How to best get your hips into a punch, I have no control....

[BillyNoMates]

.........over my hips, I try to torque with my foot and nothing happens my foot just turns around but my hips and body stay still.

[wilberbear]

Try to push the heavy bag with your foot pushing the ground while the only contact with the bag is with your fist. Push the bag with your foot, not with your arm. Move around a heavy bag just by the foot pushing. Now, try to keep up the same thing while also pushing with the arm (simultaneous works). Punching is done the same way. Your foot & waist have to be in the middle of motion while your fist is in the middle of punching. It is the "being in the middle of movement (hence momentum)" that is important for foot & waist. Don't worry about "doing in order" or "doing for the sake of doing". It is more of the matter of sensation & feeling. It's like riding a bicycle. Once you feel the way, you won't forget. Also, the 19th century boxing didn't seem to have turned its foot according to the old boxing textbook Art of Boxing from 1888. Try without turning. Just push with your foot. Once you can get it, then try turning. Quoting from that book, https://books.google.ca/books?id=9ch...weight&f=false, page 42, "hit straight and sharp from the shoulder, letting the whole weight of your body follow the blow, so as to add weight and force it". So, don't worry about doing things in order or doing for the sake of doing, but focus on the "sensation" of that adding weight & forcing & "following". Kind of try to feel your body being heavily ****** in behind the punch. It is a matter of sensation & feeling, not really a technicality like "turning your foot correctly". Don't get obsessed over that. Here is a little different explanation on page 56. "When you make up your mind to hit, do so clean and straight from the shoulder, and with lightening rapidity, advancing the left foot as you deliver the blow, and adding the whole weight of your body in the lunge forward". So, as you see, the important part is to focus on sensation & feeling particularly in terms of mass in motion (momentum). Don't get obsessed with moving small things; focus on what to feel while in the middle of motion (be immersed in that feeling). The idea is to control your body in a small rhythmic sensation that is hard to put in words in order, timing, association cause too rigorous, specific, complex.

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