Quote Originally Posted by judge_jab View Post
so you're saying a fast punch is more reliant on how fast it is pulled back to a guard rather than punched out Interesting, I can see how that would work when throwing a flurry as the faster a punch comes back, the faster another can be thrown.

But what about beating the opponent to the jab, surely it's a matter of how fast the jab is sent out?

Does that mean we should just train both

thanks Scrap! and others!
You get plenty of resistance training for the forward motion when hitting a bag, but I believe many fighters use the resistance for this as well, there's early footage of Dempsey using it.