Thread: Foreman hitting the heavybag, how he did it.

I'm on the national team as a fighter we have access to informative trainers. Remember as a kid watching videos of foreman punching the heavybag whilst having no clue how it's done. Until a trainer put me through the sequence and believe me we were taught to shoe shine the bag this is something new for us.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/491525746804968346/
Imagine that your left foot is a hinge nailed firmly to the floor.
Your hips are the door. http://image.shutterstock.com/displa...-191500988.jpg
- push off the front foot turning the hips clockwise to 180 degrees.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/2...caf19017d5.gif
- push down and twist off the right foot.
- hips turning counterclockwise 180 degrees.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ApQlzehYyfo

Foreman on the bag, was filmed before the Ali fight, messing about.

Originally Posted by Scrap

Foreman on the bag, was filmed before the Ali fight, messing about.

Almost a half a century before I was born. See how he turned over his back heel/twist off this should eliminate any doubts as to weither boxers push off or twist off.when one reviews the tape it's obvious that the weight transferred to the back foot and then to the lead foot. My techniquical says what I think you've long said maybe he is on this site. But the foreman technique goes as follows press down on the left foot then push off using the power of the toe. Then twist off inorder throw the weight to the hind leg a full 180 degrees turn of the hips.

Without the back foot, you cannot generate power of the front foot, simple mechanics.

Originally Posted by Scrap

Without the back foot, you cannot generate power of the front foot, simple mechanics.

Is movement correct big George pressing down on the front foot then twisting off?

Originally Posted by red fox

Originally Posted by Scrap

Without the back foot, you cannot generate power of the front foot, simple mechanics.

Is movement correct big George pressing down on the front foot then twisting off?

Its the back foot enabling him to do it.

Originally Posted by Scrap

Originally Posted by red fox

Originally Posted by Scrap

Without the back foot, you cannot generate power of the front foot, simple mechanics.

Is movement correct big George pressing down on the front foot then twisting off?

Its the back foot enabling him to do it.

I understand what you're Saying by elevating the back heel the weight then is distributed to the front foot, had the Back heel been flat he wouldn't have been able to properly press into the ground of the front foot?

Scrap the technical trainer says to focus pressure on the heel if pressure is focused on the soles of the back foot rooting is lost. Do you mind explaining what he meant? When the weight is over the right side of the body he tells me the right heel should be flat.

Originally Posted by red fox

Scrap the technical trainer says to focus pressure on the heel if pressure is focused on the soles of the back foot rooting is lost. Do you mind explaining what he meant? When the weight is over the right side of the body he tells me the right heel should be flat.

If the heel is slightly raised, no weight on it as such, your TFL is primed. Plus the reflex is primed, you have a 10th of a second to create force, athletic movement. where you need to be distance depth or direction. Whats changed things a lot was in the 80s, things changed. Leather soles went out, rubbers came in, hence foot mechanics altered.

Originally Posted by Scrap

Originally Posted by red fox

Scrap the technical trainer says to focus pressure on the heel if pressure is focused on the soles of the back foot rooting is lost. Do you mind explaining what he meant? When the weight is over the right side of the body he tells me the right heel should be flat.

If the heel is slightly raised, no weight on it as such, your TFL is primed. Plus the reflex is primed, you have a 10th of a second to create force, athletic movement. where you need to be distance depth or direction. Whats changed things a lot was in the 80s, things changed. Leather soles went out, rubbers came in, hence foot mechanics altered.

Foreman's right heel was planted before throwing the left hook!

Originally Posted by red fox

Originally Posted by Scrap

Originally Posted by red fox

Scrap the technical trainer says to focus pressure on the heel if pressure is focused on the soles of the back foot rooting is lost. Do you mind explaining what he meant? When the weight is over the right side of the body he tells me the right heel should be flat.

If the heel is slightly raised, no weight on it as such, your TFL is primed. Plus the reflex is primed, you have a 10th of a second to create force, athletic movement. where you need to be distance depth or direction. Whats changed things a lot was in the 80s, things changed. Leather soles went out, rubbers came in, hence foot mechanics altered.

Foreman's right heel was planted before throwing the left hook!

