Welcome to Combat Winged Shirt. 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. 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 block mechanics and position for your body to punch faster. The first tip is to have a low elbow that comes out straight like this instead of throwing out your elbow because this causes your hand to go in the straight line. The first tip is to have a low elbow that comes out straight like this. The first tip is to have a low elbow that comes out straight like this. The first tip is to have a low elbow that comes out straight like this instead of throwing out your elbow. The second thing is to travel in a straight line. You want to go from point A to point B like that in a straight line. You don't want to go up, you don't want to go around, that's a hug, you don't want to go back, that's a fact that you want to go straight line. Straight line makes you travel in a faster way so you don't want to go back. The third one is to relax. If you tense up your muscles like this, it actually slows down the punch and it lessens power. I'm tensing out. It slows it down and it lessens power. Relax, keep your hand in a fist but not clenched. Just keep your hand in a fist but relax the hand, slightly less than 50% clenched. Everything else is relaxed. You hold the body and then whip it out like that. That is the third way to relax. The fourth way technically is to snap the punch back as fast as you bring it out. Help and in. Bring it back as fast as you bring it out. Here's a bonus way to increase your technical speed. We talked about four of three. It's actually another five fifth way. Notice my stance is slightly leaning forward. If I'm leaning forward, my momentum is already going forward. If I'm going leaning backward, my momentum is backwards. If I want to go forward, I have to bring my momentum forward a little bit before I move forward. If I'm already leaning forward, my momentum is cheating gravity and it makes me move forward faster. If I need to reach this distance, if I don't take a step, I can't reach it. If I need to reach that, I take a step. Another fifth technical speed is that you need to take a step. It's to lean forward a little bit so that the cheat gravity and your momentum brings you forward faster. 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. The first way of doing this is to not have any telegraph movements. One way to train this is to have the partner do this. Hold the pad. Make sure that you have right distance so you can actually hit it and then you want to hit it. As soon as he sees me moving, he's going to move the pad back so he can't hit it. If I'm really slow, do the same thing. If I'm not slow, I won't be able to hit it. Let's say that I do something wrong, which is I move my elbow like this. He's going to see that. If I wind up and hit it, he's going to see that. If I move my shoulder up first and hit it, you can see that. What you want to do is that if you're missing it, ask your partner what is he seeing me move before he sees the punch. When he tells you, that's what you need to change. Ideally, you're going to be completely still and then go into the punch without any telegraph movements. Right now, I'm going to reach it a little bit closer so I can actually reach it. Like that. That's perceptive speed. Like I said, you want to be non-tographic. That means minimal movement. You don't want to have any raising of the elbow. You want to raise your shoulder. You don't want to cough your hand. You don't want to actually make any movement. You don't want to make your eyes bigger or a greater teeth or a big loud noise. So minimal movement. Another thing that's very important that Bruce Lee emphasizes is to move your hand before foot. So in facing, this is very important because they don't want to see the attack coming with a step. Usually, when somebody punches, they're going to take a step to get into range and then punch. What you don't want to do is to take a big step and then punch like that. That's too obvious because once you see you move your leg and step, he's going to know the punch is coming already. So what you want to do is to at least be able to step and punch at the same time. Now what Bruce Lee says, according to his friend saying training, is to move the hand before the foot. So you want to be moving the hand forward already before you even move the foot. So it's something like this. So you kind of like falling into the punch. So that way, he won't even be able to see your foot move because you already moved your hand first. But if you can't get to that level, just do this. It's to time the step to land at the same time as you land on target. So like that. 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 I can use to make your punching speed even faster. Trick number one is to seek the distance. So let's say that this is here. And this is my reach, right? So what I want to do is instead of punching from your chin to here, there's a distance from A to B, I'm going to sneak the distance and actually put my hand out here. So then my hand only has to travel from here to here. So it's a shoulder distance. Shorter distance means faster. It'll have less time to react to that. So instead of punching here, I'm going to punch from here. See, even shoulder distance. 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 open it up 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 you guys angry, he's pumping full of a general adrenaline. And what that does to a person is you start to get tunnel vision. You're a field of vision actually narrows. So what that happens when that happens is 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 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'll somewhere like around here. Okay, a little bit lower. And once again, when you're going to 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 an inspiring already in the fight and you're moving around. So what you want to 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, we train the non-tile around the ability. But once you start the fight, you want to be moving your hand around. Okay, because punching, I mean, seeing something move that already started in movement, it'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 say, hey, I don't want to fight, I don't want to fight. So you're moving your hands, I don't want to fight, I don't want to fight a little bit like that. 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. Or something he's coming in, I say, hey, I don't want to 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 signed it. He's like, hey, what's up, why? Something's coming and saying, hey, what's up with you? It's like time 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 for yourself, depends. So you say, hey, I don't want to fight you, right? So in the middle of a sentence, the guy, it just, it's basically a distraction. And it's hard for someone to see a punch coming even and 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. If you want to check out more of our videos, we've got a link here for you. And if you're not already subscribed, click the subscribe button and to get more self-defense fighting, winged shun, and martial arts tips. So we'll see you soon in the next video.