I just realized that the guy on this video is Derren Brown, my so called idol lol. Watch Derren Brown do wht he does best...i mean those psychological stuff not 1 inch punching.
No actors, he's just an excellent suggester. One of the best in his arts. No magic, no psychic powers, just great theater without actors. Go and look it up
I look at it as the "power of suggestion." I remember a story one time of a doctor falsely telling a patient of his that he was going to be sick. Instead of shrugging it off, the patient believed it so much that he ended up being sick the remainder of that same day.
He's like a Kiai master. This technique is taught by a lot of people. It's actually called 'intimidation.' You induce the fear of an attack, and the preconceived idea that the attack will hit you and you'll have no defense against it, and when it looks like you're to be hit you're paralyzed in fear and you overreact by over-tensing the muscles you think are to be hit. From behind, the person reacted to the sound. Notice how he gets 'hit' and falls the wrong way. He's imagining the frontal hit.
I can't speak for the "non-physical one-inch-punch" that Derren performs, but the putting-out-a-candle move is 100% for real. I've personally seen it performed by very serious martial arts masters, who are not, on the whole, at home with trickery.
This was also a stunt pulled by Aleister Crowley in a slightly modified form where he could cause individuals to collapse. "William Seabrook wanted a demonstration of Crowley's powers, so the latter chose a man by random out on the street and followed him, imitating his walk. Suddenly Crowley fell, but was rapidly on his feet again. At the same time the other man fell on the sidewalk. Crowley and his companion helped the man up, and he looked confused, trying to find the banana peel."
its in your mind like he said, its like the feeling you get when you know someone is behind you acting like there touching you, sometimes you can feel that.
That's the whole point - he's brilliant at cold reading and other mind tricks including suggestibility and subliminal cues. I'm pretty sure everyone there is fairly suggestible (not an insult, it's a hypnosis term) and that he knows the right cues to send to get them to think they feel a certain way.
derren brown is a really good stage hypnotist. this is not a magic trick or anything he simply hypnotized the guy to feel that a certain way. As far as punching behind the guy, maybe its just timing. people need to understand that u CAN influence ur own energy and channel it. people dont believe this cuz they wanna see being used to hurt someone.
Magicians never let an audience in on their secrets they only let them feel like they are in on it to allow them to be suggestable enough to believe what their doing is really extraordinary. Him revealing that he uses NLP and cold reading has people believe it's all very achievable through similar methods and that he is actually more gifted than he really is.
Derren Brown is a hypnotist who goes out exposing these ridiculous martial arts. He shows how these "no touch" or "light touch" martial arts really are based upon mind control techniques, not anything else.
the students saw the demonstration, so thats the mind registers it, so the mind automatically tells the body to cringe whenever they are told its going to happen
About half of the punch's power comes from physical strength, but the rest comes from the grandmaster's "chi." Basically, Dennis was surprised and intimidated by the grandmaster's yell, so he was already flinching back when the punch hit him and knocked him over the rest of the way.
This is real, people who believe in chi have a easy time believing that someone can control it from a distance, the suggestion that he would be hit made him react though he where hit. The setting helps as well. Going behind him was reasonable as well, the loud colors and the not-silent fabric of his clothing made it so that when he "hit" the man from behind there where audible and visual cues.
I have been studying Goju Ryu Karate for ten years now, as well as taking classes in aikido, wing chun kung fu, kick boxing, and brazilian jiu jitsu. So I am well aware of and able to use this punch well enough. Like the poster before me said the candle is really done with just the punch. As for Derren, the volunteer is well aware of what being hit with such a punch feels like and is subconsciously told by Derren and his incredible psychology to act like he has been hit. Thats all.
its really all in your mind, the mind makes it real. notice how the first time he asked him can you feel that? he is just planting the suggestion into his mind, but on the second punch he uses the power of suggestion and instead of asking he commands him by saying YOU CAN FEEL THAT!
I used to have an awful summer job, but the shift manager could "hyponotize" some of my coworkers. However, it would only work if they wanted it to work. They would trick themselves into thinking they had no control over what they did. And the one inch punch isn't actually one inch. You start one inch away, but when you punch you extend yourself past the one inch.
The presenter fella is Derren Brown, a specialist in playing mind tricks on people. There's usually a build up to his tricks using subliminal memory placements/thought. It's quite clever - but only a trick. Check him out.
Chi is basically energy which can be released from a person. The best example I can give is that is like gravity you can feel it, you can feel its affect but you can't see it.
I'm a martial artist so I know what a punch feels like. When really tired(therefore more suggestible) I have imagined myself getting punched and have felt it. It's a thing with the mind that is really incredible. About the length of the "one inch punch". It's just a name that came up to represent that the strike takes up minimal space. Not that it is actually one inch. Like in Kill Bill: "What if your enemy is three inches in front of you, what do you do then?".
It may or may not be acting but I do know that once you've felt something before and you see the thing that caused that feeling (like a punch about to come at you), your immediate response is to react as if you felt that feeling. Just like when you feel something cold on your skin. You expect water to drip down from off of it but there's no water. Same thing.
Also I will point out, that there is another clip of a martial arts instructor who knows how to do this, works far better on his students who know the physiological reaction of how it feels to really be hit. If your body doesn't know how to react you probably won't react at all, this man does honestly feel pain because he expects to feel pain and knows how it would feel.
its the same way if ur ticklish. When someone tickles you, you automatically cringe up and you begin to laugh. Now after that, whenever someone comes close to you or in a way that you feel they're going to tickle you, you automatically cringe up and start laughing before they even get near you or touch you. Same affect.
I bet that this wouldn't work if he hadn't just seen the actual one-inch punch be performed. It set him up to expect to get knocked back by a mysteriously powerful punch, regardless of whether or not it hit him.
