finished and others took over.

Now the whole game is a mixture of useful techniques from many arts including western boxing. Arts that wouldn't stand alone in the Octagon unless a beast of a person came out of one. Kung fu has many forms and is the worse I agree, but all traditional art forms just arent good enough on their own these days, they have to learn the best out of each to survive.

First of what do you mean they don't maintain their discipline throughout any fight? They would of course mix it up only if they know both boxing and kickboxing and or with the other two. My point is a boxer will more than likely win any stand up against anybody who stands with them unless its a kickboxer who know better to trade with a boxer and not use his kicks. Bruce Lee wouldn't win a fist fight against Tyson nor would he win any striking match against Buakaw. In the real world he is an amateur and a heavy underdog against real fighters. Just like all traditional martial artist because they will find out the nonsense they've been doing wont work against what is proven effective boxing, kickboxing, ju-jitsu, wrestling.

What game? MMA?

Ofcourse there are fighters with other discipline other then the four most successful one I listed but like I said they are the four most successful because they are the four who throughout the ages actually physically competed and found truth into all myths.