Help With Fundamentals of the Right Cross

[Fran@myboxingcoach]

Hey ThaiBoxer

Just a couple of points that might help:

1. I would recommend NOT pivoting (spinning) the right foot, but driving from it in order to rotate the rest of the body. To allow the rotation to take place, bend the front knee slightly as the shot goes. I see this foot pivot a lot, both with the right cross and the left hook. I can't help but feel that much of the potential power of the shot goes whistling off to the right and not along the trajectory of the right arm. As the shot lands, the back foot should be on tip-toes effectively, with the ball of the foot NOT in contact with the floor.
2. Ensure that you are rotating around a fixed, vertical, central axis down the centre of the head, through the body and into the ground. This axis ensures the integrity of the rotation, ensuring that there is no bending of the body.

I've always felt that the range of punches that a boxer has to throw is at least as complicated as a golfer's swing, so we should be as analytical of our technique as your average pro golfer is of their swing. Good question and I hope my response helps in some small way.

Fran

[WayneFlint]

the pivoting of the right foot is not so much somthing that will add power to the shot, think of it instead as something the right leg has to do to allow the largest biomechanical range of motion to be attained during the straight right, rather than a movement that is going to add power to the shot.

[Scrap]

By turning the backfoot in line with the direction of the shot, interesting things occur. You dont harm the Knee AC ligament 2 the Groin is engaged as it should be as are the Hip flexus. Pulling the left shoulder back without putting strain om the Psosses muscles, so putting the weight on the backfoot for drive and stability. Plus the following shot should be a cracker, and vision and balance will be good.

[Chris Nagel]

By turning the backfoot in line with the direction of the shot, interesting things occur. You dont harm the Knee AC ligament 2 the Groin is engaged as it should be as are the Hip flexus. Pulling the left shoulder back without putting strain om the Psosses muscles, so putting the weight on the backfoot for drive and stability. Plus the following shot should be a cracker, and vision and balance will be good.

Hey Scrap. In your opinion, would putting the weight on the front foot be wrong then?

[Scrap]

Chris its a balancing act, the secret is not engaging the Heel, thats your Biomechanical Brake. Stops the TFL from engaging the abductors.