# One inch punch.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 15, 2001, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-inch-punch/76348 "2001-08-15T06:30:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RAWisSYDNEY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4491bb/32.png) [@RAWisSYDNEY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RAWisSYDNEY)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-inch-punch/76348/1 "2001-08-15T06:30:09Z")
can i see a vdeo anywhere (online) of bruce lee performing the one inch punch? ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-inch-punch/76348/2 "2001-08-15T06:35:49Z")
I’m searching now. There’s a still photo here: > **[Tom Wong Wing Chun - Official Home of Yuen Kay San | Sum Neng 詠春](https://www.wingchunkungfu.org/)** > > Tom Wong Wing Chun Home Page. Tom Wong teaches the Secret of Ng Mui's Wing Chun Kung Fu and Desui Kung Fu, 詠春, Los Angeles, Sum Neng, 岑能, Yuen Kay San It’s hard to describe. It was never something I’ve put into my arsenal as anything more than a novelty shot, so I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to accurately describe it. It’s very much about body dynamics and maintaining a centreline shot. I’ll keep searching. Your best bet is to go down to a Wing Chun school, or a Jeet Kune Do school, and ask them to demonstrate it for you. If you don’t have either of those arts available, try to the schools you do have. I first learned it from a Ninjitsu instructor. ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-inch-punch/76348/3 "2001-08-15T06:38:30Z")
[http://www.wingchun.org/viewpt/vp1-4n.html](http://www.wingchun.org/viewpt/vp1-4n.html) ---
**Author:** ![mmmiiikkkeee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@mmmiiikkkeee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmmiiikkkeee)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-inch-punch/76348/4 "2001-08-15T06:41:19Z")
[Here](http://web.ukonline.co.uk/leejunfan/video_clips.html) and look [here](http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22bruce+lee%22+one+inch+punch+mpeg&meta=) for other pages. (I tried the first one and it works). ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-inch-punch/76348/5 "2001-08-15T06:42:06Z")
[http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/8669/stblast.htm](http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/8669/stblast.htm) Here’s a fairly straightforward description of how to do it, with some fuzzy still shots from Bruce’s Long Beach demonstration. You can really see the distance he gets on the guy. ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-inch-punch/76348/6 "2001-08-15T06:43:22Z")
well… damn. I wanted to find the video first. ---
**Author:** ![mmmiiikkkeee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@mmmiiikkkeee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmmiiikkkeee)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-inch-punch/76348/7 "2001-08-15T06:50:33Z")
MUHAHAHAHAHA!! For once I find something first! Too bad I can’t get the Brisk Ice Tea video to work… that was my favorite in that series of commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-inch-punch/76348/8 "2001-08-15T09:03:43Z")
A one-inch punch is simply a demonstration of the conservation of momentum. What you are doing is using the power in all the muscles of your body to start your body rotating. Then at the moment of impact you tense your arm and shoulder, and make your opponent’s body absorb all the force from stopping the rotation of your body, all concentrated in a 1" area. You don’t even need that inch. I’ve seen a big man get his ribs broken by someone using this technique while leaving his palm flat on the guy’s chest. In Okinawan Karate, we focus on rotating the hips through lots of techniques, which adds power to all the punches. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-inch-punch/76348/9 "2001-08-15T13:07:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anal Scurvy \* > \*\*I first learned it from a Ninjitsu instructor. \*\* [hijack] Could we pause for a moment and consider the possibility of getting one-inch punched by Anal Scurvy? Talk about an unsettling image…😃 (Given that you know martial arts, please note that this was not intended as a dig, Mr./Ms. Scurvy, just a play on words…😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-inch-punch/76348/10 "2001-08-15T16:55:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WordMan \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Anal Scurvy \* > > \*\*I first learned it from a Ninjitsu instructor. \*\* > > [hijack] > > Could we pause for a moment and consider the possibility of getting one-inch punched by Anal Scurvy? Talk about an unsettling image…😃 > > (Given that you know martial arts, please note that this was not intended as a dig, Mr./Ms. Scurvy, just a play on words…😉 ) \*\* pfff I’ve got a pretty good sense of humour. Note the name. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-inch-punch/76348/11 "2001-08-15T17:48:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > pfff I’ve got a pretty good sense of humour. Note the name. \*\* Mr./Ms. Scurvy, I have no doubt of your sense of humor (sorry, AmerEnglish spelling), but if my mom ever taught me anything, it was “go out of your way not to piss off anyone who calls themselves ‘Anal Scurvy’”. Yep, that’s what she said. Since I have completely hijacked this thread already(and the OP appears to have been answered) - what the heck IS Anal Scurvy, anyway, or is it just a made-up term? Curious, WordMan ---
**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-inch-punch/76348/12 "2001-08-15T20:44:29Z")
Did anyone eles get hooked on that dorky song while waiting for the Bruce Lee clips to load? ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-inch-punch/76348/13 "2001-08-15T21:45:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WordMan \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\* > > pfff I’ve got a pretty good sense of humour. Note the name. \*\* > > Mr./Ms. Scurvy, I have no doubt of your sense of humor (sorry, AmerEnglish spelling), but if my mom ever taught me anything, it was “go out of your way not to piss off anyone who calls themselves ‘Anal Scurvy’”. Yep, that’s what she said. > > Since I have completely hijacked this thread already(and the OP appears to have been answered) - what the heck IS Anal Scurvy, anyway, or is it just a made-up term? > > Curious, > > WordMan \*\* Naw, I got it a few years ago when I wasn’t sitting on enough citrus. Really fucked me up, so now I try to spread the word. It’s not fun and games. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-inch-punch/76348/14 "2001-08-15T22:28:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anal Scurvy \* > \*\*Naw, I got it a few years ago when I wasn’t sitting on enough citrus. Really fucked me up, so now I try to spread the word. It’s not fun and games. \*\* Oh…ouch. Wouldn’t a little Preparation C help with that? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-inch-punch/76348/15 "2001-08-18T17:28:46Z")
I know the question has been answered, and this is going to be a hijack, but I just wanted to add my 2¢. The two most spectacular KO’s in boxing history were both very short punches, about six inches actual travel distance: Rocky Marciano’s KO over Jersey Joe Walcott (the first fight), and Sugar Ray Robinson’s KO over Billy Fulmer (made even more interesting because at the time Sugar Ray was basically moving _backward_.)