If you want to punch harder, you have to master two important concepts in kung fu. One is called external power. The other one is internal power. What is the difference between internal and external power? I'm going to demonstrate to you in this video. Welcome to another installment of How to Punch Harder. In this video, with the secrets I'm going to share with you, you'll be able to punch twice as hard, three times as hard, or even ten times as hard as you can punch right now. I'm going to share with you the secret, internal, and external kung fu techniques that will help you punch harder. So stay tuned. If you want to learn how to punch harder and get martial arts tips, then make sure you subscribe to this channel and you can get a lot more awesome content from me. So just hit that subscribe button right now below and get ready for awesome lessons. So easy way of explaining it is external power is like a wave. And internal power is like a field. So in a wave, imagine there's a wave like this. You see it in math. Hyperbola, what do you call it? Something like this. So there's a beginning where it's low and then the middle where it is high and then at the end it's low. So let's look at a punch. I'm going to punch him. It's the beginning, which is right when I start the punch. At the middle, when I punch him, and then there's the end when I finish my punch. Now where is the most power? In the middle. All right? Because if I punch him from here, the power hasn't started yet. But power is I get. Okay? In the middle, boom. The power has been transferred. At the end, I already punched him and about to pull my hand back, the power has been transferred so there's no power there. So that is external power. So what is internal power? Internal power is like a field, not like a wave. What is the field that we are most accustomed with? What's the field? Is the magnetic and gravity field of earth? So to demonstrate what a field is, let's take a look at a wall. Okay? Punch that wall, will. Which one hurt more? You or the wall? You hurt more than the wall did. Okay? Another one. I want you to punch the ground. You don't want to punch that hard. Because what hurts more? The ground or you? Me. Okay. So we know that the earth is like a field. The difference between a wave is that the wave is a beginning, middle, and end. With the field, it's always there. There's no beginning, there's no end. It's just always there. Just like the ground, just like a wall that's attached to the ground. So what you want to do if you want to have internal power is to be like the ground or be connected to it as much as you can. So for example, let's say that I'm in the defense and he punches me. He attacks. Boom. Boom. Boom. Now when he hits my elbow, who hurts more? Me or him? He hurts. He hurts more. Why? I'm a solid obstacle connected to the ground. With a hard pointy surface. Of course, it's going to hurt him, but it'll hurt me. So that's the main difference between external and internal power. One is a wave. It's got a beginning, middle, and end. And the other one is that it's always there. So one of the first keys of becoming very powerful with your punches is to combine external with internal power. So what I mean? I want to be connected to the ground and be as heavy as possible so that I would use gravity as much as possible. Because the earth, you can't move the earth. So the more connected you are to it, the more heavier you are than the more you can bring that gravity into your power punches. So how do you get yourself to become heavier and more connected to the ground? So you have more internal power. There are six ways of doing it. A centered center of gravity. Now if I go like this, where is my center of gravity? Towards my shoulders. Towards my front, right? And then I'm going to punch like this. Not very powerful, right? How about this? Where is my center of gravity? I'm going to punch like this. My shoulder is going backwards. I'm going to punch like this. Not that powerful. Now I'm just going to stand up straight. Now where is my center of gravity? Connected to my feet. So to be heavy, you want to get most of your center of gravity into your feet. If you do this, it's not actually going into your feet, it's actually falling forwards. If you do this, it's actually falling backwards. So if you just stand up a little bit straighter, you'll get more power. You see a little bit more. Just from standing straight up. Step number two is to straighten up your spine. So not only do you stand up straight, you almost want to straighten up your spine. To spend your head like this, nice and tall. That your hip will hipstrop down. So your spine lengthens out. Okay? So I'm going to do that right now. It's all lengthened out. I'm going to do a punch. You can hear the difference. It's more impact. The third way of getting heavier with more internal power is to breathe out. So I'm going to do everything I just did and then breathe out. So why does breathing out give you more power? It's because it helps you to relax. So one way of getting more gravity working for you is to relax. Because when you breathe out, it relaxes your muscles and then it relaxes your joints. And relaxation is what helps all that energy go to your feet and into the ground. Your tip number four is to relax and stay loose. So when I say relax, it doesn't mean to collapse. It means to stay loose but still have the structure. Still have your spine straight. Still have your weight centered on your feet. So when I add that to the ensemble, then you get this. So I'm weighted down. I'm straight. I'm breathing out and loose. And then go up. So you got a little bit more power from that. The secret tip number five is to drop just a little bit, just an inch when you're doing their attack. So I don't mean drop as much. That's too much. So just drop an inch like that. And suddenly drop like that. So I'm going to do that and do all this stuff from secret tip number one to four plus number five. So you can see him move a little bit more because it's more powerful. Final one is to use visualized station. What I mean by that is now I'm going to use all that. But now inside my mind, I'm going to visualize that my feet, my feet are rooted into the ground. Just imagine it's like a tree trunk and it's got roots coming out of the bottom of my feet. And all those roots are sucking me into the ground. So I want to make my consciousness and the awareness below my feet. If you can't get it lower, just think about your feet. Just all you have to do is just think about your feet. We go your toes around. Move your feet so you can think and feel your feet. And then once you can do that, think even below and feel below your feet if you can do it. So now I'm going to add them all together. Okay, so loosen this. Sinking into the ground, straight spine, relaxation, breathing and also visualization. Combine all those techniques and you'll get more power in your punches. So you probably ask, well, that doesn't work in the fight because in the fight you move around. There's a lot of movement. Okay, and you don't have time to think about your feet. You don't have time to ground yourself. You don't have time to be like a wall because the wall doesn't move. But in the fight, you've got to move. So what do you do? What the key is that when you train the Qi Gong methods that I teach you in my Qi Gong videos is you practice that visualization. You practice the alignment of your body. You practice getting heavy and feeling very heavy so that whenever you're moving around, you bring that heaviness with you. Even though I'm moving, I have all that heaviness happening with you. I can even be on my toes, but my heaviness is still on me. I don't even have to be on my heels. So for example, you bring up a pad. I'm moving around. I can still get the power even though I'm moving around. So that's how you combine external power with internal power together to become 10 times more powerful than you are right now.