POLL - Left Hook, Palm Down or Palm In ?

[Peterp]

My personal opinion is that to begin with, it's best to learn palm down. The reason being that palm down forces your elbow to stay level more than palm in. Once you have the actual movement engrained then it becomes a matter of preference.


I kinda think you can throw faster hooks palm in but harder hooks palm down.

The bottom line is there have been legends in boxing with great hooks who have used both palm in and palm down so there is no right and wrong. It's what is best for you and that's all.

[Animal Squabbs]

palm in, I hit too hard with the left hook that when I try to throw palm down it hurts my shoulder and it feels like if I actually put anything into it I might dislocate my shoulder.

[Animal Squabbs]

for those of you sayin there is no wrong way, Im pretty sure palm up is wrong.

[mgkirkpatrick]

or palm open. bitchslap-hook

[Trick]

or palm open. bitchslap-hook

haha, also effective

[-----------]

Its werid, I used to train in muay thai for about 3 years. and the trainers would always tell us to throw it palm down, or you could break the small bone that is at the end of the hand (near the wrist, forgot what its called now lol) so i have always done it that way.

but boxing may be different. It just feels werid and lk unexperienced to me if you throw it palm in now.

It used to be palm in for body hooks, and palm down for head hooks. took a while to get used to that but it feels good now.

[Peterp]

looks like palm in is most popular