how exactly can you get the most power out of your punch?,someone who knows wat there talkin bout?

Answer 1

This depends upon what you mean about getting the most "power" out of a punch?

I am going to assume you mean - How can I train / learn to do the most damage to an object or an opponent with a punch.

If that is the question. The answer is to train to hit with shock. This takes time and its the basis of the various forms of Karate punches that different types of Karate styles teach or try to teach.

The lack of this kind of training in this generation is why JuJitsu guys constantly beat Karate black belts. You see that in Mixed Martial Art matches all the time. Its because, these Karate guys (the ones who are legitimate Black Belts) may even be able to break bricks and other objects that don't move, but they still can't hit with shock.
In fact most of them don't really know what that hitting with shock means or is. What's worse is that can't deliver devastating impact from close grappling distances. In order to hit somebody with impact, these guys always have to have the opponent at just the right arm distance. Naturally the JuJitsu guy refuses to cooperate.

This was absolutely not the case when the original Asian guys got off the boat in the 60's and 70's from Okinawa and Korea. The opposite was the case and even some of the old guys who didn't have great versatile skills in overall fighting technique still won through the power of their punches.

If you want to learn to punch with shock here is how to do it:

The essence of punching with shock is to hit with maximum impact about 1 to 1 1/2 inches past the surface of the target and then either, pull back, envisioning a kind of suction effect in your mind or stop your fist dead for perhaps 1/3 of a second post impact and then pull back. Basically you are trying to send a shock wave inside the object you hit and break everything in there.

You learn this technique through a lot of practice.

There are two parts to the training and both are equally important.

Hand / Fist toughening and speed training.

The first part is hand toughening. You can use a makiwara board. The standing makiwara board is absolutely the best the best for this. But you can use a makiwara attached to a wall or even one free,l sitting on a table at waist height. However in that case you are punching down, which is not the optimal way to train.

To train the bones, skin and cartildge in your hands and wrists to deliver a shock punch, you need to hit either a bean filled or sand filled bag daily, starting once every other day for about a month. You work yourself up from 25 to 50 punches at the beginning, up to no more than 150 per session.

(I cannot stress enough that you must not exceed the upper maximums even if you can, for at least 8 months to a year). If you do, you will not be allowing the physical change in the bones, cartlidge, tendons and ligaments that you are looking for to take place.)

After about a month, you graduate to daily practice 5 to 6 days a week, one session per day for up to 3 to 6 mos depending upon how your hands develop. Its an individual thing.

When you have developed to the point that you can deliver close to maximum impact throughout the session you graduate to twice daily work outs for another four months or so. If you never graduate to the twice daily work out because your hands don't feel strong enough or it takes you a year or so, it doesn't matter. You are still developing a devastating punch.

Its important that you use a hand lotion, mineral oil or aloe solution on your hands (I favor the aloe solution) and especially your knuckles and finger joints after just about every session, to prevent the formation of large skin callouses. You don't want them.

As an aside, you will know on your own when you can start breaking rocks, bricks and stone with a closed punch. Absolutely, don't make any attempt to break these sorts of objects for at least six months. Even if you are successful, and you don't hurt your hands, it will retard your progress.

Remember, the goal is to develop a devastating shock punch not to break break and tile without tools. Masons break rocks all the time.

Hand Speed Training: The other part of the training is the use of moderately weighted heavy bag for speed training. The spring loaded ones are best but not necessary.

Practice daily using a two minute round system, throwing correct
punch after punch for the full two minutes at the heavy bag, as fast as you can doing so correctly.

Start with three rounds per day and work up to 10, which is really just a total of 30 minutes. Alternate the types of punches you do each round so that Round 1 is alternating left and right punches (crosses). Round two can be just left punches, and Round Three just right punches. The idea is to punch as fast and as many times (correctly) as you can within the two minute round, or until you can't hold your arm up.

