weight on back foot vs shifting weight for right cross

[greynotsoold]

Man, I'm sorry...i was mis-reading. Pardon me. This has been bothering me all morning and I went back and re-read the original post...sorry

[mat422]

No worries. This stuff is kind of hard to describe in words anyway. Now re-reading my first post I'm wondering if you thought I meant keep the left foot off the ground lol? I could see why that would be very confusing.

I am talking about building a punch from the top down though as you have said. The problem with twisting the foot as it is commonly taught is sometimes it turns into a very slow sequence or arm punching because not enough of the torso is rotated. Similarly, driving off that foot tends to push the momentum forward and cuts off that full rotation of the torso. By twisting at the shoulders instead, the punch is sent out a lot faster.

The shoulders are very important in generating the power, when you can swing your shoulders and let the relaxed arm shoot out like a chain with a wrecking ball attached to it you will feel it. After impact with the heavy bag if the weight is on the back foot you will feel the stopping power as a driving force up the right leg.

Joe Louis is a good example. He rotated fully with almost every punch. Obviously you won't punch as hard as Joe Louis lol, but you will generate a lot of power. A lot of it is about relaxation. When you drive off that back foot you tend to tighten up your legs, but your punch usually hasn't even launched yet and already the hips are restricted.

[Scrap]

What dictates movement is where the Head is,everything in proportion works of it.

[God.in.my.corner]

This has some really good information here.

My question is throwing the straight right like he is advocating (rotation vs shifting), how would you follow with a left hook? Traditionally we are taught you twist with the hook and weight goes from the lead leg and returns to the rear.