Derren Brown really does some amazing stuff. Although of course his thing wasn't the same as the 1 inch punch, since his punch probably wouldnt have been able to take out a candle. I can't imagine how he does such crazy psychology manipulation.
look at the reaction time of the first punch when he could see him and the difference between that and the second punch when he could not see him, quite a big difference so he was probably counting seconds in his head, which would explain why derren did that funny thing with his hand before he punched the second time, to waste time so they would have the right timing.
> if you don't believe it, you won't get hit or feel it >a skeptical, combative or oppositional personality won't allow this to happen You basically said what I said.
Derren Brown states, often, that what he does is trickery and suggestion. Of course it still looks strange and amazing, and we have fun wondering just how he pulls it off. But he'd be the first to deny he has any sort of special power (which is surely what a genuine witch would say :P ). Tricks Of The Mind, by him, is a fascinating look at how magic and our minds work.
My neighbour (he's a yogi) can do a one inch punch, and man I tell you, that punch left me breathless, literarily... As for the qi stuff, I know that qi exsists, both my aunt, who works with crystalls, and my neighbour put strong emphasize on the exsistance of qi and since I have felt my own aura I have no reason to believe that it doesn't exist... As for this Derren guy, I don't really believe in him OR his qi trick. If I, on the other hand, experienced it, I might change my mind.
That was fun to watch. especially the little detail that occured and was extra visible when derren did the 1 inch punch from behind. the guy didnt flinch when he got "punched". he cramped his muscles and fell down but that was it. no eyebrow or other facial movement. you dont just look blank when you get punched, it's visible XD
For him to do this he would have to project kinetic energy through his body, and it travel from one physical point to the next through an empty space which is impossible.
Oh, I am definitely sure he does it like this! BUT!!!... that does in NO WAY make this feat less spectacular, or less incredible. Derren Brown is superb in what he does. I am awed by his proficiency!
who ever said his mouth moved when he puched, its cuz he had to let air out of his lungs to punch like for example, when u hit someone, u tend to breath out, the harder the punch is, the more u breath out, he was just trying to hold it in, thats y he moved his mouth less
"its a question of how suggestable and how much belief someone has." Exactly. There are certainly some suggestible people in kung fu. Curiously, the Sifu often is able to teach excellent fighting technique while believing in "chi" power at a distance. And often the best students are also the most suggestible, so that they believe they can be and are influenced by the chi power. I've never felt it when I was supposed to, so the Sifu has never tried chi power on me, just regular physical power.
wikipedia is a perfectly suitable source for the topics I listed. They are well known issues and have been much written about--and wikipedia reasonably reflects the consensus views and conclusions on those topics.
There is another darren brown video, I cant remember what its called, that a hypnotist anylizes. It turns out that the way he conducts his shows is almost identical to the way a stage hypnotist would conduct a show. This man was in a suggestible state because he saw a legidimate yet seemingly impossible 1 inch punch and darren brown put into his mind what was going to happen.
He did he do it from behind? Did the student react to the sound? What if there was no sound, would the student feel it? What if there was a simulated sound, but Derren didn't move? DERREN BROWN IS AMAZING.
lol i'll explain it to everyone if they dont understand how he did it, listen to the guys second response when he asks him if he can feel it and he says yes. how could he feel it when derren wasnt touching him. it was in his mind so when he saw derren punch his mind reacted with it. kinda like pointing a pencil in bewtween your eyes and getting closer and closer without touching your skin. you can "feel" it even though nothing is touching. try it and see.
Hey Folks, this is television entertainment. The punch from the back could be something as cheezy as a mirror on the wall. The truth is out there, and it's usually cheeze.
the guy doing this is called derren brown, he knows all kinds of crazy shit and having seen the other things he can do, i would not doubt that this is real, its all mind control techniques. And for a close range punch, it seems powerful enough doesnt it?
It's all in the guys head (not Brown, the other guy). Brown even says "it's all in your head." He's demonstrating how all the kung-fu guys that claim mystic stuff are full of crap. It works just like the placebo effect. He thinks Brown has some mystical powers, and reacts accordingly.
i have watched a lot of videos of this guy and he is amazing, i believe he doesnt use actors but in this video im doubting because the guy at the end of the video is making an affirmation while doing "no" with his head, moving it from left to right and thats a classical missmatch of bodylanguage that means someone is lying, im not sure though
He's not a magician of course, but he uses a lot of NLP. It's highly likely he conditioned them all psychologically prior to the show going out. That way he set the anchor for the effect and the outcome through spoken persuasion and only had to record the short segment while it was fresh in their minds
visara1313, That's the point. Derren even says, "it's all in your mid." He freely admits he doesn't believe in this stuff, and that it operates just like the placebo effect.
What do you mean fake? Derren Brown would admit he isn't really punching this guy. Its a trick but it works. He says "Its all in your mind'. Some magicians plant helpers in the audience to choose as volunteers, and its possible Brown has done this here. But I've seen him do a similar trick live with someone I know, and it worked. He didn't punch, but pushed him over without touching him. I think he has actually caused this guy to think he's been punched in the guts twice. Clever.
I'd never heard of it before I read comments on RU-vid. Everyone has a bizarre obsession with debating whether or not he uses it. I can't remember what it stands for but it's basically the idea of putting subtle hints in things that you say (the L stands for language). A good example of this is when Derren makes Simon Pegg want a BMX instead of a leather jacket.
It's just a combination of electricity and magnetism. Think about it. How do EKG's and EEG's work? They're picking up electrical signals *generated by the heart and brain*. The heart generates a current that travels through your saline bloodstream. Your brain generates a current that flows through the epineural sheath. The currents produce weak magnetic fields. Weak, but the right strength and frequency for a human to respond to.