Eventually after a month or even two, depending on how you develop, increase the round to three minutes in duration. Don't go over three minutes because you can place excessive strain on the wrists, bicep, triceps and pecs, leading to injuries or simply no progress, no speed increase.

Remember the idea is to develop fast bullet like punches each one with a devatasting shock, like being hit with a brick.

It takes the average student who follows the training dilligently about 7 months to get substantial results. Devastating power and impact comes in about year to most people who stick with it.

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Answer 2

I own TSRemas - a Close Quarters Combat School in Dallas, TX.

Power comes from 6 aspects. Linked together they form the basis for powerful striking.

#1 - Speed - Energy is calculated as 1/2Mass*Velocity Squared and is measured in Joules. Basically - if you hit 2x as fast as another person, you develop 4x the power (if you both weigh the same). If he outweighs you by half again, he still only generates a marginal benefit for his weight. (1/2 the mass as a factor. ie. a 100 lbs weight difference would be 50lbs as a factor, not 100.)

#2 - Torque - Power is generated by twisting around an axis. This is what makes cars and trucks "go". In fact if you look at horse power - it is always quoted next to "Foot Pounds of Torque".

#3 - Gravity - a negligible benefit, to be sure - but every ounce of added power helps...Power is stored in height - releasing it by "dropping" adds to the total quotient of power output.

#4 - Back up Mass - in this you can read a multitude of answers on "leaning into your punch" or "stepping into it" - from the other answers posted to this very question you have asked.

#5 - Joint alignment - None of this works if you aren't properly aligned at the point of impact. Muscles deliver the strike, but the skeletal system absorbs the impact (for the greatest force in striking). It's called Kinetic Linking.

#6 - Brute Strength - This is the last consideration and a personal one - 2 guys, same weight? the one more fit and strong will have a better hit - that's just a fact.

There is much more to each of these - but I'm not into a essay on the subject. If you want more information, I'm glad to provide it off line.

Answer 3

Karate teaches the true power punch.
left side forward, punching with the right hand.
Power starts with the right foot pushing off the floor, right leg flexes, hips flex and push the power up through the back, through the shoulder and out the arm.
To do this you have to throw a very linear (straight) punch and get the timing just right. It takes practice and training from a professional.
Try this for a slight feel of power. Walk up a flight of stairs, keep your back straight, as you step up with your right foot, punch straight out (chest level) with your right hand. Step, punch, step, punch. This will show you what just a fraction of the power feels like.

Take a Karate class.

Answer 4

well, im a girl, and i pack a punch. ive got a mean *** right hook. you have to know how to make a fist, and when you throw the punch, dont just throw your arm. you have to follow into the punch with your weight. lean in with your shoulder and back it up with your weight. practice that on a punching bag a few times, and you'll see what i mean. next thing you know, the force of your punch is almost your body weight. an make sure you aim for the jaw...not the temple. people get this confused...

Answer 5

Your entire body must go into every strike. The fist just makes contact. The actual weapon is the entire body.

Also, don't just aim at the surface. You should actually be aiming at a point atleast 3 feet behind the target. This will help you learn to follow through, and thus gain more power from your strikes.

Answer 6

Your body weight must power a punch, your fist is just a "contact point" for all that weight. Stride into a punch.

Punch "through" a target, don't stop at contact

Distance- hyper extending your arm can injure you and weakens a punch

Answer 7

Practice putting your whole side into the punch. Improve your hand speed. Imagine leaving an "impression" on the target. And punch through the target.

Answer 8

If you punch with your right hand, tilt your right shoulder forward so the shoulder and your hand are on the same level as you're punching. Then roll your righ foot onto the toe and punch straight with the hand either horizontal or vertical, try it both ways.

Answer 9

It all starts from the ground up. You grip the mat, taking all of the energy from the ground and sending up into your whole body. You must relax thru the punch until the moment you strike your target.

Answer 10

first one must execute a power out of their punch by shortining
the power by not over exending the power of their fist and by turning your hip into the punch do not over exert too much power
into the punch relax contentrate in one sequence