In this kung Fu lesson Online Sifu Phu teaches you how to develop speed from your wrist. In order to achieve a faster kung fu punch you don’t want to develop your muscle you want to develop your tendons.
Tendons allow you to do fast jerky motions. Muscles are used to over come forces, tendons are used to hold and snap. So focus on your tendons when you want to get physically faster.
How do you get faster? You get faster through technique. You get faster by cutting away unwanted distance. The way that you want to develop speed is through the wrist. You don’t want to throw your punch from your shoulders.
A lot of styles want you to throw from the body and throw from the shoulders and that’s great if you want to get a lot of power and force. However to get the speed you want it through the wrist.
Newtons Second Law says:
” Acceleration is produced when a force acts on a mass. The greater the mass (of the object being accelerated) the greater the amount of force needed (to accelerate the object).”
Final Thoughts On The Kung Fu Punch
It’s good to note that in a street fight it’s important to maximize the amount of damage you can do. The equalizer when it comes to delivering power in your strikes is to deliver them as quickly and accurately as possible. The faster, the more accurate the faster you can end a dangerous situation. This is why
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no question thanks
Excellent I love it! Learned this many yes ago called muchin no chin! Mind no mind!
Yes! I can see a very big improvement in my punching speed. Thanks again for another great lesson.
Happy to hear that Mark! Keep up the great work!
I think I see Bruce Lee’s image. lol
I tried this with my brother immediately, and he was amazed.
We’ve talked about how to read signs and catch tempos before,
so he was pretty confident when I said “I bet you can’t dodge this.”
Then after a few rounds he said “How could you hit that fast?”
So I replied “Because I gave you nothing to read!” LMAO
Nice, big thumbs up 🙂
Yes, nice LOL
Thumbs up to Sifu’s teachings!
Love it! Yes, Sifu was super fast… So fast you can hear the swoosh sound from the wind!
We call that 「拳風」(chen fong) in Chinese, literally “Fist Wind” !
Putting that into my memory bank!
Nice! LOL
That’s awesome Danny!!! You can only get better if you practice it. Frankly you have a big advantage by learning this cause you can pretty much get the first strike and powerfully too that can end the confrontation before it gets out of hand.
Yes, I completely agree.
I’m practicing to hone my punches, as well as thinking how this technique can be applied to other moves, like kicks and grabs.
Still experimenting though, but using the tendons over the muscles does feel different.
As you become conditioned to use your tendons over muscles, it’s gonna feel weird to use your muscles after a while and you will NEVER want to go back.
Yes I can imagine that already. LOL
Looking forward to seeing more on this!
I really enjoy your all videos ; thank you
Great instructions. That’s what I call smoking fast!!! an unsuspecting nose would be in big trouble for sure. thanks!
Thank you, with that technique it is hard for people to see it much less stop it.
Really good vid, thanks
Thanks for the lesson Sifu, i have learned the concept of telegraphing and reducing the distance traveled when attacking, going right to the point instead of moving back do create more power. But since your strike is improved by both technique and power, i would like to understand better how the tendons work and how to increase their speed.
I’m also learning how to use my tendons vs. muscles. It’s crazy when you learn you have been moving incorrectly in general all your life.
Keep practicing and learning, the rest will follow!
Yes, that is about as fast as it gets! I am guessing that one could practice that using palm strikes instead of punches, which is the strike I prefer, no knuckles to hurt! Please comment as to your thoughts substituting palm strikes instead of punches.
Thumbs up from me to I like it
Great video showing the wrist/hand leading with the body following. Coupling this with your video on alignment of the wrist, elbow, and shoulder is great for quick, strong strikes.
Looking forward to seeing videos on kicks and dealing with weight transfer and overcoming the tendencies to telegraph a kick through various body movements.
Well done on the info conveyed in the various videos I have seen to date.