The Straight Right Hand

[donnydarkoIRL]

Ive mentioned before go for a walk do it in slow motion feel what muscle groups generate you forward its simple. Look where the transfer of weight occurs for balance and leverage remember the first thing athletic we do in life is walk and its self taught no two people walk excatly the same but balance is the same, Gravity gives direction to us all, well most.

Ok, so how do you apply this knowledge to the punch? You keep practising it or you shadow box it??

[Trainer Monkey]

Ive mentioned before go for a walk do it in slow motion feel what muscle groups generate you forward its simple. Look where the transfer of weight occurs for balance and leverage remember the first thing athletic we do in life is walk and its self taught no two people walk excatly the same but balance is the same, Gravity gives direction to us all, well most.

Ok, so how do you apply this knowledge to the punch? You keep practising it or you shadow box it??

Slow motion on the bag until your sure your doing it right,then pick up the pace

[Scrap]

Front foot stops you generating power until its your back foot, to me its pretty simple not complicated. If you want speed dont use the Heel thats how you get velocity the heel is the break.

[Sharla]

I've never thought of it that way before CC Scrap. Is that one of the reasons we try to stay on our toes when we box?

[donnydarkoIRL]

Front foot stops you generating power until its your back foot, to me its pretty simple not complicated. If you want speed dont use the Heel thats how you get velocity the heel is the break.

CC Scrap.

Often I use quite a stalking flat footed style.
However, out of a little showboating I lift the heels like Felix Trinidad.
I never thought it would make such a difference but I shadowboxed your theory a second ago and It's amazing, I can really feel the differnece!

[nikola_ganchev]

A little bit old thread, but refreshing it wont hurt
Scrap is totally right about the weight. I want just to add something for claryfication...
We all have been told to rotate the heel of the back leg when we are punching. This will result in rotation of the hip, but what we do with the oposit side?
1. The first more common variation will be the hinge type. The leg and the torso will formate a streight line and the weight will be over the front leg. Now lets see what the drawbacks of punching that way are. We are rotating around the frond leg. This means mechanically we have the bigest resistance of our body against rotation, because we don´t rotate around our simetry line. In addition we are going to add additional disrupting side force, because we are changing through out the punch the line of rotation. It is like trying to move around a chainsword. Punching this way means that we are going not only to be slower, but our accuracy will drop too.
2. We let the oposit side of the hip to fold. It is like sitting back with the oposit side of the body.In doing so the weight will stay on the back leg. The advantages are that we have less rotational resistance because this will result in rotation around the simetry line. This means we will have greater speed apon impact and it will be much easyer to throw combinations! Second we will be able to rotate more! This means even more speed! Third because we rotate around our simetry line there is no changing of rotation direction. This means that there is no side force and the accuracy will increase!

[BCBUD]

While the heel is under the Glutes you can Generate most power. When the big toe goes past the line of the glutes you loose the ability to Generate Power

Scrap that might be true for weightlifting but in the end it fails to transfer weight over the left foot.

[BCBUD]

Front foot stops you generating power until its your back foot, to me its pretty simple not complicated. If you want speed dont use the Heel thats how you get velocity the heel is the break.

CC Scrap.

Often I use quite a stalking flat footed style.
However, out of a little showboating I lift the heels like Felix Trinidad.
I never thought it would make such a difference but I shadowboxed your theory a second ago and It's amazing, I can really feel the differnece!

Scrap I write with profound tenderness but as an ex-professional pitcher with a strong pitch the head must be in front of the head at the end of the pitch, the rear heel does click out allowing the the hip to turn over. In congruence with this thread about power punching, I conclude that your right hand is anything but powerful.