One Inch Punch Explained: From Kungfu to Tai Chi's Inch Power and Cold Power
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- Journey through the complete spectrum of Chinese martial arts' close-range power generation. From traditional Kung Fu methods to Tai Chi's sophisticated approach, discover how devastating force can be generated in minimal space in the manner of the famous One Inch Punch.
🔥 Traditional Methods:
• Integrated alignment force
• Dantian and spinal bow power
• Open-close bow mechanics
• Silk reeling spiral force
⚡ Tai Chi's Unique Approach:
• Song force generation
• Cold power development
• Weight and pressure release
• Earth-harmonized expression
💫 Key Insights Revealed:
✅ How each method generates power
✅ Advantages of different approaches
✅ Real combat applications
✅ Training methods for each type
Perfect for:
• Internal arts practitioners
• Close combat enthusiasts
• Power generation students
• Martial arts researchers
🎓 Shifu Lin demonstrates:
• Each power generation method
• Clear comparisons
• Advantages of different methods
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💬 Share your thoughts: Which power generation method intrigues you most, that you would like to see more detail about, to help you train more successfully and completely?
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How impactful can a punch be, when it is wholly unexpected, outside of their awareness?
Thank you so much for this wonderful video. There are a few hidden gems in there as for example the part where you mentioned about using the pressure inside one’s body and expand it/direct it towards your training opponent. Although it may not seem much to some, I hope people truly are grateful for what you are putting out for free. I, for one, am, and I thank you so much 🙏🏼.
Thank you very much! Yes that release of pressure to expand it in a direction is the essence of using Song in application. We train it at great depth in the Song Mastery course, and even further in the Essence of Tai Chi Striking, because beyond learning to relax, to use it you will need to know how to totally transform relaxation into the source of power and the means of conducting power, will you not? If you are not taught how to do that, how will you journey from feeling relaxed to become one capable of transforming relaxation into power?
So once you know that Tai Chi is not stiff power, and that it is Song, then you can begin to seek and learn, how do you Song, and to what extent? And upon that foundation, the essential next step is, how exactly, does Song generate power and transfer it to your target. That is what will complete the training so that what you wanted to develop through Tai Chi, is exactly what you will learn. That would be something worthwhile, is it not? 😃🙏
no pressure inside its just like a feather floating on air and easy so easy its shocking but there is pressure when conditioning the part as its unsafe to expose a body part to potentially dangerous action. The detonation is effortless training what's inside to come outside is a truly mysterious action.as it can take different forms as leaving the body and can be trained to various needs or criteria from healing to a hand grenade and many external colours shapes and concentrations. Quite a vast field .
@@mrvgranfield Very well said and so very true. Thank you for sharing. It is indeed no pressure, and floating, and easy, and shocking and mysterious too. Lots of truths in what you said about how it can take different forms, leaving the body, fulfill different needs, from healing and otherwise. It's a beautiful thing to explore and master! 😃🙏
Thank you for the explanation of cold power! Of all the powers described in the classics, that one was the one that confused me the most but now I think I understand how I can apply this to my training immediately.
Many thanks!
