'Sitting down' on your punches

**cambay411** · 07-14-2010 07:20 PM

The only time i go 60 percent wieght on the front leg would be on a power punch. Otherwise i stay pretty much balanced. Also all these movements i am talking about are small subtle movements. Like when i dip my rear knee, i turn my rear foot in and barely rotate that rear knee inwards. I will say i worked on taking some wieght off my lead foot and went 60 rear and 40 front. I seemed to be able to throw nice hard and crisp punches like this.

**HerbM** · 07-14-2010 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by cambay411

The only time i go 60 percent wieght on the front leg would be on a power punch. Otherwise i stay pretty much balanced. Also all these movements i am talking about are small subtle movements. Like when i dip my rear knee, i turn my rear foot in and barely rotate that rear knee inwards. I will say i worked on taking some wieght off my lead foot and went 60 rear and 40 front. I seemed to be able to throw nice hard and crisp punches like this.

Well, if this discussion is helping you to find ways to improve your punches then it is well worth while to me as well.

Supposedly (I believe the following MOSTLY because I was told this), keeping the weight to the rear keeps us out of a lot of trouble, so if that is true and you have nice hard and crisp punches that would be a very good thing.

But, hey, I got yelled at again yesterday for no "turning my hips" on a hook, when I absolutely know for a fat that I am not only "turning my hips" but also HITTING WITH MY HIPS, i.e., driving the entire punch from my hips.

My suspicion is that Coach means something else, because when he demonstrated he turned his hips LESS -- unfortunately, he's not a "talker" and it was right at the end of the last round so I will ask today...

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HerbM

**cambay411** · 07-15-2010 07:22 PM

Maybe your turning more at the waiste and not fulling turning your hips? Whatever the case im sure you will get it straightened out. Please keep me updated on what your learn from your coach. It seems like he knows the sweet science pretty well.

**HerbM** · 07-16-2010 11:11 PM

Turns out that in shifting outside, I was shifting further forward than he approves (out onto my front foot for a left hook) -- had very little to do with turning the hips, but rather that thing about keeping the weight BACK again.

My hips have really crappy flexibility (my knees too) so that is always an issue for me to go low and still keep my form upright (and therefore back). My head and shoulders tend to go forward as I squat, even though I work on this every day.

Mostly, it was just that he isn't always very clear about what he REALLY MEANS, even though he is generally a really good coach.