Chain punching ...

**Balloonknot** · Posted On: 2/20/2003 11:47am

Pat- excuse me, but Kempo is not Chinese. Did you mean to say it is?

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**PizDoff** · Posted On: 2/20/2003 11:51am

hmm...... faster than me even...

i understand the Japanese words for Kenpo come from the Chinese letters....(yeah it isn't letters but big deal)

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**Mercurius** · Posted On: 2/20/2003 9:15pm

Balloonknot, it's all semantics. Kenpo, kempo, ch'uan fa, all the same kanji and etymology behind them.

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**jkd_fighter** · Posted On: 2/20/2003 9:52pm

like what the hell? if you take your mouse and play it slow, al he is doing is slapping the guy, sloppily, and the he does a crappy backfist to his arm. that did not look like jkd.

**jkd_fighter** · Posted On: 2/20/2003 9:52pm

like what the hell? if you take your mouse and lay it slow, al he is doing is slapping the guy, sloppily, and the he does a crappy backfist to his arm. that did not look like jkd.

**matzahbal** · Posted On: 2/20/2003 11:26pm

why is he stopping the ground like that? I wouldn't call that chain punching, it's not continuous.

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**Squall** · Posted On: 2/21/2003 4:29am

you stupid kid that's one of the first things I had to learn in jkd. Stick with washing dishes for your drug money. I know chain punching looks a little weird but is is effective.

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**bncwd** · Posted On: 2/21/2003 6:02am

As a matter of fact those are not chain punches as we practice in WT: the main difference is that chain punches are launched while moving forward, and not when you don't (even in demonstrations). The footwork is different, with 100% weight on rear leg and forward step to put weight of the body in motion behind the punches.

A "golden" WT principle is no chain punches from "still" position, but chain punch while moving forward, then when it's no more possible to advance for any reason switch to elbow, knees, chokes , clinch etc.

WT punch is extremely powerful ONLY if you manage to throw it while moving forward, thus putting you weight behind it: an option is to forward press the adversary even with little motion forward, but then you need different foot work than that showed in the clip.

BTW I am not bashing the guy, I am just highlighting differences with what I practice.

**guest** · Posted On: 2/21/2003 6:47am

Nod. He's a JKD guy not a WT guy.

http://www.fighting-uk.com/multimedia.shtml is the website check his other clips - I think he's fast but you guys are probably way faster than him :p

**magikchiongson** · Posted On: 2/21/2003 8:19am

I'm kinda spoiled when it comes to seeing some Chain Punches, or something similar to it, but that guy isn't bad. I can count how many he throws so he's not as fast as I've seen it done. I wish the peps I trained with would go ahead and get the seminar pics online, there's a huge guy there, all muscle, who had his arm go limp after a strike from his teacher like those thrown by that Carruthers dude.