That’s awesome! Because all of us who have trained diligently have developed skills, that sometimes we are not aware of, or we are not yet aware of how to bring it forth into application. So I’m glad to be able to help you actualize a skill you have developed that you have been wishing to understand! Thank you for your interest and ongoing support! 😃🙏
Thank you for the explanation how Yang inch jin is different from Chen's and others, and a clear explanation what Cold Jin is
You’re welcome! Chen style makes use of cold Jin as well too. It’s just that their highlight is definitely their very impressive silk reeling. 😃🙏
Here is another example of where your Tai Chi and my Wing Chun are very similar. All 4 of the versions of Wing Chun that I have studied use non-telegraphic short power all the time. Over time a proficient WC player can develop the ability to send the force to any depth from stinging on the surface or a more comfortable tapping slightly deeper (kind of bouncing off the facia this is good for training) to the opponent feeling the physical vibration on the inside (which an cause the knees to buckle) and even beyond the opponent knocking them back. Knocking them back is cool for demo purposes. I think vibrating the inside is the most practical to stun the opponent/break structure. Each level of resolution is modulated by relaxation and intention of depth. So, very similar IMO. Thank you for the explanation of how the other systems develop this power. Very interesting,🙏
That makes a lot of sense! At the distance and timing that Wing Chun works at you definitely want the untelegraphed explosive movements. You’re right that the vibrating inside those of targeting is much more effective in real use. It would also be NSFR (Not Safe For Ray) ha ha. So aside from cool, knocking back is also safe for training purposes. This is something we discuss in the Striking course. As you know, we cover how to target the depth of the impact using Yi intention in the Song Mastery course, and I really appreciate your comments about the course! I think you would really enjoy the striking course, and you would probably find a ton of related concepts in the arts you are familiar with and what is presented in the course. And beyond that, I hope these tai chi concepts help you to enjoy some aspects of the arts you love more deeply, with a fresh perspective! 😃🙌
@@phoenixmountaintaichi These Tai Chi concepts round out my understanding of martial movements. I am looking forward to the striking course. Really wish I could have been in Cali this past Sunday. Thank you
Very cool! I always told new students to never ask questions about deadly punches, unless Ray or Mo are in class to take the heat! 😁
You are the reason that Ray is starting the Ray's Lives Matter movement! 😃
Fascinating! Thank you.
Thank you for your kind comment! 😃🙏
Fascinating!..
Thank you Shifu, very much.
How deep your knowledge is!
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Great thanks to my generous teachers who shared with me. 🙏 The sky is high and the sea is deep and as we learn more and more of them we can play throughout all of this vast world together! 😃🙏
Excellent demonstration and explaining differences
Thank you for the kind words! 😃🙏
Wow that Jintoujin is so cool! Exactly like the concept of advanced haki in the story One Piece. Specifically Luffy training inside the prison in the wano arc. So cool! Much love from New Jersey!
Oh you are right! I went and watched the clip after you mentioned it. Qi is the same character as Ki in Haki. And that process of feeling the flow of energy through your body, and moving your body to perfectly match it, is indeed the way to create the most effective jintoujin. As you incorporate that energy, you are journey beyond just Song to the next level which we call Qi Mastery. This gives your strikes a deep penetration, a greater power, and improves your resilience to impact damage. Thank you for bringing up this cool analogy. Mangakas and other creative people often intuit truths that they have not been explicitly told. Because as they connect to their higher creativeness I think they access a higher truth than what people are typically aware of. And so I see a lot of truth and wisdom in Manga and Anime! The Nen in Hunter x Hunter is another really good analogy to our energy works in Tai Chi and other internal arts. Thank you for your comment! 😃🙏
Thank you once again for sharing and explaining these principles that are difficult to understand for those who have not experienced them.
I had the opportunity to learn and practice several of them in the courses I took in Win Tsun, Feeding Crane and Systema.
Do you know how power is generated in Da Chen Chuan or Yi Chuan? I did not have the opportunity to learn it during my years of practice.
That's a really good set of arts you've studied. They definitely make use of a number of these! Dacheng Quan (大成拳) and Yiquan (意拳) are superb at developing the integrated force. Beyond that it becomes more varied. Most masters do not flex their spine, but they do "elongate" their spine as if drawing their bow lengthwise instead of bending it sideways. It is kind of like how cats paw at things.
My Shifu in Yiquan taught me another level beyond that. He emphasized being as light and soft, with as little muscular force as possible, and allowing Yi, Intent (意) itself to create the movement. It was years before I achieved what he taught me. And the result are movements that look very light and soft, like fast cat paw fighting, but deliver tremendous impact. He was able to numb my hands when I hold focus mitts for him to hit. This type of power was not covered in this video but it is something we will get into in the future once we have all the foundations to totally understand what Yi power is! Thank you for your comment and the interesting questions! 😃🙏
I love real Kung Fu to put it simply it's just awesome when I watch videos of someone showing this type of thing or some other versions of internal skills I always look at the face of the receiver when they do or don't smile the smile never lies their smiling because they are being legitimately effected by the giver of this impressive energy
Ohhh good point! Yes the energy and intention of the giver is transmitted with every strike, including in an emotional way. Ray will say that it doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt a bit ha ha but you’re right that his face reveals that there is a spirit of kindness, appreciation and wishing well that I feel and put into every strike here! Like when you receive a stern but well intended, constructive criticism, that you know intends for not destruction, but construction in a deeper way. And I love real kung fu too! Thank you for your insightful comment! 😃🙏
Love Ray's smile man. He seems to love experiencing the different hits..! Haha..!
