My hooking technique is causing me pain.

[Von Milash]

Scrap, that sonds like otthodox. He's a southpaw.

[LegendBoxing65]

Southpaw, shorten up your punches. Nice and short.

[Scrap]

OOps turn the other way then with left sshoulder to wall , cheers Von

[southpawed]

alright. so this exercise is to keep my hooks short and compact correct?

[Scrap]

No it stops you winging them, makes you throw good straight long shots makes you biomemechanicaly sound

[Sharla]

Try standing with your front foot 6" from the wall right shoulder touching it moving up and down the wall throwing hooks .

So having your shoulder in front of your front foot won't make you lean foreward too much?

If I had to guess I would say shoulder should be aligned vertically over knee and toes of front foot.

But I'm obviousy wrong so where is my understanding off here Scrap?

[Von Milash]

another simple truth is that it's kinda hard to throw a hook on a bag. It's not like working mitts or even hitting a person. Try throwing the same punch on the mitts with a trainer, then see how it feels.

[Luke Hughesy]

Well in my opinion with almost every punch you need to put a surtain ammount of weight into it, put too much and your opponent will bash you in the head and down you go, put too little and your punches wont hit as hard as they could.

I work on the jab, cross, hook technique and it doesn't fail me. Throw your jab, should be nice and strait with your arm almost directly over your leg, then you throw your cross, trying hard to keep it in the same path as your jab, but as your throwing your cross if you descide to put a hook in there make sure your close enough to hit them with a nice 90 degree elbow and make sure you keep it as tight as possible, it's scientificaly proven that a tighter turning circle creates faster movement, faster movement means a harder, more effective punch. At the end of your hook your ellbow should be almost directly over your knee, I find the secret to be that once youre arm is in its 90 degree position dont move it untill the punch is complete and to swing as soon as you finish your cross, once your hook is complete you should be in the right possistion to throw a jab strait away.

As for exersizes, I would maybe try throwing jab, cross, hook combos at a bag, don't worry about hitting the bag hard at first, because if you are throwing your fist wrong and hard you are gunna mess your shoulder up pretty bad, just worry about getting them nice and strait every time, then you can worry about spead, power and efficiancy. =)

Peace out, Luke.

Sorry if I missed anything important =S, if I have please feel free to correct me.

[Scrap]

Sharla youre looking along the wall not at it thats the last post i do at 5 in the morning when i cant sleep

[Sharla]

Oh Right! Woops! Thanks for clearing that up Scrap!

[Lords Gym]

youre throwing it wrong im certain.

Agreed . many a fighter been cashed out from improper release of the hook.. rotator injuries need to be avoided.