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...Okay looking at this from a step back and analyzing it all, a lot of these weird special moves in video games where people throw fire balls and fly into the air with a punch, actually make sense and can be utilized in the "Real World". I shit you not.
Point in case. *While studying over some ballistic reports on the FPS (feet per second) of a bullet leaving a rifle barrell I factored in "Air Displacement." Seems a man was not hit in a fire fight concerning guns, the bullet missed him, but his face was still lacereated by the air displacement of the bullet wizzing by. That would equate more or less a Hadoken/Fire Ball. Capcom basically animates an exaggerated decpection of "Air Displacement" and shows the force of it knocking into your opponent. Guile's SONIC BOOM would be the same thing, only the joke would be that he's displacing the air by breaking the sound barrier with his skills and thus you're hit in the backwash of his fury.
On the Kyokugen level with a Hao Ken! it's a much smaller fire ball emitted from the hand at close quarters (at least in the later KOF games). That would be closer to a DIM MAK or "Death Touch" that's initial energy displaces the air causing massive damage as well as the guy's fist hitting you, only we don't see that. A Dragon Punch is basically a person putting all of their weight into an upper cut and launching themselves up, nothing fancy in that. It wouldn't look "Cool" in the real world since you wouldn't fly 20 feet into the air, but that's more or less a "Dragon Punch" and it's been executed in more than a number of old movies actually. In fact Joe Pesi pulls one off in My Cousin Vinny when he get Marisa Tomei's money back swindled off of her at a pool hall later in the film. That short pudgy Italian literally puts his whole body into one punch, goes into a 90 degree arc and knocks the guy out. Ugly looking but "Dragon Punch" none the less.
MERCENARY X99
Point in case. *While studying over some ballistic reports on the FPS (feet per second) of a bullet leaving a rifle barrell I factored in "Air Displacement." Seems a man was not hit in a fire fight concerning guns, the bullet missed him, but his face was still lacereated by the air displacement of the bullet wizzing by. That would equate more or less a Hadoken/Fire Ball. Capcom basically animates an exaggerated decpection of "Air Displacement" and shows the force of it knocking into your opponent. Guile's SONIC BOOM would be the same thing, only the joke would be that he's displacing the air by breaking the sound barrier with his skills and thus you're hit in the backwash of his fury.
On the Kyokugen level with a Hao Ken! it's a much smaller fire ball emitted from the hand at close quarters (at least in the later KOF games). That would be closer to a DIM MAK or "Death Touch" that's initial energy displaces the air causing massive damage as well as the guy's fist hitting you, only we don't see that. A Dragon Punch is basically a person putting all of their weight into an upper cut and launching themselves up, nothing fancy in that. It wouldn't look "Cool" in the real world since you wouldn't fly 20 feet into the air, but that's more or less a "Dragon Punch" and it's been executed in more than a number of old movies actually. In fact Joe Pesi pulls one off in My Cousin Vinny when he get Marisa Tomei's money back swindled off of her at a pool hall later in the film. That short pudgy Italian literally puts his whole body into one punch, goes into a 90 degree arc and knocks the guy out. Ugly looking but "Dragon Punch" none the less.
MERCENARY X99
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. If you want the short answer, however, it is .... there's no fuckin' way 
