วันจันทร์ที่ 22 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2554

Three Tips to Build Explosive Punching Power

There's a big incompatibility in the middle of an untrained novice and an experienced puncher or striker. It's not vigor or power, and it's not size or reach. The incompatibility is technique.

Experienced boxers and martial artists know how to make every part of the body work together while a punch. They maximize power while minimizing extraneous movement. Every punch is defined down to the smallest information until it becomes superior enough to render a grown man unconscious.

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Here are some pointers you can use when you explore your own punching techniques. When you improve your technique, you add power; and when your technique is good, you'll have more than enough power in your punches.

Three Tips to Build Explosive Punching Power

Arm punching is weak: don't do it

Tip whole one for adding power to your punches is the most important: don't arm punch.

Arm punching is what most untrained guys do when they get in a fight. The flail their arms colse to like a demented windmill.

But even if one of these wild punches lands, it won't have any real power. To get truly superior punches techniques, you have to use your whole body. The feet shift, the legs and hips pivot, the torso twists, and the arms deliver all that power right where you want it to be: onto your knuckles.

Step in to pack power into your punch

Just as I said that it's not enough to simply use arm power to punch, you have to use all things you have to pack dynamite into your punches.

One of the most important ways to get maximum impact on your strikes is to step. Now, don't get ahead of me here. I don't mean that you should jump in like a crazed grasshopper every time you throw a punch. In this context, a step is simply a slight shift in your center of gravity towards your target.

Your feet might move only an inch, but it's still a step. And if you're throwing fast and loose combinations, your step might only be a slight foot tap. But it's still there, and it contributes to the impact you're creating with your strikes. Bet on it.

Shift your bodyweight to land heavy punches

So, in the last section I taught you that a step was integral to every power punch. But there's more to getting your body behind a punch than simply stepping and challenging your center of gravity. You can shift your body weight without genuinely challenging your whole center of gravity.

You do this by challenging the torso -- forward, backwards, or side to side -- while your punches.

Picture the left hook. If you don't shift your body weight when you throw a hook, the power just won't be there. It doesn't matter if you're stepping forward or back, you can still shift your torso while the hook to get power and pop on your punches.

Three Tips to Build Explosive Punching Power

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