[Gong||Jau]

Wing Chun punches are thrown from the center of the chest with a vertical fist, and basically you just keep your arm relaxed and shoot it into your opponent. It helps to visualize a tube of some kind and keep your fist within that tube. You should leave a point on your chest and strike an opponent the same height as you in the same place, ideally. You shouldn't be extending your arm all the way, but to (this is hard to explain) a distance where your punching elbow is about a fist's width away from your body, give or take depending on where your opponent is.

A straight blast (chain punch) is simply punching with one hand while "cocking" your other fist behind it. Once your first hand makes contact, you drop it down slightly and shoot in the other hand, while simultaneously drawing your original hand back into the position your second hand just left. You can do this for as long as you can hit your opponent, and the punches can be thrown pretty quickly and with good power. How far you draw the hands back depends on your teacher. Mine taught me to draw them to about the middle of my forearm on the other arm.

If that doesn't make any sense tell me and I'll try to reword it, but that's basically a straight blast (from a WC perspective at least) in a nutshell. It might help if I knew where a video of one was, but sadly I don't.

[EvilScott]

8 Limbs, you ever going to answer my question?

[The BadBoy]

You deal with then the same way you would deal with all other straight punches.

[EvilScott]

Originally Posted by The BadBoy

You deal with then the same way you would deal with all other straight punches.

...which is?

[Ninja Kl0wn]

Are you asking for every option for a straight punch?

[8LimbsScientist]

Originally Posted by EvilScott

8 Limbs, you ever going to answer my question?

my bad!

Anyway, I didn't answer because I'm not really sure to tell you the truth. Muay Thai is a sport, and within that sport a "straight blast" in the ring doesn't happen all that often. I guess I would handle it like I would handle any other flurry of punches. That is cover up and try to break through and clinch to tie his arms up and knee if possible or else get out of range if possible once one landed in which case it wouldn't really be a chain punch.

[EvilScott]

Originally Posted by Ninja Kl0wn

Are you asking for every option for a straight punch?

I just don't know if there is anything special a MT guy does to a punch thrown down the center (like a WC punch) - the stance is so wide I wonder how they handle it.

Originally Posted by 8LimbsScientist

Anyway, I didn't answer because I'm not really sure to tell you the truth. Muay Thai is a sport, and within that sport a "straight blast" in the ring doesn't happen all that often. I guess I would handle it like I would handle any other flurry of punches. That is cover up and try to break through and clinch to tie his arms up and knee if possible or else get out of range if possible once one landed in which case it wouldn't really be a chain punch.

As I mentioned to Klown, my question was if punches thrown down the center line were handled in any kind of special way. The MT stance is so wide a WC or JKD guy would most likely throw a straight blast at you.

[The BadBoy]

and it would be handled the same way as any other flurry of straight punches. You can crash through to the clinch, you can run straight back (not advised), you can side step....list goes on and on. The WC/JKD straight blasts are nothing special, they are merely a flurry of punches all coming from the same angle. You wanna see first hand how a Thai boxer deals with them spar with one.

[binhdinhboy]

for elbows: keep lead hand in front to protect face, using other hand, strike down with elbow as if smashing in their nose or forhead. for uppercut elbow same lead hand principle bring elbow up into jaw but keep arm close as if defending from a hook.

[The Axe Murderer]

Originally Posted by The BadBoy

and it would be handled the same way as any other flurry of straight punches. You can crash through to the clinch, you can run straight back (not advised), you can side step....list goes on and on. The WC/JKD straight blasts are nothing special, they are merely a flurry of punches all coming from the same angle. You wanna see first hand how a Thai boxer deals with them spar with one.

Here's the answer, It should be like just striking your way out of a clinch or shall I say in another terms of straight blasting like bombing punches unless coming from the sides with hooks but elbow would be the key factor.