How do you know when you have OPTIMAL hip rotation on your punches?

[AlexKid]

Im trying To get my hips perfect like Joe Louis has, and I get different levels of speed power and weight depending on what cue I use to get my hips moving.

Cues are things like "putting the cigarette out" and "turning the heel out" and "pointing the knee in" and so forth.

Its like no one knows the answer.

[Wuckoo]

This is actually a good question and brandon kraus (the guy seckbach is always talking to) made a good point. I can't remember the video but basically it's as if your arm is glued to your hip. The hip moves first then the arm shoots out.

[AlexKid]

This is actually a good question and brandon kraus (the guy seckbach is always talking to) made a good point. I can't remember the video but basically it's as if your arm is glued to your hip. The hip moves first then the arm shoots out.

I don't understand what you mean please explain further!?

[Wuckoo]

I don't understand what you mean please explain further!?

It's annoying because the video demonstrates it so well, they even mention how Louis would punch that way. Let me see if I can find it

[Wuckoo]

Here it is, go to about the halfway mark and you'll see it. But the whole video's good too. One of the little gems Ellie sometimes gets out of the hundreds of irrelevant videos

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[Mr. Mark]

It's annoying because the video demonstrates it so well, they even mention how Louis would punch that way. Let me see if I can find it

Wuckoo's right when he says " basically it's as if your arm is glued to your hip."

The closer your elbows are to your body, the more power you'll have when you throw an uppercut or a hook due to the majority of the force coming from the weight of your body when your rotate your hips and pivot on the balls of your feet, at the rear of your stance.

On the other hand, the further you keep your elbows away from you when throwing one of these punches, you'll generate less power due to the majority of the force coming from the weight of your arm "alone."

Good luck.

[- Ram Raid -]

I once did a spot of 'Chinese Kickboxing' (some made up middle-class pish combining Kung Fu and Kickboxing. Think Chuck Norris on Strictly Come Dancing). Anyhow, the stance is obviously different being more upright but one of the lads there was showing me a traditional Kung Fu punch.

He suggested imagining a plumb line, or straight bar if you like, running vertically through the centre of your body from head to floor and to pivot off of that imagined centre point without moving it out of line. It's obviously more suited to the discipline he was teaching but once I'd practiced it my punching technique improved.

I found that my body moved more in unison. I had less of a tendancy to become unbalanced and my hip and shoulder were less likely to move out of kilter when throwing a punch.

[Soju]

^sounds like Shane Mosley


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[Beercules]

Just leap in with a leaping left super uppercut.


Works everytime. Keep your guard down.