How to get maximum tension on your hips before you punch?

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Lots of stretching, and good technique.

How will good technique help with rotation?

That is more or less the basis of sound punching technique.

Meh!rotation and flexibility is something that your born with there is very little evidence that it can be improved.

Punching technique can be learned; I have taught it.

Sounds like moogley poogley hoogley! Why because muscle has lost then connection to the cns when stretched beyond its normal range of motion. Punchers are born not made.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

I've been working once or twice a week with a friend who's a wrestler. Not the explosive kind, the lanky awkward kind who scores on snap downs and go behinds. Just Tuesday night he dropped one guy with a body shot, another with a left hook and nearly floored somebody with his jab. When we first started I could catch his punches barehanded, now it doesn't feel good through the mitts. A second wrestler (the kind with huge muscles, who's supposed to be too slow) who I've been working with but less frequently also scored a knockdown with a body shot.

Keep in mind both had flexibility issues. One couldn't turn his legs in without leaning, the other couldn't keep them apart.

And I'm not even a damn coach. I'm a baby in this game compared to scrap and grey, but 2 days a week max is enough for me to teach these guys respectable punching power. Neither of them is a natural, both were extremely stiff and uncomfortable. Hell to some extent they still are.

Now of course some guys do have that natural power, and they'll hit like a truck on accident. Doesn't mean you can't teach everyone else to at least hit hard, even if you can't put dynamite in their fists.