How do you increace the power of your punch?

Question

What excersises?

Answer 1

Do slow form. learn the punch you want to perfect like jab palm strikes or side strikes and do it slow. but always fall where you want your punch or strike to end. hold it there for three seconds. than do it again. over and over again. than try it a little faster or a lot faster. Martial arts is a lot muscle memory. You can throw in a lot of force but why do it when you can pull of perfect technique. Once technique is perfect your strength can be changed by weight training or continuously practicing the technique. Another thing people are forgetting is stretch your arms with out the snap and tenacity of your muscles your arm can't punch so your arm flexibility is as important as your muscle strength. you should also dumb down the nerves on your hand. hit hard things but not to hard just tap them do it continuously. and eventually you will be doing it harder and harder and when your not scared to get that pain in your hand your body will let go easier. theirs thousands of things you can do to get better at punching.

Answer 2

Everyone had a very good point. Sensei Rob was great in explaining the importance of stance. The correct transfer of weight and the twisting motion of the hips give you the solid base from which your punch develops power. I deliver my punches in a relaxed state so the muscles move faster, tensing up the fist only at the last moment. Tensed muscles resist each other and slow down a punch.

Power is good but in Dragon style KF, maintaining your balance and accuracy is just as important. Putting all your power into a punch is awesome IF you connect. It would also throw you off balance and be left vulnerable if you miss. So don't sacrifice form and control for power. An aikido practitioner would have a field day with a power puncher.

Answer 3

Work a makiwara. Punching bags are good too. You could also punch a relatively solid object(like a makiwara mounted on a wall). Punch it as hard as you can, but don't snap back, continue to clench and drive with your muscles as though you're trying to push through the wall. Hold this for ten seconds, then do it opposite side. 10 reps each side to a set, one set ever other day. Each week increase the time you hold the punch by three seconds. By the time you get up into the thirty second range your punches should be significantly stronger.

Also remember that your whole body goes into a punch. You should be turning your hip so that you force the kinetic energy from your legs, hips, back, abs, shoulders, and arms all into the smallest amount of knuckle space possible.

Answer 4

Take an empty paint can.

Fill it with sand.

Seal it.

Find a long table. Place the can on one end.

Lightly press your fingers (point first) against it.

Without drawing back, punch forward. Make sure your hand is in a tight fist before it reaches the can. Imagine punching through the can, but as soon as you touch the can, pull back, so that you are measuring the strength of initial contact rather than how far you continue to push it.

Watch how far it goes. Return it to its spot and repeat.

Practice every day. But not enough that you screw up your hand.




When you can send it quite a ways, bend your first and second knuckles, creating a "bear paw." Do the same as above.





It is called the one inch punch, and Bruce Lee could send people flying with no cocking the arm back. He made it so that his muscles acted like a whip, exerting tremendous force with little room. This kind of thing was shown in Kill Bill 2.

Answer 5

You can increase the power in your punch in two different ways. One is by excercising, doing push-ups, hitting the heavy bag, etc.
the other way is to throw a correct punch using all of your body.
This is what we learn in Karate, I'll explain...

The power in the punch starts in the stance (knees bent, center of gravity down, DO NOT learn forward), moves up the calf, through the leg, Hips twist and shoot the power up through the back, down and out the arm and through the fist. The timing is very important and takes a while to get.
To feel the first stage of this, walk up a flight of stairs. As you step up with the right foot, push with the left foot (which is still on the previous step) and throw a punch with the left hand. You should be able to feel more power in the punch. This is just the first step of tthrowing a correct Karate punch. You have to work in all the other stuff I mentioned and then get the timing right.

Answer 6

When you consider that the power of a good punch does not come from just the arms and shoulders, but also the chest, hips and legs, you realize that you really need to work on your entire body in a balanced way.

As well, muscular strength is one thing, but you can also vastly increase speed and power through coordination and balance.

So I suggest you do not overly focus on a particular exercises. Run, work both the speed and heavy bags, pay attention to your body as a whole, keep up with forms training (this includes shadow boxing if you are involved in a more modern martial art), and last but not least, meditate. Yes, meditate -- under instruction from someone who knows what he is doing.

Train diligently and listen to your body and allow it to evolve the way it wants, naturally. This will result in your becoming the best fighter you can be.

Answer 7

1. Increase your strength: do pushup, weight training, punching heavy bag.
2. Increase your speed: practice, practice, practice punching FAST! Be loose and relaxed until the point of contact. Keep in mind that there is a balance between #1 and #2. Too much bulk from #1 will hinder #2. You have to find the right balance for your body type to maximize POWER.
3. Improve your technique: Power begins from your feet, moves up your legs, through the twist of your hips, through the elbows and finally to the point of contact. observe how others who do it "properly" do it, and mimick. And practice, practice, practice -- aiming for PROPER technnique. #1 and #2 are relatively easy objectives. #3 is harder -- it requires proper mechanics. And that's something more difficult to teach. Observe how a baseball player swings a bat... or how a whip is snapped. You want your punch to move in that kind of accelerating motion. Also, look up Bruce Lee's one-inch punch and the mechanics involved. Your body and fist should move as one fluid motion. Again, it's difficult to explain... it's something you must just "do" and learn through trial and error.

Answer 8

You must always be rooted (stance). Never off balance. The root positon is fluid and changes. Throw punches with the whole body (leverage). You throw a baseball with the whole body. Punching is the same. One other technique adds power and that is dropping your weight slightly as you punch. Its like dropping your weight into the punch.

Answer 9

You increase your power by increasing your inner strength. All exercises will build up muscle strength, inner strength is built by pushing yourself just a little more. If normally you do 10 push-ups, tomorrow, do 11. If you normally practice your martial arts for 30 minutes a day, tomorrow, go for 35. Good luck to you.

Answer 10

What about bicep curls, shoulder raises and using a punching bag?
Other ideas:
*Throw your shoulder forward as you punch.
*Punch faster.
*On a cross punch (back hand), twist your hips. The torque creates power. Throw with your hips as much as (maybe more than) your arms.
*Wear gloves. It allows you to hit harder becase you won't be afraid of hurting yourself.
*Don't forget your kias (sp?)!
*Then just let loose and hit!