Friday, August 31, 2012

Bruce Lee's movie

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually was to S-L-O-W film down. So you could see his moves. That is Opposite of the Norm.
HK Snob

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Bruce Lee's One inch Punch

The Science
Previous studies have shown that the forces generated in a karate punch is not determined by muscular strength but by the brain & nervous system.
In this recent study, researchers looked for differences in brain structure between 12 karate practitioners with a black belt rank and an average of 13.8 years’ karate experience, and 12 control subjects of similar age who exercised regularly but did not have any martial arts experience.
In the first part of the study, the researchers measure the short range (5 cm) punching power of all 24 test subjects by means of infrared markers on their arms & torsos. As expected, the karate masters punched harder than the control subjects.
Analysis of punch biomechanics and brain function revealed the reasons for the difference in punching power.
  • The researchers found that punching power depends on timing.
  • Specifically, punching force correlated with how well the movement of the wrists and shoulders were synchronized.
  • In short, technique + muscular power = Bruce Lee kicking your butt.
  • To test brain function, they used diffusion tensor imaging to scan the grey matter (main body of nerve cells) and white matter (bundles of fibres that carry signals from one region of the brain to another) of the test subjects’ brains.
And what they found is that there were major structural differences in the white matter of the cerebellums and primary motor cortex of the karate masters.
It was these differences in the cerebellum that correlated with the synchronicity of the subjects’ wrist and shoulder movements that produced the larger punching forces.

Ref, Cerebral Cortex


Thursday, July 12, 2012

Some of the China HK Kung Fu Masters

Some of the China HK Kung Fu masters:
Bruce Lee, Ip Man, Ip Chun, Yu-Hang To, Jet Li, Donnie Yeh, Leung Ting…
HK Snob

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Ip Man Wooden Dummy Practice

This is a sequence of Ip man Practice on his Wooden Dummy in 1967 in Tai Nam Street, Sham Shui Po. The practice action starts from the top left as the No. 1 onwards to the right, and starts from left as the first one as on the second row... I have 96 pictures marked in series as part of the genuine collection of Ip Man Wooden Dummy Practice!
Will try to put them in an annimation software to reveil the who sequence of the practice in motion.
Sham Shui Po Snob