Kung Fu Straight Punch

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Dan Schmidt from the Chinese Martial Arts Center and today we're going to show you Proper Straight Punch. You could practice this from standing position. So start with your fist to your hips. Okay, chest straight out, elbows pulled back. Okay, now the fist, you want to start by slowly coming out with the form rubbing against the side of the hip and the rib. Okay, you want to twist out and then twist the fist over the last second. Okay, now with the punch, if you notice his shoulders, after he throws the punch, okay, you want your shoulders almost in a completely straight line and the fist parallel. It's very important that you rotate the shoulder. If you punch squared like this, okay, this puts unneeded tension right here on top of the shoulder and there's no power coming in. All the power's coming from the side, see, and you could be push back easily. Very important that you twist all the way out to get the proper extension and then you get more power coming from the hips cause that's where the power from the punch comes from, the rotation of the hips. Okay, if you look at the difference, okay, if I throw a regular punch squared, okay, there's really not much power, but if I twist a little bit, so you twist in, you can use your palm for practice, okay, straight back. I get much more reach. So I have this, okay, just like that, and if he stays there, see there's no reach, but if I twist out, I that much more distance. So you want to come straight out and you want to twist at the last section, the last second to perform like an exploding action with the hand. So straight out and then twist. Okay. And that is the proper way to perform a Straight Punch."