You guys are all boxing fans but can YOU throw a boxing punch?

[SplitSecond]

like nivek said

tell the truth TS, this is just an indirect way for you to learn how to salsa

[- Ram Raid -]

A power punch, a cross or a hook for example, do you use your hips and do you get weight transfer from foot to foot?

Just curious as to how many people just watch compared with who watches and practices it to some extent.

No judgement here either way btw, it doesn't matter 1 bit if you punch like a girl, im not against girls who cant fight back.

Posting the video of the lad with Down's syndrome was pushing the envelope for most. I got where you were coming from, it was crass but there was an element of self deprecating humour in there. You skirted the boundaries of taste but you also made yourself the butt of the joke. I get it.

I'm failing to see the humour in making a **** insinuation. It's genuinely disturbing.

[Soju]

Whoa that took a left turn. Who said anything about ****? He was just talking about tuning up hoes when they withholding cash and them being unable to fight back, which is how he makes a living. Alexkid is a transvestite mamasan (fact).

[heartless]

A power punch, a cross or a hook for example, do you use your hips and do you get weight transfer from foot to foot?

Just curious as to how many people just watch compared with who watches and practices it to some extent.

No judgement here either way btw, it doesn't matter 1 bit if you punch like a girl, im not against girls who cant fight back.

No. Can you teach me?

[AlexKid]

No Alex I don't know how to punch at all. Can you teach me?


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LMAO!

I would but I think you already know how to punch and are joking

[AlexKid]

Specially for you
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We will describe the straight punches and such in new entries

Awesome cheers bro, you have by far the best website on boxing technique that I have ever seen!

[AlexKid]

Just incase someone wanted to know how to punch and was serious. I would be happy to help.


Lean weight onto one foot and pivot the foot. (as if putting out a cigarette with the ball of your foot) the pivot point is the middle of the ball of the foot, this middle point is the axis of rotation, move your foot along with your leg around this axis point. Make sure the heel turns out as you pivot.

Heres a perfect example of what I mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Qu...yer_detailpage

If you can do that and your hips are responding fantastic, if you cant you have ALOT of reps to go till you can get your hips into it. If your hips respond even a tiny amount rep it like mad. (if your hips arnt responding you will do the movement but nothing will happen there will be no speed no power and no weight transfer)

There are plenty more details on how to punch, leg drive is involved, details on what to do with your fists, and advanced stuff, but this above is the most important core skill to learn, in order to generate powerful boxing punches. If you can do that well, you can basically punch with serious KO power.

Also getting the sequence of events right is key. If you move the upper body or arm etc first, you will totally mess up the power of the punch. You must move the foot first, and let the arm get flung out via the hips... last, wait for the arm to be flung out there is a delay, don't push the arm out early to try and make it faster/harder. Heres a great video explaining what I mean and how to do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=M8zv0IJgeTY

Also watch out if you use this on someone, on the street, if you knock someone out and they fall and smash their head on the concrete that's enough to kill a man, and it happens alot, which would mean your ass in jail usually, so be careful how you use this power. At the same time don't hold back if you feel your life is in danger.

[- Ram Raid -]

You're taking a consequence and confusing it for a cause. Your foot naturally wants to pivot when you torque your hips to generate power. It needs refining to facilitate that but your foot pivots as a consequence of torquing your hips.

In attempting to get your hips to respond to your foot you're robbing yourself of power and are likely to twist your knee. Think about it in terms of generating and transferring energy. The comparatively little energy that you're creating by pivoting the ball of your foot is being used up in dragging your hips along with it.

That energy should be travelling to the point of contact when your shot lands. The way you're doing it is killing it. It's gone. You're using a small part of your body, in this instance the ball of your foot, to move your hips, which are essentially a solid mass close to your centre of gravity. It's this mass, that you move at speed by torquing it, that generates the bulk of the power along with the simultaneous rotation of your upper body.

The pivot of the foot and the push off with the calf are like a small auxiliary power station whose energy transfers through the main power stations of hip torque and upper body rotation on it way to it's target. It adds to the power of the shot it does not create it. This is why you're having problems because your trying to get your hip to respond to a smaller body part. To move your hip, you just move your hip.

To generate power you need mass moving at speed. Your hips and upper body have the mass to generate deverstating power, the ball of your foot and calf don't.

[AlexKid]

You're taking a consequence and confusing it for a cause. Your foot naturally wants to pivot when you torque your hips to generate power. It needs refining to facilitate that but your foot pivots as a consequence of torquing your hips.

In attempting to get your hips to respond to your foot you're robbing yourself of power and are likely to twist your knee. Think about it in terms of generating and transferring energy. The comparatively little energy that you're creating by pivoting the ball of your foot is being used up in dragging your hips along with it.

That energy should be travelling to the point of contact when your shot lands. The way you're doing it is killing it. It's gone. You're using a small part of your body, in this instance the ball of your foot, to move your hips, which are essentially a solid mass close to your centre of gravity. It's this mass, that you move at speed by torquing it, that generates the bulk of the power along with the simultaneous rotation of your upper body.

The pivot of the foot and the push off with the calf are like a small auxiliary power station whose energy transfers through the main power stations of hip torque and upper body rotation on it way to it's target. It adds to the power of the shot it does not create it. This is why you're having problems because your trying to get your hip to respond to a smaller body part. To move your hip, you just move your hip.

To generate power you need mass moving at speed. Your hips and upper body have the mass to generate deverstating power, the ball of your foot and calf don't.

I agree with you, but moving the foot triggers the hips to start working and the hips take over the movement nearly right away, so theres no danger of hurting the knee, if I started the movement with the hips directly like a martial artist often will, then it would still be a powerful punch BUT I think you can trigger a stronger contraction from the hips if you trigger them with the foot 1st. What do you think about that? Equally if you mesh your weight down onto a foot and push down a bit as you twist your foot you can get an even stronger contraction out of the hips. I value your opinion you know your stuff id like to hear your response bro!

[- Ram Raid -]

I agree with you, but moving the foot triggers the hips to start working and the hips take over the movement nearly right away, so theres no danger of hurting the knee, if I started the movement with the hips directly like a martial artist often will, then it would still be a powerful punch BUT I think you can trigger a stronger contraction from the hips if you trigger them with the foot 1st. What do you think about that? Equally if you mesh your weight down onto a foot and push down a bit as you twist your foot you can get an even stronger contraction out of the hips. I value your opinion you know your stuff id like to hear your response bro!

To an extent I'd agree with the gist of your second point, you're sitting down on your punches, and that involves your glutes and thigh muscles, but the first is a wasted movement. If you're using it to initiate then the little power that it generates is being lost and the movement will be disjointed. Your hips don't need to be triggered into moving by your foot.

The muscles in your thigh and your glutes are explosive. They don't need your foot to move first. You're foot moves in response to them. When I say that, I don't mean that it follows because it's that fast that it's more a working in tandem as you know, but it's your strong explosive muscles that initiate. They are the ones with the capability to propel body mass at speed.

It's that explosive movement of mass that is going to add more power to your punches. The reletively weak muscles in your calf and foot play a peripheral role in that. In fact, you want the smaller less powerful muscles involved in punching to stay as loose as possible, so that you don't compromise your speed or endurance.