 Welcome to Gumball Wing Chun. Today we're going to show you how to punch faster. There's two ways of punching faster. The first is technical speed and the second way is perceptive speed. So we show you how to do that right now. The first strategy of punching faster is to have better technical speed. Technical speed means to have better body mechanics and position for your body to punch faster. So the first tip is to have a low elbow that comes out straight like this instead of flaring out your elbow because this causes your hand to go in a straight line. So have a straight, low elbow come out like this. So whether you punch it with a vertical fist like that or a horizontal, even when we do horizontal, at the end you do a little snap like this, okay? But you see that my elbow is going straight up and down like that. It's not coming out, it's not going this way, okay? So the first thing is low elbow. Second thing is to travel in a straight line. You want to go from point A to point B like that in the straight line. You don't want to go up, you don't want to go around, you don't want to go around, that's a hug, you don't want to go back, it's a back fist, you want to go straight line, okay? Straight line makes you travel in a faster way. So like that, okay? Third one is to relax. So if you tense up your muscles like this, actually slows down the punch, right? And there's less power, I'm tensing up. Okay, it slows it down, there's less power. So relax, keep your hand in a fist, okay? But not clenched, okay? So just keep your hand in the fist, but relax the hand slightly, let's say 50% clenched, okay? Everything else is relaxed, your whole body relaxed, and then whip it out like that. So that is the third way, is to be relaxed. The fourth way, technically, is to snap the punch back as fast as you bring it out. So you out and in, like that, out and in, out and in. Bring it back as fast as you bring it up. Here's a bonus way to increase your technical speed. So we talked about fourth ways, it's actually another fifth way. Notice my stance is a little bit slightly leading forward. So if I'm leaning forward, my momentum's already going forward. If I'm going, leaning backward, my momentum's backward. And if I wanna go forward, I have to actually bring my momentum forward a little bit before I move forward. But if I'm already leaning forward, then my momentum, I'm cheating gravity. It makes me move forward faster. So if I need to, let's say, reach this distance, if I don't take a step, I can't reach it. So if I need to reach that, I can take a step, like that. Okay, like that. So another fifth technical speed is if you need to take a step, is to lean forward a little bit so that you cheat gravity and your momentum brings you forward faster. So the second strategy of increasing your speed is to increase the perceptive speed. That means increase the speed so that the opponent will see it coming. Here's the first way of doing this is to not have any telegraphing movements. So one way to train this is to have the partner do this, hold a pad, okay? Make sure that you have right distance so you can actually hit it. And then you wanna hit it. And as soon as he sees me moving, he's gonna move the pad back so I can't hit it. Okay? Okay, so if I'm really slow, do the same thing, I'm very slow, I won't be able to hit it, okay? So let's say that I do something wrong, which is I move my elbow like this. He's gonna see that, right? Or if I wind up and then hit it, he's gonna see that. If I move my shoulder up first and then hit it, he's gonna see that, right? So what you wanna do is that if you're missing it, ask your partner, what is he seeing me move before he sees the punch? And then when he tells you, that's what you need to change, okay? So ideally, you're gonna be completely still, okay? And then go into the punch without any telegraphing movements like that, okay? Right now I can't really reach it so I'm just a little bit closer so I can actually reach it, okay? Like that. So that's perceptive speed. So like I said, you wanna be non-telegraphing, so that means minimal movement. You don't want to have any raising of the elbow, you don't wanna raise your shoulder, you don't wanna cough your hand, you don't want to actually make any movement, you don't wanna make your eyes bigger or break your teeth or break a loud noise. So minimal movement. Another thing that's very important that Bruce Lee emphasizes is to move your hand before foot. So in fencing, this is very important because they don't wanna see the attack coming with the step. So usually when somebody punches, they're gonna take a step to get into range and then punch. So what you don't wanna do is to take a big step and then punch like that. That's too obvious because once you see if you move your leg and step, he's gonna know the punch is coming already, okay? So what you wanna do is to at least be able to step and punch at the same time. Now what Bruce Lee says, according to his fencing training, is to move the hand before the foot. So you wanna be moving the hand forward already before you even move the foot. So it's something like this, okay? So you're kinda like falling into the punch, okay? So that way, he won't be able to see your foot move because you already moved your hand first, okay? But if you can't get to that level, just do this, is to time the step to land at the same time as you land on target. So like that, okay? Like that. So that's the tip, is to move your hand faster than your foot or at least at the same time as your foot lands on the ground. Here are four tricks that you can use to make your punching speed even faster. Trick number one is to sneak the distance. So let's say that distance is here, okay? And this is my reach, right? So what I wanna do, so instead of punching from your chin to here, there's a distance from A to B, I'm gonna sneak the distance and actually put my hand out here so that my hand only has to travel from here to here. So it's a shorter distance. Shorter distance means faster, okay? It'll have less time to react to that. So instead of punching here, I'm gonna punch from here, it's even shorter distance, okay, punch somewhere in between. The only downside of that is that when you bring your hand away from your chin, you're open to attacks because you just you just open it up in your face over here, right? So make sure that you do use it at the right time. A second trick is to make your hand a little bit lower. Now, this will be probably a little bit more useful in street self-defense because when you bring your hand lower, it's out of his field of vision, especially with somebody's angry. So in a street fight, usually the guy's angry, he's pumping full of adrenaline, and what that does to a person is you start to get tunnel vision, okay? Your field of vision actually narrows. So when that happens, it's really beneficial for you to actually start with your face lower, especially before the fight so that when it comes out, it's actually outside of his field of vision, it'll be actually harder for him to see it coming because it's outside of his tunnel vision. So it was somewhere like around here, okay? A little bit lower. And then once again, whenever you bring your hands down, you're open to attack. So make sure that you don't use it or just use it at the right time. The third little trick of increasing your speed in punching is to punch from movement. So this helps, especially in inspiring, you're already in the fight and you're moving around, okay? So what you wanna do is not stand still like this. In training, we stand still like this and then punch so that we can train the reaction speed when you train the non-tile graph ability. But once you start the fight, then you wanna be moving your hand around, okay? Because punching, I mean, seeing something move that already started in movement, that's already moving, it's harder to see, okay? Because it's easy for him to see, I'm not moving, then I'm moving to, I'm already moving, and then move a little bit faster, okay? So the third way is to hide your punch in the middle of movement. So it can be like this, or it's like, hey, I don't wanna fight, I don't wanna fight, and then like that. So you're moving your hands. I don't wanna fight, I don't wanna fight, boom, like that. Okay, so it's harder for someone to catch movement when something's already moving. The fourth trick to increasing your punching speed is to punch in the middle of a sentence, okay? So bring it in, like that. Or somebody's coming in and I say, I don't wanna fight, like that. I don't want it, and then you just punch in the middle of a sentence, okay? It works almost every time that I've done it, okay? Say, hey, what's up, buddy? Somebody's coming in and saying, hey, what's up, what's up? Hey, punch. You don't look done already. Okay, so it's a little trick. I'm not sure if you're allowed to do that in the actual sparring or in the competition, but it works very well, especially if you're self-defense, you say, hey, I don't wanna fight you, right? So in the middle of a sentence, the guy, it just, it's basically a distraction, all right? And it's hard for someone to see a punch coming, even realize that you're about to punch them when you're in the middle of a sentence. So those are four more tricks for you that you can use to increase your punching speed. Thanks for watching our video on how to punch faster. Hope that helps you out. 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