He understands the bliss in experiencing all the different flavors of this physical existence. 😆😃
@@phoenixmountaintaichi Lol..!
ay, don't thank me, thank you! and thank ray a lot for being in the demo, i kinda worry about him there :p
that cold power seems like zero distance power. imagine if this is used in boxing, where someone uses long guard and then do cold power with that extended hand, pretty scary. and i forget if it's mantis or pak mei, but i saw demo of techniques similar to inch power but for pulling. that might also be useful in push hand situation :)
You’re exactly right about the long guard! A few months back I was sparring with a visitor who has over a decade experience in competitive boxing! A very tough opponent that gave me some great sparring sessions! One of the things that was challenging for him to deal with was exactly that, a long guard that if he tried to go around, can launch a sudden short strike that was cold and powerful, in a way that knocked him back outside of the long guard while accumulating damage.
This is one of the key techniques we go over in the Essence of Tai Chi Striking course, because it reduces the options available to a striking opponent and forces them to employ uncomfortable compensations. And yes a small and cold pull is a great complimentary method that you see in southern mantis as well as used to great effect in Yiquan. Really good thoughts you shared! 😃🙏
So much information here ! You Sir are an encyclopedia of Kung Fu ! Thank you ! Please put a pad protection for poor kid 🧒 :) !
I am definitely a super Kungfu nerd ha ha. And considering how many of these videos you’ve watched, you probably are too. Cheers! 😃🙌
I love to see the practice done in natural.environment.
We love that feeling of being outdoors! And we are lucky to have a very lovely environment with amazing Qi for our gathering. 😃🙏
Thank you - clears is a lot!
Thank you! I’m glad to hear that you are discovering more clarity! 😃🙏
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great demo Sifu. With the cold jin is it purely about borrowing energy (i.e. theres no physical windup, such as open/close or tucking the pelvis issuing, or folding the waist) and then going full Song then using either Yi or Neijin power to repel your opponent?
Also when you Song your body and sink the borrowed force should you only sink on one leg (usually the front) or can you sink on both legs?
I have heard of silk-reeling energy which is usually defensive in nature but what about Screwing Energy which is mainly for attack purposes and is more of a hallmark of bagua & hsingi & does taichi make use of this energy in any way?, would you be able to do a demo of this energy, thanks!
Great questions. Cold Jin is both your own force from your weight and pressure transferred into them, as well as their involuntary elastic response being borrowed.
You can song and sink down into one leg or both leg. Styles that favor mobility tends to use one leg. Techniques maximizing power will sometimes sink into both feet.
Silk reeling can be concurrently defensive and offensive. Drilling force can be similar as well as offensive. We can certainly discuss Xingyi and Baguazhang Jin in a video. Thank you for the idea! 😃🙏
@@phoenixmountaintaichi Thanks Sifu its interesting that most chen styles use a 60/40 weight ratio of back:front leg whereas I believe Yang is more full and empty. I wonder what energetic difference this creates in the body.
Poor Ray! I'd like to see qigong practices to help reduce high blood pressure.
Ohhh yes we can certainly cover that! One simple tip for blood pressure is that eating some cayenne pepper or taking cayenne pepper supplement can gently promote vasodilation which lowers BP. Maybe we can do a tea time discussion with Moe about BP! 😃🙌
Within the 1st 6 sec, Ray goes oof but is smiling.
Haha the students are working on turning that into a gif. 😆
Do baguazhang strikes fit any of these models?
Certainly. All of Bagua Zhang techniques have excellent Zhengjin integrated power and the open and closer power. Their spine rarely bends for spinal bow, because an upright vertical spine forms a great axis that optimizes your ability to make rotation natural and easy.
The 2nd generation master of Bagua and the founder of Yin Style, Yin Fu, was especially known for the speed and power of his cold jin. The other 2nd generational master of Bagua, and founder of the Cheng style, Cheng Tinghua, had exceptional ability to spin and throw his opponents. He has a martial background in Chinese wrestling and a professional background in polishing vision lenses and you can imagine that he has exemplary silk reeling spiraling force.
