The best way to increase punching power..

[Spartacus Sully]

ok so its been like a month since that last post and i agree that a wing chun punch will not knock some one but you can throw alot quickly. wing chuns theory is that you really cant ever punch unless you are going to 100% hit because its all based off defense you create a defense with your arms out in front of you so all the power comes from the ground up to you core then from your core out your elbow to your fists skipping your shoulder so bruce lee read jack dempseys book championship fighting that came out in 1950 and incorperated the shoulder into the same type of punch using the shoulder seperate so the fore from it ends up at your fist the same time as whats coming up from your body gets to your fist. you put enough effort into that and you get some shoulder tearing chain punching that looks like PV now its just a matter of being able to do more then 100 with out throwing out your shoulder and getting your body relaxed enough to make it flow. atleasts thats my current conclusion on things using my current knowledge perhaps some one that dose jkd would know better

that being said no matter how good you are at this it dose not improve your jabs or your hooks or your rights it wont help you box. as an exercise i think you would be better off just doing the trunk twist motion with out punching.

though i think if you do do this you will tear muscles and all that blah blah blah about fibers and hyperplasia might happen. the shock from the snapping may also strenghten your tendons and ligaments perhaps.

Ive come alittle fruther with force= mass * acceleration (like meters per second per second) but im going to work on it alittle bit more before i post my final thesis

plain and simple jab to jab better hook to hook better just do it more often if you want to get better

[vein]

im thinking of lifting weight lately, lol but i look ****** because some other are bench pressing 100lbs while i just bench press around 40-50....... fffuuuuuuuuuu----!!!!

[spidershadow]

Reps., Reps.,Reps.,baby!

[Ramamaiden]

I think that being a hard puncher is something you are born with. But, everyone can hit harder with proper technique and training.
For example, on a 100m race one guy without training can run at 15 sec. with training and dedication he might improve to 14 sec.
Other guy with the exact same height and weight might run without training at 13 sec, and with porpoer training at 12 sec.
With this i mean that doesn´t matter how much someone trains, he might never hit as hard as a natural hard puncher, even if the other guy has never trained, but you can improve your power inside your own limits of course.

But, more than punching power the most important thing for me is the quality of the punch. With this i mean that power without speed and accuracy means nothing. If you hit soft but have good speed , accuracy and timing you can cause a lot of damage and you are able to ko your opponent.
For eample Miranda is a hard puncher, but the quality of his punches arent very good, thats why with better opposition his power hasn't been an issue.
Marquez is not a hard puncher...but his punches have so much quality that he has been able to ko a lot of opponents, and lately Diaz and Casamayor that is not a minor thing.

[hemichromis]

alot of punching power comes fro your mentallity.

If you try to hit full power with every blow you wilhit hard.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

The truth about punching power

You can increase your punching power through heavy bag work and weight training.

The heavy bag is designed to increase your punching power. I like to use nothing but 16oz gloves when hitting any type of bag except the speed bag.(even that sometimes when Im doing certain drills)

Weight training is tricky because you don't want to compromise mobility by getting bulky in the weight gym.

Technique is obviously needed as a base to work from. Remember power comes from your hips and legs NOT your arms and fist. Turn into your punches with your legs and hips and you will see a big difference in power.

The bottom line though, you can increase power somewhat but that devastating one punch power is something you are born with. No amount fo training, weight lifiting or bag work will ever give you that.

[Chex31]

im thinking of lifting weight lately, lol but i look ****** because some other are bench pressing 100lbs while i just bench press around 40-50....... fffuuuuuuuuuu----!!!!

woah seriously?

most i did was 110

But yea basically your either born a puncher or your not. Doesnt mean you wont be able to still hit hard, but dont expect to have some Earnie Shavers power just by hitting the bag all day.

[Lovely]

i believe power comes from a variety of things.
wide grip chinups
explosive types of pushups
this thingy where you take a barbell, load a small plate at one end, how it from that thicky part where the plate chills on (plate towards the ceiling), and then squat down, twist, and explosively fire the plate infront of you about 30 times.
heavy bag

technique is important. learning to fire shots with your hips, learning to reload your straight shots, loading hooks, etc.

time.
yeeeep.

[hemichromis]

working on accuracy and speed is (in general) better than working on power.

if you are on target everytime you wont need power!

I am lucky, i was born with pucnh power i am 260lbs right now and i can hurt people very easily.
Do i want more power?

of course! but more accuracy and speed would make me far moe dangerous

[j]

mentality someone mentioned. YES. that goes a long long looong way.

as for the kinetic linking, it is always shown as starting from the feet. but that is wrong. your KUA(inguinal folds, hips, lower abdomen, all the way from your bottom of torso to the top of your hips) has to move first. if that doesnt move, your leg doesnt move.

after knowing that, u can go deeper. as i said in reponse to my blog, some peeps like to prop the force up from the legs, some like to coordinate from the center instead. both can be used when needed but have to be trained for quite a while to actually KNOW。

and yeah, those twisting exercises are really really good. every kind of fighter does those, or should.