In this kung Fu lesson Online Sifu Phu teaches you how to develop speed from your wrist. In order to achieve a faster 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).”
We would love to hear how you do with this drill. Leave us a comment below and let us know.
- Enter Shaolin Updates | Finding Peace In The Storm, Seminar Info and Webinar Replay - May 26, 2017
- Exclusive Abbot Training | How To Get Out Of A Muay Thai Clinch - May 19, 2017
- Enter Shaolin Update | You Are Never Too Old To Learn New Things - May 12, 2017
- Exclusive Abbot Training | Follow Through After A Bear Hug - May 12, 2017
- Enter Shaolin Update | My Kung Fu Journey, Member Q&A and The Hammer Fist - April 28, 2017
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.
Excellent explanation. I have seen a dummy lesson on you tube and I appreciate the way of teaching techniques.
Great video, great explanation, I will be practicing the technique wish I had found wing chun when I was a little younger
Mike
I just finished watching the whole series of Human Weapon, a History Channel series from 2007. They said the hardest punch they saw of 15 different martial arts was the Wing Chung punch. It was close range but it had the same principles that Sifu Phu, was demonstrating. It was also was also quick as lightning. SPEED x mass = power. Cool thanks Sifu.
That’s awesome, thanks for the info. Sifu Larry and I love documentaries and will see if we can find that to check it out. 🙂
I’m interested in wing chun and I watch a lot of videos about it. In most of the videos there’s a partner required. I was wondering if there is a way to practice it solo.
Of course you can, in fact most a lot of your training you are solo training for the technique. You would eventually need a person to test out your training, but you can definitely train by yourself for a lot of it. Evidently, are you Vietnamese? You have a Vietnamese name in your email. I too am Vietnamese. 🙂
Wow, that’s really interesting. I want to start training asap but I don’t really know what to start first on wing chun
Hey brother, it’s super simple in the member’s training area here: http://www.entershaolin.com/training-courses/
Go to the Wing Chun section and start at the beginning which is Sil Lum Tao. 🙂 If you need help on a specific lesson, just ask your question in the comments section below that lesson and we will help you out. Blessings!
I watched your punching with speed verse shoulder telegraph. I shall practice it tonight. I shall let you know the results.
We would love to hear about your results 🙂
I finished practice with punching with speed verse telegraph with shoulder. It went very well and Fast enough that I could not block it if it was coming at me. I was using punching techniques Sifu Phu taught with throwing my wrist 1st and keeping my arming in the right position to maximize power.
That’s awesome! Isn’t amazing how simple tweaks can make such a huge difference?
Is the technique the same for a right hand follow up? How do I practice with the right hand? Many thanks.
Hey Pops, yes it’s the same. Just take it slow. Generally we practice to be able to do what we do on both sides of our body.
?
Amazing explaining.
It will be perfect when you make subtitles on your wonderful videos.
Wish you luck, and more success.
Go on.
Thanks Ameer!
Good relaxed tension without straining!
Now I understand how to use the wrist , instead of shoulder !
Many thanks
????????????????????????????
You are welcome Eddy, glad you enjoyed this lesson! 🙂
Great video explaining concept and showing technique step by step. Thanks.
Awesome! Glad You enjoyed it.
Hi, NDN family. I was working with a tournament fighter the other day and noticed he kept his wrists and hands bound tight. As I am not a competition fighter, I can only assume this is to prevent impact damage to the hand and wrist by keeping them stationary. This also has the effect of preventing the wrist snap and the bending and turning of the wrists to generate the acceleration required to produce the EXTREME power I have seen from these techniques. Is there some way to compensate for the wrist wraps?
Off the top of my head the piston shot comes to mind. https://www.entershaolin.com/module-3/striking-power-drill-develop-3-piston-shots/