So you’re right to suspect that other arts also make great use of these powers! I could not name all of them while explaining in the video but it’s great that you and others bring them up in the comments. Thank you! 😃🙏
try against moving target
Yes definitely! All strikes are harder against moving targets. So training your execution speed, your aim, how to setup the opponent so they will be at the right distance, right angle, these are all important elements of being able to apply these skills. Furthermore, try it in sparring so you get a sense of how it affects the opponent, how they will retaliate after. You will develop the readiness to defend, to dodge, or to follow up as appropriately because one move is not neither the end, just one step towards the goal of the encounter. Thanks for reminding everyone about the necessary elements of proper training, and the paths forward beyond the demonstrations here! 😃🙏
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Ahh Dim Mak Bruce Lee's Famous move
Most people do 3" and call it Chuen Ging 1" force there are many 1,3 6,and12" power this exists in many ways in the hand arm shoulder chest back hips legs knees and feet . Wrapping energy around a small ball inside and releasing it to have devastating physical effects breaking fists, knees, hips, scull, elbows ,legs, shin bones, feet but most of all critical body target point work. Long slow progressive many layered conditioning program with special martial medications for some applications not just tit da oil are used over time on various substances to design the required qualities. I personally like palms, phoenix fist chops and claws as it has yin as well as yang applications I even discovered how to do 1"in force in the hip socket the other day in the use of MA or stance like a staple gun holding to the floor not the normal method at all .The sudden explosive power can be seen on numerous TH-cam videos but they tend to be the hard external type which can be seen by large hand callouses but there are other types from many styles some never seen outside their systems. All in all chuen ging is a very useful tool to have in the box lasting to old age on the provision that its not over trained or abused as a skill. This is one of the 50 main skills.
Well said! Thank you for sharing all of that beyond what I had said. What do you do to train your fingers, claws, Phoenix eye fists? 😃🙏
That's a tricky one on a public forums I'm uncomfortable letting the methods out as the worst people imaginable read this and the karma for that is daunting if let out one of my greatest fears.All I will say is elemental materials sulphur iron venom are just a few items for these types each part of the body would require different formula and training a hip is quite different from a finger and every type of method and preparation would vary and conditioning is so important my Siefu took 6 months to take the top off a wine bottle from that's from touching the glass with his small finger with no pull backe@@phoenixmountaintaichi
@@phoenixmountaintaichi training various claw and fingers is a vast subject single index finger, various animal claws, bone crushing grip, single knuckle, centre knuckle, 4 knuckle, plyers grip, thumb crush or gnarling flesh rip grip punching, bent index tip poke the list goes on and on some are similar as various animals have similar tool kits but are different the thumb and first two fingers are where the real power is cultivated. The earth is like a magnet Hands are designed like the foot in their primal connections the chi descends easily so that charges the intense pressure zones for training various medications can be formulated to specific training needs with flesh conditioning that can look like normal but when you feel the hand it van be shocking when you feel the quality of a long time conditioned hand the Dali Lama has a soft powerful hand A lifetime trained fighting monk feels like iron covered with leather both are very strong but different in quality.
First let me Begin by saying that people should realize that your shoulder bicep/tricep elbow forearm and wrist in hand that's the entire arm lip they're not separate
Your hips your your knee shin calf ankle and foot that is the entire leg limb and most of us know that your legs is the most powerful part of the body scientific proof that
To generate power using the foot portion of your legs turning the entire body now you generate much more power (strength)
Also for those of you that is unaware there is no such thing as Kung Fu and Tai Chi why?
Because Tai Chi is an internal style of kung fu
@@toddramalwilliams5035 Good points! Especially about how Tai Chi is a style of Kung Fu! We are all one big family. 😃🙏
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Bull Pucky
It's NOT how Bruce Lee did it
You will get your ass kicked trying to incorporate this nonsense in real life. Ridiculous!
You’re right to point out the importance of not only not making assumptions, but of proper training, testing, and refining! Because whatever cool or interesting thing you see on TH-cam, you don’t really know if it works in general, if it works under certain situations, or if it works for you, until you have worked at it and developed competency, and tested it in a variety of ways to understand its effectiveness and the boundaries around its limitations, do you not? Thank you for your comment! 😃🙏