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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

HowTo 1 Inch Punch a Buddy Across the Bar - Real LIVE XBOX Martial Arts Meditation Lesson

How To 1 Inch Punch A Buddy Across the Bar
We've all seen that scene in a Bruce Lee Movie where Bruce launches an enemy twenty feet away with a punch that only traveled 1 inch. Then you've got a guy like Mike Tyson that cranks his twenty pound fist and whales it over a six feet distance to knock a guy only 3 feet away. What's the difference? How can you learn Bruce's punch?

Well, for starters, In the movies, they use pulley wires. This is called WIRE-FU.
But don't be discouraged. They only use wires to offset the real force they'd feel if the punch was done properly. Tai Chi and Kung Fu Masters really CAN launch buddies across bars with ZERO inches of distance.

Where you've seen the One Inch Punch in Real Life DIGG IT!
OK, this is the part where we convince you that you too can do the One Inch Punch. You've seen it often in nature. The same principle that shoots off your fist like a bullet is seen in a Blow Hole. Millions of tons of of water moving at 15mph creates a LOT OF FORCE. Then if you try to squeeze all that force through a small opening, you end up converting that force into a tiny mass with "ludicrous speed." You physicists know this as F=mA. Force = Mass times Accelleration.

Your task, if you choose to accept it, Grasshopper, is to be the wave, the blowhole and the spray. To do so, you are going to have to learn how to meditate.

Preparatory Meditation and Kung Fu Primer
The meditation for being a wave is simple. Get into your full Lotus position and relax your self into REM Sleep but stay awake. Now that your conscious and subconscious are deeply fused. Give your subconscious a suggestion. This is just like hypnosis but you get to be the patient and the quack.

Tell your you, that you are a giant powerful wave. If you video tape yourself, you'll notice that you start swaying like a wave about now. See your entire body move as one and freely flow. Then tell your shoulder that it is a blow hole. See all the swaying movement of your body simultaneously funnel its way into the bottle neck of your shoulder. Then, tell your fist that it is the spray. Your body will be deeply trained to move properly now.

Quick note. Relaxation is the key. If you tense during this process, this is like having ice in the water. Besides, you'll burn all the ATP and ADP molecules creating lactic acid before you even launch off the punch.

Actual Kung Fu Martial Art Practice DIGG IT!
Now you are ready to practice are you? Until you get the coordination down, you'll look silly mastering this. So lets get you a few starting points.

In order to be a wave, you must have a solid bedrock or ocean floor. Make sure that your feet are flat and heels are touching the earth the entire time. If your heel is up, throughout the entire punching motion, your calves will act as shock absorbers and suck up all your outward force before it sees the light of day. I mean come on. Look at your calves. Shock absorbers. You want all the shock to flow OUT of your body.

Next, build maximum back pressure in your legs. This is done by standing pidgeon toed and pressing your knees together. Do you feel the pressure in your thighs calves and quads? This is the pressure that you are going to transfer and add to the spiraling of your hips then the funnelling to your shoulder. Try this. When you release one foot by rotating it, did you notice the pressure going away? All you've got to do is direct this energy up and out before it dissapates.

Now learn to whip your hips into your shoulder like your would if you had a hoola-hoop. This movement next triggers the extention of your shoulders. Technically, think like you are punching with your shoulder NOT your fist. It's just that your fist got there first.

Finally, just keep practicing the 1 inch punch on a punching bag. While you do, remember to stay relaxed and limber with your whole body until the precise moment of impact. Then your whole body tenses so that the impact leaves and does not have any where to recoil back into your body. There are more fine details that double your power but this should get you to about half of Bruce's fire power.

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