Because the bag wasnt moving, also the technique was terrible.

Originally Posted by Scrap

Originally Posted by red fox

Originally Posted by Scrap

Originally Posted by red fox

Scrap the technical trainer says to focus pressure on the heel if pressure is focused on the soles of the back foot rooting is lost. Do you mind explaining what he meant? When the weight is over the right side of the body he tells me the right heel should be flat.

If the heel is slightly raised, no weight on it as such, your TFL is primed. Plus the reflex is primed, you have a 10th of a second to create force, athletic movement. where you need to be distance depth or direction. Whats changed things a lot was in the 80s, things changed. Leather soles went out, rubbers came in, hence foot mechanics altered.

Foreman's right heel was planted before throwing the left hook!

Because the bag wasnt moving, also the technique was terrible.

As the reporter said there was a dent the size of a watermelon in the bag. What was wrong with the technique?

Originally Posted by red fox

Originally Posted by Scrap

Originally Posted by red fox

Originally Posted by Scrap

Originally Posted by red fox

Scrap the technical trainer says to focus pressure on the heel if pressure is focused on the soles of the back foot rooting is lost. Do you mind explaining what he meant? When the weight is over the right side of the body he tells me the right heel should be flat.

If the heel is slightly raised, no weight on it as such, your TFL is primed. Plus the reflex is primed, you have a 10th of a second to create force, athletic movement. where you need to be distance depth or direction. Whats changed things a lot was in the 80s, things changed. Leather soles went out, rubbers came in, hence foot mechanics altered.

Foreman's right heel was planted before throwing the left hook!

Because the bag wasnt moving, also the technique was terrible.

As the reporter said there was a dent the size of a watermelon in the bag. What was wrong with the technique?

If you cant see it, theres no hope.

Originally Posted by Scrap

Originally Posted by red fox

Originally Posted by Scrap

Originally Posted by red fox

Originally Posted by Scrap

Originally Posted by red fox

Scrap the technical trainer says to focus pressure on the heel if pressure is focused on the soles of the back foot rooting is lost. Do you mind explaining what he meant? When the weight is over the right side of the body he tells me the right heel should be flat.

If the heel is slightly raised, no weight on it as such, your TFL is primed. Plus the reflex is primed, you have a 10th of a second to create force, athletic movement. where you need to be distance depth or direction. Whats changed things a lot was in the 80s, things changed. Leather soles went out, rubbers came in, hence foot mechanics altered.

Foreman's right heel was planted before throwing the left hook!

Because the bag wasnt moving, also the technique was terrible.

As the reporter said there was a dent the size of a watermelon in the bag. What was wrong with the technique?

If you cant see it, theres no hope.

According to you! Had big George elevated the right heel we wouldn't be having this discussion. Big George had a big left hook because his right heel was fastened to the floor allowing a stretch to occur. There isn't one national trainer who agrees with you. All say that balance is poor standing on the balls of the feet and where there's no balance there's no power.

Originally Posted by red fox

Originally Posted by Scrap

Originally Posted by red fox

Originally Posted by Scrap

Originally Posted by red fox

Originally Posted by Scrap

Originally Posted by red fox

Scrap the technical trainer says to focus pressure on the heel if pressure is focused on the soles of the back foot rooting is lost. Do you mind explaining what he meant? When the weight is over the right side of the body he tells me the right heel should be flat.

If the heel is slightly raised, no weight on it as such, your TFL is primed. Plus the reflex is primed, you have a 10th of a second to create force, athletic movement. where you need to be distance depth or direction. Whats changed things a lot was in the 80s, things changed. Leather soles went out, rubbers came in, hence foot mechanics altered.

Foreman's right heel was planted before throwing the left hook!

Because the bag wasnt moving, also the technique was terrible.

As the reporter said there was a dent the size of a watermelon in the bag. What was wrong with the technique?

If you cant see it, theres no hope.

According to you! Had big George elevated the right heel we wouldn't be having this discussion. Big George had a big left hook because his right heel was fastened to the floor allowing a stretch to occur. There isn't one national trainer who agrees with you. All say that balance is poor standing on the balls of the feet and where there's no balance there's no power.

So what are we trying to balance.