Devastating swings! Can you tell me how to throw "russian hooks" ???

[Peter Som]

Take a seat, this may take a while!

First of all, any blow delivered on the right spot will put you down. A blow landing flush on the chin, temples, soft spot below the right rib cage and the solar plexus will topple the sturdiest looking man.

This is K1 (I believe). Their gloves, like most MMA these days, are significantly smaller than those used in boxing. The standard boxing gloves for professional fighting is 8 - 10 oz's depending on who you fight for. Standard gloves for MMA and K1 is half that or less. So that's one thing to consider.

Coming off my last statement, MMA fighters DO NOT fight like boxers. Their version of boxing is most often a sad sad example of what boxing really is, and everything it isn't. If you're a professional boxer, you'd either have to be already stunned or just daft to catch such a wide and looping hook.

Another thing to consider is...who are you? How tall are you? How long are your arms? How much do you weigh? Where are you at athletically? Answering these questions will help substantially in answering your question in the context of this giant Russian.

Speaking of giant Russians. Here is something that may come to as a surprise to you. This is not, in fact, a Russian hook. It is a very common looping haymaker commonly seen in MMA. The man you happen to admire happens to be Russian. The fact that these hooks seem to do a lot of damage is because, well, they do a hell of a lot of damage! The main contributing factor is simply brute strength, but other factors are these: these men look to be heavyweights...heavyweights = heavy hands. And long arms, long arms, heavy hands create A LOT of torque. It's not uncommon to see knockouts in the heavyweight division because these men are so massive, but our heads are not meant to take that kind of punishment, no matter how large you are.

So in conclusion, unless you're doing MMA, I wouldn't recommend you go on learning this kind of punch. It's a bad habit. Looping punches will only get you easily countered or have you missing. Stick with normal hooks!

P.S. Always wrap your hands while hitting the bag. Hand injuries are no small thing, it can lead to very short term and painful ordeals, or very very very bad long term conditions.

Thanks for the reply I disagree, and time and time again people have a similar opinion to yourself, but its an ignorant one, no offense. Basically if you cant see the value of being able to slip and counter a straight punch at long range with a powerful fast (can be made tight) curved punch then I cant help you. Up until now no western boxer has been able to do this, but the russians figured out a way, where as westerners slowly evolved into using short hooks over time because they didnt know how to turn long swings into something effective. (These are not haymakers thats just a wreckless poor form boxing punch they are evolved whip strikes taken from traditional martial arts, but to the ignorant untrained eye they do look like haymakers, hence why these guys get a bad rap for their "boxing" despite KOing loads of boxers and rarely getting hit by straight punches or any punches, and despite not using western boxing (although they started off in western boxing and can do both), people think boxing is everything when it comes to punching but there are many ways to punch boxing dosnt hold all the cards I believe it holds most of them but there are still different punches out there and different styles of punching that arnt boxing and are effective, so why not utilise a few of them if the rules allow it.

I know cuban and russian boxers use simlar style punches to this one and they are some of the finest boxers on the planet.

If anyone can tell me how to do this technique please let me know.

No offense taken my friend. I'll be the first one to say that I could be wrong. If I am, I'd love to know how and why! I have an idea of what you are gettin' at. Perhaps I'm not quite there, or perhaps I don't have to go anywhere .
I can see where you're gettin' at. Of course this would be a devastating shot as a counter. But to me, it's just too wide. On the top levels, I only see it getting countered.