The white guy in the beginning of the clip cannot do a one inch punch. That demo of him loooked bad.
The guy in the green shirt knows more about the one inch punch.
When you guys discuss how the one inch punch is not very useful, I believe that is because you don’t fully think of all the situations in which fights take place. Because you are focused on ring fighting, all you think of is ring fighting.
One inch punch is for close in fighting. In MMA or boxing, people stand at some distance from each other while they fight. In some kung fu styles, they practice getting in as close to your body as possible. It is a test of the bodies of each of the combatants.
Kung fu can be thought of as devloping your body from the outside down to the inside by levels. A person who is at a lower level closer to their center, has abilities that a person who is at a higher level from the center does not have.
The person who is closer to their own center, can move in close to the body of the opponent to attack, and because the opponent has not developed his body to the same deep level, he literally cannot do anything. He cannot control his muscles or tendons or anything else, at the level of the attacking person who is close to his own center.
Does that makes sense to you? Maybe a gun and a knife would be a good example? If you had a gun, you could fight with someone who was standing across from you. But if your opponent has a knife and he moves in close to you, you can’t do anything. Your gun is maybe three feet long. There is no room between you and the guy with the knife, which is maybe 8 inches long, for you to use your weapon. But the knife guy can cut you to shreds.
That is what kung fu development of the low levels of the body does for you. You have a close in knife to most peoples long distance gun.
The one inch punch is meant to be an internal power strike. Internal power strikes work by compression waves. You guys I think don’t know anything about compression waves.
When you guys think about striking, you think about impact. How much force do you deliver to the surface of the opponents body? Delivering that type of force takes a certain kind of technique, and the force usually stays on the external part of the opponents body.
An internal strike though, works by going through the surface of the body into the inside of the body. This is done by compression waves, like an earthquake. When there is an earthquake, compression waves travel through the earth and can crush the ground. An internal martial artist hits the opponent in a special way that delivers a compression wave to the opponent. The compression wave travels through the skin and outer surface of the body, into the inside of the body. The liver or heart or spleen are all soft, so a compression wave hitting them is going to want to crush the organ like an earthquake compression wave crushing the ground.
That is what the one inch punch is for. You can give someone a heart attack if you know what you are doing. It is easy.
